I joined a sketchbook club!

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@kathyarrr 4 ай бұрын

So enjoyable to watch another person’s sketchbook process. I love a sketchbook for just playing with new supplies or processes. Whenever I end up with a page that there is an oops on, or I don’t care for, I find a section that I don’t mind and then negative paint around it with a solid colour, usually black, then you wind up with a blank surface to mark make on or not. 😄 My library has started a monthly journal club meet up and it is a great time spent just hanging out with people while we all do our own thing but still bouncing ideas off one another, it’s the best! I should check into the local art spaces and see if there is something similar I can join. P.S. I think Zelda has a Pavlovian response to the phrase “hello friends”! 😂

@FionaCArt 4 ай бұрын

I think I need to keep reminding myself (as you saw) that sketchbooks are for play and trying out new materials :) That’s such a good idea to paint in BLACK! May need to try that ;) Also love you have a local spot to do journaling meet up’s - it really is a ton of fun to do in the company of others. I was impressed with what other people in the club were doing, but was too shy to ask to video them. Maybe a future video? Omg Zelda lollll every single time she has to say hello hahaha

@mariadoering_ 4 ай бұрын

From my own art practice I can very much understand that feeling of "why don't I just do this drawing on good paper so I can sell it later" I only returned to sketchbooks in the last two years after probably a 15 year break and I have to say I have completely changed my attititude towards them. They used to be either for documenting travel, or for problem solving for me. They are now my "play" space. My "hub for experimentation" my "no-rule-queendom" I am also known to stick thicker pages into them sometimes if the paper isn't up to snuff when it comes to my celebration of chaos. I love that you are going through this moment of discovery including all the discomfort and uncertainty that this project brought up. I have also come to learn, if I feel discomfort in my artmaking, chances are I should lean into it because I am just about to discover something very exciting and new to me.

@FionaCArt 4 ай бұрын

That’s true that you have really grown your sketchbook practice recently. Man, remember when we used to go through sketchbooks in college all the time (or was that just me?) lol Also, do you think using Max’s supplies has opened up that sketchbook play as well? It feels less precious working with those in a book.

@mariadoering_ 4 ай бұрын

@@FionaCArt I think it probably helps that I paint with Max. But using his supplies what a tool of getting over the fact that he was wasting SOOOOO much paint and watching it freaked me out 🤣🤣🤣so I started using his left overs. But before that I really was already messing around with wet materials. And there is something really weirdly freeing and as if I am breaking the rules when throwing paint into a sketchbook. I realllllly love it. Lol I don't know if I managed to finish a single sketchbook in art school. They were always assignment based.

@FionaCArt 4 ай бұрын

I agree with you about using mixed media in sketchbooks. It is really freeing! I cannot WAIT to dive into some of that in the lovely sketchbook you sent me. It’ll be the next book I use after this one :) Have you been working in your fancy one recently?

@mariadoering_ 4 ай бұрын

@@FionaCArt yes! I actually have worked a lot in it since I started that one earlier this year. I still need to make a sketchbook tour of the finished one 😱

@FionaCArt 4 ай бұрын

@mariadoering_ sketchbook tour!! Yessss!!

@roia6684 4 ай бұрын

So cool! Love the colorfulness and also the black and whiteness. Appreciate the inspiration!

@FionaCArt 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and the kind words :)

@pcrid76sketches83 4 ай бұрын

I am part of the Princeton Sketchbook club too! Small World. I hope I didn’t miss the deadline for the Sketchbook project this year. I joined when they had the zine project and had my zine in their Gallery show. Your video reminded me that I hadn’t picked up a sketchbook! Hopefully I’m not too late! PS, love your mural in Princeton. I pass it all the time! Good luck and hope to meet you in the future!

@FionaCArt 4 ай бұрын

Hey fellow club member 👋🏻😊 I did go to one of the zine workshops, but never participated! I’m sure if you contact Melissa she can hook you up with a sketchbook :) Hope to see you in the next club sketch-in! Thanks for the kind words about the mural I had done :)

@OSoCurious 4 ай бұрын

That sketchbook is looking dope!!!

@FionaCArt 4 ай бұрын

It’s getting there :)

@OSoCurious 4 ай бұрын

Already a great start! Can’t wait to see ir finished!!!

