article: End of the Line | written down

I’m working through a book called “52 Projects” by Jeffrey Yamaguchi, and the assignment last week was to take a ride on the train to the end of the line. No trains around here—I live in Northern California! Instead I took a ride on the town shuttle and created this layout in my art journal to document the process:

Exceprt from the journaling:
“There aren’t a lot of reasons to take public transportation in Los Gatos. The SCVTA buses pass by nearly empty…recently, though, the town instituted a free shuttle service—little buses like those you take to your Hertz rental car are wrapped in a cheerful white and blue, and cruise up and down… I took one today… had meant to walk, but the bus appeared, so I hopped on. Doesn’t matter, really, how you wrap it—Buses stink.”

I like the balance of this page between the graphics and the words. I printed out a copy of the bus route on transparency and adhered it to the page, but even after hours it just smeared off. (I have an ink jet printer). Any suggestions on this? Do I need to spray some sort of fixative on top, or reverse-print and adhere the transparency backward?

Thanks for looking…
xoxox
LainE

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