Moleskine Japanese Album Art

Part of our pen month is the Pen A Day Challenge! Take up a pen or pencil to write or sketch every day in March. Not just to do your study or at work - do it for leisure, to keep in touch, to tease out whatever thoughts are in your mind. See how much fun it is!

One person who has been besting this challenge every day for over 10 years is Rita Lazauskas. Rita is an artist, curator and educator based in North East Victoria and turns Moleskine Japanese Albums into seriously cool works of art.

Conveniently, each Japanese Album has 31 sheets so a month per album or a year's worth in the image above. Amazingly, each takes only 5-20 minutes and sometimes as short as 1 minute!

You can see more about Rita here. And so, Dear Reader, where the aforementioned challenge is concerned, we now have a benchmark...good luck getting anywhere near it!