2019 IFJM – Haiku

April 2019 – International Fake Journal Month – Dana Burrell

Haiku

For this journal I ripped the guts out of this green inspirational soft cover journal by XXXXX and replaced it with the guts of a 7.75 in. x 9.75 in. softcover Strathmore 500 Mixed Media Art Journal. You can see remnants of the previous endpapers peeking out from under the new mixed media endpaper. I also realized that I needed to add one more sheet to the book for continuity. I tipped in a sheet of the S500MM and you can see the overlap on the April 1st spread. I used direct watercolor for all the paintings while the journaling and daily current event haiku were added in pencil.

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Video – #2019IFJM

For me one of the best things of IFJM is creating a video flip-through.  It’s the closest I can come to letting you page through the real thing.

 

If the video won’t play here you can see it on YouTube at this link.

I hope you enjoy this short video… it’s just over 4 minutes long… and please be sure to return in a few days when I’ll do my full wrap up.

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2019 Final Entry – April 30th

Inside back cover.

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Chipmunk – April 30th

we’ve had a wet April,
no wonder we have to mow already.
when the chipmunks show up
it must be spring.

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rain, life’s elixir
magnolia blooms drop gently
spring is in the air

April 30
3 pm

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Chicken – April 29th

baseball again tonight
but at least they’re not losing – yet.

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ersatz asteroid
full planetary defense
planning exercise

April 29
9 pm

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Tropical – April 28th

watching baseball on TV
perfect for painting at the same time, it’s undemanding besides being slow enough that I don’t miss much.

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Avengers Endgame
long line at the theater
later? maybe not.

April 28
7:30 pm

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Pistachios – April 27th

synagogue shooting
one dead and more are injured
Passover hate crime

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Lucky – April 26th

what’s so lucky about bamboo?
guess I don’t know my feng shui as well as I should.

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black seeds in white flesh
still obsessed with dragon fruit
so pretty in pink

April 26
8 pm

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Halved – April 25th

beautiful subject
flavor is boring at best
amazing let down

April 25
8:30 pm

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Dragon Fruit – April 24th

paint seeped through and the portrait pages were ripped when I separated the spread. I’ll touch it up – just because.

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brilliant contestant
fifteen days of jeopardy
over a million

April 24
8 pm

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