“In the future, everybody will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.” – Andy Warhol
Today, amazon.com began accepting pre-orders for an upcoming book designed and edited by Dawn DeVries Sokol. The scheduled publication date for 1000 Artist Journal Pages is July 1 of next year, and three pages of the thousand are from my own personal journal. So I guess Mr. Warhol was right.
Here are the pages that were selected for inclusion in the book:
The first and second image were written about travels. The third was a critique of the three coffee houses in the little town where I lived. Inspired by a large accidental coffee ring on the right side of the page spread, it provided a first-second-third ranking with positive marks for quirky clientele and demerits for such unpardonable sins as using Hershey’s syrup to make mochas. Of course, never suspecting that anyone much would ever see the words, I had the local bookstore’s brew trailing the others in last place. Alas, no book signing events for me…
I guess congratulations are in order.
Proud of you and glad you are happy.
Kind Regards,
Michael Pokocky
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Congratulations, Val! This is fantastic news and the published pages look great.
I especially love the page about Don Quixote, El Hombre de la Mancha.
Some months ago Kevin and I made a trip to the famous windmills of Don Quixote, you can look at sketches and photos, and read in our website about it if you like… ask me then, I´ll tell you where exactly.
Congratulations, Val! This is great! Book-signing or not, your drawings got spunk, especially the figures. I would definitely bring out the Vodka for this! Skål! (aka. Cheers!)
Well done Val!
Might have to see if I can get a copy of the book – it looks incredible. Lovely work, as per usual!
I see you use a Moleskin sketchbook too. Best notebooks, ever.
Grrrl….you are on a roll!! Congrats! I’m on my way to Amazon now. Yay!
Val, this is great news and what lovely ‘pages’ you’ve contributed! Gee, makes my news today pale in comparison (see my post in Sand to Glass today
). I should make note of this because what a great conversation piece this book would make.
Bravo!
Diane
I just stopped by from Diane’s blog. Congratulations! Your journal pages are lovely as is your blog!
Congratulations!!! As always the pages are beautiful and being a coffee lover, you now which one I am drawn to…
Congratulations! What a marvelous book it must be!
This looks like a very interesting book! Congratulations!
Whoa. Val, this is GREAT! I adore your journal pages.
–Robin (Bumblebee)
wow – the journaling book looks awesome, Congrats to you for having your work included! It’s a great concept (the book) — I’m going to put in on my amazon wishlist
How is your garden? Anything sprouting yet?? Is it cold where you are?
stopping by today from lake trees blog; checking out the top art blogs. congratulations to you!
http://laketrees.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-101-artists-blogs-list.html