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Weekly update 23/52 Düsseldorf Art journals, Tonhalle and pool season



End of May beginning of June this wonderful time of the year and it is starting to be more and more emotional and real that we soon will be packing up and leaving. After this very cold spring it is nice to finally warm up and that the pool season has started. Here in Wittlaer Düsseldorf we have a local pool in Kaiserwerth Freibad Flossenweg where we go to swim. On a normal school day in the afternoon it is not too bad with people but on a hot hot weekend it is very crowded. It is kind of funny living in a place where you meet parents from school and neighbors first fully dressed and then undressed in the pool. 

One amazing experience was seeing Düsseldorf Tonhalle from inside where Mila and her school together with four other schools in Düsseldorf had a Sing Pause concert. It was magical to hear them all sing in this old planetarium which has been changed into a concert hall. 

My Creative work has been focusing on personalizing Art journals. I bought plain brown paper art journals to test making them into a Düsseldorf journal with adding my Düsseldorf illustration. The journal has 250g aquarell paper inside perfect to create lots of fun things. 
I am printing my illustration on to a transparent water transfer paper. After printing I am spraying the motive with spray lack so the motive will hold better. Then the tricky job trying to get the print on to the journal. I wet the paper in water and slow slide it on to the book - important not to get creases. 
I also used my Cricut to make text in permanent vinyl which I added to the books. I learned after a few that the process is easier if I first add the text and after the illustration because the water transfer paper is pretty easy to damage. I am happy with the result and on the last market I got orders to make them personalized as leaving presents. Fun project. 



 




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