Sunday, July 7, 2013

Moleskine pages

When I start a new sketchbook, there's always an idea I have about what I want use this sketchbook for.  Ideas about perfect drawings, perfect sketchbooks....the kind of drawings I want to make in it; 'I want to make this one all about flowers'. Along the way, the sketchbook turns in to something else, because I don't feel like doing flowers all the time, get bored of it, want to try something else. Plus it feels good just to draw and make something, just having fun. Not to try to make a 'perfect' drawing and don't think about it to much, but just do it. Without any goal in mind. Even when I do start a drawing with an idea in my mind, often, along the way of making it, it turns into something I didn't expect. Serendipity. Sometimes with a drawing I'm happy with as a result, sometimes with a drawing that didn't particularly turn out great. But who says  what's great? I just want to draw and sometimes things work, sometimes they don't. These are the things I say to myself at good days ;-). At more insecure days I'm not so sure anything I'm doing has any purpose and is any special. Still I just have to draw. I just know and feel that. I  feel  I'm myself when I do it. And happy. Here are a few of yesterday's 'playing around' pages of my Moleskine watercolour sketchbook. 


Thanks for stopping by and have a good, joyful day! 


11 comments:

  1. I love the row of houses!! So sweet!
    I am the same way with my blank books....I start and stop....they end up filled with "To Do Lists", doodles, and journal entries! I love the idea of trying to keep it to one theme!! Your drawings are beautiful....I can honestly see those houses in a story book!! and I love the bicycle! : )

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  2. Esther these are lovely sketches in your book. The sun is not the same each day, nor the clouds or the moon, why on earth should we humans not be the same too! So it is lovely to see all the different ways you can create and see a little of you reflected in the book too.

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  3. Thank you for commenting ladies!! We should indeed use our sketchbooks as we please and feel like. This makes it interesting i think. Enjoyint it as it evolves along the way.

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  4. Awww, those houses are so soooo cute! And you used washi tape for the doors and windows, so sweet.

    I know exactly what you mean about trying to keep up with one idea about a certain sketchbook and then sort of failing. The "easy" approach is so much better, leave it where it takes you as long as you have fun is the way to go for sure. Or at least for some of us :)

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    1. Thank you Nini! I's actually paper I used for the doors and windows of the houses. We should just have fun and see what happens with our sketchbooks and in our sketchbooks. Surprising things could happen :-).

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  5. Your houses are adorable :D And I love the limited palette, also the blue and orange, of course ;)
    I hear you, your thoughts on sketchbooks - on good and bad days... I'm not really worried about 'good' or 'bad' anymore, either - and I think that's partly due to the fact that working in a 'book' stops you from throwing out 'bad' pages. You get to look at them again, later, and often there is something there, anyway, that you didn't see the first time you looked!

    Hah, yes, one theme... My struggle is always - why do I have more than one sketchbook, and what, exactly, should go where - and the ever-popular 'but WHY??' ;) Not always straightforward, this artist-ness - but never really dull ;)

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    1. Thanks Yvonne, yeah, the houses just happened.... I"m starting to let the good and bad go more and more. Still work in progress, but I"m starting to relax more about my techniques. I know I can do it if I want to but don't want to do it perfect all the time. Kind of that idea ;-).

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  6. the little houses are so sweet :) nice job

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  7. 'Still I just have to draw', yes I kow what you're talking about. And I think that's all that matters, just doing what feels good!
    I think it's great when your own creation can surprise you, even if it wasn't what you had in mind at first. Best is to just go wit that flow, and enjoy the results. These pages you show here are so happy! I love the street with all those funky little houses!

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  8. Especially love the two first pages Esther! I can imagine them as art cards and/or as an art poster print, hanging here in my studio. They make me dream ...

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