I have just finished up filling my current sketchbook and wondered if you’d like a peep?
There is a trend for sketch booking at the moment, particularly doing something in it everyday.
I think sketchbooks can be a place to experiment, log thoughts and images and experiment without a necessary end. I don’t work in it consistently but have phases.
I feel like mine are an extension of my brain; a place to gather and record thoughts that I know will disappear in the busyness and constant flood of visual inspiration.
I will often look back through one and pick up again on the way something was painted or a collage technique that I liked.
I’m a great magazine snipper too and can end up overwhelmed by bits of this and that lying around waiting to inspire me. Sometimes I’ll have a few hours really looking at them and asking myself what it is about the image that captures my interest and then trying to work that out in the sketchbook.
Often enough this kind of playing will result in a motif for a pattern too.
I began this book in September 2103 so it may be another two years before I can post like this again!
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October 16, 2015 at 10:34 am
Jam Jar Gill
lovely designs as always 🙂
October 16, 2015 at 10:49 am
Claire
Thanks Gill 😊 That’s nice of you to say x
October 16, 2015 at 4:15 pm
pat
Your notebooks are a real treat full of your beautiful designs. Lovely x
October 16, 2015 at 5:07 pm
Claire
Thanks for your lovely comment – have a super weekend x
October 16, 2015 at 4:45 pm
sue
What lovely sketchbooks Claire, makes me want to get mine out, sadly neglected for a looong time!
October 16, 2015 at 5:09 pm
Claire
Thanks Sue – I think these things have phases don’t you? Anyways, a lot of the lovely things you make wouldn’t fit in a sketchbook anyway would they. x