Edward J. Stonehill is a New York City based artist focused on painting contemporary expressionist artwork in a colorful manner.
I came across this article on CreativeBloq (link below), which featured a look inside the artist Loish’s sketchbook. The work here is really wonderful and makes me wonder about my own sketch-booking habits. I briefly wondered if every page of her sketchbook’s looked so immaculate, with no discarded ideas or fragmented images. Of course in an article they would want to focus on the beautiful parts, right?
Regardless of the answer, sketching takes a lot of pressure off of needing to succeed in every attempted idea or drawing. I just wanted to mention a few things that I do in my own sketchbooks (and would love to hear what you do in yours…or your fears of using a sketchbook, so please do comment).
I often fool around with shapes, sketch up figures often standing in some type of pose, or floating faces, but the way I work this tool out the best is in making thumbnails. Thumbnails are basically a very small image showing a very simplistic look at what could be in a painting. Think of it as the bare essentials. Often these seeds can sprout into a painting, but more often then not they will remain seeds. Seeds can sprout at a much later date, so making plenty of these things are useful when feeling low on inspiration. I may do a separate post on thumbnails at some point.
I read a lot of Delacroix’s journal, in which he wrote about things happening in his life and about his thoughts on art. I saw the value in doing this, as you may not realize some drivers in your artwork (or in life) until you force yourself to write it down. It is similar to squeezing on a cloud to get the rain because a cloud will never stay put, but at least you have the rain on the pages to capture the essence. I may also develop this further in another post, if there is interest.
To be continued as this is enough rambling for one post.
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