We’re so thrilled to be the first artist to have completed our initial portion for the International Sketchbook Project as conceived and designed by Kenya Bevans.  You can learn more about the ISP by visiting Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Flickr, or the ISP website, or Kenya’s blog.  Kenya did a fabulous job collecting sketchbook artists from around the world to participate.  Representatives from Israel, Turkey, Croatia, Germany, France, Portugal, the UK, Scotland and many others have signed up!

Each artist has four pages with which to communciate about their world.  The first is a page about themselves and the remainder can be about anything the artist chooses as long as it remains true to the theme of location.  Our collage pages (made from re-used and re-cycled luxury magazines) concentrate on the USA and President Obama’s recent win, the green spring of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the inspiring art community of Old Town Alexandria.  We’ve posted them here.  Look for more information about The International Sketchbook Project in the days to come.  

For paper and book arts enthusiasts everywhere, not to mention collage artists, we want to give a very special endorsement to Winsor & Newton’s All Purpose Varnish For General Purpose Arts & Crafts.  A beautiful clear gloss varnish which provides permanent non-removable protection of craftwork is ideal for a variety of surfaces including wood, metal, paper and modelling materials.  What I first thought was going to be a DISASTER when initially sprayed, turned out more beautifully then I could have ever imagined when dried.  I am completely SOLD on this product.  (Thank you for the recommendation, Alex!)