Do you remember this, my sketchbook exchange with Jennifer of Habit of Design?
I actually completed my ‘project’ last week, but wanted to wait till Jennifer received my sketchbook by mail so not to spoil the surprise!
The cover, before and after….. (yes I was not authorized to operate on the sketchbook cover…I did it anyway):
A blank sketchbook cover...an invitation to mischief!
Front Cover- inspired by various things among whom (is this how you say it?) Death in Venice
Back cover
And who knows what it might turn thanks to this. (More on Renga)
I know, I am so demanding.
SO my assigment was Typewriters… Yes, these are all my drawings and photos! What do you think?
Typewriters - Page 1
Typewriters - Page 2...and that's why my fountain pen matters.
Typewriters - Page 3
Typewriters - Page 4
Typewriters - Page 5
This was a wonderful experience- to be soon repeated.
Thank you Jennifer for the Brilliant idea!
I have to thank Professor Booker…Back in my Undergraduate days @ NDSU, he introduced us to Renga Arts and the stunning, surreal, Moorish-inspired “Forgetting Room’ by Nick Bantock.
About Renga and Renga art…[and here it’s to future Renga poetry and art collaborations]
Renga Platform Contemporary forms of Renga in the UK
Renga Arts Functional Art.
Renga @ Wordshop.com (love the name! and yes, it does take two to renga)
![Desk Crit [The Importance of Sketching II]](https://sketchbloom.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/perspective-web.jpg?resize=200%2C200)
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Dearest Miti,
I LOVE the sketchbook and the beautiful photos, words and drawings you contributed!! AND I’m so very happy you took the liberty of starting on the cover! (It’s funny, I was going to have a joint bookcover design collaboration at the very end of the project, but I can’t get anything past you! You’re one step ahead!) 🙂 Nice work! I’m off to do some research on Renga now. This is going to be fun!
Thank you for participating, Miti
xo,
j
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You gave me beautiful inspiration….i looked around my house and found a tiny typewriter…harder than I thought to see typewriters ‘out in the world’ so I concentrated on what i had in my little casa:) I am planning sketchbook exchanges with four or five artist-friends!!! thank YOU for getting this started.
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Congratulations on a gorgeous presentation. I especially love the blue line drawing with the photographed hand. I wish I was better at tying together drawings and images this way. You’ve inspired me to work on that.
Really, really nice job!
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Suzanne- always so kind. We learn by doing, by seeing. Paraphrasing a Chinese proverb I am fond of:
‘ I hear and I forget
I read and I remember
I draw and I understand.’
Your beautifully illustrated blog (starting with the captivating header!) has inspired me to draw what surrounds me, I am so happy to reciprocate. Collages are an incredible medium, and by cutting prints/photographs carefully with an exacto knife and mounting them on a sketchbook, then combining them with a hand drawing, you get very surreal results–especially after the pages are scanned and create layers of illusions (what is hand-drawn, what is collaged manually, what is photoshopped?). I love the ambivalence. Thank you for the visit, and a wonderful holiday to you and yours! Yours in art, miti.
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