Sketchbook - Early Progress

In a previous post called The Importance of a Sketchbook I kicked off my fledgling effort. The main question for me is how does the sketchbook help in the artistic process.

Here is one example of an answer.

Pictures of birds in flight in formation generating words like 'order', 'tempo', 'beat'.

Initial drawings include quick, impressionistic scribbles with my favourite graphite pencils.

The scribbles got translated to block prints made from foam and printed onto a scrap of fabric using screen-printing inks.

The value of the thinking time the sketchbook work gave me meant that I came up with those pencil scribbles to translate what I was seeing. I think these will work really well in stitch by the way. For this exercise though the end result were some block prints. I had to translate spidery scribbles into an outline for printing blocks to work. I'm really pleased with the result.

I'm also learning to use resources around me for inspiration: the world; the internet...

None of this would have happened left to my own devices!! Thanks to the course I'm doing tutored by Louise Baldwin.

Artists' sketchbooks

Always on the hunt for how others handle their sketchbooks, I found Shelley Rhodes' really interesting to flick through.

I also found Cathy Cullis' Sketchbook Sundays really helpful and will follow them eagerly.

Recommendations

Any recommendations of places to see sketchbook work will be much appreciated.