sketchbooks

I have two kind of sketch books:

visual diarys

For years I have been keeping this kind of sketch book. It is a means of recording what I see. However, accuracy is not of great importance, instead it is about the process of engaging with a place and recording my personal response to it.

St James beach in Cape Town 2012

The beach at Bude in 2011

Stepping stones over the river Dart

Small sketches in 2013

Small sketches in Southern France

Daughter and cousins in 2013

project books

In this I jot down ideas for projects, do research notes along with drawings. I also use this to develop ideas and sometimes as a means to record work in progress where I add photos of developmental stages.

Critterdoodles_7

Starting off with random blotches of colour I then try to see shapes in draw them out in black pen. Black pen, coloured pencil and water colours, 2016.

Critterdoodles_5

Starting off with random blotches of colour I then try to see shapes in draw them out in black pen. Black pen, coloured pencil and water colours, 2016.

Critterdoodles_3

Black pen, coloured pencil and water colours, 2016.

Critterdoodles_9

Black pen, coloured pencil and water colours, 2016.

Ideas for ceramic decoration

Fish sketches

More fish sketches

Idea sketches for illustration