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Ok, so lets talk about sketchbooks. I'm a big believer in sketchbooks
and sketching as a general lifestyle. (Let me also say that these
posts by Mark Kennedy pretty much reflect my thoughts on the vital
practice of sketchbook use far more eloquently than I ever could. The
guy's amazing.) Anyway, I'm pretty particular about my sketchbook, as
a person should be. I like cheap paper, so I don't feel bad using a
lot of pages, and I like a convenient and rugged shape, because I
carry and use the thing everywhere. Flexibility is also important to
me. It's tough to find something to fit these requirements.
Spiral bound books are out of the question, they get caught on
everything, get bent up, and the pages look ugly if you take them out.
Adding pages is a real issue. They have books with the little
perforations, but they always seem to rip out too easy. I don't like
properly bound books either, they don't lay flat and are hard to draw
in and scan.
I am a huge fan of simple glue bound blocks of paper, like Canson's
"Biggie"9x12. People often overlook these, and that makes good sense,
because the spine is fragile, and the pages quickly fall out. They are
at first glance the last choice in quality or design. That is, unless
you add one simple thing to the equation: Binder clips. With the
addition of a binder clip this sorry block of pulp becomes a thing of
beauty. The clip stays on the spine and gives steel support, but it
can also go on the opposite side to secure the book for rugged travel.
It facilitates as well the effortless addition and removal of pages
with out compromising the structure. It's perfectly flat closed,
unlike a spiral, and can lay perfectly flat for scanning, unlike a
bound book. Neither can close for security as this can. It's really a
wonderful combination.
The clipped biggies greatest flaw is it's ugliness. Canson has some
nice white minimalist stuff going on at the bottom, but then they go
and write "Biggie" right across the front in faux sharpie. Nice. So
with my new one I did a cover redesign. It's simple and eye catching,
good to remind me to draw. I put a little creative directive for
myself in the guise of a warning, and added my contact info and
instructions in the case of misplacement. I also made a big place for
start and finish dates; I go through these things pretty fast and I'll
like to reference and organize them that way. In the end it's more
personal, more horizontal, more fun, and more yellow. It also took all
day, so I'm posting it here to make myself feel better about putting
so much time into it. If you view large size, you cane even read my idiosyncratic notes.
(c) Adeline Newmann 2010
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Sketchbook 13x21 cm
Miolo em sulfite 90g
Capa com tecido de algodão
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The Sketchbook Project is organised by the Brooklyn Art Library and it’s like a concert tour, but with sketchbooks.You sign up,choose a theme and then they send you an empty sketchbook that you have to fill up and send back to them.After that all the sketchbooks will go on tour around USA and then they will enter into the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Art Library,where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view.
My theme is "Wanderer"
Uploading some of the pages from my Moleskine sketchbook.
For the most part I use a Pentel Pocket Brush pen. www.jetpens.com/product_info.php/cPath/221_433/products_i...
I also use Copic markers, Copic Multi-Liners, PITT inking pens, and Prismacolor colored pencils.
Scan 5 - 8 is where I learned how to scan with out losing/ altering colors.
The last pages from my watercolor sketchbook. Blogged: caatjesartsystuff.blogspot.nl/2012/05/last-pages-in-water...
Materials samples
I am a bit sorry about this that i used the real grass and wood pieces , i won't hurt them.
Topic : Individuality part 2
It's too hot in the studio, so I'm spending a lot of time outside of it playing in my sketchbook.
Blogged: caatjesartsystuff.blogspot.nl/2012/08/sketchbook-play.html