The sketchbook project will depart for Brooklyn soon!

I finished my sketchbook for the Sketchbook project today. You can see the whole thing here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FO_Bky9lU5IWPByQaennYgIW6pDsTjIb/view?usp=sharing Eventually it will be scanned and posted to the sketchbook project archive and if it arrives in time, it will travel too. https://www.sketchbookproject.com

It's always brilliant to work on something with lots of smaller parts over a sustained period of time and when it's compete it feels much greater than the parts.  This sketchbook is full of quick direct drawing about the objects I collect and arrangements that allow me to make colour studies.

I made the final two drawings this morning and then bound the pages, cleaned them up and will post it on Monday. Here are a few of the drawings that have kernals of ideas which I have either already responded to again or hope to later. 

Different sketchbooks for different motifs

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.