Week Sixteen - Mr. Smiles

Week Fifteen - Follow the Line

Week Fourteen - Passiflora Caerolea

Week Thirteen - Are You My Mother?

Week Twelve - Disease

Week Eleven - Apple of My Eye

Week Ten - Under the Sea

Week Nine - Colorful Personality

Week Eight - Between the Lines

Week Seven - Mugshot for Mom

Week Six - School Pictures

Week Five - Fizz Pop

Week Four - Lost My Marbles

Week Three - Guess I'll Go Eat Worms

I think in 2014 I will do a creature challenge. One drawn creature a week.

Week Two - Censored

Week One

This year, instead of a book a week, I will decorate a page a week to create one book at the end of the year. It's not as time consuming as a book a week but still gives me something to work towards. Every week I will decorate a page from an old book. Though this is technically the second week of 2013, I am just now posting week one's page. I'm not sure if I will title or write about every week but I have time to figure that out. Please check out the book challenge show at Pullen Arts Center. Reception is the 17th.

Week Fifty Two - Sporadic Snake

Well this is the last book for the year. The book challenge is now complete and I am quite happy with my body of work. This week's book is in the long Coptic style and is made from bits of everything: wrapping paper, scrap paper, receipts, labels, instructions and more. It's name comes from its flexibility which makes it feel almost alive. All of the books that Kathy and I have made will be in the cases at Pullen Arts Center all through January so make sure to stop by and take a look. The reception for the gallery will be the night of the 17th.

Week Fifty One - Rain On Your Parade

This week I did another canvas cover. I have recently gotten quite into books with canvas covers because they are malleable and there are many ways that you can decorate the cover. For the book challenge, the first canvas cover I used acrylic paint with some mixed media elements. The second canvas cover I used alcohol inks and acrylic paint with a snowflake template. This time I just used the alcohol inks so I could play around with them and learn more about how they work and what you can do with them. I decided to call this book "Rain On Your Parade" because of all the bright colors I used, but I had so much of the ink it started to pool and I let it drip off the canvas which makes it look a bit like it got rained on. There is only one week left in the year!

Week Fifty - Fibrous

I recently taught a fibers surface design class at Pullen Arts Center. For many of the pages I used my dyeing samples from the class and one of the embroidery samples. The cover is my sample for paint on dyes that I turned into book cloth. It has some blank pages in it and would work well as a sketch book for a fiber artist or to hold needles, labels, and ideas.

Week Forty Nine - Vertebrae

I stitched together the spines of old hard cover books to create this recycled cover. I used 2 from a children's story series, 2 old literature books from middle school, an old thesaurus, a French war novel and an American political novel.