Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project 2012
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"It's like a concert, but with sketchbooks."
That's the site motto, a concert with sketchbooks.
Each year, thousands of artists sign up and receive a sketchbook from the Art House Co-op, which they fill in anyway they wish according to the theme they chose upon signing up, then mail it back to the Art House Co-op.
These sketchbooks are displayed in galleries and museums as they make their way around the world.
After the tour, they become part of a permanent collection at the Brooklyn Art Library in NY. Each sketchbook is bar coded, catalogued, and available for the public to be checked out for viewing.
Participants sign up from everywhere in the world, making for a wonderful diversity of artists, styles, genres, colors, and human expression.
To participate or get more details, visit the Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project site.
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Artist Author Self-Publisher
My sketch blog: DancingBlender
FaceBook Artist page: RiverbyNight
Each year, thousands of artists sign up and receive a sketchbook from the Art House Co-op, which they fill in anyway they wish according to the theme they chose upon signing up, then mail it back to the Art House Co-op.
These sketchbooks are displayed in galleries and museums as they make their way around the world.
After the tour, they become part of a permanent collection at the Brooklyn Art Library in NY. Each sketchbook is bar coded, catalogued, and available for the public to be checked out for viewing.
Participants sign up from everywhere in the world, making for a wonderful diversity of artists, styles, genres, colors, and human expression.
To participate or get more details, visit the Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project site.
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Artist Author Self-Publisher
My sketch blog: DancingBlender
FaceBook Artist page: RiverbyNight
The Book Is Out!
get your own copy
After scanning all the pages of my sketchbook before sending it off to Brooklyn, I collected all in this booklet, along with additional notes and personal anecdots.
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It is very exciting to be holding my own work in actual book format.
Get a copy below -or as many as you'd like for fun little gifts! ... :D
It is very exciting to be holding my own work in actual book format.
Get a copy below -or as many as you'd like for fun little gifts! ... :D
Travel with me; St. Malo and the Mont St. Michel
Amazon Price: $7.75 (as of 06/02/2012)
Travel With Me
my chosen theme
I choose "Travel With Me" as it was the one that spoke to me the most when I signed up. I had several different ideas on how to approach this, some less literal then others, and finally settled on re-visiting a couple of my childhood's favorite places growing up in Britany France.Using my character Phileas and his cat Tangerine (from my book Stray Tales) and pictures I or family members took during a trip in November of 2007, I am creating a light-hearted travel journal of sorts.
Join me on this fun trip down memory lane as I share a few more details about each page as they are created and added to the line up.
Sketchbook Cover
pg 1 - Welcome
Introduction page
packing for the trip
Phileas and Tangerine are excited about showing you the sites.
This page will be finished last, once the book is complete, so I can write the proper introduction.
It really makes sense if you think about it... LOL
This page will be finished last, once the book is complete, so I can write the proper introduction.
It really makes sense if you think about it... LOL
pg 2 - Introduction
My Heart Belongs To Brittany
no matter where else I might reside
I can't help it, my heart has always and will always belong to Brittany.
The sights, sounds and smells, the blues of the sea and sky, the soft fine sand... there is literally no other place in the world quite like it.
The sketchbook is divided in two main parts, our first stop being St. Malo and the second the Mont Saint Michel, right onto the Normandy side.
Shown on this first " travel" page are the St. Malo emblem and Britany black and white flag.
The sights, sounds and smells, the blues of the sea and sky, the soft fine sand... there is literally no other place in the world quite like it.
The sketchbook is divided in two main parts, our first stop being St. Malo and the second the Mont Saint Michel, right onto the Normandy side.
Shown on this first " travel" page are the St. Malo emblem and Britany black and white flag.
pg 3 - Destination: St Malo, Britany France
Walking the Walls
of the old city
The old city of St. Malo is a "corsaire" town surrounded by fortified walls to protect from pirate and other invasion from the sea.
We have walked those walls countless times as kids, so it was without saying that we had to walk them once more as adults on this trip. It was cold and windy as would be expected in November, and still wonderful to reconnect with St. Malo in this way.
