I’m always salivating over these big marker and colored pencil sets when the holidays roll around. Santa, are you listening? And if markers and colored pencils aren’t your thing, here’s a few other items to keep your notebook pages colorful! Oh, and did you need a new notebook to fill with all these lovely things? … Continue reading More Holiday Gift Ideas for Notebook Lovers
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
This notebook story brought tears to my eyes: On his 54th birthday, TV animation director Gary Andrews started a Doodle Diary. This still-ongoing project is simple, but it has proved powerful over the past year;Â he chronicles his day in a sketch. When he first began the endeavor, Andrews often depicted his life as a happily … Continue reading Doodling Through Grief
Nice to see an urban sketcher documenting life at the University of Washington. Eli Pasco has a regular feature on the campus newspaper’s website: I have been urban sketching for almost two years now, and have grown both as a person and an artist. I have developed my style, perfected my technique, and exposed myself … Continue reading The Campus Sketcher
Seawhite of Brighton is a British brand of art supplies targeted at the educational market. I’ve only seen their products in stores once, when I was in London. But I did find this sketchbook available on Amazon, and decided to give it a try.. As noted in my post Size Matters: When A6 Isn’t A6, … Continue reading Review: Seawhite Travel Journal
This week’s addict is John Hewitt, who you can find on Instagram at w_john_hewitt. I reposted this image of his sketchbooks on my own Instagram feed recently– I just love all those piled up sketchbooks, and am so impressed at his discipline in daily drawing. From John’s caption: Five years’ worth of sketchbooks. On 2nd … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: John Hewitt
There is a fantastic exhibition at the Guggenheim right now on Alberto Giacometti. It traces his whole career, leading up to the sculptures of stretched, skinny figures that he is best known for. If you go, don’t miss the room on the top floor where they show a film of him working on a sculpture … Continue reading Giacometti’s Notebooks
A few weeks ago, Minnesota-based architect Amber Sausen was scrolling through her old iPhone photos when she found herself momentarily perplexed: “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I don’t remember taking that at all. Huh. What was I thinking? What was I trying to memorialize in this photograph?’†But Sausen, an avid sketcher, says she’s … Continue reading Sketchbooks Help You Remember
As I noted in a recent “using now” post, I recently swapped out my usual Moleskine Sketchbook for a Leda Art Supply pocket sketchbook. If I’m adding something to my daily carry, you can probably guess that I’m going to give it a positive review, but even if the suspense is lacking, let’s take a … Continue reading Review: Leda Art Supply Sketchbook
As I noted in my recent “using now” post, I tend to carry around a sketchbook and a journal, two separate notebooks. (And this year, I’ve added a third standalone notebook, a Nolty diary for logging, planning and lists.) There are a few reasons for this– paper type is a major one. I enjoy writing … Continue reading Public and Private Notebook Contents