A Little Piece of my Studio. ^

         ^   Some pages I'm putting into a circus theme art journal. ^

Slowly getting back into the studio . I call it a studio, it's really a part of an enclosed room.. I'm trying to learn to be in here without my Angie.   She was always with me..  BJ

Playing with Paper

Aside from painting and drawing,  I really like working with paper.
 Making journals, both art journals and blank ones is just plain fun..

    I've made and given away dozens of art journals.  This morning I decided to make a blank with watercolor paper inside and try out a new binding called coptic chain stitch.. Although I did get the hang of it.. I realize that in order to  SEE the binding I have to use heavier cord..  oops!  alright so we are always on the journey. BJ

How and Why I Do It!

Front Cover

 Small art journals are something that I wanted to do without knowing at that time they were coming into popularity. I just knew  I wanted to make these tiny books. They are all about 3 to 4" in size.. I struggled to figure out how to do these, I remember the first one was  only 1",  and I wrote in there "I know this is very small" . Only the most disturbed mind would  actually write that in there. !! and then tell you I did !!! 
 Of course not long after struggling to figure all this out I started to see books about  making books and I  have quite a few.  I still kind of do my own thing ,, make the signatures (pages) then the covers,  and of course I had to get  waxed linen thread to bind.. I did learn a few different ways to bind the books,, but still stick to the simple ones. Coptic binding and I think the other is called Japanese Stab binding.  Well, thats my story and I'm stickin'  to it. !
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