For some reason I like to keep my sketchbooks of a theme. Earlier this year I piloted a sketchbook where I put everything in time order. It was interesting and I could find everything but somehow if everything that is thought of in a particular way stays together, even if they each inhabit a page and don't 'talk to each other', I just like it that way better.
Yesterday I put little pieces of yarn (colour coordinated) through my spiral sketchbooks to indicate if they were Maine, still life, life drawing/portrait or landscape. I was tired of pulling all the sketchbooks off the shelf to find the one I wanted to look through or work in. I should have been getting ready for the school workshop I am doing next week but hey ho.
When I went to maine this summer I made three altered sketchbooks. The drawings here are from the one titled, 'The Friendly Road'. I put the drawings about people and places in Maine in that one and carried it around with me wherever I went. The other two are: "Gardens" and "Lady with the Lamp". Gardens is self-explanatory and focued mostly on my mother's garden. I put one still life in it and one in the Friendly Road. Lady with the Lamp is about night light. Unfortunately I didn't have time to do much night drawing this summer.
It makes we wonder how other people use their sketchbooks. I asked the NEAC members I met. For me my drawings are personal and immediate and fix time right then and there. I am not so keen on thinking about the past, maybe that's why I like to organise them in some other way.
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