Make a Fabulous Concertina Book 2

[@enamary1]

I love it! The whole process! How interesting and wonderful it is that the intimacy of creating in your own studio, when 'spat' out into the world has so much impact. Please continue sharing Debbie, it's sooo good.

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

pleased you enjoyed and many thanks for your lovely positive comment

[@maebayly9767]

This is so amazing. I'm so glad I came across your Book 1 and now Book 2. Thank you.

[@anknaparkin7510]

So fascinating to watch this over and over again. I followed your instructions and made a wonderful concertina sketch book but like the look of my random marks and daren’t ruin it. I love your amazing landscape as it is so organically beautiful and all the random marks looked incredibly intentional. Brilliant and thank you ☺️ 😊 🙏🏼

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

thanks Anna. Make lots more and then you won't worry about ruining one... its only a piece of paper after all and its great to take creative risks (even if they go wildly wrong!), Cheers, Debbie

[@changchesserly7591]

Wowsers! The final result is stunning! 💕

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@56Timtam]

Loving watching your process Debbie. Thank you for these wonderful videos you put here.

[@greggtransky9080]

amazing and inspiring, thank you Debbie - best wishes, Sondra

[@dianekhamilton]

Just wow! Beautiful.

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

i always enjoy making these books and hope you do too

[@suegates6584]

Brilliant! I keep getting stuck in making little sketchbooks and not understanding how to finish them. You are just what I needed.... and I live in Wollongong with a beautiful coastline to draw.

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

wonderful inspiration around Wollongong, enjoy! we have just been down the south Coast, so beautiful

[@victoriagadd6831]

Love your videos, Debbie - more please!😊

[@marie-luise7727]

Thank you very much! Your inspirating demonstration helps to get less fear of the beginning! Greetings from Germany!

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

Wonderful - glad its giving you confidence!

[@victoriagadd6831]

Exciting and wonderful love it

[@nikhatkhan5440]

Oh! So nice to learn how to make a concertina book THANKS...for sharing it and I love the tools you use for Mark making & outlines...have learned so much and am following you 😀

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

so pleased you enjoyed this- have fun with your own concertina book

[@denisecondina6655]

ur tools are amazing!!! love ur channel 😊

[@jackieswe]

Great ideas for your homemade concertina sketchbook Debbie, I love how it turned out😍thanks for sharing, you have a new subscriber!

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

Delighted to hear you enjoyed this and many thanks for following

[@juliaweston4160]

Fabulous to watch - cant wait to go and make my own for my isolation garden drawings Thanks so much for the inspiration Debbie

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

really glad you enjoyed it and have fun with your own creation

[@marychristophi6688]

Wonderful beautiful 🤩

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

Appreciate that kind comment thank you Mary

[@Kathy.Cooksey6]

This is very pretty! Thank you for sharing!

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

these books are so much fun to make

[@brigitteshantieaglemeare4350]

That is a fabulous demonstration, very enjoyable and inspiring

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

glad you enjoyed it and hope you make your own...thanks,Debbie

[@annemurphy484]

Fab, thoroughly enjoyed that, very inspirational!!

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

hope you will make one (or lots!) yourself. Enjoy, Debbie

[@marniesvids]

love it!! thank you so much for sharing this

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

So pleased you enjoyed it!

[@carynpercell8979]

I really enjoyed your video and sense of lay with your found objects and mark making❣️

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ewetoob18]

Lovely❣️ watched part 1 and 2 and you’ve inspired me so much.

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

Really hope you are enjoying making your own books

[@janefrance5946]

Wow!!!.. stunning!!😍

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

glad you liked this!

[@junemaguire5053]

Enjoyed this very much. Thank you.

[@feliciahazelton754]

Love this. Thanks for sharing.

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

You are so welcome!

[@valeriesangster6364]

Inspirational. Love the colour palette.

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

restricting colours always works best, thank you and glad you liked it

[@collinleech5297]

Ready to run to my studio and try my own. Love how you paint too❤️

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

hope you have had a go! appreciate the nice comments

[@collinleech5297]

Debbie Mackinnon yes, it came out pretty well. Ready to do more!

[@robertwebber8672]

Fabulous work - so inspiring even someone as lazy as me might do it! Best R

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

These are calming and soothing to make!

[@juliehooper1360]

Debbie I’d love to know how to finish off the book. Would you consider doing one that shows how you join the pages and what to make a front and back cover. I’d be great full for advice. Thanks so much.

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

hi Julie, see above... apologies for delay in replying

[@marymccabe3111]

Debbie, thank you for this, as well as Part 1 of making the initial random watercolor with a limited palette, and then making the book. I finally realized that you knew you were going to make this into a book about your walks about the area so you chose appropriate colors and knew you'd be using gesso to bring out some negative spaces that would bring out foliage, trees, (and I think I noticed a bridge there, too). Anyway, I'll be trying this idea in the coming months.

