Holographic Hot Rod Sketchbook

An irony of modern life is that so much of the best art and photography that we see in our daily lives are there solely to try and sell us something we don't need. Advertisement makes up almost all of the public art we see daily. And when it's gone, it's often lost forever! Although I have no particular desire to save advertisements, I do sometimes think it would be nice to save the art in some of them... and the Oregon Lottery poster for their Classic Black game jumped out at me and said "use me!"

I was quite attracted to its holographic backing and image of a lovely classic roadster. This is the first square sketchbook I've made, and as usual I tried a new thing or two. Using thick poster stock for paper was of course the first; it was hard to work with, and even in the finished, fully glued book, the edges stick up a little bit where the paper is getting rebellious. I also made the pages the same height as the covers--not necessarily advised, as they do stick out a little.

All in all I'm pretty happy with it though; it's a gorgeous book and has very good drawing paper in it. :)

This book is for sale! Buy it on Etsy and make me rich :)