Gypsy Dance

I will be participating in a sketchbook round robin starting in September. Today I started looking around for a sketchbook to use. I really was looking for a good reason to buy a new book, but a small book called to me screaming, "USE ME!!" It's a little book I received free for being a member of the One Spirit book club. It says "One Spirit" on the cover. I thought it would be cool to pass this book around in the hopes that my fellow artists would feel the spirit through which we are all one.

I didn't mean to make my first entry in the book. I was just planning to get it ready. I put a message in the front cover and created a sign-in page. That's as far as I was planning on taking it...but it had other ideas. I noticed in front of me a print I had made of a painting I created a few months ago. I had scanned in the painting and printing it out on canvas paper. Then I embellished the image with more paint and beads and such. It sat there calling to me as if it were the image of the spirit that connects us all. The sketchbook could not leave my hands without this image inside.

Without knowing anything else, I began making an entry in this sketchbook. I am thrilled with the way it turned out...and I'm not usually one who is thrilled by my own art.