Sketchbook Swap Fini

Very busy with cooking at the Lodge, but I wanted to post a couple of last "sketches" from the year-long sketchbook swap I have been participating in---just sending the last sketchbook off to another participant today--and I have mine back!! The whole sketchbook--with art by 12 artists ---is great! and I will be posting pics of some the of the sketches in it soon...
but here are 2 I did recently....for Scott's sketchbook.

Sketchbook Swap page #2

With a nod to the Gee Bend Quilts.....

Sketchbook Swap : 1 year

For about a year now I have been participating in a SKETCHBOOK SWAP with 12 other folks ---all set up via the net. We have been passing our sketchbooks around once a month for over 12 months--next month I will finally get mine back---with sketches by 11 other artists in it! We are located all over the US--both East coast, West coast, plus the Midwest. Besides being fun---and always interesting to see others sketches in each sketchbook---this has kept me drawing with some regularity, and I have made some new online friends. The little sketch above (in Jody's sketchbook) is titled SPRING.

Quote for the DAY:
"-on Leonardo da Vinci...
It is often said that Leonardo drew so well because he knew about things; it is truer to say that he knew about things because he drew so well. " ---Kenneth Clark

1001 Journals: Traveling Journal No. 3326

My long time mostly online friend Carla (we met online eons ago when the internet was still a new phenomenon) invited me to participate in this "traveling journal"---over the years Carla and I have done some great mail art projects together--so I guess I seemed a perfect candidate for this. Here are my two doodles for the sketchbook....

a very doodly heart--doodled while watching a romantic funny movie...on graph paper--I love to doodle around on graph paper....


and here comes the sun....and spring....

Sketchbook Exchange (again)

Sketchbook Exchange or SWAP

Here are a couple of pages I doodled for my current sketchbook---for the sketchbook exchange--12 sketchbooks making their way around the country to 12 very different artists...each artist sketches about 5-6 pages in each book...so you have over 60 sketches in your book by the time the sketchbook you launched makes its way back to you. This is the 3rd sketchbook I'm now drawing in...counting mine. I like this project with a monthly deadline--because I am forced to sit down and draw (and 5-6 pages takes me awhile)----drawing is always good for my soul.

the SKETCHBOOK EXCHANGE

I'm participating in a SKETCHBOOK EXCHANGE--- started by artist Jim Doran ---where all the artists who signed up (13 of us) buy a new sketchbook (like a Moleskin) and draw on the first 7 or so pages then mail it off to the next person on the list---and when you receive someone's sketchbook you draw on the next 7 pages, then mail it on--until you receive your own sketchbook back.....so I will be drawing at least 7 pages in 13 different sketchbooks before we are through.

I realized today as I was drawing in the new sketchbook---how very little drawing I have been doing lately. So, this will be very good, for me since it will force me to draw...

Here is my first page---the entrance to my traveling sketchbook....(---I will be posting pages from these sketchbooks here from time to time..)