Niniji almost on the way home.

Got it Niniji!
And it is done.
I'll send it on to you this week.

It came back! It looks already fabulous! Thank you everybody !
There are still some pages blank...
If someone is motivated to fill them up?

Catching Up!

Well, what can I say... I am truly sorry for holding you all up, and holding up your books.  But here are the three I had, all done!

 Roland's Moly

 Niniji's Moly

Barbara's Moly

I can't find the details for accessing the spreadsheet.  Roland can you please email me your address (roly1444( at )yahoo.com.au)?  Niniji and Barbara's books, who do I send them to?  They have all three Australian entries in them.

Hmmmm,,,,,

I'm sorry, but I still don't understand what is happening with these books. I started with this group over  two years ago - - my expectation was of spontaneous reactions with the books flying around quickly from one person to the next -- maybe, doing two rounds of the group in the space of two years.  I was looking forward to the element of surprise in opening a book not knowing what would be in it, with this blog simply being here to track the books progress. Ah well, . . .

Anyway, I'd just like to see the end result some day..... all the books seem to be blocked in one place according to the spreadsheet. Can anybody sort this out?

more figs, and then we're off to see the wonderful-wizard-of-Oz(oux)

Helena's notebook is ready to move on. Is oO ready to take it? Should I wait until after the holidays?

Figs, figs...

I started working on Helena's book. It's got so many awesome works from everybody already. I decided to have figs (yes, the fruit) as my theme this time. And I am sorry they kind of look like onions.

Sing your heart out!!!!

I sat on this one for way too long.  Sorry about that.
I added three little birds singing their hearts out in oO's book.  I thought the paper that Barbara added looked kind of like a wing shape, so I tried to build off of it.  The rest is history.  It's a really cool book and I loved working on the watercolor paper.  Might have to look into making one of these guys for myself someday.
In other news, I will be moving back to the States in December.  I've been in contact with Barbara, she has sent books to me and I expect them any day now.  I will send oO's to EWian this week.  I still want to be an active member of the group, Barbara will just need to send to Michigan instead of Germany :)
Be well.
Jenn

Ewian's book: flowers for Mathilda

My cat helped me paint finally the flowers for Mathilda in Ewian's book.
The books (Jennifer's and Ewian's) left to Jennifer in Germany today. I just posted them.

Barbara

Pretend to be a bird

Jennifer's book
I am working in Jennifer's book.

Her theme is "pretend". I was inspired by a lovely paper origami bird that I bought to support Fukushima victims. Origami art is very fascinating, or how a flat sheet of paper pretends to be a bird...

Jenn, I put the little bird in the back pocket for you :-)

Who do I send it to? Is everybody still active?? Jan, ??? Emma??? According to the status sheet you didn't do anything in the book. Do I send it to you or back to Jennifer? Please respond.

I just received Jenn's and Ewian's book! I will take them with me to Barcelona next week to work in them :-))
They look gorgeous!

Barbara

Birds for Helena

I've been a bad girl.....I've been sitting on books for waaaay too long and I don't want to be THAT person.

Barbara's lovely little lady is there to the left, my blur of birds is to the right.  I'll post this to EWian this week.

I also have Oliver's book that I hope to get out within the week.

Barbara's Moleskine: Falling Man

I actually sat down and did Moleskine work today. Three is too many to have on one's desk.
This is Barbara's and I am going to send it to Jan with Rowland's. I know, I should have done that a week ago, commitments have taken over my life (the Pop Up shop mainly that I was unexpectedly a lot more work than we all expected), now it is cleared a little and organised, I feel relaxed enough to think about this.

Rowland gets a dragon

I have been a bit busy, and have had this moleskine loitering on my desk, done, while I procrastinated if it was... well, it is. I have Barbara's also in a state of where to go from here after I started. It is brewing in my brain. Never fear.
I'll find out of Jan wants Rowland's while I still work on.

Poppy lady

My entry in Helena's book!

As Helena draws wonderful female creatures and plants, flowers, greens.... I was inspired by her and found I had to make something female and flowery.
Pencil and watercolor.
On the first page I put an envelope where everybody can add treasures. I put some very old stamps from my old stamp collection there. You can use them in your creations.

Helena I hope you like it.

I now post the books to Jennifer. Or maybe I still add some text in it?! :-) I cannot stop!

Barbara

oO's book : can you hear the music?

Here's a picture of oO's book in progress and finished! I make a collage with very fine hand made japanese paper with golden cherry blossoms on it to hide away the shining through of the silver washes on the front side of the paper.
I glued some blossoms around Rowlands drawing to make the link. and finish with blossoms on the right as well to hide away a shining through.

As oO has this music USB-stick in his book, I want to make something about music. So I took a page of a partita of Bach and started to paint the music in the Moly. I will finish with watercolor washes of course, on this fine Arches paper Moly. I use winsor & Newton watercolor and the fine new Sennelier watercolor with honey.

I took 4 pages after Rowland's drawing, and then I continued to the left around Rowland's two pages darwing.
I glued an ex-libris in the lower left coorner because the paper was damaged on that spot by the USB-stick stuck behind.

oO I hope you like it!

Jenn can I send you the book ? Are you at home for the moment?

Barbara

Jan's book on its way to USA

My entry in Jan's book is called "the therapeutic cat". "Family pets can sometimes have a therapeutic effect on the family's dynamics", said a friend of mine.

Barbara's Moleskine is done

Hi guys! This is Barbara's moleskine. All good and ready to go!

I played around with some of the drawings on the book. I really liked Barbara's lady so I covered her up with some blooms and a sleeping cat. I've also added some opal dust on the leaves, which doesn't really show up on the photos...but let's just say...this glitter stuff is da bomb man!

 

And here's another illo on top of some swirls that Olivier did. I hope you like it Barbara! I had so much fun with your book:)

Hi Everybody !
I received Oo's and Helena's book yesterday from Rowand! They look great, but... Oo's book is totally full already. Rowland why did you fill up 9 pages in Oo's book? I tought we agreed to fill up maximum 3 pages to leave room for others? How about me, Jennifer, Ewian and Niniji who still had to paint something?
Please don't fill up more than 3 pages... !
I'm sorry to have to write this but I 'm dissapointed...
Pity because I love this watercolor paper and I was looking forward to paint in this wonderfull book :-(
Oo can you make me one? How can you get this long paper so flat??
So I send oo's book back to USA.

Barbara

Rowland's Moleskine is finally done

Just a quick post to show where the end of the string is tied to on Rowland's book.

I hope Olivier doesn't mind that I've made his winged angel a little bit fancy!

Will work on Barbara's book now:)

Hi from Italy

The next two books have arrived! I still have two books ready to go to Barbara but I still don't have her address! It's good to see that books seem to be moving around :-)