Moleskine Five (05)

In mary's book

As you can see from the drawings, I was trying to avoid making invoices for jobs we just finished shooting, so there's even more details than usual.
All the texts are from the beautiful poem by Neil Gaiman, Instructions.

Some of those were also challenges on Facebook groups, the dragon on the half page with Steve was for "dragon rider", The wolf's skeleton was for "Bony", The girl on the right was for "Flamenco dancer and cherry blossom" and the one in the middle was for "Fashion". The bloody wolf, at the bottom of the half page was "leader of the pack".

In mary's pocket - I got the oil paint which I never used out of the drawer to make a portrait of my mother in law's dog, Lulu, that just passed away. so I made Mary 3 tiny paintings on wood slices. They are for the last 3 lines of the poem:

And then go home.
Or make a home.
And rest.

Andrea in Luis' Book ~ Round 5

Round 5, Month 2, Mary in Bridie Rollins Book

Bride Rollins' 1st half collab
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My collab with Bridie Rollins

Kiss
this is done with monoprints, cut up and glued into a sketch

2-page spread

coming storm/monoprint with pen and ink

Keith with Cardinal
this is an intaglio transfer print subsequently colored with colored pencil and pen and ink

2-age spread

Toad
monoprints with pen and ink
1st half of a collab for Steve Spetseris

Envelope front

envelope back

I also included a small pocket item for Bridie, but forgot to photograph it and have already mailed it.

Look what I just got!

Mary's book!
The art in it is absolutely amazing, and I hope I can do it justice.