Sunday, October 25, 2009

Fresh Covers for Sketchbook


This weekend Sarah Beth and her friend Rachel visited. Sarah Beth is studying art along with psychology, her major. I purchased a sketchbook and applied gesso to all sides of the front and back covers, hoping that she would apply paint to them with a design of her own. Last night after dinner we got the paint board out and, with the help of Big, she starting putting down color.

I went to sleep before she finished, so this morning, this is what I saw. The white cover with plum-colored lines has copper highlights and the shapes of the lines remind me of free-motion quilting. I won't touch any of this, although I really want to apply matte medium, dry them with a hair dryer and put the sketchbook back together--but I'll wait to see if she considers these as finished.