Sunday, August 23, 2009

new, unlined journal volume



This Epica paper scans very yellow. It's not great for water, but excellent for dry media.

These 5x7-inch sketchbooks are small, thick, and super heavy. I cut off the cover of this on-sale item and turned the frontis (such a funny word) pages into the new cover.

I used gaffer tape on the spine, gave the new cover strength and weight by gluing each frontis page to the next page and coating them with 2 layers of chromium green acrylic paint and gel medium.

Now all the weight is in the actual drawing surface and whatever I glue in, not a useless heavy shell.

6B Derwent pencil.

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