Cool Little Sketchbook

As I said in my post Sketchybook 1, I tend to find sketchbooks a bit uninviting, so I have taken to making my own.

This one is a little sketchbook to take on my travels.

It's made up of a bunch of painted paper left over from the collage work I did for my Film Noir series. It's about 6x8 and is bound on the short end. 

Below is a short video of me making the book. When the video begins, I have already created the two covers from black illustration board and used a hole punch to create space for a binding.

I wanted to have a binding that would allow me to flip the pages completely over, instead of lying flat like a book. So, I tried to make the binding with colorful string. However...

I learn by doing-- I'm making it up as I go along! I had to disassemble the book and change the binding to hinged keyrings, because the string binding was simply not working.

If at first you don't succeed... try, try again!

Look out for a future blog entry about this travel sketchbook after I've filled it up. Who know what will happen?