Artists sketchbooks

In order to become a better artist, it's recommended that you keep an art journal…

Sketching regularly can be a useful practice regardless of your artistic goals.

Ink sketches, moleskine

Understand the creative side of Joseph Zbukvic

Gemma Thompson is a visual artist and experimental guitarist whose sketchbook practice is informed not only by visual observation, but also by the practice of listening, and responding to sound through mark marking. In this article, she expands on this approach, and explains how drawing daily using a variety of media, her sketchbooks reveal how she experiences the world. Read the full article on our blog - link in bio

Sketchbook studies for abstract landscape paintings by British artist Sam Boughton

If you've got an old soul, you'll be enamored by the delightfully old-fashioned work of Moscow-based artist Elena Limkina. Every week, she offers the world a glimpse into her personal sketchbook, and its pages tell vivid stories of nature, architecture, and classical paintings.

karen stamper concertina sketchbook

As my own approach to painting abstract art has changed over the last year, this has left me wondering where sketchbooks fit in with the whole picture… If sketchbooks help to plan alternatives, test compositions and colours, how does this fit in with a process where all that discovery, that excavation, happens on the canvas […]

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