Hello world! I put together this blog of sketches just for you. I’ve been sketching since 1975, when I had to maintain a sketchbook as part of an art class in perspective drawing. It was so fun, I’ve always maintained one, though it seems like I mostly added to my sketchbook on trips and vacations. Much of my energy over the years has been given to creating self-published ‘zines. But I have been getting back to sketching more regularly, and now that I have discovered the Urban Sketchers group in Seattle, I plan to continue that.
Sketchbooks are a funny animal, as you may know. When I draw things, there is always a mix of wanting to be free, while wanting to have it be something I’m not embarrassed toshow someone. So who is it for? Always the question. Would I draw something I couldn’t let my mom see? Or my sons? Or write something I’d prefer not to share with everyone? I tend to go in many directions, so I have ‘safe’ sketches of things I know I can draw, along with collage experiments, mixed media tests, and some that are just failures, as much as I might try to ‘save them’ by adding random elements into them. That may be the best lesson though, allowing myself to fail and surviving it! Sketch on!
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