London Bookfair - I'm almost famous!

Thanks to Moleskine and their stand many many people had the chance to get their hands on my doodles.



I'm pretty pleased, getting my name up and having my moleskine out there for others to view. All buying types for the most part, but, it still feels good!

LOTS OF CARD

LOTS OF CARD
Originally uploaded by Mr.Burning

The great thing about having two hungry cats is that I have lots of cat food boxes on which I can paint and doodle. The downside is that, as a hoarder, I am fast running out of space to keep the material and then to keep my creations after I have finished. A lot has been dropped at various Birmingham City locations, and elsewhere, as Free Art but this still leaves a lot remaining. i will be distributing this little collection over the next few days and week, freeing up space for me to start on something else.

My Moleskines

I had always thought that Moleskine were too expensive for general jotting and doodling, an extravagance that could be left alone. After going through various sketchpads, notepads, jotters sometimes not even finishing a whole pad I now realise that I was wrong.

I have just finished my first Moleskine, a 9x14cm squared journal having filled almost every page with my doodles and jottings of ideas and have started on my second, of the same type. As stated in a previous post I have also completed a Japanese folding journal for Moleskine.

I am sure that there are other pads and journals which are equally as good, if not better, but at the moment thses journals are proving ideal to note and store ideas and doodles, they feel right in my hands and it is a pleasure to fill their blank pages.

At the moment I aim to fill two or three pages per day, somedays I wont touch it but on other days I can get a burst of creativity and fill up many, many pages. The act of putting pen to paper acts as a release and I can enjoy a few moments of really simple pleasure.

CARD SNAKE

CARD SNAKE
Originally uploaded by Mr.Burning

On reclaimed catfood box card, Gold Acrylic and Black Marker.

I wanted to test this and see what it would look like using different media and a different size. Proportionally it is wrong but still looks quite impressive.

Moleskine 2008 14

Moleskine 2008 14
Originally uploaded by Mr.Burning

LH: This guy is concerned at the amount of bugs crawling along the floor. Dunno what he is going to do about them though.

RH: A snakey character. He is going to bite his tail only because I couldn't think of anything else to draw at the top of the page.

I really like the snake but at the moment cannot think how to move this forwards. It is a good, simple idea and character, hopefully something will come to me.

My attempt for London Bookfair

On seeing my recent Moleskine scribblings on Flickr a lady called Marsida Shyti from Moleskine got in contact and asked if I would like to send my Moleskine to the company so they could display it at the London Bookfair. Being fairly cynical and unwilling to part with my Moleskine, mainly due to the fact that it wasnt complete I was reluctant to do anything more. After leaving a few mesages on various Flickr groups I found at that others had been asked the same question.

Could this be a hoax? I challenged Marsida and was rewarded with Japan notebook, with folding pages, FREE! And not only that, a return address to Moleskine in Italy with a DHL account number so I could send the completed notebook back FREE OF CHARGE!

I'm afraid that I cheated in the completion of the free notebook, copying pages from my current 'Skine and sticking them into the new one. I did add some other embellishments hoping that this will make the book unique.

I am hoping that my book will be displayed and that peropel will cast their eyes over it but maybe my cynicism and reluctance to part with my true Moleskine will cause me more harm than good.