In our first session of the Summer Sketchbook Series, I shared ways to get past the fear of messing up your sketchbook with a few fun exercises to help get the ball rolling. I talked about negative space, the quiet areas in and around your subject, and bringing wholeness to your work.
In our first session of the Summer Sketchbook Series, I shared ways to get past the fear of messing up your sketchbook with a few fun exercises to help get the ball rolling. I talked about negative space, the quiet areas in and around your subject, and bringing wholeness to your work.
In our first session of the Summer Sketchbook Series, I shared ways to get past the fear of messing up your sketchbook with a few fun exercises to help get the ball rolling. I talked about negative space, the quiet areas in and around your subject, and bringing wholeness to your work.
In our first session of the Summer Sketchbook Series, I shared ways to get past the fear of messing up your sketchbook with a few fun exercises to help get the ball rolling. I talked about negative space, the quiet areas in and around your subject, and bringing wholeness to your work.
I wasn’t sure how to put something like FOUND together, so I decided to go back to the beginning. I spent days looking back over my old sketchbooks, art journals, and finished artwork. I was looking for clues in my stylistic development and when things began to shift in my art.
I never kept a sketchbook until last summer. I gifted it to myself after deciding I really wanted to paint, play, and create more--like I did when I was a kid! These blank pages seemed like the perfect place to begin doing that again--a home for messiness, FUN, experimentation, imperfection, ideas, and so much more--al
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Original art made by me with colored pencil on paper, featuring a fun array of content from a sketchbook series in May 2024. Print is 8 1/2" square
Storybook Cottage Series miniature original