Sketchbook ready for the post

There has not been much activity on the blog for the past few weeks. The reason being that we were busy trying to get the furniture assembled and the packing cases unpacked in the house in Spain. I took my sketchbook with me – just in case. I did actually manage to do a few pages, but the rest got done yesterday. I hate to be doing everything at the last minute.

The sketchbook turned into more of a journal. The topic I chose lent itself to the direction I ended up taking. The amount of sketching dwindled towards the end. One of the things I learnt from this exercise is that I am more comfortable collaging then actually applying pencil or paintbrush to paper.

I tried out the image transfer technique that was described in Tip jar Thursdays! No. 11 on the Art House Co-op blog. I used it first to create the map of our trip from Xàtiva to Murcia. It was quite successful there – although the acetone appears to have made its way right through to the back cover and messed up the label there. When I tried it again on the cover I got some very smudgy results that I wasn’t at all happy about. So the final cover turned into a cover up job.

Now all I have to do is put it in an envelope and into the post.