The Sketchbook Project 2011

The Greatest Story Ever Told (cover)

One's own story is always the greatest.  This is the story of Anyman. It is done in collage for the Sketchbook Project 2011 and consists of 16 pages.

collage, watercolour, ink

A story told with collage, watercolour, ink and some quotes....

collage, watercolour, ink

Title Page of the Sketchbook Project

collage, watercolour, ink

Introduction to the Sketchbook Project

collage, ink, 5 x 8 inches










A cautionary tale is a traditional narrative with a moral message warning of the consequences of certain actions, inaction or character flaws.

And so the story goes....

collage, ink

Page One of the Sketchbook Project

collage, ink, watercolour 5 x 8 inches

"Falling in love is like eating mushrooms; you never know if it's the real thing until it's too late." 

Bill Balance

Page Two

collage, ink, watercolour 5 x 8 inches





  


"We are like eggs at present.  And you cannot go on indefinitely being an ordinary, decent egg.  We must be hatched or go bad."

C.S.Lewis

Page Three

collage, ink, watercolour 5 x 8 inches

"It was a pity he couldna be hatched o'er again, an hatched different"

George Eliot

Page Four

collage, ink 5 x 8 inches









"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players..."
William Shakespeare 

Page Five

 collage, ink, watercolour 5 x 8 inches

"It is in games that many men discover their paradise."

Robert Lynd

Page Six

collage, ink, watercolour 5 x 8 inches

"Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away."

Eric Berne

Page Seven

collage, ink, watercolour 5 x 8 inches

"A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind."

Henry David Thoreau

Page Eight

collage, ink 5 x 8 inches

"Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be.  Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies into instruments of love and hope."

Tom Head

Page Nine

collage, ink, watercolour 5 x 8 inches

"Love one another and you will be happy.  It's as simple and as difficult as that."

Michael Leunig

Page Ten

collage, ink, watercolour 5 x 8 inches

Page Eleven

collage, ink, 5 x 8 inches










"One's death is more the survivor's affair than one's own."

Thomas Mann

Page Twelve

collage, ink, watercolour, 5 x 8 inches

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."

Robert Browning

Page Thirteen

collage, ink, 5 x 8 inches








"For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy"

Beothius

Page Fourteen

collage, ink, 5 x 8 inches

The End

collage, ink, watercolour, 5 x 8 inches






"I wanted a perfect ending.  Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.  Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next."

Gilda Radner

That's All (The Last Page of the Sketchbook Project)

 collage, ink, watercolour 5 x 8 inches