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Here are links to my three:
2012 "Travel With Me"
2011 "Secret Codes"
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Sketchbooks and real drawings
I am a purchaser of sketchbooks. Can't resist, must have, do have. Many. Never completed, I left them for another day. Then one day I bought another sketchbook, brought it home, looked at the pile of unfinished ones and brought myself to account. "No more sketchbooks until you finish the old ones" I told myself. This was very hard. This was difficult. This was like not scratching an itch! BUT, it worked. I still buy sketchbooks but now I finish them.
Then a friend sent me the link to a traveling sketchbook project "Sketchbook Project 2011" sponsored by the Brooklyn Art Library, NY. Such a great idea! Sign up (and pay for) a sketchbook, one is sent to you barcoded with your name and the theme you chose. Complete it by a certain date and mail it back to participate in a traveling exhibit of thousands of sketchbooks that travel all over the USA and a few cities in Canada.
The landscape features most prominently in the body of my work. It is a landscape of suggestion, rather than a faithful figurative rendering; it is a landscape of fiction and abstraction. Major influences on my work have been the Canadian landscape, the tropical forest of the Congo and the land of the Mediterranean/Middle East. Born in Exeter, Ontario,I studied at the University of Prince Edward Island, McGill University in Montreal and the Université du Québec à Trois Rivières.
I always ask one question; when does the unconventional become so utterly conventional as to become uninteresting - dull in fact? I hope these are not dull whatever else they are. Let me know what you think.
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I think the Secret codes book is my favorite. I've considered the Sketchbook Project for a few years but have yet to take the plunge!
ReplyDeleteGreat will power! I think Travel with Me is my fav, but there are lots from all years that I love!
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