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Sketchbook: Lead, gesso and collage on magazine spread

Do you ever feel hemmed in by the "type of art that you make"?

I do sometimes. I felt kind of funny about posting this sketchbook spread because it is so different from most of my usual work, and felt like most of you guys visit for the happy, pretty things that I post here, and not for something like this. 

But the thing is: I really like this.

I really like messing around in my sketchbooks and making images just to make them without thinking about licensing possibilities, or shows, or if I could somehow transform them into a repeating pattern. I feel that it's important to just make stuff sometimes. Do you?

More sketchbook

I've been working in a secret project (more on that later!) and a decent amount of design work on the computer, so it's been great to mess around in my sketchbook when I have a moment. The first spread below is from my newest sketchbook, inspired by Martha Rich, who makes her sketchbooks out of old magazines. This one is a Country Living magazine transformed with some gesso.

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