Happy New Year to Team Moleskine!

Just thought I would wish each of you on the Team a very good New Year full of more creativity and fabulous sketches to complete the last lap and drag ourselves over the finishing line!

If the Belfast gig is still on (23rd Feb) that gives us just seven weeks to pass around the remaining sketchbooks still out there and get them back to Lorraine in time for the Grand Opening and Party Nite at the University of Ulster at which I intend to put in a Guest Appearance. I might even wear the kilt and give you all a thrill! (Do you think I could sell tickets for the event? :o)

I know I still have incredible things yet to do in Steph's Genesis book (like sit on a cloud and declare "Let There Be Light Moleskines Cheaper For Posting!") and Gesa's Lines and Lineage (I've got a lot of ancesters asking to be included) but I don't know who else has to work in them also. Perhaps you could all chip in with a note of what each of you have still to do and perhaps we could organise ourselves and make sure everyone gets sufficient time, allowing for postage as well, to create their masterpieces.

Where on earth.....?

Hiya all, here's the list of Moleys. I've noted where some are, so can you 'edit' my post and record where the others are right now?

Brian - Stretch - in the post to Lindsay
Lorraine - Close - with Brian
David - The Dance - in the post to Lorraine
Gesa - Lines - with Lor Lor
Vivian - Landscapes - with David
Stephanie - Genesis - with Brian
Casey - Freedom - with David
Lindsay - Maps & Destinations - Gesa has it

we could add a tab down the side with this info, and each of us could update it when they receive a book? What do you think?

A change in the line up

Hiya guys, Vivien has mailed me to confirm that Casey has had to drop out of the exchange. He has forwarded on the books that he'd received without working in them, which is such a shame because he' such a fantastic artist and I was really excited about seeing some of his work in the flesh. Not to worry.
Making an executive decision, I think we should continue to circulate and work on Casey's Freedom Moley, and include it in Lorraine's exhibition, before returning it completed to Casey. To tell you the truth, when I get the Moleys I'm not thinking about who originated them, as they each seem to have taken on lives of their own, if you know what I mean.

I now got one too...

David's Moley and Entry

... in the post, yesterday, arrived David's. The one where the theme gives me slight apprehension: people, not only people, but DANCING people.

And, look: what magnificient Tango his couples are doing. Oh dear... where to go - eh, sorry - dance from here?

Well... I'll be circling around it for a wee while. David, you just take your time with Lorraine's Garden - and I'm with you on the different uses of sketchbooks, and somehow, secretely, relieved, that your turn's before mine :P, I can then just follow on nicely with more sketchiness.

Nearly ready to travel again!

Ok - this is a fragment of where Gesa's work overlaps and I continue the marks and incorporate them into my work - but differently ...

that's all you get to see until Stephanie sees it!

Page 2 was absolutely relevant to the STRETCH theme - it got overworked, reworked, changed drastically ...... it was a risk. something a bit outside my safe zone and looked like a total pigs ear for a lot of the time! I hope I pulled it round. You'll have to wait and judge :>)

Stephanie you'll have to hurry with mine as this one will be winging its way to you soon :>D

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mine is flying today :>)

Gesa

Gesa's book arrived this morning - how fantastic! on my day off as well so I could enjoy looking at it.

I love the quote and the way she's related the work to it - I'm not going to say too much so's not to spoil it for the next recipient but it's a great mix of media that integrate wonderfully. A technique that looks so much easier than it actually is. It was great to see your work IRL Gesa.

Now I have to live up to it ...

Meanwhile, my moley flies this afternoon to Stephanie

think Fields of Gold .........

:>)

Vivien

New Moleskine Trousers Arrive!

...and they are a perfect fit, but I'm a bit disappointed only one leg is concertina'd:

Lindsay Here Saying Hello

Hi Everyone and I'm glad to be making my first post. Here is the cover for my moleskin and my theme is right on the cover: Maps and Destinations. Casey, I glued on the keys with modeling paste. In my experience that stuff sticks forever and ever. The paper is put on with yes paste, but I might just stick it on with modeling paste too. I really don't much care how battered the thing gets in travel. It will just look like a nicely aged person....real!

I'm looking forward to seeing your beautiful journals in the mail soon!