The book that travels all around the world

Hello everyone! Today I'm going to introduce a very special project to you. This beautiful journal arrived in my mailbox last week - it's a world-travel-book which visited a few people before arriving here and will travel to even more distant places hereafter. On the map inside its cover you can see where it stopped already and the goal is to have marks in as many countries as possible in the end.

This idea has been around for a while and I'm sure some of you have heard of the '1,000 Journals Project', of which I've always been a big fan. Within the community of deviantART though this is the first project of its kind as far as I'm concerned and I'm amazed how many people already signed up to be part of it. At the moment there are two books travelling and a third one is already in progress.
Yes, you can be part of it as well! If you have a deviantART account that is.
Simply follow this link to get to the group and contact the organiser: World-Travel-Book

Now I'm going to show you what I made out of the 4 pages I was allowed to fill. :)

 

 

 

 

And here are some photographs of the making of these.

 

 

 May this book be guided by good spirits throughout its journey to distant places - taking our work and hearts with it. ♥ 

Trick or Treat!

Get the candy out, or let them storm your house!♥

Hello everyone!
I just realise how I completely neglected blogging during the last month and I feel honestly sorry about that...
I've just come back from my summer vacation in Germany now and am eager to start all the exciting projects I'm planning to do since quite a while already. A break was kind of needed but it feels so good to be drawing and painting again. ♥

For the start I'm gonna introduce a bunch of new characters to you. I'm working on a new children's book and guess what it will be all about..? :)

It's the first time for me to work with an author and I absolutely enjoy it so far and am really excited about how this collaboration will come out.

So yeah, enough talking. Have a look at the sketches now.:) 

It's all quite rough but should give you quite a good impression of what I have in mind..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You'll be seeing more of them soon! 

(And more regularly from now on again..)

Concertina Book

Once upon a time handsome Mr Moon fell in love with beautiful Mrs Sun.

He kept staring at her but she only had eyes for the earth.

Every so often their ways were about to cross...

While Mr Moon was getting closer he got so excited that he would hold his breath, getting bigger and bigger.

But Mrs Sun never noticed him...

But then...after years of waiting, Mr Moon finally got the chance to overshadow the earth and directly face Mrs Sun. 

He was so BIG by then that she simply had to look at him.

And she did.

And constantly fell in love with him.

But before anything could have been said they were driven apart again. 

And it was to take a very long time until they were to be that close to each other again.

Sometimes we can see their tear drops falling from the sky.

-end-

 We had a one day workshop where we learned to create and fill a concertina book. This has been a few weeks ago already, when I just finished the Sun and Moon illustration, therefore I stuck to that theme and came up with a proper lovestory for them.
A week after that we had a photoshop workshop where we should create a new piece of work made out of different pieces taken from the book. This is what I came up with. They said it had architectural value...well I've never seen buildings like this.