Sketchbook covers
Here are 3 recent home-made sketchbooks I noticed laying around my studio. Each were home-made from whatever paper I have in store and I usually fill up each one within a month. But what caught my attention today were the covers. The covers are something I don't worry much about. Sometimes I do them last. I usually try to decorate them somehow just so it would be easier for me to tell them apart. And I enjoy just trying some daring experiment on them. I don't worry about spoiling it. If I do, I found that I can always paint over it again with acrylic, or paste something over it. Thoughts like these free me to create without worry. I like creating with no pressure. It makes exploring fun. In July, I made stencils but cutting out photocopy paper and stamping acylic paint through them with a gelli plate. I orginally wrote the words with a ballpoint but it didn't look good. I used correction fluid to do the white lettering over. In the first part of August, I decided I should ...
