I haven’t done a Notebook Addict of the Week post in a while, so it was great to hear from Joey, who sent some photos of these beautiful spreads:

I love all the color and textures! If you check out Joey’s Instagram (@magician_menace), you’ll see even more use of these natural forms and dense patterns and sinuous shapes in multi-media artworks and amazing masks. Joey is obviously a very talented , imaginative and prolific artist!

Joey says:

I use a variety of different notebooks for arts-research! I like to combine writing and drawing to see what emerges, like having a conversation with myself across time. Sort of ‘chewing’ on ideas, letting them grow across pages and notebooks until I can tease the threads of the work out into something bigger. I feel like a notebook is my most used tool as an artist and writer, it lets me tinker, and play with all the shiny things like a magpie!

The notebooks I use vary, a lot of them I get rather cheaply at thrift stores or out of clearance racks at TK Maxx, I was using these but they reduced the quality of them by half, I also hand bind my own books when I want something chunky. Art mediums I use are dip pen and acrylic ink, drawing pens and watercolour. 

I’ve never seen the brand Joey linked to, called Elements of Art– looks like it is an Australian brand that’s made in China. It’s always so frustrating when a favorite brand suddenly changes their quality!

I’m grateful to Joey for submitting these fascinating sketchbooks and reminding me that I should be posting notebook addicts more often! If you’d like to be considered as a Notebook Addict of the Week yourself, you can reach me via the contact form at the top of the page. I love getting submissions!