Handmade art book of whimsical birds finished

My little art book of whimsical birds is now finished.  I found this so much fun to do and now have a little display of my art as well. These are all of the 10 birds.  As they started as quick drawings I can now develop them further in other projects.

And displayed.

Amongst other things, I have 10 cats drawn and ready to be painted in the same style.

Happy weekend everyone.

More whimsical birds for my little art book

Through making this little art book, I have realised that I like to keep themes going in an art book, hence I seem to have a lot of books on the go all at the same time, with not many filled.  Because this is a little book with 10 pages I don't find it so daunting and have completed the book with whimsical bird drawings, half now waiting to be painted.  This makes me feel that I have actually completed a project and will have a little decorative piece of art as well.

These are the two latest birds.

For the month of January, Micki at The Secret Hermit organised The Big Fat January Mail Art Swap, where on receipt of a piece of your art she would send one of her fabulous paintings in return. This was the one I received which I absolutely love.  Thanks Micki!

This was the one that I sent her using my recycled art theme.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

Teeny tiny tablet box journal

After being inspired by Jennibellie's blog on the making of her cereal box journal, I thought I would give it a go but on a much smaller scale to start with.  So after searching for what I had, I found a very small tablet box which measured 2x5inches.  As this was rather long I cut it in half, so my teeny tiny journal is 2.5x2inches. Below is the finished journal.

I covered the card in gesso and then painted it with the base colour.  Then I drew and painted the bird and the flower.  I still have not made my mind up what to go on the spine, any ideas?  I then added ribbon and covered the inside with blue tissue paper.

As it was so small I decided rather than have individual pages I would do an accordian style. I very roughly folded a length of watercolor paper and then drew and painted on them in acrylics. These are the pages.

I then glued the back page into the cover.

This is the end result, which I am really chuffed about.

I am now hooked and collecting all my empty packages, so shall go bigger.

By the way there is still time to enter for my three giveaways, all details can be found here.  Happy weekend everyone.