DAG - Art Bound Books

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Has anyone noticed the little bookcase that is just outside the Dunlop Art Gallery office at the Central Library in Regina? Has anyone stopped to flip through any of the black journals there. Totally absorbing and fascinating.

This is part of the Dunlop Art Gallery - Art Bound Books Sketchbook Project. So I asked about how one gets one and I took one out. All I have to do is fill it up with whatever and return it to the library and it becomes part of the collection. I've been working on it since October last year and am about a third done now.

Just a lot of fun knowing that I'm going to have to send it back when I am finished. Although some days when I'm adding something to one of the pages I get a little wistful because I've never really worked through a sketchbook before so completely. I think I'll miss the little book, all crinkly from the paint and glue.

If anyone else has done this, I'd love to know what you thought about the process and about giving up what you worked on in the end. What theme did you pick? How did that affect how you approached blank pages?

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I am so close to finishing off this project. Hoping to have it done by the end of June and I'll post a few photos of my favorite pages.