Art Sketchbooks on Off the Wall Friday

 Okay, it's guilty pleasure confession time....One of my favorite things to do when I'm avoiding working in my studio is to look at videos and TikTok of other artists' sketchbooks.  It all started with me looking at my daughter's best friend's TikTok page.  Brittany is a trained artist and it's been fun to watch her develop into this amazing professional.  Here is the one that started it all.  She spent the year doing a lot of figure studies.  That led to one of my favorite hashtags #sketchbooktour | TikTok where there are a ton of them to look at!  I started to get sketchbook envy and wonder why I didn't take up painting and drawing instead of sewing.  (oh yeah I hate dislike painting immensely).   Then I got the big idea why do I need to do a sketchbook with ink and paint?  Why not use fabric - some glued - some stitched....it should work, right?

Audra Auclair

So I got on the phone with Brittany and we started brainstorming ideas of how an art quilter's sketchbook to go.  Luckily I happen to have a nice new mixed-media sketchbook just hanging out on my shelf.  Some ideas we came up with were....

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  composition studies
• palette studies
• creative quote prompts
  
• value studies
• Element of art exercises
• cropped compositions from master paintings
• line and negative space studies
• texture and stitch ideas
• 3D and shading studies

and that's just a handful!  Now the idea was for me to take some time this week and start mine but alas work got in the way.  Still, I thought this would be a good way for me to try out some new ideas in a non-threatening way plus take you all along for the ride.  To be honest, I'm not quite sure what an art quilt sketchbook is going to look like in the end...but I'm game!

So hopefully by next week, I'll have a page or two filled to share!

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This week I found and joined a new facebook group.  It's called "Quilting/Sewing Room Organization" It's an active group with people posting their amazing sewing spaces and questions on how to get an amazing space.  If you are as interested as I am in where people create, I highly suggest it!

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