flowers, trees, ropes, and ladders
it's been awhile since i've done some truly free sketching. sometimes i take a sketchbook out with me, open it up, then get intimidated by the blank page. the nicer the sketchbook the more nervous i get.
so to get around this, i've been cutting regular copy paper and folding it into tiny paged booklets that i can keep in my pocket if i get inspired with an idea. cheap paper = no pressure
last night i sat at a local bar that had a singer songwriter showcase that included a guy i knew. it was raining hard, the mood was right, i had a comfortable spot out of the way at the bar, so i just started to fill up some little pages with a blue colored pencil.
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brian.
good work on finding a canvas size that suits you. i used to always carry what i called my "palm pilot" = a stack of 1 by 2 green card stock, hole punched and fastened together with a metal loop. after about 250 pages, i ran out of the stock and thus forgot about this format but soon graduated (shrunk) to a tinier hello kitty pad, but the pages fell out about 1/2 way through. that was over a year ago. i recently went back to this idea with a 3 x 3 stack bound on both sides with leather scraps. tiny and classy (woooo). i agree that fitting in a pocket is ideal. may we never be without pad and pen again. and thank you for pointing out the "cheap paper = no pressure." i had wondered why this size appealed to me. perhaps it's the lack of pressure. i really like the bug in a fiddlehead fern.
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