I was going to title this Sketchbook Ketchup but that doesn't even make sense to my weird self.
I am so tragically behind on the Sketchbook Project that I'm tempted to actually pretend I never paid my entry fee and just forget the whole shebang.
It's like no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't fully "get into it." And then in one wild and wacky burst of energy I ripped out all the paper from the moleskin they provided simultaneously committing myself to rebinding it too. Great plan when you're already behind.
The theme "Figuring You Out" was the one I went for. It totally went with my whole investigation of the Germans and their culture. Did anybody else go with this one? What did you all sign up for? Are the rest of your finished and already back from the post office? (*Grumble - show-offs!!*) And what did y'all do to dress up the covers? Or did you leave them as-is? Talk to me.
I'm liking the idea of people paging through it as it travels across my home country, exhibit by exhibit. I'll have to get cracking if I want to send my homies a little bit of Deutschy Love.
When you're already behind should you actually rip it all apart and start from zero?
OMG! Giesela, I am so happy you posted this, because you are making me chuckle as I thought the same thing about just acting like I didn't PAY to do this! Since you are a fellow flyer, I'll be perfectly honest, I haven't even started!! So ripping it all out and starting from zero is actually way ahead of me! I have THOUGHT about it quite a bit and will start TODAY! I'm going to just have at it! I'm definitely going to decorate the cover in acrylics with maybe a little mixed media so as to entice looky-loos to check it out. What will be inside remains to be determined. Good Luck, Girl!
Oh, my theme is...It's Raining Cats and Dogs! I love Cats and Dogs!! This should be easy!
Posted by: Shari | January 04, 2011 at 04:47 PM
Haha yessss my fellow flyer GULP me too! I am in the same boat I messed with my pages when I first got it thinking I can paste pages together and gesso them easily...ugh. Some are wrinkled and I don't like the texture of the gesso so I was debating to tear them out too! but I have no clue on how to bind new pages in. And I just looked at my journal and realized I didn't gesso every page AND gluing some pages together to make them thicker helped reduce the page count for sure! I have 29 pages to fill!! think I can do it? I was also thinking I can sketch on better/thicker watercolor paper then cut to size and paste the thinker paper onto the inside of my book pages - what do you think? do you think that'll work or will it be too think?
My them is "A Day In The Life" and I will be sketching either my dog or all types of dogs, haven't decided yet.
Good Luck and keep us posted. I'll have to ass a post to my blog about this as well...that's only "if" I start this thing cus you know I was debating ditching the whole thing as well...ugh and to think that I paid the extra $$ to have it online as well..ugh my bad.
Posted by: Ivy | January 04, 2011 at 05:26 PM
Man I can't believe I already paid to have mine digitized too...! Aww c'mon gals. We can do this. There is still time... I just feel like I have to post mine before the 15th because I'm farther away. Am I paranoid...???
Posted by: TJ | January 04, 2011 at 06:11 PM
I am laughing out loud after reading your post!! I love your honesty and humor. I have to tell you, I chickened out and didn't do it, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to handle completing it. So, in light of that, please know that you inspire me for taking the challenge! I love the page you posted above!! And a lot of times, the best work comes out of the pressure at the end. Sending you good thoughts!! hugs to you & have fun~~
Posted by: Valerie Weller | January 04, 2011 at 06:26 PM
Oh dear, guilty as charged, have thought about doing it, then thought some more, then...I forgot all about it until I came here. Oh no, entering major panic mode! I'm off to think about some really good excuses as to why I didn't do anything with this lovely, lovely project, I feel some creative lying/story fabricating coming up, I feel so ashamed but it's the best strategy I can think of right now :D
Posted by: Veronika | January 04, 2011 at 08:30 PM
I just tore out a couple of pages from mine yesterday as I'm (gasp!) tired of mine too. I am going to leave the red cover and just add a label, then ta-da to that one!
Ooo, I hope you finish! Hurry hurry, you can do it TJ! I want our sketchbooks to have a rendez vous in America! :-)
Posted by: iHanna | January 04, 2011 at 09:37 PM
I chose the same theme, "figuring you out" that became "figuring me out". Not easier turned that way. I really hope I'll make it on time, I do it every free minutes i got.
We can do it !
Posted by: Nolwenn | January 05, 2011 at 01:49 AM