forbidden fruit

ayarosen:

So for some reason I thought the deadline for sketchbook project was in June. I have no idea why. I got my book real early, and started to work on it right away, then other stuff came up and I buried it under a plie of stuff and forgot all about it till 3 days ago when that e-mail saying “8 more days till deadline” came in.

So I opened it again to see what I have. First of all, I thought I was about half way done, but it was more like a 1/4 of a book done. Second I didn’t like the concept I started with which was 2 pages dedicated to a personal disaster and 2 pages dedicated to a national or international disaster. It felt simplistic and sort of whiny to me now.

Then, there was also the problem of the paper. I know from the start that the paper in the book was really really shitty, and hoped to be able to get away with it with a combination of very little water color or other wet media and collage. However, looking at what I had so far, I really hated the way both collage and wet media looked at the crappy paper.

So, I tore out all the pages and decided to start over.