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?
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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....
- 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
I've been doing a sketchbook for years now and it informs my quilt art as much as anything.
ReplyDeleteI started with Sketchbook Revival by Karen Abend, a 2 week long party with two presentations a day and all free!
anyway I'm on about my 4th sketchbook, and have relived my love of watercolors, but also bought many other 2-d art supplies to play with and let my imagination soar. I do only one creativity post a week now, but include painting, drawing, sewing and whatever I'm making. I also mention all the free lessons I find... come visit sometime to know what's out there.
Oh and this year a friend and I are doing the sketch daily challenge together, she does it weekly.
LeeAnna