75 Ways to Draw Your Life

An artist friend of mine and one of my most inspiring associates, has a Flicker site (linked in title above) to one of his latest projects. I am glad to see Michael Nobbs is getting a nice crowd following him and his art teachings. He deserves it.
This post is about what I did with this one day at work when I really needed a break. As usual, my resources are limited in the realm of printers and electronic tools, both at home and at work. (even though my work IS electronic publishing for the corporate world) Therefore, I could not follow his directions as given. The first time I went to his site, when I realized I could not do as he said there, I left and figured, "Oh well." Went onto something else.
This week I actually had a little downtime at work and was cleaning out email. Found the link to this project again and went back. Got a little frustrated at the process of downloading the files and knew I could not do the booklet in color or the size he made it. But decided I NEEDED the process right then of an Artist Date and making this my own.
Got the pics, re-sized, and made grayscale in Photoshop. Printed each one to it's own paper since we can not print double sided there. Made an extra copy for a friend.
Took the prints back to desk and proceeded to assemble (which was not so easy with my dyslexic brain and not having double sided prints!)
Then tried to staple and realized could not even do that. My little desk stapler, 15 years old, would not reach to center of booklet. UGH...
Not to be daunted, I figured to leave the back blanks in there and the tops and bottoms he says to trim off, figuring would fill that in with drawing too. THEN would figure out how to staple the pages into a book.
However, in the end, after sitting with the booklets overnight, I realized I wanted to have it as he designed it. His piece, even if in black ink only. So trimmed them up.
Finally it dawned on me - being an altered book artist that I could SEW the pages together. DUH. Which I did and then glue-sticked the backs and now I have two of Michael's small inspirations with which to play on and share with a friend.
Thanks Michael! I love having you in my creative life ;-)