Artist sketchbook

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

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.

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.

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Artist Liz Haywood-Sullivan explains how her artist sketchbook habit has fed her own creative appetite, and how it can help feed yours, too. After all, Georges Braque once said, “There is a great appetite to work, and then my sketchbook serves me as a cookbook when I am hungry.”

Sketchbook studies for abstract landscape paintings by British artist Sam Boughton

Understand the creative side of Joseph Zbukvic

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