Sketchbook Wandering : Sketchbook

Thursday, January 18, 2024

From Idea to Completion: A New Phase

I recently resumed work on a long standing project. I'm looking back on some work that has led me to this place. Rough drafts, & continual art explorations, sure, but also work on my organizational skills, on staying focused, & on learning to de-clutter my space & my brain. Looking forward, moving out of an idea phase to an action phase. I'm beginning to bring individual segments to completion. This (cropped) sketch went into my daily journal today. (Credit: Even though I love this bridge & have been there many times, I used a photo by Anne McKinnell, a beautiful outdoor nature photographer, as a reference.)

Sunday, August 2, 2020

The Personal Journal: Daily Pages

During my Experimental Sketchbook Class

I kept a special journal with art notes

& anything related that came up.

{By the way, I did not pose the shot:

My new wooden mannequin, (who I think has arthritis)

happened to be there when I was snapping the page.}

Recently I read through my previous personal daily journal.

During the early days of stay-at-home,

I spent a fair amount of time embellishing my personal book

with color, borders, paste-ins, & stickers.

I wondered if it was somehow a waste of my time.

Looking back I see that it wasn't.

While releasing nervous energy about

the new, unknown situation we were in,

I was allowing myself to play with color, layout, & content.

I'm now enjoying the record that I have of those days.

Here I recorded some notes from a book for young people

about artistic process: Neil Gaiman's Art Matters.

I usually record these types of art notes in a separate book,

but I liked incorporating them into the "master journal."

Currently my daily pages are fairly unadorned.

My art energy is going to several projects

that will be offered for public viewing.

But they have their own journal pages where I am

working out my journey to finished products.