Whew.
My sketchbook for the Sketchbook Project is complete and en route to Brooklyn. I am too wiped to organize all the scanned images right now, but here are some highlights. None of it is by any means my best work, but I’m still glad I did it.
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The best lazy Sunday morning breakfast ever: cheese waffles, today made with some gluten-free flour and buttermilk, eaten with grade-B maple syrup and strong coffee. I think of cheese waffles as a midwestern tradition, but that may only be because it was my Madison-born partner who first shared them with me. Sharp cheddar is the best, preferably from Wisconsin.
The Sketchbook Project deadline has been bumped up to this Tuesday! So I have some much-appreciated extra time to work on it.
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Here are a few works in progress from my entry in the Sketchbook Project. It’s due in two days, so I don’t think it’s going to get much better; still, given that I ended up with about a week to do the entire thing, I’m pretty happy with the drawings.
PS: I picked up the ‘vintage’ photos at the Fremont market in Seattle.
Sketchbook uh-oh
My lovely little terrarium ornament from Ladies & Gentlemen Studio is growing tiny mushrooms! They are some fast growers, too. This guy is about two inches tall in this photo; the previous night it was barely one, and the cap hadn’t opened yet.
So my sketchbook for the Sketchbook Project has to be in the mail in about a week, and I’ve been so busy with the craft bazaar, and then making gifts for my family, that I totally neglected it and have barely touched it. I’m not sure what to do about this besides (1) go into serious drawing overdrive, and (2) lower my sights a bit as to how cohesive the whole thing is going to be. I had big plans to tear the pages out of the cover, add some nicer paper to it and rebind it, which is clearly not going to happen. That is okay. I can live with it. My primary goal is just to get it as full as possibly before I have to send it. It definitely won’t be the most considered or skilled thing I’ve ever produced, but that’s okay!
More on that later.
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The Sketchbook Project
I’m participating in the Sketchbook Project! You buy a sketchbook from them, fill it with your art, and send it back. Then all those sketchbooks get taken on an art tour of the country. Sounded like fun. :)
