I can't even call them paintings/drawings; maybe call them wanderings instead

I got a lot done today: two books cased and under weights, sourdough bread started and the unbaked loaf is fermenting in the fridge for 24 hours, huge pot of soup made, three loads of laundry done, a quick trip to Morelli's, and the project table cleaned up.

Worked on a couple of ongoing layering projects. I can't even call them paintings or drawings but should maybe call them wanderings. I start somewhere with a sort of idea and never get there and end up someplace else that I didn't know I was going to get to or that it was even a place.

This is one half of a two page spread and is at least 15 layers deep. I started it in Shannon's class a few weeks ago with I can't even remember what (probably gouache and watercolor and water soluble ink) and it was kind of interesting, and then I obscured it with a thin layer of white over the whole thing and then I was really stuck. I just looked at it every day and wondered what would happen next. This is what happened next (today). More layers: pencil, ArtGraf, Montana markers, ink, stamps, colored pencil, oil pastels, acrylic paint. I think I can now move on from this and it's done.

I don't worry about making something ugly anymore because it can always be covered up. Except with watercolors. If I wreck whatever I'm doing sometimes I can put the paper in the sink and wash off the paint and go over it again and just have a pale ghost remaining but some pigments won't leave the paper. I've been using watercolors but not in the watery way.

The two books cased -- one is a chunk of the paper that was the collaborative drawing from experimental drawing class with black bookcloth. Technically it turned out great but I'm thinking I don't like the black black bookcloth because it's too black. I can still wreck the book by stabbing myself while sewing the binding and getting blood all over the pages. The second book I already messed up by not getting the second cover board exactly parallel so it's a bit crooked. I'll keep that one. It's an experiment anyway and I'm using scraps. The experiment is that it's a small book and the binding might be kind of frustrating for me to do on a little book. I still have to make maybe one more book for Art Camp. Remind myself to go look at what paper I have.