No Book For Now, Insert Crying Face

For the past three weeks I have been working

from morning to night, trying to put a new book together.

Sadly, I have come to the conclusion that I am not

going to be able to do it. 

I have made two complete sets of art for this book.

When I made the first set, I didn't realize I needed

to make the art the approximate size of the

completed book page,

and since much of it was smaller, I had to start all over again.

 Originally I had 127 pages of beautiful art like

you see here. I was able to salvage 36 pieces of it.

All the rest had to be remade in a larger format.

So I remade art, rescanned all the pieces, edited

them to clean them up and popped them into

the book. Just to find out the files were too big.

So I started over again with resizing images.

All in all I've done this either 5 or 6 times now.

I have lost track.

And I have lost all hope of ever getting this

particular book put together enough to be able

to meet the requirements for Create Space.

That's the program we use to be able to sell the books

through Amazon.com. 

Apparently they are more text friendly as opposed

to color friendly.

Three weeks when I should have been doing other things.

Really big-time discouraged.

So for now, just enjoy these three pages.

The top two are alcohol ink.

The bottom is a mixed media page with lots of products used.

Actually, when I think about it,

I now have enough pieces of art to make blog posts

for the next 120ish days.

Give or take a day or two.

Ugh.