from my sketchbook: Bishops Ranch

the cover ~ by Jane LaFazio

I showed you some of my sketchbook from Bishops Ranch in this blog post, with a promise for more.

The cover, above is from a cereal box (like I teach in my online workshop "Cereal Box Journal.")

I created the inside pages of the book from hot press watercolor paper.

from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

 This page, below, is the start of the design for the hand carved stamp, in green.

from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

This page, below, was a series of drawings, as inspiration for a stamp design, and then some ideas for small stamps.

from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

This page, below, is a series of sketches of the things in nature, around the ranch, with an idea to create them in embroidery stitches.

from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

from my sketchbook ~ by Jane LaFazio

These two pages are the stamps the students designed in my workshop.

student's work~ by Jane LaFazio

student's work ~ by Jane LaFazio

Obviously, I could go back in and finish some of the pages, adding more journaling or photos...and maybe I'll get around to that. But for now, this remains a fine record of my time at Bishops Ranch, in Northern California.

If you missed the other posts, here's the workshop I taught, and some photos of the gorgeous countryside.