Sketchbook Peeks Part 3
Continued from Part 2:
8. What is your favourite medium to work with?
I use all kinds of different medium as I love layering and overlapping drawings in different materials to create abstract surface designs. My favourite medium would be oil pastels; I like the smooth feel when in contact with the page.
9. Where is your ideal sketching location?
On a beach next to lots of colourful and textural rocks and caves, or in some woods surrounded by trees and different types of bark.
10. How have your sketchbooks evolved over the years?
Each one is like it has evolved from the last. I would say that my drawings have become a lot more loose and free, because I am more relaxed.
11. If you had to pick one favourite sketchbook page, which would it be and why?
This raised surface design below is my favourite sketchbook page – it was a mixed-media design I created from an initial drawing of a close up tree trunk.
I later developed this design into a large raised printing block which I now use to roll some of the clay onto before constructing into forms. So this initial rough design is the key to how I produce a lot of my work today!
Can you see where the design has been impressed into the ceramic surface above?
These are 2 large organic collograph prints I produced using the same printing block that I roll into the clay.
Wow cahrlotte, thanks for sharing……….love the sketches and observations, truly inspiring!
kazxx
I love your blog and really must start my own sketch books, they're so inspiring ♥
Hi Charlotte,
lovely to hear from you – thanks for your comment!
I love seeing your sketchbook drawings and processes. It's really interesting to see how you work and what goes into your thought processes.
Great sketchbooks! I've never used them properly and yours are really inspiring – maybe I will try again after seeing yours!