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Creativity Queue Challenge
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Finish a page you already started. This one has been laying around for weeks with only the background painted.
Since a few years I had the feeling that the paper's quality of the Moleskine Pocket diary became worse and worse. So I ripped out a sheet of my first pocket diary and made the comparison: Moleskine Pocket diary 2001 and 2014. (Please note: normally this is really really forbidden! Never ripe out a sheet of your sketchbook or diary! Outrage!)
At the first sight the differences don't seem to be very big. But when I look at the details I see: I'm right. The paper's fiber is getting destructed more fast in the newer Moleskine - you can see it in the paper's surface after treating with watercolor. But this is not the most annoying thing. Please have a look at the red watercolor dot above the two lines on the bottom of the spread. On the left side (2001) the borders are rather sharp. On the right side (2014) the borders are blurred, because the color is bleeding. The sme with the blue copic lines (Copic B24): The lines on the 2014 page have got some kind of shadows from the bled color. Colors are creeping inside the paper, so it's more difficult to draw some vibrant pictures with clear borders.
Pity! I really love those Moleskine pocket diaries, because they've got the best calendar design for me. But I wish the paper's quality will be improved one day. Moleskine, please let me know.
Soul Journal Entry
November 13, 2009
XL Moleskine
There is a story behind every page.
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Overcome by a sui generis malaise - I was anxious, frustrated, raging, and bored. I could not make this page look right... The Vodka Collins I was sipping did not assist the piece and I threw her in the garbage.
I woke up the next day with a hangover and a guilt trip and went to dig her out. After all, my lack of creativity and inspiration wasn't her fault. I did not reach her before the full, wet coffee filter, leftover takeout Mexican food, or the dead fly.
I unburied her, placed her on the counter to dry, and went back to working on her. Resurrection!
She is a reminder that I do ART for fun, not because I have the expectation of it being GOOD.
Art is a process, a constant interaction between my heart, my mind and the divine. Sometimes it isn't pretty. Sometimes we can't find the beauty in it.
This journal is nearly complete. There's more writing to be done, but I don't think I can squeeze any more layers in and still have it fit it's little bag.
Music is Death hysteria by Fallen Hunchback.
We made a special training in our running group: We had to run a course, and because of the different distances between the bars we looked like members of the Ministry of Silly Walks. ;-)
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Bought some new cool trousers!
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Visual Journalism of a talk I gave on Community at the Future of Talent event in Tiburon, CA, October 12, 2008. Visual Journalism by Elieen Clegg (http://www.visualinsight.net)
9 in x 12 in Strathmore Visual Journal 90lbs CP watercolor paper,scrapbook paper, die-cuts acrylic paint, rubber stamps, pigment stamp ink, stencils, Ranger Distress Crackle paint, Distress Alcohol inks, copic marker, washi tape, number circle from Mary Ann Moss' Remains of the Day, magazine clip, graph paper
This is how I spent my New Year's Eve. I was almost through with my other journal, so I decided to start a new one for the new year. I decided to stay in the Time Life series of the "Life World Library". This book is on India. For some reason I never did anything to the covers of my other visual journals. I thought arting up the cover of this one would be a good start to a fresh start. I really like how it turned out.
For day 16 of "30 days of Get Your Art On," I started on the cover of a journal to sell. I used some of the techniques from my book "Print & Stamp Lab" to apply the paint with rollers and found-object stamps.
The daughter of a friend of us wanted to go to the Hansa Park. I'm really not a fan of rollercoasters, but I came with them. To my mind I've been very brave, because I went with some funfair rides - but of course NOT with the "Fluch von Novgorod"!
There was also a parrot show and until it began I was allowed to hold the sulphur-crested cockatoo on my hand. I love parrots, so I was very happy. ;-)