Another notebook addict spotted on Instagram, where she posted this photo of her 2018 sketchbooks and notebooks: You can follow her on Instagram at @elizabethalley, where she also sometimes posts photos from inside her sketchbooks.
I wish there were more images of these travel sketchbooks in the Cape Gazette’s profile of a local artist in Lewes, Delaware: As Victor Letonoff flips through the pages of a small sketchbook, watercolor paintings remind him of his travels to Paris. As a page turns, a French street gives way to the Golden Gate … Continue reading Travel Sketchbooks by Victor Letonoff
Bestselling author and artist Austin Kleon keeps some great notebooks (see here for other posts I’ve done featuring his work) , and I love this shot of some of his collection. Based on the dates, he goes through about 8 per year, and this photo was from March 2018, so I’m sure there are quite … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Austin Kleon
I love this image of the artist Richard Diebenkorn’s sketchbooks. Such an interesting variety, and they’re all digitally archived at Stanford. “The Cantor Art Center completed the digitization of all twenty-nine books, making them accessible in the exhibition on touchscreens and here on the museum’s website. With these, one may now leaf through the books … Continue reading Richard Diebenkorn’s Sketchbooks
I am always inspired by artists working in sketchbooks, so it was a treat to attend a talk by a master of the form. At the Ridgefield, CT Library, the artist James Lancel McElhinney spoke on “Painted Books: From the Age of Exploration to the Digital Era.” McElhinney traced the history of art created on … Continue reading James Lancel McElhinney on Painted Books
I saw Alan Reed’s sketchbooks on Twitter and had to stop and gaze for a while… a lovely collection. You can see more of Alan’s work at his website, AlanReed.com. He posts some great painting videos too!
Unfortunately this exhibition of artists’ sketchbooks is long over, but it ran earlier this year at the Western Wyoming Community College Art Gallery in Rock Springs. It looks like it was a lovely display! The pages below are by Leah Hardy: Below are sketches by Florence Alfano McEwin, who was also the curator of the … Continue reading Wyoming Artists’ Sketchbooks
A beautiful and colorful page from a notebook by artist Phillip March Jones. I love the idea of taking old pages of scribbly notes and turning them into vibrant works of abstract art. The artist, writer and curator Phillip March Jones almost always carries a notebook — a small Moleskine affair, just the right size to … Continue reading Phillip March Jones’s “Workbooks”
Sometimes the simplest little sketches just grab me. This one featured on the Urban Sketchers site is gorgeous. by Javier de Blas in La Rioja, Spain] Logroño, 11.05.2018. I watch the evening with no thought in my mind. Green is still alive, but autumn is already in the sky. Source: In a few strokes: autum … Continue reading An Autumn Sketch
You’ve probably seen Wendy MacNaughton’s artwork, even if you aren’t familiar with her name. She has illustrated some really cool books, including these: , and I just discovered this amusing blank notebook she created, the Punk Rock Writers Journal: Now she’s doing a regular feature in the business section of the New York Times, and … Continue reading Wendy MacNaughton in The New York Times