More Blue...

Continuing on a bit with the "blue" song (Eiffel 65, 1999) -- 

I love when I get in this creative zone/mode -- taking one thing (quote, lyrics, poem, etc.) and coming up with a variety of ways to letter it.

I've also been into making mini books lately, with some scraps of paper. I just need to get better at binding.

Here are 2 mini books, similarly made. The first one (at bottom) started out with a scrap of marker paper I folded in half. I lettered the lyrics on the front part, then kept going with other ideas.

Although not the best paper for a book (as it's too see-through), I love the way it turned out! (except for the cover -- will explain below)

2nd book, cover. Love this. Used some old acrylic ink to paint as the base on some old scrap w/c paper. Tried to letter "blue" by scraping on the wet paint with my ruling pen (forgot to take pic). I then lettered over with metallic ink, and white WoS brush pen.

I thought it needed some splatters, but it would have been fine without.

Front & back

Back cover: akim lettering with Posca pen.

(Lyrics: "Here's a story about a little guy that lives in a blue world... Everything is blue for him.")

First page: Chorus in w/c brush lettering background then "i'm blue" lettered over in metallic ink.

Inside page:  More akim lettering with a glaze gel pen.

("Blue are the words I say and what I think...")

Opp. page: " i'm blue " in w/c brush, then more lyrics on top again in akim with a glaze gel pen.

Last page:  repeated chorus. Metallic ink and ruling pen (wish I had done akim)

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And now the original:

Tried lettering Blue in uncial using my paint shaper tool, but didn't turn out, so had to go over (WoS brush)

Love the back side (same as one above)

Love the layering here better.

Love this too, but hard to see.

Again, love this layering, but hard to see b/c of paper.

And final page of original.

And, here is a video of the original "test" one, bound together:

Although I'd love to give these away as inserts, hard for me to part with them just yet.