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A friend of mine wanted to know how I was taught to layout a field book. It's a simple process by which you can use almost any notebook for most forms of field research. I learned this technique when I was in Archaeological Field School at Ohio University almost a decade ago. You could use this format for:
1. Journaling
2. Writing
3. Class Notes
4. Field Research
All you'll need is a lined notebook (or graph), some colored pencils and a ruler.
I always stuck the ruler in the back of the notebook because I had to lay out a grid in the notebook in case we found something on the site.
1. Lay the ruler against the outside edge of the notebook and draw a red line down page. For sake of ease, I would just draw the line the width of the ruler since it was usually plenty of space for what I needed in the margins.
2. In the margin that you've created, you can record whatever headings you need to outline the entry. When I was doing archeology, we had to record the date, what plot we were on, what level, etc. If you were using it for class notes or story ideas, then you can change the headings as you see fit.
3. Alternate the colors of pencil you use for the various functions in the layout. I usually used a blue pencil to divide one entry from the next as it was a good visual cue. The body of the text was written however you wanted it to be and along the margin I would list any buzzwords that I knew were important from the entry. This could be anything from a "buzzword" in a conversation, a vocab word from a class' lecture, or something that you would need to easily reference.
I would circle the buzzword in the margin and point to the entry that spoke of it. Usually this was done in green.
4. Anything that was a follow-up to what you were writing about, a to-do, was added and marked with a yellow pencil.
Since it was troublesome to carry a lot of colored pencils with me in the notebook and a bit too complicated to use them while entering the data in the field they were usually used when I got home as a follow-up.
I would usually mark out the margins of a few pages in advance of where I was in the notebook so that I had plenty of room to write. Inside the book itself I would stash a green pencil since that was the color I used to mark anything important on the page.
You could easily substitute the use of colored pencils for high-liters if that's what you like
Terrier motif printed on a design classic Moleskine Cahier Pocket Notebook.
The image was printed using a Gocco, a tabletop Japanese screen printing system. Inky blobs and smudges are part of the process :)
Have had several people email me an' comment about my luck on finding the right light, scene, objects, etc. Here's my "luck"; a notebook I keep on my truck seat when I'm traveling. I've gotten fairly good at writing in it, while driving, without looking at the page...
The notebook laid out on the floor, approximately four metres long. This will be part of the WOA exhibition "Red" this opens on 6th February 2016.
The 'Red Notebook' is a series of woodland studies. Each book is about four metres long. These works are a development of my recent 'plein air' paintings and concern both memory and observation.This work is comprised of two concertina notebooks drawn in mixed media, using ink, gouache, graphite and charcoal. The basis for these two scroll-like drawings is Simon's Wood near Crowthorne, Berkshire and Badbury Clumps near Faringdon. Much of my work between 2011 and 2015 was painted out of doors ('plein air') with no reference to photographs or subsequent studio alteration. These drawings, although largely begun from observation, were worked on over a longer period of time, each taking on their own life. By using touches of red and rose madder washes I was able to pick out certain characteristics of the winter woodlands. The mark making was also an emotional and even physical response to the immediate environment. Unlike my recent paintings they do not employ one vanishing point but rather are like a frieze which can envelope the field of vision. I placed both works on the ground within the woodland. They actually became wet with the raindrops and were in some way connected with the place that a purely imaginary work could not be. Both works are slightly different in technique, one more fiery and the other slightly more subdued. They were painted and drawn in January, which this year has been unusually warm and wet. Like much of my work, they concern atmosphere and an engagement with the natural world.
The brighter of the two drawings also connects the tree and undergrowth forms with Red Coral or maybe human veins and blood. However, I don't see either work as overtly symbolic or necessarily a comment upon contemporary events. It remains my concern to express nature in as vital and vibrant a way as possible and to fully engage with the experience of looking hard at what's out there. I like the idea that a drawing like this can be cinematic and without a beginning or an end, that the work can envelop and absorb which is akin to one's experience in the woodland itself.
Martin Beek 2016
..a close-up of the notebook-style journalling on the page. I just stapled a bunch of notebook papers into a little pad. =)
Checking out the local art supply store, Racine's, in Fort Bragg (crappy service, by the way), I passed this rack of Moleskine goodness. Since it was my birthday, the better half was on it right away, adding some new additions to my stash.
This notebook is made from felt and was hand embroidered from a pattern drawn by myself.
You can find out more about my work at the Pixiecraft blog here: misspixiecrafts.blogspot.co.uk/
The finished result from the notebook tutorial I posted on CraftBlog, see the tut here ---> craftblog.com.au/2008/07/21/notebook-cover-tutorial/
View showing the colors that I have. Very nice and understated colors. The fronts have this wonderful filigree like name-plate that says: "Notebook, Most advanced quality, Gives best writing features." No crazy Hello-Kitty or Pandas here... just a nice classic style.
I'm not very good at drawing but recently I've started liking it. Here's a page on my drawing book. :D
Everyone keeps admiring the moleskine. I admit, I fell into the popularity and brought one too. It's very cute and fun, but I think I found competition for the moleskine. It's very cute too.
It's a notebook from a japanese company called "Kokuyo". They're very similiar to many ways. Starting at the cover, both have a rubberband to keep the book closed. View my other photos for a comparison
Here's where I keep various notebooks. Not pictured: The extremely worn-out jotter Volant that lives in my jacket and is soon to be retired, and a yearly planner moleskine I got for way-cheap at a bookstore. There's also a contacts book I got a few years ago that seldom leaves my desk.
Most of these are still being used for their particular purposes. Noted above are a couple or three blanks which are handy in case of a rainy day or anticipated future use.
My preferred "standard" notebook is a squared pocket moleskine. These are fine and durable multipurpose books, and the grid lines are good for impromptu tables, maps or other arranging jobs. They're also among the most common Moleskines and are findable pretty much any place that sells journals.
I'm such a notebook junkie. I blame this on my parents, who had a stock of blank books around when I was very young. I also blame this on plentiful little Italian notebooks.