@FionaCArt 4 ай бұрын

Thank you :) Come to the opening with me? 🥹👉👈

@OSoCurious 4 ай бұрын

It’s a date!😘

@FionaCArt 4 ай бұрын

Woo hoo!

@Betty-c5u 4 ай бұрын

What a great idea! I didn’t know that sketch book clubs existed. I’ll be looking around my area to see if I can find one. I’m wondering if you could cover each page first with white, black, or clear gesso if that would help with the bleed through? I always start my sketchbooks by doing the front and back covers first. It somehow gives me the incentive I need to fill in the middle. Good luck with your project. It looks great.❤

@FionaCArt 4 ай бұрын

You definitely should see if there’s one around where you live - maybe a library or arts council. Some folks here saying they have “journaling clubs” and it’s similar. When I looked in the library I definitely saw folks who had gesso’d their sketchbook so I have that as an option. That’s so interesting you start with the covers! It’s always the last thing I do haha :) Thanks for watching!

@springnicole 4 ай бұрын

I am the same sketchbooks. I always feel like I could use that time to make something that is finished and even ready to sell. But, recently, I have actually been working more in my sketchbook than on canvas and it has helped me to find and even rediscover some things I like. I liked the bleed through on the first page. I didn’t watch all the way through yet, but I would love to see a watercolor or acrylic wash over that page. Also, your marks remind me of Keith Herring.

@FionaCArt 4 ай бұрын

That’s great you have been incorporating more sketching back into your art practice. It does help you discover a lot of things! I may take your advice and try a wash on that page. It’ll help the bleed blend more :) And yes, I get that a lot about my marks. If anyone wants to compare me to Keith Herring, that’s a big compliment hahaha

@DNKGlobalStudios 4 ай бұрын

SWEEEEEETTTTT!!!!❤❤❤

@FionaCArt 4 ай бұрын

🎊🎊🎊

@marykaywilson8821 4 ай бұрын

I always do an under painting color when I paint so I don’t have the scary White of the Canvas.

@FionaCArt 4 ай бұрын

That’s a good way to combat it :)

@kategrossi8717 4 ай бұрын

I would be a little irritated with how thin the sketchbook paper is. As a watercolor artist, i would never be able to use that. I feel like they should have given people an option of a thin paper sketchbook for those who art mainly pencil/pen/paint marker artists and then an option for thicker paper for watercolors/alcohol markers/paints.. Working in something that thin is just not an option for watercolorist in particular. I really enjoy working in sketchbooks because I look at them as a time capsule almost. I like to look through my old sketchbooks and remember what I was going through or what I was into at that point in time.. but I am also not an artist that makes money (generally, I do get a few commissions here and there from mutual friends of friends). So its not worth me buying expensive watercolor paper if im not doing anything with it.. I have soooo many loose paintings on watercolor paper and canvas' when i went through my short lived oil/acrylic era years ago.. they just sit in the closet because i dont have it in my heart to throw away lol Being in a club like that would be really cool though, and actually have the public be able to go through a bunch of your work at once is neat.

@FionaCArt 4 ай бұрын

I see what you mean about the thickness of the paper - it’s probably a cost effective thing for them because it’s only $10 to get the book and participate. I agree about sketchbooks being time capsules :) I’ll be interested to see what mine ends up being and visiting it at the centre in the future! I hear you about having leftovers because you can’t bear to throw them out - I definitely have some supplies like that. But the most important thing is to keep creating, so if that means moving on from certain materials then so be it :)

@kategrossi8717 4 ай бұрын

I get it!, I think maying irritated would be too harsh of a word. Maybe disappointed I guess. But didn't you do this before or something similar where you and your friend have a sketchbook somewhere?

@FionaCArt 4 ай бұрын

@kategrossi8717 Many many years ago I participated in The Sketchbook Project and had a sketchbook in the library in Brooklyn. I did a video on when it was closing down, which you can see here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKTNhpylqJd5f8ksi=aXpxhy5ypt5x96Fb But they ended out having a car accident while transporting all the sketchbooks and the truck caught fire so many of the sketchbooks were destroyed :( really bad luck unfortunately.

@kategrossi8717 4 ай бұрын

@@FionaCArt oh my! That's awful! I remember the video, I just wasn't sure if it was the same organization or not. So cool you have such a big art culture around you!

@FionaCArt 4 ай бұрын

@kategrossi8717 it was the same one :( but I’m excited to have my newest sketchbook in this collection coming this fall :)