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After three years of silence (and facing some hard times for those wondering what happened) I finally pulled myself together and decided to pick it all up again. With 'it' I mean, papercutting, drawing, shadow puppetry and continuing selling my work on Etsy etc. 
But also I would love to pickup on old friends again and hopefully make some new friends as well here on DA:-) (Smile) 

When I came back here my ' inbox' was overflowing and I just don't see how I could read, let alone answer, all those messages. So my sincere appoligies for not replying.... However, all new messages will receive a most warm welcome and I'll always try to answer.

I guess, for now, that's all I've got to say!
I hope all of you are doing well and I am looking forward to view all those wonderful new artworks!

Love,
Isabella

(PS: as you might have seen, my new name is Paper Tales.... more changes will follow soon!)
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I finally have some time to tell you all about my latest project! It is a small project which I only did for fun's sake and also because I wanted to get my mind off of things during these busy months.
As usual I focused on the folklore theme, in this case Dutch folklore, but let me first tell you a bit about the project itself.

The Sketchbook Project:

The Sketchbook Project, an initiative of Art House, is a collaboration of artists who submit their sketchbook in order to create the largest traveling sketchbook library in the world. Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across the USA. After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be bar coded and available for the public to view.
At the moment 28594 artists from 94 countries around the world are participating and one of these artist is me :-)
To find out more about the project and the tour dates please check out their website: www.arthousecoop.com/projects/…

About my Sketchbook:

It will probably not surprise you that I decided to work with the folklore theme  for my own Sketchbook. I thus created a character: Mister Oswald who is a professional folklorist and story-collector. For his work he travels through Holland in order to collect as many folktales as possible. These tales he writes down in his journal, accompanied by drawings he makes and other things he finds on his way.
My sketchbook: Mister Oswald's journal, will thus be a collections of tales and drawings, old and new, put together in one small book. Which I hope many people will enjoy to read and view !

I will upload scans of the journal/sketchbook pages on my blog, Deviant Art account as well as my profile on Art House.
Those of you who are not able to visit one of the exhibitions can thus still see the sketchbook and read the folktales of my country.

You can view the entire contents of the sketchbook here: isabellasart.deviantart.com/ga…

Enjoy!


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Book coming soon! More information can be found here: isabellasart.blogspot.com/sear…

Other places where you can find me:

My Etsy Shop: www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=…

My Folklore Blog:isabellasart.blogspot.com/

My Official Website: www.isabellasart.com/
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This is just a small word of thanks to thank ^snocookie05 (snocookie05.deviantart.com/) for suggesting one of my shadow puppets for a DD. She really puts a lot of time and energy in participating in Deviant art groups and does a lot to promote the work of other Deviants. These are the kind of people that makes this "online community" so warm and welcome and for that I would like to thank her!

Also I would like to thank all my new watchers and all people who took the the time to comment on my work and for all the favs!

It truly means a lot to me! Though these are busy times for me I will try to pay a visit to every gallery of my new watchers. I already have seen some great artists amongst the crowd and I am really looking forward to visit you all!

But for now, thank you :hug:

Yours Truly,
Isabella




Book coming soon! More information can be found here: isabellasart.blogspot.com/sear…

Other places where you can find me:

My Etsy Shop: www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=…

My Folklore Blog:isabellasart.blogspot.com/

My Official Website: www.isabellasart.com/
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Book Update!

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It has been a while since I have spoken with you all about the Tell me a story - project. I know some of you might even have had doubts if the book was ever going to be published.
But I can assure you all the book is now almost finnished and we are very close to the publishing date.

I probably don't need to tell you that self-publishing is a lot of work if done properly and of course I wanted to do it properly. That is why I decided not to do it all on my own, instead I have been working with several people: proofreaders, editors and a most talented graphic designer. For the last couple of months we have all been working extremely hard. All texts were edited twice, after this process a couple of people have been proofreading the texts several times. While in the meantime designs for the cover and inside pages were made. The above image is just a sneakpeek of the hardcover design we are working on and beneath you can see the title page of the book. To make the whole project complete we are also working on a paperback version, for which we created a whole other design.




Albeit it has taken all of us lots and lots of work to create two beautiful books on which we all can be proud of. Still there are some minor things which need to be done but soon, very soon I will be able to show you the book; Tell me a story!

(Those of you who have participated in the project will receive an email from me within the week in which you can read your own (edited) piece once more before it will be published in the book.)
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