I purchased The Perfect Sketchbook as part of a Kickstarter in 2015. It was in my “to be reviewed” pile for quite a while, and I even did some pen tests but then it somehow fell off my radar. I recently came across it in my to be reviewed box and realized I’d never written … Continue reading Review: “The Perfect Sketchbook”
A gorgeous, dense sketchbook spread by artist Sterling Hundley, drawn with Blackwing pencil, in what appears to be a Moleskine. This is the kind of sketchbook page I can get lost in. The observational sketchbooks of Sterling Hundley. With a focus on time as a central theme, these journals are filled with “compression portraits”, which … Continue reading Sterling Hundley’s Sketchbook
There was an exhibition of sketchbook art in Long Island City, NY recently. I had hoped to see it in person but the opening weekend there was supposed to be a big snowstorm so I was avoiding travel into the city. Then when I tried to go the next weekend, there was some sort of … Continue reading Sketchbook Art in NYC
This week’s notebook addict sent the photos and comments below about her beautiful and colorful notebooks: I can’t exist without writing, painting and making art in my notebooks. I live in the Texas panhandle area. There just isn’t much to do here at all except watch sunsets and moonrise and hear the coyotes howl and … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Mary
I realized that my “using now” feature hadn’t been updated in quite a while, since October 2018. I finished all my main notebooks around the end of the year, so my daily carry is completely different. As usual, I have a few other notebooks in progress as well. Daily Carry Notebooks As noted in other … Continue reading Notebooks I’m Using Now: February 2019
I came across these images while searching for “Clipper” sketchbooks, after finding out that Richard Diebenkorn used them. The Clipper Sketchbooks below are from the website of Albert “Abby” Sangiamo, an artist who taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art for 50 years. He unfortunately died a few months ago. You can see all … Continue reading Abby Sangiamo’s Sketchbooks
A notebook belonging to artist Larry Rivers illustrates an essay by Nicholas Martin about Rivers’ 1961 painting “Parts of the Face: French Vocabulary Lesson.” Rivers responded to the prospect of making paintings for a living by skipping town to Paris in 1950 for ‘a half year of deliberating whether I should continue a life devoted … Continue reading Larry Rivers’ Notebook
This will seem familiar to many of us! Idea Notebook No. 1: Discovered in late December with two ideas and one inspirational quote jotted down. See the rest: Notebooks I Abandoned Last Year | The New Yorker
I love it when readers share their own notebooks, whether it is a whole collection or just one. Fred, a reader from the Philippines, sent these photos of his notebooks, which contain a great mix of drawings and collaged items.
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