Finished with Mike's Book

Acrylic, Pitt Brush pens, more acrylic, Micron pen in Mike's book.





Neocolor II crayons


Cool transfer.....

In Roma's book - now with Ellen.

This top piece is a collaborative piece with Ammon. All of the rest are my own. This book should now be with Ellen.

Almost finished with Gretchen's book.

I really didn't like this piece so I worked over it. Same concept but with a different delivery. Acrylic paint with gel pen & marker.


I never really know how to work with what Ammon leaves me for our collaborative pieces. I worry that what I do may seem like I'm bastardizing it, but I'm really trying to do the best I can. I totally messed up the upper image in this piece and the only way I could figure out how to save it was to somehow turn it silly. There is an actual website called awakwardfamilyphotos.com.


Watercolor, etc.


Added some white detail to this piece.


My last piece in Gretchen's book. I wasn't originally going to color it in but something told me to wait mailing it and I'm glad I did. The right hand page I left for Ellen as a collab piece.


Colored pencil & marker.

As soon as I can find something for Gretchen's pocket I will mail her book to Ellen. Aiming for today.... 

In Mary's Book

Okay everybody. I am still a little clogged in the nose but that didn't stop me from makin' art in Mary's book.



This was my collab piece with Ammon. Ammon has a very different artistic style than me and I was somewhat at a loss on how to expand on these pieces. Looking at them for a while, these three faces reminded me of the older women I'd see roaming the mall I used to work at in the late 80's- so I turned Ammon's sketches into cartoons of these women. But even then, it wasn't enough. I realized that I needed to tell some short anecdotes on what I could remember about these women.



Playing with my new brayer!Acrylic paint, black gesso & a white gel pen. And the green grass grew all around all around, and the green grass grew all around.

A Mole arrived & I got straight to work!

Amidst the hoopla surrounding my 1st ever iPhone yesterday, (I think I must have played with it for like 10 hours...) I stopped at my PO Box and found Ammon's Mole- Remind me to take a picture of the envelope it came in.

Yaaaaaay!

So today, I got right to work and created this mandala with Pitt Brush pens and a Tombow Japanese brush pen from JetPens. I also started working on what I thought was my collaborative piece (A sketch of a man) but after I worked on it I happened to find another piece that looked a bit more like a collab piece than the one I was working on. I know that we actually each do 2 half (finish one and start another) pieces in each book, but when you start a book, wouldn't you only do 1? Did I screw up?




Me playing with the Hipstamatic app.

Biffybeans: 1st and 2nd pieces in her own book

My 1st entry in my own book. Black Bob Ross Acrylic Gesso (which isn't very black) and Colleen colored pencils. Big mandala.



2nd entry in my own book. Artist grade watercolors, Liquitex Black Gesso & white Uniball gel pen. The woman on the left seems to be pointing to the left coast.....  another hint to go and visit Portland OR?

When I was making these pieces, it suddenly dawned on my that when I send this book off, I won't see it again for a whole year. Sure, I'll see some of the art online, but to think that it is going to travel the states through the hands of 12 different people... that is just too cool for school. Oh, and not to mention that I get to leave my mark in 11 other books! What fun!

splotch monster 313 in milo's book

splotch monster 311 in milo's book

All done! - Aya Rosen

So I really got into this in the past 3 days and did pretty little but draw in Heidi's book. I'm really happy with the result, though using watercolor in the non watercolor sketchbook was a bit of a challenge, and in some cases I had to change my plans to not make the paint or marker bleed through to the opposite page.




This is my half page, wonder what it will look like after it's done:

Round 2 - page 1 Aya rosen

Or rather, page half... I still have one project (at least) I was supposed to finish before this, but I couldn't help myself anymore, and so today, when Ned, my husband were making work phone calls at home, I went to my favorite coffee shop and worked on this.

It feels very strange to draw or paint in someone else's book. I felt like i broke into a stranger's house and eat their food from their fridge or slept on their bed.

After giving a shot to the moleskin sketchbook in this, rather then the watercolor version which I usually get, I have to say, for me, watercolor is definitely the way to go for me. This paper is coated and it doesn't take watercolor very well, I manage ot make it work, but had to use a lot more paint and less water, and some of the subtelties are lost.

I might have to use markers for the next pages.