I've been working on a journal page for the Sisterhood of the Traveling Sketchbook. The Sisterhood is a group of 13 artist who will be mailing our journals to each other over the coming year. Each of us will do a spread inspired by the current month and in a year we'll all get our sketchbooks back filled with everyones wonderful art. I've never participated in anything of this manner so I'm really excited and a little intimidated. My opening journal spread will be color based and an introduction to who I am. Most people form ideas about me from my pink hair, and I'm ok with that. It all goes along with not conforming and I expect it. The page will include this self-portrait with entries of "I am ________, but____________." I'll share it when I'm finished, but so far just have the background started. Why is it I can always see my mistakes clear as day when I look at a photo of my work, but I can stare at the work itself for hours and not see the same thing?! Dang oddball lips...
I have a question for all of you. How do you keep the surrounding pages clean when working in a journal/sketchbook with paint? I put paper underneath both pages I was working background on and still managed to muck up the next page. If there is a better way around this I'd appreciate you sharing your tricks. I'm feeling awful to send not pristine pages to someone.
In other events, I've been slowly working my way toward my fundraising goal of $2,300 for the Breast Cancer 3-Day. This year I'm trying to do a lot of art/craft commissions, along with CD sales to fund things without asking for straight donations. I'm doing pretty well and just hope things continue to fall into place for that. My latest "commission" is a boob scarf. I was sent a picture and asked if I could make one. I gotta say, I was super excited to try.
I laughed my way through this project. Especially after realizing I'd been considering how to make the nipples "hard" for a good 4 hours! There are just to many thoughts that kept popping into my head. Anyways, it was lots of fun and I thought they turned out pretty well.
