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By Julia Rothman
everyone is thinking about artist's sketchbooks. they give a glimpse into inner most pages the place artists brainstorm, doodle, boost and paintings on rules, and hold tune in their musings. Artists use those journals to rfile their day-by-day lives, produce their preliminary rules for greater initiatives, and perform their talents. utilizing numerous media from paint to pencil to university, those pages can turn into artworks themselves. they generally consider clean and alive simply because they're first recommendations and infrequently now not remodeled. those pages catch the artist's personalities besides glimpses in their strategy of operating and inspirations.
See contained in the sketchbooks of artists Jessica Hische, Mike Perry, Jen Corace, Matt Leines, Jill Bliss, Camilla Engman, Anders Nilsen and lots of more.
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Whether working more figuratively or abstractly, I ideally want the viewer to bring his or her own story, and for everyone it will be different. indd 62 Text Job:02097 Title:Drawn In Page:62 2/8/11 2:19 PM YOU WORK IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT MEDIUMS, OFTEN MAKING SURPRISING COMBINATIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, I’VE SEEN PAINTINGS THAT YOU’VE EMBROIDERED ON. WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE COMBINATIONS OF MARK MAKING? AND WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT USING MULTIPLE MEDIUMS? For a long time I worked exclusively in gouache, but I like layering, so lately I’ve been working with fluid acrylics.
I have other sketchbooks that are mainly for writing and working on children’s book ideas, but I draw in those, too. WHERE DO YOU USUALLY SIT WHEN WORKING IN YOUR SKETCHBOOK? Seems like it’s a couch, either at my studio or at home. HOW MANY SKETCHBOOKS DO YOU HAVE? WHERE DO YOU KEEP THEM? I have, I’d guess, between fifty and seventy-five sketchbooks, but I’ve never counted them. I keep them on some shelves in my studio, and there are usually four or five lying around at home. indd 32 Text Job:02097 Title:Drawn In Page:32 2/9/11 2/8/11 10:02 2:14 PM AM ARE THERE ANY PAGES THAT ARE ESPECIALLY SIGNIFICANT TO YOU?
From 1998 to 2002, Ben attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received his BFA in painting. In May 2009, he earned his master’s degree from Parsons The New School for Design. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, and continues to claw at dirt when he finds opportunity. WHAT ARE THE MAIN FUNCTIONS OF YOUR SKETCHBOOKS? My sketchbooks are mostly for sketching. Also, on occasion, I trap small beetles and use the covers of my sketchbooks to stage elaborate gladiator wars. I make the armor myself out of lint and bottle caps and beard trimmings.