Sketchbook Practise

100 Day Project Day 36

I currently have two new sketchbooks on order despite not having recently finished one, and despite the fact I have a pile of blank sketchbooks of various sizes and paper quality.

The problem is that none of those sketchbooks are the specific size and paper quality of the two on order, which I have suddenly decided I cannot live without in my practise.

I should probably confess here and now that one of the sketchbooks on order may not even be the size and paper quality that I wanted, but it was going a bit cheap as damaged stock, and I dropped my phone, and woops it was ordered.

In light of feeling very slight guilt at buying two more sketchbooks, I spent today working in some of the current ones I have on the go. I mostly played with neocolour IIs, coloured pencils, and watercolour pencils, which I have been picking up more recently, but don’t usually work in.

It’s always refreshing to mix it up a little with materials, and I mixed it up a little in terms of subject matter too.

First I scratched out a couple of rooks, and I’m quite pleased with them. One of them is inspired by one of my photographs of a rook in my garden. It’s a bird not looking like a traditional bird picture, so it was fun to try and capture with all the foreshortening going on.

I also did a couple of small renderings of landscapes from my own photos, just loose notetaking of colours and shapes. One of the wee sketches feels very good, and I’ve made a note with myself to do a larger version.

I also did a couple of portrait sketches using the same materials, so altogether I worked in three different skechbooks. That’s good practise.

Til the morn,

Suzanne