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Michael Robinson

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Oh well.  No one else use a sketch book?
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Mia Ketels

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Not often, but yes, I use a sketchbook. When going on a short holiday, instead of taking all my painting stuff, I take my sketchbook, some pencils and different size markers. I know that in a hotel room, it is not always possible to make a full painting, so with a camera during the walking (for paintings later at home) and the sketchbook for the evening in our room, I am ok. Sometimes there is something (or someone!!!) special in the room (see the welcome rose below) or a nice view outside the window... I use my sketchbook.

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Mick Saunders

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I use sketch books, it is often cheaper and easier than buying sheets of drawing or pastel paper then cutting them to size.  I rarely take a sketch book out with me because of those irritating over the shoulder watchers and their often inane comments.bestMick

Thea Cable

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I have several full sketch books, but haven't used one for ages. However, after seeing the lovely work in yours I might just drag mine out of mothballs and have another go. It would be nice to have a thread where we could post a few of our sketch book images. I wouldn't want to put mine on the main gallery, but here on the forum would be fine.

Michael Robinson

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I always have a sketch book handy. But that's all it is - for sketching with pencil or pen. I rarely add colour. I use the ideas and work them into a painting at home.

Michael Robinson

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I use a sketch book a lot and it used to be with me all the time.....not so much these days but I will put time aside for going out with the sketch book to do just that, sketch. Possibly with the addition of watercolour and sometimes without. On holiday I sketch more often and keep a kind of journal of things that have happened during the day, sometimes these get made in to paintings often a year or more down the line. I'd show a few here IF I knew how to upload an image on the forum!! :D SO, I've just put an example up on the Gallery from a boating holiday on the Thames a few years ago. http://www.painters-online.co.uk/gallery/picture.asp?id=59358
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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I've got cupboards full of them - was looking through a few the other day: some of the drawings are just awful, some probably indecipherable to anyone else, some I'm surprised I was actually able to do! ClaireandDaisy's sketchbook samples have inspired me to add more colour than I normally do .... I tend not to take a sketchbook out with me these days - use the digital camera instead, then draw from the photographs: I'm not at all sure I'd recommend this ....but I'm too easily irritated by people peering over my shoulder; they seem much less curious when you just whip a camera out and furtively take a shot or two. I'd be happy to post SOME of mine.... did show a few a while ago, of one of my old dogs, and a punk from the early 80s, now a respectable landscape gardener... most of them were not, of course, intended for display as finished works.

Michael Robinson

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In the Leisure Painter (summer issue, make your point) there's a letter from a, M Griffin. A little dismayed by the sound of it. When visiting an Art Gallery in Sidney saw several large canvases. One primed, one unprimed, one each of white, grey and black. Then a few days later read of an exhibition at The Hayward Gallery in London displaying a piece of paper that had been stared at by an artist for one thousand hours (O.M.G) and others had invisible ink on paper and then to top it all, four walls displaying blank pieces of paper on them. This person asks, where will it end and what is the meaning of it all. There are some lovely contemporary works of art I'm sure, so why insult the viewers intelegence with this sort of 'work' What is your view on this bland art and do you think it ' has' meaning to it. I could use some ' industrial language' to describe how I feel about it but I might be asked to leave the site.