Guatemala sketchbook

Three years ago I took an excellent workshop with Bobbi Friedman called Journey Books.  We made our own sketchbooks, mainly accordion style books with pockets and inserts sewn in.  I've filled three, and I started one for Guatemala.

Tonight I thought I'd post some pictures from the smaller inserts.  I also paste interesting tickets and business cards onto these smaller pieces of paper.  This came from the shop of San Francisco el Grande church in Antigua.

I also drew chicken buses, which are old American schoolbuses which are pimped out and used as public transport in Guatemala.  Each one has a name. Here is Camelia:

I love the thunderbolt windshield wipers.  They are almost as nice as the Thundercats decal I saw on a Tuk Tuk.

The last page of this sketchbook is a sketch made for me by my friend Juan Carlos Calderon - it's beautiful.  Stop by my office and ask to see it!

Books!

Since I don't feel like painting tonight, I thought I'd let you take a look at my newest sketchbook.

I made the sketchbook cover from a pretty soapbox set I received at Christmas.  I learned how to use stab stitch to make it into a book from Esther K. Smith's marvelous How to Make Books.

My local membership library bought it after I requested it.  I made back my membership fees for that year!  She describes lots of ways to create your own books.  Next up for me will be a coptic sketchbook using chipboard I bought at Jerry's and some paper I marbled myself years ago.

Here's a look inside the front cover.

This could be called from my lips to God's ears.  It's actually some small exercises I did during a figure drawing class last week while the model took a break.  They are from Charles Reid's early figure painting book.  As is this eye.

Here's looking at you!