My friend Sue has written a great post
here about the use of sketchbooks and thrown down the challenge to other people to explain how they use them. Well, in my case, I rarely use them as a vehicle to try out ideas that are going to be translated further. If I am following a course then I will produce a sketchbook with direct drawing or painting in that relates to the course, but mostly I use them for doodling ideas into or collaging old prints or photocopies of things. I love small, portable books that I can use for a 'quick fix' collage from torn up magazine pages. They don't serve any purpose other than making me feel good. They are not great art but they are great fun. When I read the post and then looked at my box of old sketchbooks I picked out a couple of small ones and selected these pictures to show you what I mean.
My friend Sue has written a great post here about the use of sketchbooks and thrown down the challenge to other people to explain how they use them. Well, in my case, I rarely use them as a vehicle to try out ideas that are going to be translated further. If I am following a course then I will produce a sketchbook with direct drawing or painting in that relates to the course, but mostly I use them for doodling ideas into or collaging old prints or photocopies of things. I love small, portable books that I can use for a 'quick fix' collage from torn up magazine pages. They don't serve any purpose other than making me feel good. They are not great art but they are great fun. When I read the post and then looked at my box of old sketchbooks I picked out a couple of small ones and selected these pictures to show you what I mean.
I love looking at other people's sketchbooks and can't get enough of books that show how artists approach their work through them. I wish I was more disciplined with them but I tend to get an idea and do it, missing out the sketchbook phase, or doing it in the sketchbook and never taking it further. Just goes to show how different we are. Anybody else willing to take Sue's lead and show what they do?
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I can't show you as I don't have a sketch book but just have an idea and go for it! Probably why so much of my stuff doesn't work out as I anticipated!
I love what you have done there though and it stands as art in its own right I think.
I have boxes of sketch books, but they are nearly all full of dawings or doodles or some watercolour. I don't usually use them for developing ideas as I work rather impuslively and usually work things out on scraps of paper which are then discarded - trying to change my ways however! Will try and get a sellection together for a post.
Hi Lesley. I don't really keep a sketch book but you've inspired me to start ! Yours is divine .
Thank you again in all the hard work for the postcard swap. I made my first one today as I am going away so had to get on. I hope it's OK ...I am my own worst critic ! )
I think your sketchbook pages are beautiful. I love using sketchbooks but I'm very sporadic about it! I've started one to jot down ideas for the postcard swap.
Your sketchbooks are wonderful,of course, and I know what you mean about how you use them. I did try and do some exercises in one of mine, thanks to Gina's inspiration on one of her blog posts last year, but I fell by the wayside. I am going to try and use one for the postcard swap, just to keep track of some of my ideas. But it's inevitable that I will mostly make it up as I go along....
Lovely to peep inside your sketchbooks. Another one here who hopes to possibly start a book for "swap".......... just got to stop my head spinning first :O))))))))))))
Your sketchbooks are wonderful Lesley and show just how creatively versatile you are.
Sorry to say I haven't kept a sketchbook since school days ...!
I love Sue's crows, and her sketchbook isn't too shabby either:-)
Enjoy your TV-fest this evening.
Jeanne
x
Such interesting sketch books. I will show my latest book of fantasy drawings in my next post. I was bought a handmade sketch book for christmas and I have started my drawings in that.
Have a nice weekend!
Lucy xxxx
Oh Lesley your sketch books put me to shame - they are art pieces in themselves. Mine are terrible scribbles and REALLY bad sketches with cryptic notes all over the place. Maybe you have a tidy mind?
Love these sketchbooks. All the sketches look like finished pieces to me and what I love most is how you get a quick fix by doing a collage, that it makes you feel good. Great piece of advise, thanks so much
Hi Lesley, we met at a couple of Sue's courses, a couple of years ago, I was doing iris seed heads on one of the weekends and you were working with beetles I think. How lovely of you to share your sketchbooks. I really like the slightly more abstract architectural pages where you have left space for the imge to breathe, its so much easier to leave space in a sketchbook than something finished isn't it?
Your sketchbooks must be a wonderful creative library of ideas for you.
What wonderful images in your sketchbooks! So graphic, and yes, architectural. I love them all! Would I show mine?? Hmm....maybe... There's nothing noteworthy in them, but I still like looking back through them. Betsy Best Spadaro just did an interesting post about her process of using sketchbooks. :)
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