Several weeks ago, I went to the Renwick Gallery in Washington D.C., where there was a large exhibition about Burning Man, the annual festival in the Nevada desert where lots of creative people gather to enjoy each other’s art and self-expression in a variety of forms. The Renwick exhibition included a couple of notebooks: This … Continue reading Notebooks from Burning Man
They go so well together, don’t they? The notebook below belongs to Mary Richmond, who really brings her nature walk to life in the linked article. Â The sun was still low enough in the sky that it cast a golden glow over and through the trees. The air was fresh scented, the leaves still a … Continue reading Nature and Notebook
This week’s addict is John Hewitt, who you can find on Instagram at w_john_hewitt. I reposted this image of his sketchbooks on my own Instagram feed recently– I just love all those piled up sketchbooks, and am so impressed at his discipline in daily drawing. From John’s caption: Five years’ worth of sketchbooks. On 2nd … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: John Hewitt
There is a fantastic exhibition at the Guggenheim right now on Alberto Giacometti. It traces his whole career, leading up to the sculptures of stretched, skinny figures that he is best known for. If you go, don’t miss the room on the top floor where they show a film of him working on a sculpture … Continue reading Giacometti’s Notebooks
As I noted in my recent “using now” post, I tend to carry around a sketchbook and a journal, two separate notebooks. (And this year, I’ve added a third standalone notebook, a Nolty diary for logging, planning and lists.) There are a few reasons for this– paper type is a major one. I enjoy writing … Continue reading Public and Private Notebook Contents
From the New York Times last week, some glimpses of the sketchbook of Minh Uong, a visual editor for the business section: Minh Uong, a visual editor at The Times, uses both low- and high-tech tools to create editorial art, but tech does not necessarily make it easier to become a professional illustrator. Can you … Continue reading Minh Uong’s Sketchbook
I found this week’s addict on Instagram, where describes herself as “Stationary Hoarder / Diarist / Journal Keeper / Urban Sketcher / Paint Lover / Lover of all things Crafty” and shared this image of her collection of journals: On Instagram, she shares lots of beautiful images from inside her journals, and notes that some … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: The Stationary Queen
An intriguing art installation, which happens to include some notebooks: Nick Flessa lays bare the possessions of his mother for the world to see, as they become both an index of her life story and her son’s grief. Read more at: An Artist Carefully Catalogues His Late Mother’s Possessions
This is a great story from the New York Times: It’s hard to picture my grandfather without a sketchbook in his hands. He was always drawing. Gramps lived for 94 years — long enough to experience the Great Depression and the Great Recession, the birth of both television and virtual reality — and he chronicled … Continue reading A Grandfather’s Memories In Sketchbooks
I had heard of Lee Lozano but didn’t really know much about her until reading this article in The Brooklyn Rail about the publication of her notebooks. I was inspired to purchase two volumes of the notebooks (Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 are available on Amazon) out of curiosity about their contents, and also because … Continue reading Lee Lozano’s Notebooks in Facsimile Editions