Sketch journal Oct, Nov, Dec 2023
I’m getting tired of my review and there are a lot of boring pages in the last quarter of 2023. But here are some favorites. I find this collage so lighthearted, with the wing...
Category: Making
Sketch journal Sept 2023
In September, I finally figured out how to deal with the black pages – collage some color on them! I started a practice of picking out three or four scraps of paper the night...
Sketch journal August 2023
Probably some leftover watercolor charcoal paint. These lines are really wavey, ocean-like. I was definitely running out of steam for the drawing project in August. First, a bunch of uninteresting messing around the first...
Sketch journal July 2023
I finished up a section of black paper with some sketches of my native plants. The pen is a white Posca marker, which made a satisfying bright white line. There is a knack to...
Sketch journal June 2023
I took a calligraphy class as a young woman in Napa California. It must have been 1978 or 1979. I wasn’t great at it, but I was motivated to practice. And I still love...
Sketch journal May 2023
May 2023 brought more color into the sketchbook. I used watercolors a lot. And here, I made another template – round thumbnails! Why not? The exercise here was pairing colors. And then I felt...
Sketch journal April 2023
We went to France in April 2023 to visit Sam’s daughter who was in pastry school there. Instead of taking my chunky book, I took some paper in a folder and some pens. I...