Erin's Book

So, Sketchers, take 3?!  It's hard to believe that this is my third Sketchers book, time does truly fly.  I am attempting to find myself as an artist.   Things still look better in my head than they do on paper.  I don't really have a theme for this book, my mind is all over the place as I experience a new work environment and a new city, so technically my first few pieces are about some of my impressions of Sao Paulo.   It is the 7th largest city in the world and there is a lot going on.   I haven't had much of a chance to explore yet, but as I do I'll hopefully be able to add some of those experiences to further pieces of work.

I've put a few pieces in my book to start with, one about food, one about colour and culture and one about the contrasts in my neighbourhood.

Anne's Book - the continuing story

Hi All,

My book is now on it's 3rd year of existence. I liked my themes and decided that I wasn't ready to be done with it yet. Petr's fabulous sketches of everyone gave me an idea about how I'm going to fill in any spaces when I get my book back at the end of this year.

So you have 2 themes
The Little Things in Life
Strangely Normal

There are also 5 places where you can put your piece - just join on to any existing piece and use as little or as much space as you like.

My piece to start is a mixture of both - the little things in life is seeing the last leaf on a tree. It's strangely normal, as I keep on with my embroidery theme but wanted to explore something different, so went for a barely there approach - keeping the colours very close to the colour of the material.

It's a bit too subtle in the photo, the 3D effect of the embroidery adds a bit more in real life.

Petr's Book / Entry One

I was considering quite a few themes for my book and in the end decided for one I had on mind for quite a long time throughout the many exchanges. I'd like to ask all who will contribute in this book to interpret/illustrate a segment of or an entirety of a lyric - namely Bruce Springsteen's "Magic". This lyric (and the song) have got a real magic to it - at least for me - hence my choice. 

I decided to illustrate various parts of the song in a flow of imagery across a couple spreads. I chose black and white and red as my key colours and went for simple silhouette-like images. I wanted to create something similar in ink for quite a while and so I really appreciated this opportunity.

Hope you'll have as much fun as I did!

Music here 

Lyric including my initial sketch below: