Flying Pictures Project- First Reunion

Here is our display at the Oak Park Public Library. Please note the space set up for Vivien’s book as soon as it arrives. (Fingers crossed tightly) I’ll up date the photo when her book is in the case.

 

Please note the optimistic title “First Reunion”. Let’s hope the second reunion of the books is with their owners!

Glen’s Book, At Last!

Glen’s book complete’s our formation of 7 slide shows. Check out her fancy back cover! (Yours truly has yet to make and attach her back…I better get moving! Tomorrow, I’m going over to the library to set up our case. I’ll have to rotate the books  throughout the month due to the size of the case.  I’m also showing some commercially published sketchbooks with ours to round out the display. If anyone else wants to send me copy to read on the night of November 12th, please drop me an email!

 

Sorry for some of the wonky crops.

Five of the Seven
Flying Pictures Project Journals

Robyn, how I wish you were here to photograph all of these. Wish this photo was in your back yard in Italy!

In the Spring of 2008,  I invited three web friends in distant countries to help me plan a traveling artist’s journal project.  Our group eventually became seven artists on three continents united in our desire to have fun and exchange art and we  launched The Flying Pictures Project Now the project journals ( unfortunately not the participants) will be united for a display at the Oak Park Public Library. I’ll be speaking about our process, fun and art work  Thursday evening November 12 at 7PM at the Oak Park Public Library. The books will be on display at the library for one month and  you will be able to see them up close in person on the night I’m speaking.  I wish all of the Flyers were going to be there with me to speak….sigh. Some day!

I’ll also discuss how anyone can start a journeling project and demonstrate how to make a simple pamphlet journal. With very simple tools and  daily paper ephemera anyone, even people without art training, can create a rich, satisfying  visual journal.

In another week or so, I’ll post a tutorial on how to make a pamphlet stitched journal with simple materials.

I’m so excited to have five of our journals in my hands. They are so beautiful in person. After all those rotations of books, I can know exactly which person made which art work. That’s how each of our unique voices  shines through the pages of these special journals.

Different Strokes – Chicago Bound

My Flying Pictures sketchbook is now on its way back to Lindsay for her exhibition.

Flying Pictures Project Takes To The Air Again

The project lives on! Flying Pictures Project will show in my local library this November and I’ll be speaking about our adventures on Thursday November 12Th at 7:00 PM. Casey’s book has made it back to the states and arrived on my front porch this week. I feel so lucky that I’ll have  the books in person to see them and promote the project.

For my talk at the library I’ll ask the librarians to pull sketchbooks from the collection to show, in addition to all of ours so  people can be inspired to keep a sketchbook and start a project like ours. I’m going to share Danny Gregory’s books and EDM site which was my original inspiration to take up drawing after a long hiatus. If anyone has suggestions about the books I should have on hand, please leave your suggestions in the comment section.

Here’s my tentative list so far:

Something by Hannah Hinchman

Frida Kahlos sketchbook

The Uncertainty Principal

Here’s the link for the Oak Park Public Library

http://www.oppl.org/

Flying Pictures – Different Strokes

Not great light for photography today but I couldn’t wait any longer to share my completed sketchbook.  Thank you so much everyone!  This is a beautiful book of art.

Thank you too to all the friends who’ve supported this project so enthusiastically.  It made 2008 such a memorable year.

Journey’s End for Different Strokes

Oil stick study by Lindsay Olsen

My sketchbook squeezed through the door well after dark on New Year’s Eve – I think the postman made a special trip.  It came complete with chocolates and two beautiful oil stick paintings of her beloved Lake Michigan by Lindsay.

Lake Michigan near Holland, Michigan

Thank you Lindsay, these are pulsating with beautiful colours and I love the long narrow format.

Now all that remains is for me to wait for a day with enough colour temperature to photograph the entire book and create a slideshow.  Over.  Sigh!

Rainbow moments returned.

Voici my sketchbook which returned a while back. Once all the books have been received, Lindsay will end off our project.

Thank you for such a rich collection of art! And see you all next year, same time same place?

(I apologize for the bad quality. The pics themselves are fine, but the moment they load onto slide, they start blurring, even though I tried tochange and adapt the size how many times!)

…take a moment…

Ronell’s gallery show in Robyn’s Book

 

 

 

 

Here are the pages Ronell’s created for Robyn’s beautiful book. Ronell has chosen to “hang” a charming show showing life in South Africa, a piece of history from England, a road side image from the south east US and the world’s most seductive fruit. Brava Ronell. What a beautiful addition. I’m off now to add my art to Robyn’s book and sadly bid it farewell. It’s my last book.

Slide Show of Lindsay’s Traveling Canoe

 

My beautiful book has arrived safely home. From it’s trip to Venice (Robyn) with elegant gondolas parked by the dock  to a visit to France and a view of Amboise Castle and a bottle of French wine! (Casey) on to Northern Sweden to a magical treasure Island (Nina), to the storm tossed North Atlantic with a craggy, rocky shore (Glen) and on to calmer  waters off the coast of Cornwall and some really fancy collages and strip paintings (Vivien) and finally to the River Lori in France with Ronell who has made a beatuful “film” framed group of snapshots. (complete with a visit from cyclers speeding by on the Tour de France.

I’m completely in love with each and every page. I feel  so lucky to have traveled with such excellent company.  I don’t want to say any closing words yet  because Robyn’s book is still in transit to me. I’ll send it quickly on to you Robyn when I get it. But while I’m waiting, I have this wonderful treasure of a sketchbook to keep me occupied.