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This piece is not a part of the sketchbook, it's an older piece and looking back through my posts I was surprised to find that I hadn't already posted it.
LifeWatercolor9inX9inSeries: ChoicesP.S. I forgot to mention this in earlier posts but the all the professional images (the ones where all you can see is my art and no background) were taken by David Hawkinson of Hawkinson Photography.
Alright, so I've been working on the sketchbook project for a few days now and I've filled a few pages and I'm working on filling a few others. I'm not so sure that this is a project that I'll be interested in doing again after this time. If I were to do this again I would want a spiral bound sketchbook, they don't look as nice as the hard bound but they're much easier to work with... or maybe I could make myself a Coptic bound book, those are also easier to draw in.
In retrospect I wish that I'd done more/better research on my theme because I don't really know how I want to go about this and so a lot of what I've done so far is not very impressive. I'm really feeling the pressure of the deadline, there are so many pages to be filled and it's very tempting to just fill them with something simple/poor quality for the sake of filling pages. Below are a few pages, the one on the right's not finished yet.
P.S. I wanted to share this amazing book that my friend made.
A few years ago I was in a painting class and the teacher wanted us to do a moleskine project; due to scheduling conflicts I didn't end up staying in the class but I thought that it was a cool idea and vowed I'd still do the project... until reality and homework hit.
Now you may wonder what a moleskine is and what a moleskine project might entail and I'll tell you. Moleskine is apparently a very old and very famous brand of notebook/sketchbook that lots of cool and famous people have used over the years. The moleskine project... I don't know that it's something that's organized in anyway but people all over the place fill their moleskine sketchbooks with art work that has a common theme. In the painting class that I almost took we decided on some rules for our project.
Rule 1 was that we all had to have the same size and type of moleskine book
Rule 2 was that all the pages in the book had to be filled, front and back
Rule 3 was that we had to have some sort of theme for our books
Rule 4 was that we had to have a rule about the media/mediums used in the book
and Rule 5 was that it was due by a set date.
As I said I intended to carry out this project even though I ended up dropping the class, but while moleskine notebooks are wonderful I'm sure, they're also more than I can bring myself to spend for a little book, so since I wasn't actually in the class I bought a knock off notebook.
I was recently reminded about this project by a friend who actually stayed in the class and completed the project and I decided to give it another shot. I'm still not willing to buy an actual moleskine notebook and I can't find the knock off brand I got the last time around so it's now the Sketchbook Project and I'm using an Utrecht brand sketch book. Here's the guide that I've set myself in the project:
That all the pages in the book have to be filled, front and back
That there has to be a theme; my theme will be temples and cathedrals
That there has to be a media/medium rule for the book; no painting in this book, just pencils, pens, etc.
There is a due date set; the sketchbook I got is bigger than the moleskine books so I gave myself a longer time period, the project has to be completed by January 1, 2011.
I'll post pictures as the project progresses, hopefully this will be a fun and stimulating project.
I first learned about Sacred Geometry in college and I have been interested in it ever since. In London there is a school that specializes in Sacred Geometry and other such arts, The Princes School of Traditional Arts. I came across this movie (part 2) on the website and I really enjoyed it.
I happened accross this blog where I found a link to this program on youtube. I enjoyed watching this, it was so well thought out an presented. I have so often tried to find the words to describe beauty and it's importance but Mr. Roger Scruton has voiced them so well. I think there are some things what he presents that I would disagree with but on the whole I agree and want to keep his words to use the next time I want to explain beauty and it's importance in art. I'm very glad to have come across this.
