Trip Prep: A brand new paint tin
July 7, 2011 | 5 Comments
Time to get really excited!
CONTINUE READING
Glamis castle in brown ink
July 7, 2011 | Leave your thoughts
hmmm… I have a new decision… do I fill a pen with brown ink and take it as well… I have finally got around to getting some noodlers polar brown. I do have a spare container that I can take some extra ink in…sigh…so much for travelling light! Ha! That is almost as much an...
CONTINUE READING
Trip Prep 26: Refining Page layout
July 6, 2011 | Leave your thoughts
I have been doing lots of experimentation in my Trip Prep journal during the last week and doing a lot of thinking…. My goals for this years books include: trying to do something a bit different add more ephemera -more collage elements variety in line – colour make sure that I draw maps of every...
CONTINUE READING
Trip Prep 25: Itinerary Based Action List
July 6, 2011 | Leave your thoughts
Whilst my trip prep book doesn¹t have many great sketches it has been a very worthwhile exercise for me to work in a book that it is process driven not product driven. And yet at the same time I have been experimenting with very simple and quick ways of enlivening working¹ pages. I am in...
CONTINUE READING
The bear's proudest moment - IN PRINT!!!
July 5, 2011 | 2 Comments
I got my copy of Kate Johnson’s new book in the mail today!! I am SO honoured to have some of my work in this book… and Borromini can’t contain his excitement at having his own sketch! It looks a most wonderful wonderful book – Kate’s insights are amazing, covers so amny aspects of...
CONTINUE READING
Trip Prep 11 revisited
July 4, 2011 | Leave your thoughts
The restrained striped covers were SOOO wrong…. As I am planning to include collage inside my books of Portuguese tile patterns…. I need the patterns on the outside. I realised this late on Friday night…so I have bought 3 new books and recovered them. Ah! That is better! (the striped books will be fine for...
CONTINUE READING
