holy moly, it's COLD !!!!!!!!
Here's some white art work.. from Art Journal 2019

I used some scraps...







And some new work on The Screw Project #1...

some details on the inserts

I have started my 2019 Art Journal using watercolor pages from joggles.com and will need larger rings, and more pages. Pictures soon.
I have been working on polishing pages fro the AIR in Newmarket. Each 3rd grader will be researching a simple machine. I chose the screw to be able to use the "helix"/ spiral.
I'm working on two models with folders.
This is a purple folder, with pockets already, cut in half. I usually avoid the bright green index cards

cover

backs of the inserts

                                                                                  The insert with half a spiral opens to see a stitched line of the spiral...

fronts of the inserts 

 This needs something in the right hand purple section -

This is the first spread - the inserts can be seen

this is the second spread with inserts in place

this spread needs text




 I will continue to post details and the second book.

More can be seen on my FB page...

rubbing with color sticks







black and white -sort of- doodle and cut out

Jan 2 2018

 HAPPY 2019 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is Art Journal 2018

art work from a magazine cover

the blue is sea grass photo from a calendar

I photo'd all of the pages on Jan 1
and finished the Table of Contents - it's on the back pages.The numbers disappeared from the pages, so I had to wing it a couple times.

Like the look of the whole journal:

 Even though it's a challenge to tie it up, I like the way the tags, cards, and ephemera stick out...and I got that look in the photos, not the scans.

not

moon poem

November 5, 2006, four thirty pm

Driving home from Lowell

On Route 495

The full moon is my playmate.

First, its smiling face appears at the horizon

Pale pink, a Necco wafer pasted on a pale blue sky

Barely different

My car’s compass tells me whether I’m headed N or NW and even NS

The Moon glides behind oak covered hills,

Burnt orange, deep red, maroon and gold bands or

Clouds among the purple of the naked branches of indiscernible species.

It slides out from behind feather tipped hills of  black naked branches.

It partially hides behind the hills of pine to pop up

As I change direction, it is at my side

Too far to the right to safely watch

As it morphs from pink to baby soft yellow, more white

Once, I’m driving NW for a short time,

His smiling face is on my left,

Thrilling me, a flirtatious face of an impish, new love.

As I take the Exit to Route 101

Nearing my destination,

The moon glides effortlessly along

Now above the horizon.

Is it really a stone object miles away.

And I sadly realize that

I am not his only playmate

Hundreds of other bright glaring lights in pairs, red lights, trying to keep me focused on the road ahead.

Many others too are being toyed with.

He is not my faithful watchful friend accompanying me as I turn onto New Road

Where the darkness has distorted the oak, the pine, the naked maples.

 He’s behind the trees, still now,. I am home.

   

not sure what direction NS is ???? typo? humor? maybe should be NE..

This is the first draft.

pages 156- 7
with an insert for 156a,b,c,d....

 the papers are "handmade", not by me - from Dick Blick a few years ago -
This is the back of the page below (156b & c)...

center of insert

I used a gold pen to write some simple thoughts and ended with the black page for the two papers.
These are the final pages for 2018... I am attaching a copy of a moon poem from 2006 to the last section of the pages before the reverse Table of Contents.


Here's to happy journaling in 2019....

Christmas Pages with cards...

 PEACE , LOVE, HOPE
p.154 includes a Christmas Card from longtime, dear friend,and one tucked in the pocket from a fellow retiree from EKES, and friend. There's a pale rubbing of my modern tree on the left. I needed to have a balance, contrasting for the colors of the card.





This includes a card from  a former principal, and friend, (a Charlie Harper design)...yes it's sideways. The tree is from something I worked on a few years ago, and it showed up among the stuff on my worktable. I added the dots and Merry Christmas...

I have a few blank pages to finish the year, and have started the backwards Table of Contents - reversed !!! Looking at new journal for 2019, possibly two !!