The Brooklyn Sketchbook Project

Anyone can submit a sketchbook to the Brooklyn Sketchbook Project… you simply go online to Brooklyn Art Library to view the sketchbook project information

Visit their page and find out more about it. You can order your sketchbook (it has to be purchased from them to be included) and can even have it digitized. Each participant is sent the same 5×7″ blank sketchbook to complete and return, and it will become part of the worlds largest collection of sketchbooks. Each book will also spend some time in the traveling bookmobile project (WHAT in the ENTIRE WORLD is more fun than a bookmobile??? NOTHING, that’s what! Except POSSIBLY a sketchbook bookmobile??)

So I’ve spent the past couple of week’s madly trying to complete this sketchbook so it could be included in the next tour… only to find out two days after I finish it that due to covid-19, tours are temporarily cancelled. But… the deadline got me moving, so it’s all good.

I’m having trouble parting with this book! So I’ve posted a sketchbook tour on my NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL (shameless plug… could you go subscribe pleeeeeease??? This would be a super-thrill for me and would make my day/week/month. I may actually even post more videos sometime!) (click the left hand title in the video below for a subscribe link. Maybe. I think.)

So what do you think? I love it!! Except the cover, which I rushed just to be done. But it’s good enough. It’s a good feeling to start and complete a sketchbook so quickly. Thank you for sharing in the fun with me!

Early Christmas Gifts… sketched!

I have four sisters, and one lives in another country. She has been visiting this month, so we decided to exchange our sister gifts (which we do with my mother as well, so six of us total) now while she is visiting, instead of waiting until Christmas. I sketched things on the front and back covers of a notebook for them, trying to find something that would interest them.

I did them so one side can be written in, and flip the book over, write in the other side… two notebooks in one! But… really it was because I did the first one upside down accidentally. It all worked out in the end.

For my mother, who loves birds (and these wrens really do sit like this!!):

For the sisters, by age (I’m youngest) She likes Emily Dickinson, so I just did quotes:

One loves roses:

One has starfish in her decor, and has an ice cream business:

One is a JMU fanatic, having graduated from there, will be moving to the mountains, and likes bluebirds:

 

I know it has seemed like I haven’t done much since “Inktober”, and I certainly haven’t posted often… but I wanted to show you that I had done SOMETHING artistic recently!

Inktober Challenge Completed! (In November. Does that count?)

Inktober’s challenge completed in mid- November?? Well, I’m counting it. I didn’t complete the challenge as it was set forward, but I also don’t still have it hanging over my head, either unfinished, or worse:  totally unattempted!

Day 26 Dark:

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My dogs are extremely dark. Blacker than this sketch portrays them, for sure.

Day 28 Ride:

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Wouldn’t it be fun if we could still have a nice safe plastic Big Wheel as our ride??

Day 29 Injured:

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Day 30 Catch:

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Day 31 Ripe:

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Ta-daa! Done. Somehow I do feel BETTER.

 

 

Inktober 2019 Day 16: Wild

Inktober day 16: Wild

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From the movie poster for “Wild” … Not a fabulous representation of Reese Witherspoon, I know. But when I think back to where I was a year ago, I’m happy with my progress. 🙂