Smashed Canary

I am a fan of the Saturated Canary images

so brilliantly drawn by Krista Smith.

So fun to color and create with her images!

I follow her blogs and saw a post she wrote about

SMASH Books.

Now I remember Slam books (which were usually confiscated)

from junior high school, but this Smash concept was still new to me.

Or so I thought.

This is a composition notebook that I turned into

a scrap book of sorts quite some years ago.

Notice the custom electrical tape running down the left side.

Nice and durable construction. Electrical tape was my friend

way before I met duct tape.

Love the fancy layering and torn edges there too.

I think I used watercolor colored pencils to color that image. 

She's a little thick just like her Mama.

Here are the templates to some of my tattoos.

I usually don't like to leave them behind for

portfolio flash - even though most of it's flash anyway. 

Here is a page of drawings from my son, Gryphon

when he was a little guy.

Awwwwww. 

Here are some clippings and fortunes and

miscellaneous artwork that I liked and collected.

Some of these are just comical if you know me.

Charm and courtesy are my middle names. 

I had to get kitty in there. Believe me, she's got more than

a few pages devoted to her and her artwork/toys/etc...

The picture on the right is by one of my favorite artists,

Vaugh Bode.

He knew how to draw a real woman in comic form.

He also wrote the popular adult comic, Cheech Wizard

from the late 60's and 70's.

So there is my version of a SMASH book.

I was so ahead of my time on this one!  

I've also likened this book to my Spellbook.

It holds so many bits of me and what I like and

hope to aspire to, and who I used to be and who I

have become.

I'd like to enter this into the giveaway on Krista's blog

here.