an update

i have taken some images
of recent progress . . .

A Start!

Well I've finally started - not in graphite, ink or paint but with a scalpel! I've cut down through every page except the last, I feel very brave.

I'm still waiting....

I'm still waiting fot the replacement sketchbook promised to me by the organisers... :(

one and two

Well I've started!
went out and sketched a couple of days in a row. Two different angles are already emerging for me... one, literally what lies beneath the ground and two, what's beneath the external bark surface. Ceramics are in mind as a development but as to how on earth I'll achieve them? Lots of fun to be had I'm sure (as well as frustration)

at last

Mine has finally arrived - love your start Nadine - I know I will sit on it for a while before I do anything... Dale

with Inks . . .

To be honest,
the biggest pull for me
to work on this Sketchbook project was the people.
How exciting and fun to take part in a project with dear friends.
Who knows if i'll ever see one of the exhibitions
for these books. Airfare is expensive ! ha.

Now, if i could find my tripod,
i could take a non-blurry image.
in the meantime, i'll start off with these . . .

waiting waiting

I haven't got mine yet so waiting patiently - like the way you are heading Gill
Dale

Sue K: Woe is me!

I still have no book. I received a Facebook message today that it has arrived - here! Wrong village, wrong country, wrong continent!

Wasn't easy!!

That's it, I've jumped in and started my sketchbook.

I have been thinking about what to do in it, considering all kinds of possibilities for keeping a holiday journal to creating some kind of altered book...all fine and well but ultimately all too ambitious. I decided that I wanted to do my holiday journal in the same way as I always do (very mixed media!) but most important, I'd want to keep it and not send it away forever.

This morning (or possibly, overnight) I decided to use the Sketchbook for the kind of drawings I always mean to do following a holiday but seldom get around to doing. In other words, just grab a few of the photos and explore some of the patterns and images which provoked my interest when I took them. I'm not sure there will be any coherent strand running through it, beyond "these are drawings provoked by a few photos I took".

I spent much of the morning too frightened to do anything in the book itself. I mooched around, dithering. I cut some paper the same size and started on that - then if I made a mistake I could rip it up and begin again. But, sooner or later, I felt it was silly to do that and in a mad moment, dived in and began to work in the book itself. Aaagh!

I didn't work on the first couple of pages but started on about page 5. There are things I don't like and wish I'd done differently, of course, but it was a deliberate choice to work in ink for that very reason. But, the main thing is that I've enjoyed myself!

Anyone else started yet?