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| one of my current sketchbook pages, exploring memory and passing of time |
Today’s Pinterest Friday is sketchbooks. It wasn’t meant to be! I started out with some other ideas when I
went onto Pinterest today, but it was these exquisite sketchbook pages that
really caught my attention, so I went with it.
I think sketchbooks cause a ridiculous amount of anxiety to
artists and art students. We all get
seduced by beautiful drawings and spreads and I think the most asked questions
of any course I have taught relate to how to keep a sketchbook.
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| Drawing at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park - Hepworth sculptures |
Personally, my sketchbooks are working drawings and
scribbles, which mean something to me, but which are not a lot to look at. I really struggled to find lovely spreads to
share with you, especially those without lots of written comments. Still, it was fun to look through my old
sketchbooks and to recapture some of the joy I had in creating these pages, as
well as recovering old ideas that might reappear in some new work soon... And
my pages are real, not created to be looked at, but as part of my working
process. Sketchbooks can be an art in
themselves, but I’m a textile based artist, not a sketchbook one, so I can
enjoy looking at them, but not want to replicate it myself.
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| A college sketchbook page on blue |
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| A college sketchbook page on blue |
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| Starting ideas for Unsung Muses |
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| Unsung Muses developed a bit further |
1 comment:
how adorable!!!
artisoo
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