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Edit: Collabrative Art Book #3 3ColorFun!

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Swap Coordinator:hereintherain (contact)
Swap categories: Art 
Number of people in swap:4
Location:International
Type:None
Last day to signup/drop:June 5, 2009
Date items must be sent by:June 12, 2009
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

I'm so sorry I've taken so longggggggg. I've decided to put up like 3 or 4 with a few weeks in between them so you fine folks wont have to wait so long!

I happen to be one of the many people on here that are huge fans of journaling and collaborative journaling and art. I love the idea of round robin journals where you send a journal to many people and having them add entries. I think it's such a great way to expose your art, see other artists, and get some great inspiration.

I wanted to do something like this, but allow people who have a tighter budget to join. The idea reminds me of the concept of tip ins if you have ever heard of them.

The idea is to make individual entries for an eventual journal. The reason behind this is mainly to make it very easy and inexpensive to send. The goal is to have certain themes so overtime you will obtain a good amount of pages for you to bind together somehow into your own special collaborative art book. The plan is to do one of these every few weeks until the interest dies off. At the end I'll provide links for binding techniques so people can get ideas.

The Nuts and Bolts -Decorate two half sheets of paper (half of a regular printer size), you may use any type of paper, and decorate it in any fashion you wish, however put effort into it! Make it really special. Collage, paint, drawn, altered with ribbon or beads or embellies, stamps, stencils. Simple right!

You will have two partners, so a total of 4 sheets made. This will be internatinal You should have a rating of 4.8 with no recent poor ratings Newbes are allowed with full profiles.

Please leave about half an inch on the side as a margin for binding! I would have to have to cover someones beautiful artwork!

The theme for this round is 3 Color Fun so basically my idea is to pick 3 colors and have them be the primary focus of your pages, it doesnt have to be EVERY SINGLE THING those colors but please try to get as much as possible!

edit *I dont know why I put these as regional, I made them late last night and didn't even think. They are totally international because it wont cost very much.

Also for the backs I would say to either leave them blank or put your info, like sign, date, locatin if you'd like. I would say decorate both sides but some people use paper and techniques that wouldn't allow them to decorate both sides without messing up the front*

Discussion

MommyKnows 05/25/2009 #
  • what do you want on the backs of the pages?...blank? more artwork? artist information? swap title, date, etc.?
rustycage11 05/26/2009 #

Regarding paper size, US paper (8 1/2 x 11) is shorter and wider than the size used by the rest of the world. Which could mean people receive decorated pages of different sizes.

LeeMeow 05/27/2009 #

leave half an inch on the side, doesn it matter which side to leave margin?

principeta 05/27/2009 #

Cold you give link or pictures of some ideas?I find only one on flickr.Thank you.

Terreus 06/ 4/2009 #

I want to join, but I will not be able to send until June 16th . If it is OK with everyone I will join, if not I will join the next one.

hereintherain 06/ 6/2009 #

I'm sorry for not responding to all these questions I have just moved, on the back should be blank with whatever youd like your name and location date etc as for the size of the paper, i would hope that people who use different size papers as their standard would be able to cut to size the 8.5 by 5.5 it's not that hard, it may not be half the sheet but it can still be done, as for sending late it's something you would need to tlak about with your partner but I'm sure they would be considerate of your needs and this is a good example http://media.photobucket.com/image/art%20with%20only%203%20colors/charliemoseley/Lagrimasenellago.jpg

I'm going to wait until this evening or early tomorrow to see if any of you decide to join

rustycage11 06/ 7/2009 #

Cutting to size is no problem; I just wanted to be sure. I'm going to have to skip this one but will try and sign up for #4.

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