This week with the Free Up Your Sketchbook course we are reviewing, researching and preparing. So I reviewed my sketchbook and there are bits I like but it's all too dark. Karen did an interview with Debbie Mackinnon where Debbie showed the small concertina books that she makes.
Which gave me an idea!
I suspect Debbie starts with an A1 sheet of paper. The largest I have is A2 so that's what I used. Rather than making the book first, I started by putting pieces of masking tape on the paper, drawing lines with a grey Stabilo crayon and then scraping gesso on. It was all very random.
When the gesso had dried I added very watered down turquoise and copper acrylic inks.
And when that was dry I added bits of collage using Gel medium as the glue.
Then I folded the paper and cut it. You can watch this video if you want to make one yourself. I folded up the paper which makes a concertina book that is A6 size or opened out to A5 as in these photos.
Some of these double pages are lovely already. However I will still add more layers to all of them.
Doing the mark making before the folding has meant that I have much more random layouts. I would probably have put more effort into thinking about placement if I'd made the book first.
AND I am back in my comfort zone with the limited palette.
I'll continue to photograph my journey in this sketchbook. Watch this space!
Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice
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