The Sketchbook Project

Well, here it is...The sketchbook that I'd finished, promised to share, and even mailed already to the Brooklyn Art Library.  Beginning with my cover, and page by page...

"D-R-A-W   

To some painters, draw is a four-letter word, but to become the confident,

successful artist you want to be, drawing must become a treasured part of your everyday life." 

I cut this quote out of an American Artist magazine a while ago, and it just

seemed like the perfect "writing on the wall" to begin this sketchbook.

As the Line Moves

In its own doing, points

Of feeling take shape.  Design

Curves with the gestures of time.

The slow hand works to catch

A heart quick in its choice

Of meanings.  What firm marks

Reveal and order, the mind

Feels while the drawing forms

Those inward places opened

By the line as it moves.

                       Martin Robbins

  I couldn't ignore the ways we write to each other, on Facebook, in texts and emails, and the symbols that
we use.

 Edith Head said..."Your dresses should be tight enough to show

you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady."

"The present is an ever moving shadow that divides

yesterday from tomorrow.  In that lies hope."

My favorite architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

  Isn't it true?  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

This is so me, on so many levels.

The End

I had so much fun with this project, that I have started a journal with my mother as the subject of the journal.  I realized that even though I have many sketchbooks with drawings, I don't go to them often enough- my mind goes blank when one is open in front of me.  But with this idea of having a particular topic, the ideas sort of flow.  I plan to do one for my sister, who is having a major birthday soon, and then I think I may devote a journal or two to color combinations, architecture, oh the list goes on.  I am a collector of magazine pictures, fabrics, quotes, art supplies, sewing supplies, and instead of keeping, say the magazine photos in a file, I can do something artistic with them to truly enjoy them.

Do you keep a journal?  Do you write in it with stories, poems, quotes?  Do you draw in your journal? Make your own books?  Or use the ready-made?  I'd love to hear from you~

jenny