Given my personal economics as well as that of the Bay Area, I don’t have a studio to work in, so most of my work has now moved into my camera and onto my laptop.
About a year ago, I started keeping a sketchbook, being inspired by my friend Lulu Stanley’s journals. I never really liked keeping sketchbooks. The ones I’ve kept in the past tended to get filled with grocery lists rather than drawings, but last year I made a commitment with this one to only draw in it. I’m keeping it simple with line drawings of random things, but since I hang out a lot in the cafes in my Berkeley neighborhood, I tend to draw a lot of paper cups and chairs and tables.
This sketchbook grounds me because the sketches are not heady or abstract in the sense that my “serious” work is.
Every now and then, I’ll post an image of a sketch of the day. Just to let you know I’m still working :) I’m just a few pages over half-way through it, so there’s still quite a few drawings to make in the book.
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29 Mar 2019I am so sad that this sketchbook was stolen with my van on January 5, 2019.
It was still not completed, even though I had been working on it from time to time over the past four years.
Also stolen were two dream journals – much of their contents had been blogged here under the “Dream Theatre” category. But the dream journals also had wishlists, and my will, and drawings to illustrate some of the dreams.
If you see them out in the world somewhere, please return them!