Another half finished project that I started back in the summer and don't see myself finishing before the new year!
I handmade this simple small booklet cover from thick scrapbooking paper, turquoise duck tape, and bookbinding thread. It has one signature, made from thin sketchbook paper, with two holes punched through them and the cover for the thread to run through to bind them together.
I pulled the images from photos of sidewalk cracks, peeling paint, or paper wads, which I printed off copies of, from a class in Sketchbook Revival 2025 by Carla Sonheim. I found the images within the cracks and sketched them in in pen or pencil, Many of them were smaller than my signature pages, so I cut them out, glued them to the pages, and, in some cases, extended the image onto the page. I have colored some of them in with colored pencils and markers, and some are still waiting for color.
Sidewalk cracks, or any other cracks, can have some very interesting images hiding among them. All you have to do is look! I warn you, though, it's addictive! I used Carla's images for this, but I want to photograph my own variety of cracks to see what kind of quirky characters I can pull out. The photos can be printed off as small, or large, as you want them, and then the hunt begins!
Here are the pages of this book in progress, but there are also some of my critters several posts back when I took the class.
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| From sidewalk crack photo |
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| From sidewalk crack photos |
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| Paper scrap and sidewalk crack photos |
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| Sidewalk crack photos |
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| Sidewalk crack photo |
From sidewalk crack photos
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| Skater from peeling paint and bird from paper scrap photos |
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| Ducks and bird from sidewalk crack photos |
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| Buffalo from wadded up paper photo |
If you want to see some more examples check out Carla Sonheim's website http:www.carlasonheim.com. She's much better at it than I am, and often uses hers as inspiration for her large paintings!
So much fun!!!
I haven't done any art in several days, because it's been busy here, as usual, especially during the holidays. I am trying to get my blog posts, among other things, caught up for the end of the year, so that I can, hopefully, get a blog book printed. So maybe I can get back on my creative stuff by New Years. We'll see!
Wishing you all a safe and happy holiday season!
2 comments:
I love her cracks and have done many. You need to finish your book because it is really beautifully done!!! I love her classes too, but the cracks are my fave!!!
Thank you so much, Peggy! :)
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