I painted four possible starting pages for our "conversation" which is going to take place across the United States over the next several months. Nancie's going to have to choose one or two to work from and she's doing the same thing on her end (painting a couple of choices for me). We agreed to get our paperwork into the mail no later than Saturday night at midnight, picturing ourselves driving frantically to the post office in our jammies and slippers.....She got it done, I was calling post offices to see if anyone was still open (fedex? ups?) at 6:30 p.m.............Obviously I fell through on my end of the deal but the package will go out on Monday morning. Sorry Nancy.
The final project has to be postmarked January 31, 2012 so we've agreed to try to swap paintings every two weeks which should be enough time to create about a 10-page conversation two times over.
Here are my four opening choices for her:
I've persuaded my friend Elle Gould of Arizona/Colorado to enter the Sketchbook Project as well. It takes $25 and your application and by return mail you receive a special Moleskine Sketchbook to be filled using a generalized theme that you choose from the Sketchbook's long list of themes.
Nancie chose the theme "Time Traveler" since that's what our pages will be doing as they travel across the United States. I met Nancie via the original Sketchbook Project. I had commented on this blog about my project and she commented on my work. She also submitted a Sketchbook in 2010. We started internet conversing and decided to do a joint project having never met! I just think life is fantastically wonderful sometimes because of the really special things that happen.
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