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Hello, welcome to The Sketchbook Challenge Blog Hop.  If you make a comment on this blog you will be in the drawing for 2 different prizes.  Winners will be drawn by me on Friday the 29th.  Don’t forget you have to make a comment for me to add your name to the qualifiers.

The prizes:

A one year membership to KathyAnne Art worth $35.00.   You will be able to access a new workshop every month as a member and all the monthly workshops that are already on the site.  Also the royalty free images are free to members.  You can visit my Inside KathyAnne Art blog to see workshop descriptions for the member free workshops –

Another prize is the book “Making Handmade Books: 100+Bindings, Structures & Forms by Alisa Golden given away by Art Plantae Today  a $19.95 value.

Now this one if for everyone.  I am giving a coupon for a workshop on my KathyAnne Art site-
Studio Journals Mini Workshop a $15.00 value.  All you have to do is hop on over to Digital Alternative Journaling site to my new post Building Journal Pages on my iPad to get the coupon code.  All the information on how to retrieve the code is in that blog post along with the word to put in the coupon code box in the cart on KathyAnne Art.  Simple as that.

Enjoy some pictures of my project from the book.

It was wonderful to be asked to participate in The Sketchbook Challenge book.  Since my work starts with digital images, all the textures and elements in my Forest Book 2 piece featured in the book are digitals on some type of alternative surfaces.  Elements is the chapter that my work is in.

In this image you can see a composition using digitally printed watercolor paper and encaustic on the right.  On the left the page is comprised of digital prints on recycled beverage cans strung on thin hemp and crocheted together before attaching it to the page.

The page on the right is digitally needlepoint canvas with digital prints on lutradur heat distressed and attached to the canvas.  The lutradur has been torn and layered with wire and beads and a border of beads runs around the lutradur composition.  On the left is a mixture of textured elements and a digital print on tyvek.  The tyvek is cut into small pieces and then melted to stack with wire and twigs.

 This part of the sketchbook contains the images and information from my photoshop files.  This is about the watercolor paper prints that were torn and assembled with encaustic in the first picture of my Forest Book 2.

This part of my sketchbook has some pieces of test prints that didn’t get into the final project.  It also has pictures of my digitally printers plates that are on one page of Forest Book 2.

Comments

  2. Ideas are popping in my head just by looking at your blog page. Now i want to make a journal. lol deana

  5. Hi,

    What great images from the book of your digital needlepoint canvas, it is to die for. Too cool. I would love to learn how to do that.

  7. Wow! Love all those pages above. Such creativity!!! Anything with texture like that turns me on! Can’t wait to see the Sketchbook Challenge book …..

  8. Beautiful – I love getting to see so many pieces by so many different artists. Very inspiring!

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  12. This is a great blog hop. I am adding so many blogs to my google reader! I love all the texture in your book!

  13. Thank you so much for sharing your artwork on the Sketchbook Challenge and for participating in the hop. This is so much fun!

  14. Gobsmacked here, all I can think to say is ‘wow’. Your work is stunning and more than a little intriguing, you must have the patience of a saint my lovely. Thank-you for sharing.
    Hugs x

  16. My kids are going to make a book (using etchings of animals) with my artist friend, and would welcome a book about “book-making”.

  17. So excited to get my copy of the book today! Been trying to sketch daily (with moderate success) then convert the sketches into art quilts. Want to branch out into art quilt-type hand-made books. Can’t wait to delve into all the great inspiration. Thanks!

  21. I’m getting irresistibly pulled towards book making, so the book would be perfect!

    I also love getting inspiration and techniques, so the membership would be great!

    Thanks!

  22. I will have to put book making on my list to try. I have been wanting to make something for my photos and this gives me a great idea. Thanks for sharing, Judith, Texas

  24. Wow love your entry for the book and think its a great idea to make the book ive followed sketchbook challenge on my google reader and love it….
    hugz bev

  28. Thanks for the giveaway. I made myself a small journal for carrying in my purse. I have to say I was pretty impressed with the possibilities for making other books.

  29. Wow! I silkscreen on metal screen sometimes and work it into my more sculptural weavings, and I’ve done basketry with rusty wire, but all the prep and handling for those can pieces looks like it would be hard on your hands. AS amazing as the digital printing is on the flat cans, I’m guessing the full effect of all the 3-D pieces can’t really show through in the photos as much as it must in the actual pieces.

  31. This is new to me but looks very interesting. Love this idea as I’m seeing so many talented people at work.

  34. Your work is amazing and both prizes sound wonderful. I have been wanting to make my own journals for some time. I wonder how you are able to close your’s with all that wonderful art on the pages.