Yes, yes, I'm going to go on about sketchbooks again! As I've mentioned in my last couple of posts I've been in a creative rut recently. Well, I experienced a mini epiphany today!
I'd popped into The ArtSpace to pay for my felt making course and got talking to the guy who runs the place. I was poking around in the art/craft supplies they sell and found these:
They are some bits of paper with interesting designs on them. He asked if I was going to make cards with them and I said I was thinking of putting them in my sketchbook. He told me about the sketchbook sessions they hold on weekends. Basically you go down on a saturday or sunday for a couple of hours and they show you how to make a sketchbook. They also show you various techniques and things.
He made me a cuppa and I sat and looked through the sketchbooks that they had there. It was doing thing I had my mini epiphany: Sketchbooks don't have to be the way they were when I was at art college. Those had to be these incredibly tidy and well laid out things with lots of writing and notes about health and safety and things. The ones I saw today had pages ripped in half to show the things behind; things stuck in; textiles stuck in; textures all over the place.
That is the kind of sketchbook I need to be keeping! Not the tidy formal thing from my college days but a relaxed untidy thing!
I bought these two little sketchbooks to get me started:
Shall show photos as soon as I've done something! Right now I must get ready to go to the hairdressers! I'm having a haircut for the first time in years!
Heres a before photo:
You'll get to see the after one tomorrow!
2 comments:
Yep sketchbooks can be anything you want them to be - and definitely not neat! I am sketchbook mad at the moment too
This sketchbook group sounds like a great idea E. You will find inspiration when working with others.
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