Lowering sky

Aya's Moleskine skipped Gretchen and came to me and will return to
Gretchen later. This is "Lowering Sky," a collab with Roma. There
was a little red spot that looked like blood and I made it into an
insect.

Two in Roma's Moleskine

Cinnamon Buns, Balloons, and Jellyfish oh my...

Indonesian Islands...?

Gretchen's Moleskine on way to Roma

Roach Hotel! I have no idea how this manifested itself into the Moleskine Exchange... It just happened.

A peaceful Medusa

Andrea Martinez (color) and Mike Kline (Black & White) Collaboration. Meant to be four hungry baby birds waiting for Momma to bring breakfast, but someone asked why are there hungry piranha in a birds nest...

Black crow crack me up! I love to sit and watch these funny creatures.

Andrea Martinez (color) and Mike Kline (Black & White) Collaboration

Hello ... Hello ...

Just checking in, how is everyone?

In case you didn't see we started the round 4 discussion on Mike's last post.

DON'T WORRY.

I absolutely will not start another round until everyone has their book back.

I learned my lesson on that one.

I will entertain new ideas for the next round though, always.

I am wondering of one of you would like to take the helm for the next round?

Be the big boss? Help keep things rolling.

I still want to keep the exchange happening, but I don't know how good I am at keeping things rolling. I have a new day job, with less time to do personal creative things throughout the day. It is a bit of a bummer, but I like the work better. So there is that. I haven't won the mega millions yet, so I have to keep that pesky day job.

Did y'all know Stephanie started her own exchange? She was gracious enough to let me join. Have y'all peeped it? http://rhodiajournalswap.tumblr.com/ She provided the journals for everyone, isn't that cool? I wonder if I could make that happen next round. Hmmmm.

Anyway, just checking in on y'all, providing a space for entertaining round 4 thoughts.

HOWEVER, we are still knee deep in round 3. Anyone need anything from me? Thanks to those of you who have been emailing back and forth trying to work out solutions to keep the books moving and avoid pile ups. You are the bees knees!

I am shipping Roma's book to Mike tomorrow, early/late depending how you look at it.

Thanks for being here, each and every one of you.

Andrea in Roma's

Circles, Squares and Curvy Lines ~ 3/18/12

Balmy ~ 3/29/12

And Whatnot ~ 4/1/12

Ballookey in Roma's

I don't know where my brain is - I totally space-cadet forgot to post pictures of my drawings in Roma's book. I just downloaded the photos off my phone and saw them, so here they are.

An owl wearing a bunny hood:

A bunny wearing an owl hood:

And a spirit creature wearing a hooded sweatshirt:

I'm most happy with the last one and I'm going to keep trying at these - I love drawing in white on black! :)

Ammon's Mole Goes to Washington

Ammon's mole enjoyed a trip to Washington, DC over Spring Break. Together we spent two days in the National Gallery of Art, which was a real treat. I worked on the spread above on the plane ride back, and all I can say is that it felt good to get all that minutiae out of my head! Detail shot of one of the pages below.



The spread below was a bit of a shortcut, as I used the image from the map of the National Gallery of Art. I'll try to find out who the famous artist is of this classic and let you know in comments, if you're interested.




Finally, here is the collaboration that Mary worked on when she had Ammon's mole. I added to it on the left side of the spread. Lots of fun.





Also have to apologize for the poor image quality. My scanner is not working, so took these with the good ol' iPhone.

My first page in Roma's book.

My first page in Roma's book. Sorry for the wonky scan.

Mary Stebbins-Taitt's Moleskine

in Ballookey's pocket

I had another plan, but the pocket of this book is already overflowing with stuff, so I had to make something small and flat. I don't know if you follow all my other blogs \ facebook \ flickr, but in the past few months I've been using a phone app called "sketchbook mobile" to make drawings on my phone. I usually take a picture and use it as a reference in the app, and combine tracing with freestyle finger drawing. Since Ballookey does a lot of computer art, I decided to use my phone app to make this little book and all the drawings and text here are made on the phone (this project totally saved me during a very boring meeting on Thursday...) You can see all the illustrations here.

Half a page for Molly

Now I need to make something for the pocket and then the book get to travel...

hummingbird in Ballokey's book (pages 9-10)

This is one of my all time favorite poems, it's so moving and so simple.

Pages 7-8 in Ballookey's book

There were still quite a few empty pages in Ballookey's book, so I decided to take over a bit more room then allocated to me...

Pocket item for Ammon

I almost mailed Ammon's Mole off today and then I remembered that I had not yet done a pocket item.

A Light in the Forest
5 x 7 Copic Marker and pen
on "bleedproof" paper (NOT!)

I bought some bleed-proof marker paper today--it does make a more precise line, but it bleeds through.  I was kind of disappointed because I wanted to do double-sided marker images for the sketchbook project.  This paper is very thin, almost like tracing paper.  The Copic blenders do NOT work. (or else I don't know how to use them).  By the way, the actual image (drawing) does not look as dark as this scan.  (This is an original, and I was experimenting with the media.  I am also including two 5 x 7 prints of paintings that have been accepted at an online Zine (The Browsing Corner) but will not be shown until June, so I am not to post them until after that.  This now completes the package and I hope to get it mailed tomorrow!

In Ammons, one new piece and Three collaborations

Nightmare #120224
Acrylic and micron pens
my picture is on the left and
the collaboration is on the right.

I made three collaborations because there were lots of pages and I wasn't sure when I was doing them who would be getting the book next, since I have it out of order.

Sunday Night - In Ballookey's book

I love how mundane this poem is, almost like a fleeting thought.

Margo - in Ballookey's book

I love this poem so much. The hair took forever.

I can't get flickr to work today, so I'm posting the images here, but I'll put a larger version on flickr once it gets back to working.