Brrr… here in New England, every day is a weather surprise. Until the cold really sets in, we could have sweater days or gloves, hat, scarves days. Today is at least a scarf day. I’m looking forward to our holiday shut down (Dec. 23 – Jan. 2) so that I can curl up in my favorite sweater and slippers and become a creative shut-in. It seems the perfect time to look back and look ahead.
It’s a great time to look at what worked and what could be improved upon. Personally, I need to approve upon my own art making. I need to work diligently at carving the time out to “make.” One of my personal projects is working on a couple of sketchbooks for The Sketchbook Project 2012 by Art House Co-op. I’m working on one sketchbook collaboratively and one on my own.
And because what’s good for the goose, is good for the gander…we decided to enter a sketchbook with Cloth Paper Scissors Readers, too! That’s right. You can end the year right by entering our new reader challenge: to be part of The Sketchbook Project 2012 and part of our new eMag Art Journaling EXPOSED at the same time!
To be part of the Art Journaling EXPOSED reader challenge you will need to send in a small art journal/sketchbook page. Here are the details:
- 4 1/2" wide x 3 1/4" tall (these pages will become part of a rebound flag-style sketchbook to accommodate more readers!)
- One entry per person, please.
- theme: Stitched and folded (We’re focusing on the stitched part. Add machine stitches, or hand-stitches or faux stitching…or draw pictures of stitching, or journal about stitching…you get the idea!)
- Fully decorate one side only. (You may add some detail to the back of the page and add any contact information you wish to give out, in the middle of the page—but some of the back will be covered in the binding process)
- Pages must be as flat as possible. (The entire book has to be under 1" deep, so thick entries will not be considered.)
- No art will be returned, and all entries are considered for publication, not guaranteed.
- All art must be free of copyright (no using other people’s art in your work.)
- All work becomes the property of Interweave and Cloth Paper Scissors, and may be published.
- Please include a photo of your page along with your name, city, state, country, and email address (for in house purposes only!)
- Ship your page to: Interweave/Cloth Paper Scissors “Sketchbook Project”, Boston Post Rd., Suite 15, Sudbury, MA 01776
- All artwork should arrive between January 3 and January 16th.
We hope you’re excited to be part of this wonderful project and to be considered for our very first, and very awesome new Art Journaling EXPOSED eMag! Also note that this sketchbook will also be digitized by The Sketchbook Project and available to view online (as well as in the traveling show!)
Happy Art Journaling!
