Because my research has been centred around Lucy Maud and her time on the island, and she kept those beautiful scrap books as mementos of her life, I thought that a scrap book approach to image-making for my illustrations for the book would be relevant and interesting. Not a traditional approach, not conventional and I don't think it has been done before for any of her books, which makes it all the more special as a homage to Lucy Maud. Being so strikingly different in its images may also make my book stand out against mass-market books on the highstreet.
I've been collecting some visual research around scrap books, commonplace books and gluebooks. Above are a few of the ones I liked and some ideas for things I might include.
Emily write to her deceased father throughout the book, so including letters, post cards and stamps would be appropriate. I've been looking into stamps from PEI around the time that Emily of New Moon was set. The letters were also written on scraps of paper, making the 'scrap-book' medium a fitting choice.
Using Pinterest might not have been such a good idea, since there are so many modern scrap book/art journal artists at the moment and I'm not such a fan of modern things trying to seem 'vintage' or these generic paper stocks re-appropriated over and over again in scrapbooking material. Though I will be trying to make my scrapbook pages look old and authentic, I hope to make all of the elements myself, including the paper stock, the post cards, the photos and the handwriting.
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