I realized that I should actually edit the first drawing in this series because it reveals too much information for the web. And so, it is gone. Ta-daaaaa!
This is all to say that I’ve joined a deliciously freaky cult called “TRAVELLINGSKETCHBOOK.” It’s with a bunch of STRANGERS on flickr. We each went out and purchased a small, easily mailable sketchbook, filled out five pages, and sent it on to our assigned contact. At the same time the person who has been assigned me as a contact did the same thing, so I am now in possession of another person’s sketchbook with five pages filled out, and it’s my turn to fill out five pages in THEIRS. This goes through a cycle of a dozen people and a dozen sketchbooks. This is a hasty scan of my first installment, drawn semi-badly while snagged up with THEBURSITIS (seriously, goddamit.). Also, this is a true story, the story of Doug. The end.
…when they told us about Doug. So they brought in a picture of him conked out under the coffee table, and another where he was awake and playing in the yard with them…..
Submitted by wizzybit on Fri, 04/24/2009 - 9:46am.
I bought a book called “How to Draw Anything” and I’ve drawn some trees so far. By the time I’m 83, I should be able to draw just as fancy! But I’ll still probably be drawing trees.
I love flickr groups! The wardrobe documentation ladies passed around a scarf for a while. It was very exciting to see what each person would come up with to photograph.
Now we seem to be stuck in a holding pattern. My sender appears, via information gleaned on flickr, to be on vacation. I had hoped ot return from vacation to find the latest travelling sketchbook in the mail, but no avail. Does this mean I actually need to just draw on paper I have here at home?!
That flag will do nicely… My family knows not to mention potatos unless they are prepared to serve me a plateful. In the meantime, my daughter’s mathbook has a whole section with math problems related to peanut butter… no, peanut butters. I mean, how are you supposed to focus on math? I love the wombat picture.
math problems about peanut butter would just throw my brain completely off the rails. Numbers aren’t food! Words are food! Geesh. Prime is white and salty. Integers are mac and cheese! Pi is pie. No duh.
I am sad. i don’t know what’s going to happen with the travelling sketchbook club. Found out that my sender’s sender never sent her a damned thing, so she’s been unable to follow up with me, her sendee. Now all my sendees are screwed too, and the organizer of the group is off on a crazy long trip and isn’t responding to questions about rearranging the chain of senders and sendees. SAD. of course, so far that hasn’t prompted me to just start another in-between-travelling-sketchbook-keep-it-at-home sketchbook or nothin’, but I’m thinking about it more all the time. Waaaah.
Submitted by Nannernonymous (not verified) on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 11:44am.
Oh, that is sad. I cry with you. I have been thinking about starting to paint again, but I am not quite there yet. Too many other things to do. I think I should start up before the world becomes ugly and grey again. Thinking about mixing oil paints is an end in itself these days. Do I actually have to do it? I think I do. It is always more fun than I remember. Swirly colors magically blending… so beautiful. When I tried to study ceramics in high school, throwing pots on the wheel, I never made a thing. I just enjoyed trying to center the clay and make a bowl, and then would not be bothered at all if it didn’t work out as a finished pot. Maybe I will think of painting in that way and not worry about finishing a painting, just play with it.
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none of us believed them...
Watch out, lady!
I love flickr groups! The wardrobe documentation ladies passed around a scarf for a while. It was very exciting to see what each person would come up with to photograph.
if that's what drawing with bursitis looks like...
happy
Aw shucks
next round--sketchbook deux
mrnamuhluh
kinny
mixed tapirs
wombats is pouch fresh
sleepy rantings
*sigh*
That flag will do
That flag will do nicely… My family knows not to mention potatos unless they are prepared to serve me a plateful. In the meantime, my daughter’s mathbook has a whole section with math problems related to peanut butter… no, peanut butters. I mean, how are you supposed to focus on math? I love the wombat picture.
peanut butter and denom-nom-nominator samwich
math problems about peanut butter would just throw my brain completely off the rails. Numbers aren’t food! Words are food! Geesh. Prime is white and salty. Integers are mac and cheese! Pi is pie. No duh.
I am sad. i don’t know what’s going to happen with the travelling sketchbook club. Found out that my sender’s sender never sent her a damned thing, so she’s been unable to follow up with me, her sendee. Now all my sendees are screwed too, and the organizer of the group is off on a crazy long trip and isn’t responding to questions about rearranging the chain of senders and sendees. SAD. of course, so far that hasn’t prompted me to just start another in-between-travelling-sketchbook-keep-it-at-home sketchbook or nothin’, but I’m thinking about it more all the time. Waaaah.
Oh, that is sad. I cry