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RE: sketchbooks- a response

From: Peg Blechman (blechman@ACCESS-BOARD.GOV)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2000 - 08:12:56 PDT

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    Different sized sketchbooks containing the kid's own personal "assignments"
    would definitely make keeping a sketchbook more part of their personal
    journey as a artist. I also think that drawing from cartoons or magazines
    is not a bad thing - any visual stimulus can be very important and it's
    important to support that. Warhol was inspired by Campbell soup cans, other
    pop artists by the Sunday comics ....

    Some other thoughts: 1. the book "Simple Abundance" has some
    recommendations for keeping sketchbooks that take it beyond just another
    drawing exercise and touch on helping one be authentic to oneself; 2. I've
    been struggling with how to keep a sketch book for my knitting projects -
    it's difficult to draw them beforehand - I like to let them develop and I
    focus on structure and texture while I knit - so drawing it out first seems
    to get in the way. However, I think that I'm going to start keeping a book
    of photos of the natural world, animals & plants, to get ideas to use in my
    knitting. 3. I would show the kids sketchbooks of practicing artists -
    Leonardo da Vinci, Dale Chilhully, Robert Arneson - the potter, David Smith,
    etc., so they can see the different ways that artists use their sketchbooks.

    -Peg

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