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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Go with the flow...those accordion sketchbooks


Part of the fun of the accordion journal is letting the image flow from page to page...it's a bit tricky unless you have a flat surface to work on, but it IS a lot of fun.  Nice design challenge!

(You can click on the image to see it larger) 

This is my California Journal, showing the flowers that were in bloom, bits of a courtyard, the mountains, my husband, and to the far right, my mother-in-law's nasturtiums and the start of a 3-page spread of the ocean.  I take it with me every time I go out there (my husband's dad still lives there) and add to it or not, as the spirit moves...I don't normally set aside a journal for a theme like this, but the accordions seem to lend themselves to that especially well.


3 comments:

  1. I like this journal being dedicated to one place. Sort of makes the journal itself a friend you return to visit once in a while.

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  2. Lovely work, Kate. How will you know when it's complete? Will you add any text (writing) to it?

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  3. Vicky, you're right and it gives me something to look forward to! I hope to get to the La Brea Tar Pits again, which I LOVED--would be neat to have some of that stuff there.

    Thank you, Laure! If you enlarge it you can see there's a bit of text already. I didn't try headlines, I'm not very good at that...

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