Well, I thought I had a lot of my own sketchbooks, but Ann’s collection was truly amazing.
She could even go back to her school days (of course - not so very long ago!!) and fascinated us all with memories of her family and their technical drawing skills which had rubbed off and influenced her work from a very young age.
Ann talked us through a variety of sketchbooks with the aid of a Power Point presentation; some to do with various courses she had done and her most creative was her ‘Chinese Book’ for her City & Guilds in Creative Sketchbooks’ taken as a distance learner with Linda and Laura Kemshall. This is shown below.
I have included photographs of some individual pages below just to give you all a flavour of some of her ideas – lots based on holiday photographs and drawings and some on project work she is doing with ‘One Step On’.
Based on the Tate Gallery in St. Ives.
Work in progress
A small finished piece from one of her design ideas.
Thank you Ann for a very entertaining and informative afternoon.
Our member who gave a vote of thanks commented that she had not before realised that a sketchbook could be a visual diary and not a finished masterpiece – you can keep dipping into it for ideas for many years to come.
SO how about it – let’s see more of them – bring yours in to our meetings so we can see how you are getting on. Who knows some of your pages might be shown on the Blog eventually.
One drawing a week is a good place to start – go out and buy that empty sketchbook now and get drawing, sticking – whatever you want and good luck!!!
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