The Rooster Art Journal

Recently I was commissioned to make an Art Journal with a special request that it needed to have a rooster on the front cover. This journal was commissioned by a daughter for her mother whom loves to draw in pencil and charcoal.  What a special gift for a very special person indeed.  I asked what the mother's favourite colour was...burnt orange came the reply and I made an effort in bringing this colour in on various areas of the front cover, including the colour of the binding cotton which I waxed with beeswax.  The Art Journal is completely handmade and hand bound with a painting of a rooster on the front cover.  The pages inside are 200gsm drawing paper and the Journal consists out of 13 signatures, each containing 3 folders, which amounts to a total of 78 A5 pages in landscape format.

Front Cover

Full front view. 

 Close-up of the rooster painting.

Bound spine of Art Journal.

Close-up of the Coptic Stitch binding.

The Art Journal opens up flat for comfortable drawing.