little black journal

My sketchbook was sadly neglected through much of June, but I’ve picked it back up recently to flush out some of the subject matter that’s been floating around in this cluttered mind of mine…

collage in brown (2009.06.01):

deer in wood (2009.07.05):

dress collage (2009.07.06):

plumes (2009.07.08):

tower crane (2009.07.12):

Liking collage.  And paint.  Mixed media fun…

blue (2009.05.04):

village (2009.05.08):

skyline (2009.05.09):

country (2009.05.10):

damask geese (2009.05.12):

Still loving my watercolor Moleskine.  And I found my old Spirograph in a box of old toys that my parents dug out of their garage, so you’ll see a couple of little geometric doodles floating around the pages.  Such a simple but brilliant little gadget!

bridge (2009.03.11):

sine waves (2009.03.15):

lemon drops – an idea borrowed from my food series (2009.03.17):

watch cogs (2009.03.26):

diamond balloons (2009.04.29):

Trying new things, some of them working, some of them not…  Nonetheless, it feels good just to be making stuff.

migliore (2009.02.04):

west elm (2009.02.11):

bulb (2009.02.22):

And I recently purchased my first watercolor Moleskine journal.  The paper gives me a lot more flexibility to play with different types of paint (my standard sketchbook won’t take anything besides ink or pencil), and the landscape format is bringing out some new ideas.

wilted (2009.02.23):

light/dark (2009.03.01):

As always,  haven’t been putting pencil to paper lately nearly as much as I’d like to, but I have managed to crank out a few little sketches.  I’ve always wanted to be able to draw the human face and figure well, and so that’s been a theme in my sketchbook lately.  I’m also into playing around with different media and still really love collage.  My watercolor pencil is fun, too (although this moleskine is terrible for watercolor…).  Anyhow, this is what’s been rolling around in this scattered old head of mine:

woman sitting – from how to draw the head and figure (2009.01.08):

face studies – from how to draw the head and figure (2009.01.11):

waterfall – collage from magazine clippings (2009.01.25):

bud (2009.01.27):

drippage – media exploration (2009.01.29):

man from toulouse-lautrec’s alfred la guine (2009.02.02):

Liking collage lately.  Trying out multiple media.  Having fun.

poang chair (11.02.2008):

flower and stems  (11.09.2008):

fall leaf (11.16.2008):

parked  bike (11.30.2008):

vase over photo transfer (12.04.2008):

branches (12.08.2008):

hands in pockets (12.11.2008):

Liking color these days.  And the use of tightly spaced lines to create texture.  I’ve also been playing around with stitching on paper, kind of “drawing” with a needle and thread.  Lots of ideas floating around in this head of mine, though it seems I never have all the time I’d like to flush them out on paper…  And it seems I can’t ever quite match the physical drawing to the image in my head.  Got to keep thinking of this sketchbook as a work-in-progress.

“view through the trees” (10.05.2008):

“happyland” (10.13.2008):

“birds” (10.15.2008):

“blue and yellow make green” (10.28.2008):

I’ve fallen a little behind with my “weekly” sketches (studying for my test side-tracked me for a couple of weeks), but I’m determined to catch up.  With this gray weather we’re having, I’m hoping to find a cozy place to curl up with my sketchbook this weekend to do some doodling.  I’ve been playing around with different media lately, but I’ve found that I’m still a big fan of a plain old ink pen.

“country road”  (09.01.2008):

“fall” (09.20.2008):

woman with flower doodle (09.26.2008):

“dancing shoes” (10.03.2008):

top pot stairs (08.08.08):

whirly landscape (08.14.08):

spindly forest (08.20.08):

word trees (08.31.08):

I’ve fallen a little behind on my “weekly” sketches, but I’ve managed to squeeze out a couple of doodles lately.  Really liking drawing with ink, after so many years of drawing only in pencil.

woman accidentally resembling cleopatra… (07.23.08):

windy day (08.04.2008):