Experimenting

Once upon a trip to the art supply store I came across some lovely, 100% recycled, blank sketchbooks with my name all over them. I bought a few and took them home with me to add my "artistic touch".

This is inspired partly by the "Morning Forest Handbag."

close up-metallic paint glaze and texture

These books were raw, textured and best of all eco-friendly. I wanted to keep the natural feel, so I stuck with a nature theme and used lots of texture. All the designs are painted with acrylic and made 3-D using a plaster type medium under Gesso.

basic woodgrain

close up-I adore woodgrain textures.

work in progress-insect wing created using a glaze removal technique

close up of wing-inspired by a small cardboard chest of drawers I made with a venus fly trap theme

For now these are just experiments I've been working on. I don't know if I should try making some of these to sell in my etsy shop. There are some kinks I need to work out, but could books like these potentially be etsy worthy? Tell me what you think!