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

sorry for delayed reply, thanks for your comment Mary. I just use a limited palette and work it from there, I try not to think too much about what it might become. It was a jetty not a bridge...! But all quite abstracted Cheers, Debbie

[@bonnie_nelms]

I love watching you! What paper is your concertina? I watched you make it and it folded so easily, but I don’t see it buckling with the water so am curious what weight and surface. FYI volume is very low...I have it turned all the way up and can barely hear you.

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

Glad you enjoyed - its a mixed media paper 200 gsm. I find heavier paper hard to fold. See note above re poor sound. apologies but I've now ordered a proper microphone so Will be better in future!

[@juliehooper1360]

Debbie could you please tell me what you used to join the pages together that weren’t on a fold. Did you use a tape of some sort or glue. Thanks.

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

Hi Julie, I used a brown paper tape behind to join up the pages. Hope that helps, Debbie

[@juliehooper1360]

Thanks Debbie. Much appreciated. I’m having fun doing one. There’s a walk at the back of where I live in Benalla that goes over a little bridge onto an island and then wanders along beside the river so that’s my inspiration. Apart from you that is.

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

@@juliehooper1360 that's great, enjoy making your book and thank you for your kind comment! Debbie

[@debragroth6513]

love it. Wish the audio was louder

[@marychristophi6688]

Ow my god thank you sweetheart 🙏🙏🙏🍷🍷🍷👩‍❤️‍👩wonderful exciting , made my day .... year🙏🙏🙏

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

you are so generous Mary! thank you!

[@sharinye6026]

Hi Debbie i love this thank you for sharing. Did you fold and cut before the gesso ?

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

Yes - did you see Episode one? here on youtube on my channel.Glad you enjoy dit.

[@pamelajohansen882]

Oh wow it got all bettet

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

Glad things improved!

[@debraandrews2896]

THANKYOU !

[@anknaparkin7510]

Thank you so much 😊 🙏🏼👍♥️

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

Welcome 😊

[@kerrieb7473]

Really, really lovely outcome. What part of Aus are you living in Deb? Sounds like there were builders working in the background. I am going to give this a try, it seems like the best stress reliever around. Thankyou for sharing this.

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

hi Kez, I made this one in NSW by the coast. Yes it was a bit noisy but I was in lockdown and working on my deck! creative pastimes are great for stress

[@kerrieb7473]

@@debbiemackinnon7202 wonderful. You are quite an inspiration to me. I’m looking at the bush around home very differently, longing to put marks and colour onto concertina’d paper. Yesterday I brought home some charcoal from a recent bushfire and sticks to use. This is going to be fun. Glad I found your channel Deb. 👍👍👍

[@pamelajohansen882]

Hi Debbie. I have a very hard time hearing your videos. I don't know if your microphone is far away. Thank you

[@annepercival7814]

Thanks Debbie...but struggled to hear until volume suddenly increased near the end

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

I know, this was one of my first self made videos and Im better at sound now....! all part of the learning curve. Debbie

[@judithmoore8692]

Looking forward to hearing your next videos. In addition to volume, your voice has to project clearly. Thanks for the help.

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

@@judithmoore8692 its all part of the learning curve! I started this as a free offering during Covid without any special equipment or training, hope you can enjoy the visuals anyway. Debbie

[@debsllewelyn230]

You are a complete genius

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

flattery will always get you everywhere! thank you

[@ArA-qf5vm]

I agree with Debs! Debbie - I so loved this video and your others. Am hoping you’ll do more soon! You are so talented and your work is brilliant 😍.

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

@@ArA-qf5vm very kind and much appreciated

[@sue8237]

sound is inaudible, unfortunately.

[@clairemullisen8484]

Absolutely love your work and technique but we couldn't hear you.

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

apologies re sound but I was making this in lockdown with no access to better equipment! I've learned more and getting better with each one I make

[@ritazita1111]

You had the volume turned so low I couldn't follow it. And no CC so I could read it. Please remember to turn up the sound.

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

I was learning how to do this in lockdown with no access to microphones etc so I'm better at it now. Hope you can learn a lot from the visuals and please note I'm doing these tutorials for free...

[@mageetu]

Does anybody else have a hard time hearing this?

[@victoriagadd6831]

Yes always with Debbie’s videos it’s muffled. I put it down to her being an artist rather than a techy type 😅

[@cindymichaud7286]

Can barely hear you, interesting to watch but the mumbling is inaudible and thus rather irritating. Help! My volume won’t go higher.

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

Sorry about the sound, i have a microphone on order but it hasn't arrived in post yet! You can watch the visuals and get the idea pretty well I hope.

[@bsarres3210]

Hi Debbie, thank you so much for sharing this wonderful exercise! The first part is great fun and easy to follow up to the folding. The great coloured book we get is incredible. But I find myself totally unable to picture how I could suppress elements and choose others so the sketchbook takes shape. I am completely stuck and frustrated! All these intricated shapes seem to be too much for me. Any suggestions? A thousand thanks again

[@debbiemackinnon7202]

you just have to take a deep breathe and plunge in. Don't worry if things don't work, just paint over them later. Its Your project and you'll feel so good to have ownership, there is no step by step process, you just have to use instinct to push it further. Its helpful to have a few sketches to work from. Good luck and happy creating...