Recycled Denim #Trending

Denim throw pillow made from recycled pants for Louis Donaghey's #trending theme. Demin's always trending and I'd like recycling to always be trending too! After sewing several strips of demin together (pic 2), I played with ideas of how I'd sew those strips together, thus the other pics included.

Heidi's "Run Theme" Quilt

Becky's March doodle for Linda's book

Matthew Laurence February Sketchbook

This is my contribution to Andrea Hendrickson's sketchbook titled "I hear it in the deep heart’s core".

It is a collaboration of my 3 year old daughter Naomi, 6 year old son A.J., and a sketch my me. 

I started a drawing on the right with the shadowed figures and while taking a break, my daughter decided to add to it, so in going with the flow I decided to let my son play as well.

Hope you enjoy-

Matthew Laurence December Post

This post is from the 'quotes' sketchbook from Jo McIlroy. This a a favorite quote used during celebrations. Enjoy!

Becky makes a mess in Robin's book, "Inspiration"

Robin Balshaw's cover of her sketchbook titled, "Inspiration" asks, "What brings you joy? What inspires you?"

When we travel, I take pictures of tiles, designs, carpets, and textiles. The patterns and colors inspire my doodling. They definitely bring me joy. For Robin's page, I looked at photos of Spanish tiles, Indian rangolis, Suzani embroidery, Tibetan carpets, and Tunisian rugs.

The result, quite frankly, is a bit of a mess:

But it was fun!

Becky doodles Heidi's theme: Recycle/Upcycle/Repurpose

Heidi's theme, "Recycle/Upcycle/Repurpose" let me play with a collage of past images. I used flowers and clouds I'd saved from former illustrations and added them to a revived landscape. I moved pieces around, changed colors, and pieced recycled doodles together to form a new version of one of my favorite old views---our family pear farm. 

"I Am" Becky drafts in Kyle's book

Kyle's theme of "I am" resonated with me. I liked doodling little images of my life. Little things I am. Little things I was. Little things I used to know. Little things I used to do. But, those sketches just never got off the ground. After failed coloring attempts and drafts that were going nowhere and getting more and more bizarre, I just decided to let a work in progress be a messy work in progress and pasted in some drafts:

I am unfinished! (and not afraid to throw in the towel)

Heidi's "Random Objects" in Jeff Pabotoy's Book

Erin's art in Heidi Ryan's sketchbook "Recycle/Upcycle/Repurpose "

Hello, Fellow Sketchers!! 

This month has been awesome in so many ways. And of course, busy. So I was happy to get Heidi's sketchbook so I can repurpose some art. 

This is my contribution this month. It is an ink, salt and tissue paper transfer back ground. 

And the cartoons are of a plane and sad girl drawn in Ink on water color paper. 

I was able to repurpose some painting and sketches I made for a 5th grade project that was just published on Lulu.com

The book is a collection of stories written by 5th graders. So I added some scenes from their stories as part of the cover. It was fun remembering how to use Photoshop and finding new tools. It was fun to do and am grateful for the opportunity to make art. I hope the students get to color in the black and white drawings and make the book their own..... Just like the stories on the inside are unique!! 

I couldn't decide if it should be colored or black and white illustrations. Showing both options to a friend she suggested to leave it black and white so kids can color it. I remembered that SAS Sketchers very own Gabe Haydu, who designed our yearbook last year so kids can color in certain parts and make the book their own.

I know that being in SAS Sketchers keeps me flexing my creative muscles and keeps me ready to say "yes" to these fun projects. So, thank you for sharing your art and inspiring me! 

Keep posting your art!!

Erin

Jeff's sketch on Stephanie Richard's Book

Generations

This is my first post. Sorry to be late in the game.  This is my sketch for Stephanie's sketchbook "Generations".  I decided to represent three generations in my family.  My grandfather, who made a living as a fisherman in the Philippines.  My father who worked as a day laborer/carpenter and myself who pursued art.

Erin's drawing in Kyle's book "I am...."

"I am... Erin."

Kyle's sketchbook theme was "I am..."

