Tiny Sketchbook

Some of you may remember previous sketchbooks I made for The Sketchbook Project, that were also featured as tutorials on the Stencilgirl® Talk website. Just enter my name in the search bar there and they’ll pop up. They were all monthly projects in my capacity as Guest Designer for them. 

The Sketchbook Project also does other projects apart from their regular sketchbooks and one of these involves tiny sketchbooks, sized 2.5 x 2.1/4” (about 1/3 of their regular sized ones). These proved irresistible to me so I decided to order one of these tiny beauties and once again also to make it a monthly project for Stencilgirl®.  You can find it  as a full step by step tutorial on the Stencilgirl®Talk website today. Unusually for me I decided to play with watercolours, both in palette and marker form. 

There are themes set by The Sketchbook Project to chose from and for mine I selected Around the World. It was both fun and challenging to work on such a tiny scale.

The sketchbook will be posted  to the Brooklyn Art Library in due course,  where it will find a permanent home and also go on tour. It will be digitized by The Sketchbook Project too.  Again to see previous sketchbooks I have done for them (all normal sized!) just search for my name on their site.

Art feeds Your Soul

The Life Book 2015 online class is now well on it's way (although there is still time to join here, if you are interested) and for this week our lesson was by the well known word smith Joanne Sharpe.  I followed in her footsteps very closely for this page and had a lot of fun playing with the lettering and will definitely use that in future projects.

So no further information here but the colouring in was done using watercolours which I really enjoyed playing with. The quotation was also very close to my heart.

The finished piece looks very sunny and bright and is the perfect antidote to the extremely stormy conditions today.