Actually, the shed is about 15 pages long.

The last few days I've been scanning in some 2 inch wide thumbnails I worked on in Brenda's class and have been blowing them up to tabloid size -- the actual size I want my bun book to be.

Marc Brown apparently has a shelf in HIS studio that is long enough to set an entire dummy book along spread by spread.

United Shed of Temairika is shorter than that.

The first 14 pages of sketches for the full size dummy I'm working on are tacked onto my cork edged wall to wall bookshelf. I put the rest of the book spreads right below, on a vinyl shade that rolls down based on some advice that Denise Fleming gave. I don't know if this is what she meant -- this shade has already pulled a chunk of the shed's wall out and could start its own earthquake when you try to pull it, but I think I'm digging it. The idea is you can furl up the shade so people don't need to be nosing around your dummy if you aren't ready to share it or if you are tired of looking at it. I think the shade might make my sketches spontaneously combust if I roll them up in it, but there are worse problems.

What's the point of seeing it all together like this at full-size and how is this any better than looking at thumbnails?

Well, already I can see how weird it looks to have some of my spot illustrations framed by a square and some framed by a circle. They should all be in squares.

In some spreads I thought of just have a white BG. I thought that a LOT. That's just lazy. There are a few instances where it will be effective to just have a white bg, but not as much as I'd planned.

After the super editor critique at the LA conference and from a comment Jolie (she started a blog, thank God!!) made on the plane ride home I added and deleted a few things. I finally found a home for them in the process of supersizing all the thumbnails. So that's great!

And I'd been worried about having enough variety of camera angles and near and far shots. In thumbnails it all looks tiny, at full-size the close-ups are GINORMOUS! Yay!

I guess from here I will refine these crazy blow ups to actually be intelligible to other people and then pick one piece (at least, right?) to do as full color art.

Oh boy!