For many years now I have had sketchbooks. Previously the ritual of drawing daily was really only adhered to if I was away
on holiday. I have a number of these and they are in effect travel journals, a wonderful reminder of great holidays.
At home in the studio, my sketchbooks had became messy work books, filled with rough sketches, measurements of planned paintings and the odd written note. I seldom dated anything and wish now that I had coupled the drawings with more written annotations to record more of my thinking or at the very least added the date.
These days, although I am a working artist, I had forgotten how much pleasure there is in daily drawing. I had forgotten the ritual
of meditative sketching; of experimentation and discovery; the pleasure of
filling a book with your images, thoughts and ideas. I like the idea of
working through my creativity in both words and images, with each enhancing and
enriching the other.
The Living Room ink and watercolour Zeta Sketchbook
© 2014 Carol Lee
Beckx
At the beginning of April I enrolled
for an online course, my first ever. The first six week semester of Sketchbook
Skool has been something of a revelation to me. The online camaraderie that has
developed through posting ones sketches, seeing other people's work and giving and
receiving comments has been so rewarding. I filled an A5 Fabriano Venezia sketchbook
during the course, as well as using a number of pages in other sketchbooks.
I have
started to post the drawings on my Flickr page as a separate gallery - SketchbookSkool.
At the end of the course I made a few
notes (the notes became an essay) and posted this on the group's Facebook page.
Danny Gregory, who initiated the course together with Koosje Koene, asked if he
could quote me. He posted my thoughts on his blog -The six weeks that changed my life.
The second semester starts on July 4th.
To cater for the tremendous interest in this course the first semester will run
again also starting on July 4th.
If you would like to learn how to make
daily drawing and keeping a sketchbook part of your life then do yourself a
favour and enroll.
Click here for more information about the course.
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