until our THIRD studio collaboration.  So, now that you know what we have planned for the next few weeks from our blog post yesterday, today we want to talk about a two year project that is coming to completion; The Collaborative Book Exchange.  Here are a few pictures if you are not familiar with this enduring project….

This project began after we asked how we could make our postcard art (that we had been exchanging for a year and a half previously) into a more cohesive body of artwork.  After brainstorming we settled on exchanging an empty sketchbook through the mail.  Our only rule is that we would leave a small image, text, or object on the following page for the other person.  One would then pick up on this small beginning and create a new page.  We never anticipated this project lasting for years.  It is a wonderful chronicle of our time together (or apart we should say) .

After we complete this last page together we will be looking at the whole book for common themes, threads of thought (often we spoke of geographical place), images that were similar, different or reoccuring, color and composition choices we made page to page, and our overall assessment of this collaborative experience.

Come along on the journey through two years!

Tina & Laura