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What does a sketchbook look like?
What does a sketchbook look like?
Past Pupil and artist Lorcan Murphy shares his thoughts and gives us a view into his own sketchbooks
To me an artist notebook is
To me an artist notebook is
A visual representation of your thoughts. A place to document your research. Somewhere to track your progress and growth. A place to find and keep any references from artists who inspire or influence you. A place to experiment and create freely, with no fear of mistakes. A place to keep observations of the visual world around you. A place to develop and grow a theme for your work.
An artist's notebook should be a place oozing with creativity. Free of rules the artist should experiment and create using a range of materials with no fear of making mistakes. In a notebook there is no such thing as a mistake, just a path in which you can explore further.
One could also keep track of references from the visual world around them of things, places, people, artists, and artworks that inspire or influence them in any way drawing links and similarities between these. Creating and responding to influences in an exploratory fashion.
A notebook should have a personality each one individual and unique to the artist who created it.
My artist's notebook is a place in which I experiment using a wide range of media. I attempt to respond to the world around me by creating and observing. In my notebook I document artworks and artists who influence and inspire me drawing links between these artists and using it as inspiration for my own work. There are no rules in my notebook simply creating freely, jotting down or drawing anything that springs into my mind.
There is no such thing as a mistake
There is no such thing as a mistake
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