Ana outside the box!

Look at Charlie! On top of illustrating pages on the Charlie sketchbook, Ana Camamiel also designed a fantababulous bookmark to go with the book!

So cool...this project gives me so much joy every time i see the work of the last person who participated, so cool to have those ideas coming together from all over the world converging into a single artistic project...

I think there will be many many sketchbooks before I start to ever get bored of this project...in fact I can see myself doing it until the day I die...pick up cool artists out there and send them a book!
Thanks Ana for being brilliant! x

I used to make dolls, you know...

The real live doll who once upon a time inspired me to make these fabric dolls below...
that were used as doll swaps with other dollmakers in the world.

Where are the sketchbooks? still with mary lamb or with Kipik or ana camamiel? please update me girls! xx lo

Ana

Ana Camamiel is the next one on the list to receive the Charlie and the chocolate factory sketchbook.
Check her out here, should be fun he?

Laura's pages

Beautiful, brilliant, kooky, wicked.
Some of the words that spring to my mind when looking at this fantastic piece of Art from laura Ferrara in the Fairytale Forest sketchbook. (Image taken from her flicker as the book is still travelling)
Love the little charater and its written on petal skirt and the dots in the sky and the imagination of it....
The book is on its way to Mary Lamb in Tennessee, yyeehaaaa cant wait xxxx

Book number 3: Sonja 's pages

It was Sonja's turn to fill the first pages of the Charlie and the chocolate factory children book, I knew they would be beautiful and I wasnt disappointed! What a clever artist Sonja is. She made her drawings fit around the Quentin Blake illustrations and the result is funny, sweet and adorable. Judge for yourself:

A little bit of poetry all the way from Bosnia! thank you so much for participating Sonja, if you ever make large prints of your drawings for sale I will be very interested in buying one! Sonja also makes very cool jewellery, yep, multi talented is the word...
The night and day book is still stuck in France with Sonia who is having a rough time at the moment and is still perfecting her pages as she wasnt totally happy with them. Hurry up a bit!
My turn to paint a cover for book 3 and fill a few pages before sending it to the next person. The fairytale sketchbook is in America with Laura Ferrara, this is going to be amazing as well, cant wait. xxx

How to participate to sketchbook 3

I am happy to report that I have sent sketchbook number 3 to Sonja in Bosnia and that sketchbook number 2 is back! Only one stuck in France now,but i shall call the naughty girl who is keeping it to gently tell her off tonite!
Sketchbook number 3 is a printed book,a well known children's story: Charlie and the chocolate factory by Roald Dhal  and it already contains a few illustrations by the great Quentin Blakes. I thought it would be interesting to draw on the printed pages , either by illustrating the actual story or by totally ignoring it and let your imagination take you wherever it goes.
-Draw on one or 2, 3 pages, up to you and your inspiration
-follow the story. or dont!
-draw on the Quentin Blake illustrations or around them if you have thought of an interesting way of doing that.
-have fun
- Leave pages between your illustrations and the next artist's illustrations: we do not need to draw on ALL the printed pages of the book, obviously. Let the book 'breathe'.
xo

Sketchbook number 3 then ...

The 2 sketchbooks are still stuck in their respective parts of the world (not lost thank god), which is so frustrating for all al us who cant wait to see new pages added to our precious books. I have sent countless kind messages and checked my letterbox every morning...for 2 months. So lets start a third sketchbook project, this time a vintage children's book. Pure line drawings over the typed words are what i would love to achieve, a bit like soletz 's work. Sonja will be the first one to receive it in Eastern europe. So guys this time, 2 or 3 weeks maximum please!