Randi Feuerhelm-Watts cleaned out her studio and gave several of her journals that she started but never finished away. I was the lucky recipient of her red journal. It's a book cut in triangular shape with the pages folded. She attached a large grommet to one corner and added a chain to be able to carry it or hang it up.
The closure is glued onto the front cover and the back has a red elastic, looped thread to hold it closed.
It's my red journal collaboration with Randi. She started it and I'll finish it. I worked on some new pages at our Guemes Retreat. The first page uses a notice from the
1000 journals project.
The next page includes crop circle card that I received from
Lydia Ruyle. The journal is a receptacle for all things red. The paper around the edges was made with a technique Randi shared on a recent trip to Portland.
Take baby wipes, scrunch and fold them with paper clips, rubber bands, other closures and paint with water soluble inks or children's washable markers. Let dry and you have a tie-dyed paper to use.
Another page focuses on an urban setting. Portland hosted an International Urban Sketchers Symposium this weekend. Check out their blog
Here. Journal making and keeping takes many forms. That's what keeps it interesting and offering many opportunities to explore the creative process in word and image.
Randi Feuerhelm-Watts cleaned out her studio and gave several of her journals that she started but never finished away. I was the lucky recipient of her red journal. It's a book cut in triangular shape with the pages folded. She attached a large grommet to one corner and added a chain to be able to carry it or hang it up.
The closure is glued onto the front cover and the back has a red elastic, looped thread to hold it closed.
It's my red journal collaboration with Randi. She started it and I'll finish it. I worked on some new pages at our Guemes Retreat. The first page uses a notice from the 1000 journals project.
The next page includes crop circle card that I received from Lydia Ruyle. The journal is a receptacle for all things red. The paper around the edges was made with a technique Randi shared on a recent trip to Portland.
Take baby wipes, scrunch and fold them with paper clips, rubber bands, other closures and paint with water soluble inks or children's washable markers. Let dry and you have a tie-dyed paper to use.
Another page focuses on an urban setting. Portland hosted an International Urban Sketchers Symposium this weekend. Check out their blog Here. Journal making and keeping takes many forms. That's what keeps it interesting and offering many opportunities to explore the creative process in word and image.
Love this idea of having a red journal for all red bits that attract your attention! Now you just need one for every other color.
ReplyDeleteWow this is quite a work of art. I actually was making a blue journal but never finished it. Happy journaling...
ReplyDeletevery cool...hope you'll keep sharing as you add to it!
ReplyDeleteI look forward to seeing more of the red journal and REALLY enjoyed the link to Lydia Ruyle thanks.
ReplyDeleteHope to see your red journal when I get home!
ReplyDeleteVery cool journal, Randi's work is terrific and I know you will really finish it up wonderfully!
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I remember seeing this at ARTFEST. I'm glad to see what you have done to it and look forward to seeing more.
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