Sketchbook Tour 2012 by Art House Co-op at the Brooklyn Library of Art

I'm taking a break from frantically working on my 2012 Sketchbook Tour submission. I signed up for it rather late, but I figured I had plenty of time to get the little sketchbook finished before the Jan 31, 2012 deadline. It turns out that I did not work on it at all during the holidays, and then after New Year's, I got sick....the first cold/virus I have had in 3 years... Oh Boy! I think the CT scan I had of my abdomen and pelvis on Dec 29 really knocked my immune system down, and what with the craziness of the holiday activites I finally succumbed to the cold that my hubby brought home. The good news is that my latest CT scan was clear of any cancer...YAY!

I started writing for the sketchbook project in the Fall, and I have finally finished my children's story about a goose and a moose and how they begin to travel the world together. I think I have some good ideas for the illustrations, and I have my storyboard planned out. I'm on my wa-a-a-a-y..... Hahaha...that's the theme I chose this year... Travel.

I THINK I can get it postmarked before the deadline. Then, the little sketchbook will be off to Brooklyn to get digitized before embarking on a world-wide tour. You can check it out of their digital library after April, I believe.

Wish me luck!

Right now, I'm headed off to bed to get some shut-eye, so that I can spend tomorrow making good progress on my drawing and lettering. I adored "The Travels of Babar" by Jean de Brunhoff when I was a child. One of the things that I liked about the style of this author/illustrator is that the book was not typeset. Jean de Brunhoff wrote the text in cursive. I loved it then, and I still do. So, I plan to adopt that style in my book.

Here's to a LOT of progress on it in the next few days!