This week on Sketchbook Club, I discussed the natural glory of my homeland.
- Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden
- The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden
- Rough Patch by Richard Bell
- Richard Bell’s Blog
Category: SketchBook Club
Sketchbook Club: Dan Eldon & Peter Beard
Sketchbooks don’t just have to contain sketches. This week in the Club, I discuss how two photographers document their lives in Africa using collage, calligraphy, and gorgeous photos.
This week we will discuss the following books:
• The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon
And, by Peter Beard:
• The End of the Game
• Fifty Years of Portraits and
• Beyond the End of the World
Sketchbook Club: Me
This week, I went through all the books I’ve published and told the stories behind making them. It was fun to reexamine some of the dusty tomes.
Have you read ’em all? Probably not. Wanna round out your collection? Click the links to the left.
Sketchbook Club: Obsessions
I have’ em. Maybe you do too. Things you explore, collect, draw, in obsessive ways. This week on the Club, I look at a handful of artists who focus on one subject or approach and really dig deep.
As a result, they discover worlds within worlds. Their art turns out to be less about their subject than about something else — themselves, their way of seeing.
I find it obsessively fascinating. I hope you will too.
This week’s artists and books (click for more info):
- Peter Arkle:
- Blackstock’s Collections: The Drawings of an Artistic Savant by Gregory L. Blackstock
- The World of Donald Evans by Willy Eisenhart
Sketchbook Club: James Jean
I just finished this week’s video about an artist I really admire. Actually, that’s an understatement — I am in awe of James Jean. I hope you will be too.
Here are the books I reference in this video.
- An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers
- Process Recess Volume 1: The Art Of James Jean
- The Hallowed Seam (Process Recess, Vol. 3)
- Rebus
Sketchbook Club: Illustrated Maps
This week I discussed some amazing books on illustrated map making:
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination by Katharine Harmon
The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katharine Harmon
Plotted: A Literary Atlas by Andrew DeGraff
and don’t forget to join the great new Sketchbook Skool kourse, Let’s Make a Map!
Dear Diary…..
I love old diaries and in this week’s SB Club video, I share a few of my favorite and most boring ones.
Sketchbook Club: A Year in Japan
This week I pore over a book I have treasured for years, A Year in Japan by Kate T. Williamson. A stellar example of the travel journal, of design, lettering, and watercolor. I hope you enjoy it as I did.
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:
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
Danny Gregory 