I’m very excited about a project I’m involved in this year – Art House Co-op’s 2012 Sketchbook Tour! Basically, it’s like a music tour, but with art instead of music. Many artists are sending in sketchbooks to the project, and then all of our sketchbooks are going on tour around the country, visiting various major cities where anyone can come and browse through them and enjoy the artwork. My little sketchbook will be going along for the ride!
I was able to choose from a variety of offered “themes” for my sketchbook … I went with the theme “Fill me with stories”. Basically, by sketchbook is centered around the idea that there are stories all around us, in all aspects of our lives. I’m using letters as a metaphor for the stories, and replacing various objects with letters/stories in my illustrations, from raindrops, to thread, to thoughts. Here are a couple examples from my sketchbook of “stories” in tea:
The deadline for sending in the sketchbook is tomorrow – eek! I still have quite a bit to go! So this afternoon I’m going to be filling in the rest of the blank pages…
…and then my sketchbook is off to go on tour! Once the tour is completed, it will live in the Brooklyn Art Museum with the rest of the sketchbooks. The images will also be online… here’s my profile page on the sketchbook site. I’m excited! I’m hoping to get to see the Sketchbook Tour and browse through others’ sketchbooks, too. But first …. must. finish. I’ll share more photos once I’m done! 🙂
What do you think of my take on the theme? “Filled by stories” was a theme offered by the Sketchbook Tour and many others will be doing their own take on it, but my particular sketchbook is titled, “Surrounded by Stories.” Do you see stories around you? Let me know what you think in the comments!
