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Sketchbook Layout and Inspiration Project by Sarah Ahearn Bellemare

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I recently discovered Japanese tape and have been using it in my sketchbooks as a way to add ephemera without having to glue the items down. For this layout, I decided to use the pink and gray tapes as a starting point. The pink striped tape seemed to have a vintage feel to it, so I decided to stay with that vintage theme, adding in the pink vintage flashcard on the left and the found black and white photograph on the right. I imagined the couple in the photograph spending the summer together in the country - rowing on the lake, going to the theatre (the ticket stub) and falling in, and then out of love at summer's end.

I worked quickly and added in the other bits of tape and collage as I worked. I didn't over-think the composition; it was almost as if I was "painting" stripes of color with the tapes. In addition to the five different washi tapes, I used ledger and graph papers, a piece of a dictionary, letter stamps to add the "ONE," and a piece of a doily. The handwriting on the left reads: it was a long and splendid summer… and on the top of the right hand page I wrote in pencil: we were together for a summer… as a caption for the photograph.

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I recently discovered Japanese tape and have been using it in my sketchbooks as a way to add ephemera without having to glue the items down. For this layout, I decided to use the pink and gray tapes as a starting point. The pink striped tape seemed to have a vintage feel to it, so I decided to stay with that vintage theme, adding in the pink vintage flashcard on the left and the found black and white photograph on the right. I imagined the couple in the photograph spending the summer together in the country - rowing on the lake, going to the theatre (the ticket stub) and falling in, and then out of love at summer's end.

I worked quickly and added in the other bits of tape and collage as I worked. I didn't over-think the composition; it was almost as if I was "painting" stripes of color with the tapes. In addition to the five different washi tapes, I used ledger and graph papers, a piece of a dictionary, letter stamps to add the "ONE," and a piece of a doily. The handwriting on the left reads: it was a long and splendid summer… and on the top of the right hand page I wrote in pencil: we were together for a summer… as a caption for the photograph.

 
Sketchbook Layout and Inspiration Project by Sarah Ahearn Bellemare
Sketchbook Layout and Inspiration Project by Sarah Ahearn Bellemare
Sketchbook Layout and Inspiration Project by Sarah Ahearn Bellemare

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