Book: Page 1

I want to explain a little about the book and how it came about.

I had been listening to some music by Interpol, and decided that I really wanted to do a book of Haikus. Partially because it wouldn't be a whole lot of text, and partly because I want to be like Jack Kerouac. But secretly of course.

And I really like collaging... So here the story goes:

After my grandmother died, my sister and I inherited her left over art supplies so to speak. I know, an odd thing to get, but we're a crafty family. Sarah got her oils, and acrylics and I got some of her watercolors and sketch pads. What we didn't know at the time was that there was still a lot of her art work still in the sketch pads. Mostly unfinished sketches of boats, nautical things, buildings, landscapes, bird houses. Some really random, but interesting stuff. Boats were her thing, however.

So quite a few of the sketches were hers. The boat in this drawing I just outlined roughly and colored in one of her pieces, as well as pages 2, the corner piece was hers, pages 3 and 4, the landscape was her outline, and the last page was her sketch of the "end of the trail".

What I did as a homage to her, was use these pieces in my book with watercolor backgrounds I did, or color things in. It was a neat project to work on though.