Roberta's The Sketchbook Project 2011 has left the Love Shack!
2011 Tour: It's Like A Concert Tour, But With Sketchbooks!
Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across the country. After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view. 28836 artists from 94 countries around the world are participating. The tour starts March, 2011.
All books will be included in an exhibition that tours the following cities:
Above is a photo of the cover that I snapped today before popping my sketchbook into the mail. The deadline was extended because of the snow storms and Martin Luther King holiday and then I got this email message last Friday from The Art House Co-op:
The postmark deadline has been extended to Tuesday, January 18th, so please try to get your books in. If you can't complete your book by the due date because of whatever reasons, that's okay - send your book in as soon as you can and your book will still be cataloged into the library and we'll do our best to get it on as many touring exhibitions as possible! Unlike in high school when turning homework in late, you don't need to tell us why - just send it!
So I worked on finishing up the journaling and then today I scaned it {all 82 pages} and mailed it off!
This weekend I'll finish the photo album/slide show of my sketchbook as well as upload the photos to my page here on the Art House Co-op's site. My subject matter was INSIDE/OUTSIDE so I choose to write/sketch about our move here to the Love Shack.
Following is a SNEAK PEAK...enjoy ;)
Once upon a time there lived a loving couple in the Queen City…
This couple had been together for almost two decades and when they were first married, they set out to have many adventures. The man was a professional propeller head and his vast skills allowed him to land his dream job. The woman was a professional organizer and her varied skills turned every home into a perfectly functioning castle.
Their first big adventure took them from the cold, dark North to the warm, green South, where the land and jobs were plentiful. They never dreamed that they would be able to own, let alone eventually build, their ultimate dream home. As the years passed they continued to work hard, took fabulous family vacations, and watched their children grow and move on to find the paths for their journeys in life. They didn’t prepare themselves for what would happen next…
In the land of plenty, things were not as they appeared…
The Three Little Pigs (Banks, Insurance Companies and the Government) had built all of the homes in the land with dirty, loose papers and no real solid foundations. Including the couple’s lovely Dream Home! Soon all was lost…the organizer’s job as a Controller, their dream home and, their vacation home in South Carolina. The couple found themselves left with their clothes, and what was left of their belongings, as they moved into an apartment in the Queen City.
For the next year they counted their blessings…they had their health, they had each other, and more importantly, they still had hope! Their youngest became a Rocket Scientist, married his Southern Princess and landed his dream job! Which meant a new adventure was beginning for all!
For the tiny house that the couple had built for their son to live in the Capital City was now empty…
At first it seemed unlikely that the couple could downsize once more…oh my! Less than a year before they had sold their 3,800 sq.ft. castle and most of it’s furnishings, to fit into the 1,450 sq.ft. apartment. NOW they were surely becoming minimalists considering a 687 sq.ft. cottage over 300 miles away in the Capital City?
Soon they grew fond of the idea (you know…got their heads around it ;) that this would be their ultimate adventure. The husband had faith in the wife’s organizational skills and knew that she would be able to make everything that they really needed, fit perfectly and look beautiful. This gave the wife hope and a new found energy to turn this cottage into their Love Shack!
Together they spent the next year purging, selling and moving their stuff. A small home didn’t mean a smaller lifestyle. To them it meant a bigger lifestyle with smaller risks. That was because the wife would no longer have to work in order for them to keep their home.
It has been a year now since the couple moved into their Love Shack and many adjustments have been made to their original floor plans and to how they perceived what living here would entail. The biggest change of all has been in how they view their futures and their thoughts of what dreams are made of.
They learned that their dreams were always about being together and having adventures together…NOT about the STUFF! They realized just how much faith they have in each other and their marriage. AND they know that they will live happily ever after, together in their Love Shack!
This fairy tale made possible and brought to you by Kevin and Roberta Philbrick. January 15, 2011
congrats on completing your sketchbook and getting it off! Cute job with he Fairy tale.
Posted by: Deb | January 21, 2011 at 10:55 PM
oh wow, that is so beautiful! Bravo!! love your philosophy of what really makes a marriage and a life together work and what life is all about...the THINGS make it nice, but don't make it! Well written! Your book looks amazing!
Posted by: Bonnie | January 21, 2011 at 01:48 PM
That was wonderful. What a great thing to join.
Posted by: Donnie | January 21, 2011 at 11:02 AM
this is so awesome roberta! i just recently found out about it would have loved to do it too...maybe another time! have a great weekend! susan
Posted by: susan | January 21, 2011 at 07:57 AM
Beautifully written Roberta! I can't wait to see your book. I'll add it to my list of books to check out and hope to see it in Brooklyn, but certainly in Portland.
xo mac
Posted by: debbie McIntyre | January 20, 2011 at 10:41 PM
I got lost in your story than I had to remember I actually know you and the story....Love it!!!!! I wanted to keep reading...LOL
Posted by: Denyse | January 20, 2011 at 10:23 PM