Dreams

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow.

By Hughes

Until next time...

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Watercolor Journal update #2

It's taken me 20 minutes to get this post up because Internet EXPLODER won't let me rearrange the photo's I uploaded without closing the entire browser window. ARRRRggggga! So I am using Google's Chrome which is still primitive compared to IE...but at least it doesn't explode one me.

Here a photo of my hand made headband because no one in town sells them. It is basically a cord (you can also use twine) glued between a fold of book binding fabric. The purpose of the headband is to hide the ends of the signatures. It's an aesthetic thing.

Here is the front of my watercolor journal made with rubber stamps...a hobby I took up long ago, got bored of, but kept all me stamps. I'mma multi-media type of gal. LOL It still needs a protective glaze. It's lookin more & more like a book! I just need to add the decorative end pages & it will be done. It does not lay flat like I wanted it too, so I will have to tote along some rubber bands to keep the pages down, damned it. All that work, & hammering, for nothin.  I still like it & will use it.

More photo's to come!

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Mono-tone Landscape

Here is another of my fiddlins from the Simply Painting series. I didn't forget my trademark "Satan" snake....ROFLMAO! I rather like mono-tone painting. There is a lot less fuss when you don't have to worry about colors, just tones.

Until next time...

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Some Watercolor fiddlin's...

Thought I would show-off some of my watercolor fiddlin's. The flower is supposed to be a Hibiscus, but I just don't know how to shade it right just yet.
The trees & leaf are from exercises in the same book as my previous fiddlins. The last one, the landscape one, is a mini-painting from a demonstration in the Simply Painting series. I really like the tree's I did. It was an exercise in negative panting.

Until next time...

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Watercolor Journal update...

Thought I would post an update on the making of my watercolor journal. I bought a ream of 100 pages of 100lb watercolor paper over the weekend & began making a hollow back-spin journal from the book Making & Keeping Creative Journals By Suzanne Tourtillott (published by Lark Books). I got it many years ago from a craft book club. I've made several of the journals in there with leather covers. This one will be leather as well. I just love the feel, look & smell of good ol'fashioned leather. I think I will use the deer hide I have left over from making a medicine bag for Mike some years ago. I should have enough. I chose to make the Hollow back because it opens wide & lays flat (so the book says).

The first photo shows the linen tape threaded through the signiture sewings (a signiture is a group of folded papers nested inside one-another. My signatures are three pages thick). I made them a little too narrow for the strips so two of them are partly folded under. That's ok. I'm not too worried about it. The linen tape helps to reinforce the binding & takes some of the stress of page turning off the paper. This used 36 pages of the watercolor paper to equal 72 pages (144 pages if I work both front & back of each page).

The second photo is the text block (a block of sewn signatures) being pressed between two hardwood panels (part of an old flower press, yes I made that too...LOL). The text block is pressed then PVA glue (archival) is pounded onto & inbetween the signitures. So while that dried, I cut out the bookboard & book cloth.

I'll post more as it progresses. I cannot wait to get out into the field & paint on-the-go. Of which is the matter of obtaining or making a travel kit for watercolor. I'm still researching that one, so, more to come on that I'm sure.

Until next time...

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