Good-bye Sketchbook

I mailed off my sketchbook on Monday for the 2012 Sketchbook Project. I finished up the cover this past weekend and sent it off to Brooklyn NY. I am looking forward to checking it out (literally, you get a library card) when the Sketchbook Project Tour visits New England.

Illustration Friday "sink"

I thought this spread that I had sketched out for my Sketchbook Project story would make an appropriate image for the IF theme "sink". Today I added watercolor and colored pencil to get it to a more finished state. The paper in the sketchbook is pretty flimsy and not the best for wet media, so the book's pages are a bit wrinkled. I'm hoping they'll flatten out if I put a weight on the book when I'm all done.

Illustration Friday "separated"

I've been working on the final pages of my Sketchbook Project sketchbook. If you haven't heard of it, check out http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject2012 .

The theme I chose was "uncharted waters" and I've been drawing the tale of a mouse who receives a message that starts him out on a watery journey. I thought this illustration would be appropriate for this week's IF theme, "separated" as it depicts the the reunion of two who've been separated.