Last May I took a driving trip through Andalucia with my husband. I took a lot of photos and when I got home I decided to turn them into an art journal. I’ve posted the results in a new gallery.
I gessoed some universal art paper, and then transferred some of the photo images with Golden gloss gel. Other pages I worked over with Distress Ink. When the initial prep was done, I drew, painted, collaged and wrote until I was satisfied. I finished some of the pages with an acrylic glaze and varnished others, depending on the media. Then I bound the book with a Zutter spiral binder and set it on my shelf.
I’m very happy with the way the images turned out. I’m less happy with my handwriting — I’ve never like it, since I was a kid. I’m thinking that the next book I do, I’ll use printed or transferred text. I also don’t like the plastic spiral binding as much as I would like a metal ring binding or a sewn binding, so I’ll try that for the next book as well.