The illustration is from a picture I took stepping out through one of the doors onto the beach.
pg4 - color pencils
pg5 - ink/watercolor, collage
We have walked those walls countless times as kids, so it was without saying that we had to walk them once more as adults on this trip. It was cold and windy as would be expected in November, and still wonderful to reconnect with St. Malo in this way.
The illustration is from a picture I took stepping out through one of the doors onto the beach.
pg4 - color pencils
pg5 - ink/watercolor, collage
pg 4 - Outside St. Malo walls
pg 5 - St. Malo Walls
Phileas and Tangerine
See the beginning of Phileas and Tangerine's adventures in my first self-published comic book:
Inside the Old City
along the narrow streets
Irish Pub
L'Excalibur café and pub is a wonderful spot of bright green in generally grey streets. I've never been inside, though looking through the internet it seems to have a good reputation.
I snapped that picture while walking by myself at the end of the day, the green facade so stricking me with its cheerful facade I could not resist.
pg6 - ink / watercolor
pg7 - fine markers
L'Excalibur café and pub is a wonderful spot of bright green in generally grey streets. I've never been inside, though looking through the internet it seems to have a good reputation.
I snapped that picture while walking by myself at the end of the day, the green facade so stricking me with its cheerful facade I could not resist.
pg6 - ink / watercolor
pg7 - fine markers
pg 6 - L'Excalibur - Café & Pub
pg 7 - St. Malo Cathedral
Enjoying the Beach
Part of the benefits of living on the coast is enjoying the beach and the imensity of the ocean view.
The sea has a distinct rythm to it, particularly in this part of the world, where the tide literally disappears inot the horizon during low tide, and comes rushing back up for high tide.
pg 8 - ink, collage
pg 9 - color pencil
The sea has a distinct rythm to it, particularly in this part of the world, where the tide literally disappears inot the horizon during low tide, and comes rushing back up for high tide.
pg 8 - ink, collage
pg 9 - color pencil
pg 8 - Seagulls
pg 9 - Solidor Tower
Off to Normandy
next door neighbor
Going back to Brittany also meant taking a side trip into Normandy to visit the Mont Saint Michel, the second part of this travel book.
The tide comes and goes around the Mont, watering the fields that surround it with sea water. The sheep that graze on these fields have a naturally salted meat because of this, and are well known in the region.
pg 10- multi media collage and drawing
pg11- black marker & color pencil
The tide comes and goes around the Mont, watering the fields that surround it with sea water. The sheep that graze on these fields have a naturally salted meat because of this, and are well known in the region.
pg 10- multi media collage and drawing
pg11- black marker & color pencil
See More of the Mont Saint Michel
pg 10 - On The Way to the Mont
pg11 - Picnic with a View
Mont Saint Michel
medieval wonder
The Mont Saint Michel is all about stairs -going up, going down, and up again, and down once more. The island was orginally a dome after all, with the town constructed along the base and the monastery at its rightful place, above the town, dominating the view and reaching for the heavens.
pg 12- watercolor
pg 13- ink
pg 14- ink and watercolor
pg 15- pencil color
pg 12- watercolor
pg 13- ink
pg 14- ink and watercolor
pg 15- pencil color
pg 12 - Mont Saint Michel
pg 13 - Walking Around The Mont
pg 14 - Narrow Street
pg 15 - Well Deserved Meal
Finished Sketchbook
Wow! What an experience this has been. My Sketchbook project 2012 is finally done!All pages have been scanned and archived. I filmed looking through the sketchbook and once I figure out how to edit and post that video onto youtube, it will be added on this page.
Three of the illustrations done for this sketchbook are / will be available on my Zazzle shop RiverbyNight as prints and posters and on other products.
Thanks for dropping in
leave me a note
Which page is your favorite so far?
What do you think of the whole Sketchbook Project idea?
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Christina
Jan 15, 2012 @ 4:44 am | delete
- So beautiful...I'm motivated to finish mine as soon as possible.....
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Cindy D.
Oct 27, 2011 @ 10:43 pm | delete
- Wow! I might say the cathedral but I really love the introduction page. That's such a great little cat and a great illustration all around. Oh. I also love the illustration for Solidor Tower. And those great sheep!
I just got my sketchbook in the mail and now I'm worried it won't be neat enough lol. ;)
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