Fiesta de la Vida

Pen and Ink drawing from altered book series.

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On January 1st, friends and I got together to begin an altered book project. The idea was to begin the year by setting a tone for creative fortitude across the next 365 days. The people who attended each picked a book, already full of text, some containing pictures, diagrams, recipes. There were dictionaries, cookbooks, books of obscure science fiction, board books for little hands.
The book I chose is a thin, compact, hardback, bound well, with fibrous, absorbent paper (and kind of pulpy, like coarse, heavy newsprint). I thought it would do well with ink, markers, fat Sharpies and dye. I decided to cut out every fifth page, (thereby removing one fifth of the book), to make space for the addition of glued-in goodies.
I just love simple pen and ink. This drawing was done using a Micron, and quite satisfying to make–lots of simple curves and hatch-marks.