Book of the Night

Happy Journaleen!
Welcome Princes of Darkness and Queens of the Underworld: Let us experiment with various techniques and textures to prepare black pages in a Book of the Night. This is a magical and wounded book of blackened pages and dark nights of the soul reaching out for the light by combining cryptic tales with potent imagery - valuable tools for self expression. Spirits of the dead and long forgotten tales of you begin to clang chains and moan and reach out for an authentic life. Bring your creatures of the night to light in the pages of your Extreme Journal. Like the Bride of Frankenstein, we’ll piece ourselves together from the long discarded remnants of self. You call that darkness? It’s beautiful.
(Feel free to dress up or come in costume! I will! Happy Haunting!)

Supply List

(visit www.meandpete.com for detailed descriptions of items listed as well as for how to set up your book and develop your theme, if you choose too!)


• Book
• Gluesticks (2 big ones)
• scissors
• Acrylic paints: one light, one dark, 1 black, 1 white.
• brushes in at least three different thicknesses (crappy is fine but no sponge brushes)
• 1 quarter inch brush (relative good quality - clean edges/no wispy’s) rubberstamp letters (any size) & stamp pad
• 2 brush markers in any color
• 1 black permanent marker
• 1 white poster paint marker
• 1 graphite pencil, 6B, Ebony, or graphite stick, no charcoal.
• 1 white pencil (get a good brand- not crayola)
• 1 pastel colored pencil (same)
• 1 metallic pencil (gold, copper, silver)
• 1 gel pen any color (white, pastel or metallic)
• black masking tape or artist tape in at least 1 inch thickness
• 1 white china marker
• 1 watercolor crayon in any color (no black)
• Wet Ones brand wipes (or any other wipe with alcohol or other toxic cleaner- get a small package or get the big jug and share with your friends!)
• collage items: 1 poetry book to cut up, one magazine to cut up, theme related and random collage material