April 27 Entry in Roz's 2016 Fake Journal

Above: 16 x 10 inch cold press watercolor board (Arches). With
Pentel Pocket Brush Pen sketches and watercolor. Click on the image
to view an enlargement.

My character spends the rainy afternoon sketching in the barn.

April 26 Entry in Roz's 2016 Fake Journal

Above: 10 x 16 inch cold press watercolor board (Arches),
with Pentel Pocket Brush Pen Sketch and Daniel Smith
Watercolors. Some rubberstamp ink. Click on the image
to view an enlargement.

My character doesn't let the rainy weather stop her from sketching the animals on the farm.

April 25 Entry in Roz's 2016 Fake Journal

Above: 16 x 10 inch cold press watercolor board (Arches). Pentel
Pocket Brush Pen sketches with watercolor washes. Click on
the image to view an enlargement.

Stuck on the "farm" my character makes the best of the models she has at hand.

April 24 Entry in Roz's 2016 Fake Journal

Above: 10 x 16 inch Arches cold press watercolor

board. Pentel Pocket Brush Pen Sketch and

watercolors, with some rubberstamp ink. Click on

the image to view an enlargement.

As will be made clear in later "pages" my character is "stuck" somewhere with dogs and birds as sketching models.

April 22 Entry in Roz's 2016 Fake Journal

Above: 16 x 10 inch Arches cold press watercolor board. Sketch with
Pentel Pocket Brush Pen and Daniel Smith Watercolors. Click on the
image to view an enlargement.

My character spends a lot of time with dogs and a lot of time thinking wear and tear on the physical body.

April 20 Entry in Roz's 2016 Fake Journal

Above: 10 x 16 inch cold press watercolor board with Pentel
Pocket Brush Pen Sketch and Daniel Smith Watercolors. Also
rubberstamp ink. Click on the image to view an enlargement. 

My character spent some time with chickens and is particularly fond of Simon, shown above—although the design of the page leaves an open question about Simon.

In the following image you can see detail from the portrait. I think it is fun to see the texture that the cold press watercolor board gives to the PPBP line.

Above: Detail from today's entry. Click on the image to view
an enlargement.

Eighteenth Page Spread in Roz's 2011 Fake Journal

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Above, the eighteenth page spread in my 2011 Fake Journal.

Just a quick word of explanation, since the only text on the page is the date and time the page was put together, 4.18.11  3 p.m.

All the portraits on this page were done on scraps of paper and then glued down to a painted background. The paper used on the left is Nostalgie from Hahnemühle and let me tell you it is killer fun to work with Pentel Pocket Brush Pen on that surface! The guy on the right was done on a Rhodia pad that had little dots in a grid. You can see the edges of the sheets because of paint buildup on the edges, if you look at the enlargement. The finch was sketched on Strathmore Mixed Media paper (in their Mixed Media Visual Journals).

Fifth Page Spread in Roz's 2011 Fake Journal

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I know that I wasn't going to do explanations, but with this spread I have to do a short one. On the verso page that bantam is a sketch I did last fall in my journal (with the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen). Well I used a scan of it to make a transfer with Rub-onz, a product I reviewed on my regular blog.

Here's the text from the Verso page:

The Answer Starts with the Right Question. For me today that's Who?
[below bantam]
•Hazel, fanny, Maureen (Mo).
•Bainbridge, O'Reilly, Cower, Corby, Booth, Harris, Price, Bell, Locke, Gordon, Parkinson, Frazer, Foster

main column of text:

4.1.2011  5 p.m.
All over the neighborhood even this late, I can hear hammering. People are having their roofs fixed—a bumper crop of ice dams have [sic] led to this. It's 43 degrees F and finally a little low sun after a cloudy day…but still some snow on the ground. I should have gone out for a walk when the sun came out but I convinced myself I was tough enough to read John M. Barry's "The Great Influenza." I've taken stabs at it throughout the day and I keep putting it down. No problem reading about Marburg but influenza accounts make me queasy. I heard Barry giving a talk on MPR the other day and "[sic] thought ["]there's something I need to look into for future reference." Well not today. And it's not really in my line anyway. Not poison, not mayhem of the usual sort. Indiscriminate, uncontrolled. He writes that when influenza kills it kills through pneumonia. Evan Osnos in the 3.28.11 New Yorker has an article on the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and reactor radiation problems. He writes very clearly about the devastation. He talks about an outbreak of influenza in Kamaishi threatening the survivors.