I love this week’s klass in Exploring with one of my idols, Felix Scheinberger. I made a bit of a mess with my homework but then was inspired by an old spaghetti Western. I hope you had fun with your assignment.
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SketchBook Club: David Gentleman
This has been a rough week. I was confined to bed by a brutal cold but had to rise from it to take my dogs to the vet for teeth cleaning which led to Poor Tim having ten teeth pulled. So now we are all lying about in our baskets feeling sorry for each other and ourselves.
Despite all this infirmity, I hosted this week’s meeting of the Sketchbook Club to discuss the work of David Gentleman, an amazing British artist, little known on this side of the pond but a treasure at home.
I have learned a great deal from the many Gentleman books in my library. His design, his technique, his wit and insight are impossible for me to fully emulate but it’s nice to have a distant gleaming point on the horizon to aim for.
If you’d like to add any of these books to your own shelves, these are the ones I discuss with links to where you can them. All by David Gentleman:
Alas, David Gentleman doesn’t teach at Sketchbook Skool, but this is what it might be like if he did:
My new movie: The Art of A Fan
A few years ago, I had great fun making a series of Sketchbook Films with my old pal and genius, Tommy Kane. After bugging him for months, I finally got Tom to join me in making a brand-new film about Marcy Singer.
I first met Marcy when I taught a class at the Open Center in New York and apparently I gave her an idea that led to an enormous project. I said, “why not draw while you watch TV? Just use the DVR to freeze the frame and sketch what’s on the screen.”
An ardent hockey fan, she decided to draw every single game the NY Rangers play and has now filled many sketchbook with wonderful drawings and watercolors. It’s a great story about how drawing changes how you see things and deepens your experience and your passion.
Sketchbook Club #2: d.price
We convened another meeting of the Club to discuss the work of one Dan Price of Joseph, OR. He was one of my earliest and greatest mentors.
Some notes:
Moonlight Chronicle back issues: http://www.moonlightchronicles.com/issues.html
I see that on this site Dan said he doesn’t have back issues in print anymore but will be making e-versions of them. If you email him and bug him, maybe he’ll pull some out of the attic. It’s worth a shot. Otherwise, you’ll have to make do with his books — which are pretty awesome too.
Books:
Moonlight Chronicles: http://amzn.to/2oXK9mU
How to Make a Journal of Your Life: http://amzn.to/2oXFstp
Radical Simplicity: http://amzn.to/2qhFZdj
Learn about his simple life in this film about d.price: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdLAM-wChxY
This n that
My cup runneth over these days. I want to update you on all of my doings and share some wonderful stuff made by others that are making me happy on this lovely spring day.
This book is apparently now in German (awaiting my copy but someone bought this in Berlin and sent me the picture):
This book is apparently now in Russian (awaiting my copy but saw this on Instagram. Also awaiting the Spanish and Turkish ones) :
This book is fantastic, the best primer on art appreciation ever:
This book is just gorgeous:
This is apparently just a coincidence:
This will give you permission to make stuff:
This is one of the most innovative things I’ve seen in a while:
This is one of a dozen or so videos I am making for TED X Basel.
And the Sketchbook Club meets again here today at 5 PM EST:
We are in the middle of a wonderful new kourse at Sketchbook Skool and busy producing a half-dozen more to come later this year.
Tomorrow, Tommy Kane and I will be releasing a brand-new Sketchbook Film, our first in years. Stay tuned for that. And more….
The key to drawing in the street
This week I did a little urban sketching, drawing a crusty old locksmith shop in the Village. I was inspired by one of my idols, Nina Johansson, who we managed to convince to teach at Sketchbook Skool. Here I am doing my homework for her klass, despite a never-ending stream of obstacles.
Introducing Sketch Book Club
New thing: Each week I’ll be conducting (?) a little chat on Facebook Live to share a book or two that have inspired my own sketchbooking. Here’s the first one.
The next one will be next Wednesday at 5 PM EST on the Sketchbook Skool News page.
Can’t be there? We’ll upload a recording.
Hate Facebook? Come back here to watch it..
Hate my blog? Watch it on the the SBS Blog.
That’s enough options. Watch the video.
This week’s books
By Hannah Hinchman:
• A LIFE IN HAND: Creating the Illuminated Journal Paperback:
• A Trail Through Leaves: The Journal as a Path to Place
• Little Things in a Big Country: An Artist and Her Dog on the Rocky Mountain Front
By me:
• An Illustrated Journey: Inspiration From the Private Art Journals of Traveling Artists, Illustrators and Designers
Department of Redundancy Dept.
I had a great time drawing my top 32 favorite pens. Sadly, I had to leave the other 749 out.
My homework for Andrea Joseph‘s magnificent klass at Sketchbook Skool. If you don’t know her work, your life, like my pen collection, is incomplete.
This is going to be awesome
I’m gonna to take a break at noon to watch Brian Butler’s Facebook Live He’ll be taking drawing requests from the audience and it will be fantastic. See you there.
Whoops you missed it.
Here it is again: https://youtu.be/5DD54NgHe7E
So far. So good.
I’ve been in Greenville, SC for about 36 hours and it took a bit of doing to get here so far but I like it. I’ve had catfish and grits but no peanuts, boiled, roasted or microwaved.
I gave my first speech yesterday morning and signed a load of Shut Your Monkey books and in half an hour I’ll do another talk and see if I can get these designers drawing. The weather has taken a turn for the springular and Main Street is full of stuff to draw and benches to sit on to do it.
Danny Gregory 