I bounced around with some ideas but kept coming back to this idea of being unique but also not at all.


I chose to represent that by using a tangible evidences of uniqueness: our fingerprint. I took a photo of my actual thumb to look at the lines. My life and experiences are mine.


This is paired with the universe and outer space since I am also a part of some thing much bigger. In the scheme of things, I am just a blip on the radar of time. And on a literal level... all life is made of space dust.


The materials I used are also a bit of exacting and chaotic. I used Masking fluid to add the lines of the finger. This creates crisp lines.

Peeling off the mask

Detail of texture made by adding salt on top of wet ink  and letting it dry

Detail of the moon and back ground

I then painted over it with ink, water, batik dye... and then covered it with Salt. Each layer interacts with the previous layer, and the Salt creates a final texture, slowly, as it dries. I have some control over how it turns out, but the nature of water, paper, and mineral (salt), ultimately say how the surface will look. This fits my personality. I can be precise in many ways, but also flexible or full of unrest. Oh, to be human!!

Matthew Laurence entry/Rebecca Clark book - Laughter

Some fun with printmaking and pen/ink.

Heidi's Throw pillow for Robin's book

Kelly's Work in Chris R's Book

The theme in Chris' book is Construction: What Do You Like to Build? This is the first idea that 'popped' into my head.

Kelly's Sketchbook - August

My theme is idioms. I decided I would do "hanging by a thread." I thought a little embroidery would be fun. I may have gotten carried away.

Becky adds to Erin's book: "Transform"

My creative nonfiction students created proper noun timelines of their lives. There are a lot of book and movie titles in their lists, and they've inspired me to brainstorm alongside of them, thinking of the titles that have fueled my life at all of its different stages. What resulted was a semi-autobiographic and mostly silly doodle of a few transformations from 16 to 42:

Adobe Illustrator remains a beast I choose not to wrangle--mostly due to reluctance to move beyond my comfort zone. I like feeling confident in the four things I can do with it. This gave me a little permission to stretch my AI boundaries and learn a few new things (adding textures!) without smashing my laptop.

Erin's "transform"

Erin Caskey here.   

My theme is TRANSFORM.

I had fun integrating the name of the theme as well as my own name in the cover of my sketchbook.

In this page, there are a few elements of Transformation. The left page is organic forms with varied shading techniques. When i was drawing the blobs on the left, i was thinking of how bees change pollen in to honey. That is one of my favorite transformations that occurs in nature!!!  I ran out of time, but i will color it (so you can see it's pollen/honey). 

The right page is more mechanical with gears. I made a collaged insect by cutting out different pieces from of a Lego how-to booklet for a Lego plane and transforming it into a mechanical insect.  

This drawing isn't as Transform- related but was fun to make. I went to see the Yayoi Kusama exhibition and wanted to use the museum sticker in a sketchbook image. She is known for using dots/circles in her art and I liked how the museum sticker is also circle. 

Side note: I'm a bit disappointed with this sketchbook paper because it is very thin. I can see the gears from the previous image through the paper. so if you get mine to draw in.... maybe skip pages between designs.

Looking forward to seeing everyone's work. I'm proud of our collective commitment to taking moments and making somethings. 

HAPPY SKETCHING!!

Kyle's Book "I Am"

I'd like to get to know the sketchers in my book a little better. Show me something you like to do, or tell me something I don't know about you. This is quick collection of some things that describe me.

Laughter: Rebecca's September Sketch

I can't draw...yet. I am good at imitating people, though (that's what we teach our students about writing, right?), so I just used the fabulous Noun Project website to find an image that related to the mini-stories I was working on (icons are easier to draw for me). Writing is definitely more in my comfort zone than sketching, but that's what I love about the sketchbook: drawing, in and of itself, is both a generating strategy and a revision strategy (searching for images actually made me re-write). 

I thought it might be neat to try a peek-a-boo style so the image would (hopefully) hook the reader into hearing the funny story.  I drafted it first online and then just used my Zebra marker to draw after pencil and a Copic Multi Liner (0.3) to transcribe the vignettes.