Gerard is a curator and arts educator who emailed me some great photos of his “Idea Books,” which he’s filled nearly 40 of over the years: I love the idea of having notebooks dedicated solely to ideas and creativity. And you know how I can tell Gerard is an extremely creative guy? Look at the … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Gerard
Someone asks i just got one and i like the paper texture alot for pen and markers, but ive never used them for pencil and was wondering how yall feel about them, and how well pencil works on them Lots of comments, both pro and con. See the discussion at deviantART Forum: how do you … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: deviantART Forum Discussion
I’m a longtime fan of the Urban Sketchers website. Small notebooks aren’t necessarily the only way to do urban sketches, but they’re probably the most practical and frequent tool, so the site offers lots of notebook eye-candy, as well as some great art. Here are a few recent favorites: The site has also organized an … Continue reading Urban Sketchers
Check out this nice sketch blog, with some lovely little drawings of everyday things: 365 Journal Entries.
This week’s addict blogs about office supplies at Does This Pen Write?, and based on the photos below, she’s been testing her pens in quite a few notebooks, especially Rhodias. She’s also fond of basic black sketchbooks, Clairefontaine, Ecosystem and others. You can read more about her various notebooks in these posts on her blog.
This week’s addict has quite a stack of super-stuffed Moleskines! One of them has an interesting patterned cover– it’s a Viktor & Rolf limited edition. See more and read the comments at My Moleskine Collection 2006-2010 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
A fine ambition– I have told myself I’d do this too, but haven’t been as successful in actually DOING it as this blogger: I will begin drawing and submitting one sketch a day from my new Moleskine sketchbook. I will post no matter how awful, haphazard, or incomplete the sketch is. The point is to … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: A Drawing a Day
I love this image of a dozen colorful spreads in Moleskine sketchbooks! As the artist notes, “I know, Moleskine is the new Starbucks for artists. Everyone has one and it is the latest thing..” Yet he still loves them, as do so many of us! Read more at Art and Life: Moleskine.
Though I’ll never really ditch notebooks for my iPhone, I do find it very handy for on the go blogging! I snapped this photo of a notebook I’d never seen before, the Pentalic Illustrator’s Sketchbook. It’s another Moleskine look-alike, very different from the Pentalic A La Modeskin notebooks. I’ll do a full review later, but … Continue reading Secret Shopper Photo: Pentalic Illustrator’s Sketchbook
Here’s another simultaneous multi-notebook user, though I didn’t think she was quite at the level of being an addict. Wendy is a jewelry and metal artist, and here’s what she had to say about her notebooks: “Why so many?†you ask. Each notebook was bought for a specific purpose, either a class, for use as … Continue reading “Notebooks, Notebooks Everywhere!”