Sketching it all, one page at a time!
Oh what a beautiful morning! It’s hot.. a great day for the karma Cup in Toronto. If I was in Toronto, I’d check it out. Instead, I was up with the bluejays & started painting! Now while paint dries, I sketch, usually outside.
Here is my current sketch book for doodling. How many times do you pick up your sketchbook and think: What should I draw? It helps if you have a book full of prompts, which is what I recently did, each page makes it easy to start drawing, with little thought involved- other than focusing on the word on the page. I had an easier time with the ‘Mushroom’ page compared to the ‘Kitchen’ page, so it does actually take a little mental encouragement. I fill a page at each sitting.
It's not about realism or even detail - it's about sketching quickly with enough detail to know what 'it' is.
This little book would also make a neat colouring book once complete… I have no time to colour-I paint! I have many incomplete sketchbooks, if I could start all over, I’d finish one before starting another. It’s a habit worth starting. It’s impressive to see peoples sketch books complete, start to finish and in order. Another preferred time to sketch is when I’m watching t.v., especially if I’m only kinda, sorta interested in what I’m watching. *I also did a page called 'things that kill kids' because I was upset hearing about 'kids in the hospital who eat edibles' (NOT KILL) if they used such media time to actually educate parents on things that actually kill children (like button batteries & hotdogs), perhaps more lives would be saved. Parents* keep your edibles out of your kids access!
There’s something about a sketchbook in my hand that inspires ideas & further painting! Do it- The suggestions for the pages in the book so far, are: Garden, Kitchen, Bathroom, Living room, Bedroom, Dogs, Mushrooms, BirdsCats, Monsters, Farm Life, Halloween, Christmas, Forest, City, Beach, Easter, Food, Zoo, Kids…. To be continued. Monsters will be the most ‘imagined’ as the rest are full of items I just needed to observe.
My recent page complete - it’s back to painting I had prepared a few round canvas yesterday with skies & stars! The stars were added outside on the grass with a few quick taps- keeping everything else that usually gets sprayed like my phone, pallet, desk & coffee, out of the way. The other sides are already sketched! A full week of painting ahead! Yay!!
Have a lovely, creative Saturday... Sketch your day! Start a sketching journal.
Oh what a beautiful morning! It’s hot.. a great day for the karma Cup in Toronto. If I was in Toronto, I’d check it out. Instead, I was up with the bluejays & started painting! Now while paint dries, I sketch, usually outside.
Here is my current sketch book for doodling. How many times do you pick up your sketchbook and think: What should I draw? It helps if you have a book full of prompts, which is what I recently did, each page makes it easy to start drawing, with little thought involved- other than focusing on the word on the page. I had an easier time with the ‘Mushroom’ page compared to the ‘Kitchen’ page, so it does actually take a little mental encouragement. I fill a page at each sitting.
It's not about realism or even detail - it's about sketching quickly with enough detail to know what 'it' is.
This little book would also make a neat colouring book once complete… I have no time to colour-I paint! I have many incomplete sketchbooks, if I could start all over, I’d finish one before starting another. It’s a habit worth starting. It’s impressive to see peoples sketch books complete, start to finish and in order. Another preferred time to sketch is when I’m watching t.v., especially if I’m only kinda, sorta interested in what I’m watching. *I also did a page called 'things that kill kids' because I was upset hearing about 'kids in the hospital who eat edibles' (NOT KILL) if they used such media time to actually educate parents on things that actually kill children (like button batteries & hotdogs), perhaps more lives would be saved. Parents* keep your edibles out of your kids access!
There’s something about a sketchbook in my hand that inspires ideas & further painting! Do it- The suggestions for the pages in the book so far, are: Garden, Kitchen, Bathroom, Living room, Bedroom, Dogs, Mushrooms, BirdsCats, Monsters, Farm Life, Halloween, Christmas, Forest, City, Beach, Easter, Food, Zoo, Kids…. To be continued. Monsters will be the most ‘imagined’ as the rest are full of items I just needed to observe.
My recent page complete - it’s back to painting I had prepared a few round canvas yesterday with skies & stars! The stars were added outside on the grass with a few quick taps- keeping everything else that usually gets sprayed like my phone, pallet, desk & coffee, out of the way. The other sides are already sketched! A full week of painting ahead! Yay!!
Have a lovely, creative Saturday... Sketch your day! Start a sketching journal.
