Okay, it's guilty pleasure confession time....One of my favorite things to do when I'm avoiding working in my studio is to look at videos and Tiktok of other artists' sketchbooks. It all started with me looking at my daughter's best friend's TikTok page. Brittany is a trained artist and it's been fun to watch her develop into this amazing professional. Here is the one that started it all. She spent the year doing a lot of figure studies. That led to one of my favorite hashtags #sketchbooktour | TikTok where there are a ton of them to look at! I started to get sketchbook envy and wonder why I didn't take up painting and drawing instead of sewing. (oh yeah I hate dislike painting immensely). Then I got the big Idea why do I need to do a sketchbook with ink and paint? Why not use fabric - some glued - some stitched....it should work, right?
| Audra Auclair |
So I got on the phone with Brittany and we started brainstorming ideas of how an art quilter's sketchbook to go. Luckily I happen to have a nice new mixed-media sketchbook just hanging out on my shelf. Some ideas we came up with were....
- composition studies
- palette studies
- creative quote prompts
- value studies
- Element of art exercises
- cropped compositions from master paintings
- line and negative space studies
- texture and stitch ideas
- 3D and shading studies
This post first appeared on Creations - Quilts, Art, Whatever By Nina-Marie S, please read the originial post: here
