Following the breadcrumbs - a 21 day sketchbook
To combat January brain fog (and being transfixed by the inauguration) I set myself a challenge to do a page a day in my birthday gift sketchbook. Been hanging on to it for a few months occasionally opening it to admire and stroke it’s lovely textured paper. I want every day to be different - during this lockdown not much else is - so I can take myself off to different temperatures and adventures in colour.
It is pure play, and like play it is completely absorbing. Adding colours, shapes and textures, continually making adjustments to make elements balance - or not - obliterating parts, revealing others.
This is becoming a bit addictive. As soon as I finish a page I want to start another. I want to make something that either carries on the theme of line, colour, contrasts - or I want to make something completely different.
It is interesting that whatever I do has some of my personal ‘stamp’ on it. The same shapes reappearing. It is an exercise in both running away from and then finding oneself. Is this kind of what creativity is about?
A walk through the sketchbook
