I’m not behind, I just like to work on several pages at once with challenges – it takes the pressure off actually having to finish ‘a page a  day’ which is my brain’s default mode and Not Possible when you’re working in a large journal. I generally find by working this way I get 7 pages done in a week but I don’t feel pressured into finishing them in one day. I never was a step by ste sort of worker.

I’ve gone back to my 8×10 for NaNoJouMo, partly because I want to finish it (so I can start a new one, obviously) and partly because I just felt like working large for a while. Every so often I crave the expanse of the 8×10″ paper. This is a coptic bound book with 3 signatures of 6 pages, 140lb cartridge paper (heavy drawing paper in the US). I like this thickness of paper because it takes wet media as long as you’re not too sloppy but it also takes heavy embellishment, glues and inks.

+So here’s my completed pages so far (click to view large)

Day 1: Freedom – I already uploaded

Day 2: Purity – the prompt didn’t do anything for me so I just finished up a spread I had already started.

'Im-purity' LHS, 8x10" art journal page

'Im-purity' RHS, 8x10 art journal page

Day 3: Inspire – I liked this one and had a lot of fun just listing things off the top of my head that inspire me.

'Inspire' LHS, 8x10" art journal page

'Inspire' RHS, 8x10" art journal page

Prompts for days 4, 5 and 6 are underway (beauty, solitude and felicity) in fact, Day 4: Beauty has been worked on this evening, and is nearly done.

I’ll probably start day 7 tomorrow and work on 6 & 7 together tomorrow afternoon.

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