No doubt by now, if you've been following along, you get the message that keeping and maintaining sketchbooks is important to one's development as an artist. Sketchbooks are also a treasury of memories.
I'm going to bring this series to a close as I'm anxious to get on with some other matters, the production and publication of yet another art book, and some sketching out and about now that we're enjoying a bit of good weather. I'm going to close with a few more sketches not necessarily in page order, that tend to reveal my personal development over the years.
I should also point out that this particular sketchbook gets dragged out from time to time to accompany me on my travels as, although close to full, it still has a few empty pages. I have a habit of doing this, purchasing and starting a new sketchbook before the last one is finished. Size and format have a lot to do with the fact that I tend to move on before finishing all the pages. It's the same with loose paper, I'm constantly changing for effect. I seem to always be experimenting.
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| Page 41. (1994) While wandering through the Copeland Forest I came across a fallen tree and thinking of a possible source for a painting I scribbled a few lines |
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| Page 45. (1994) One of wanderings in Horseshoe Valley during my lunchtime brought me to the top of the Valley. Note that I've scribbled using a lot of different lines of varying strength in order to emphasize different areas. |
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| Page 49. (1995) I was employed, if you'd call it that, as artist in residence at a resort in Muskoka District, Ontario, one weekend. My renumeration consisted of room and board, and an opportunity to sell my work. Tough life that of an artist. |
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| Page 59. (1997) Sometime around 1997 I changed my focus from wildlife to landscape driven by the idea of producing digital art books. It was a time when PDF files, a universal format was introduced by Adobe. I purchased a "big" book and set about to learn how to produce PDF files. In 2001 I produced my first digital book. They're now called ebooks. |
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Page 61. (2000) My first ebook was a guide to Algonquin Provincial Park, something that required me to travel around the entirety of the park and produce literally hundreds of sketches and paintings. |
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Page 63. We continue to haunt Algonquin Provincial Park and on each visit I make a few sketches. |
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Page 64. (2013) You'll notice that over the years I've changed my style of sketching/drawing. |
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Page 65. We were driving on Hwy 60 and passed by the Tea Lake campground affording a peekaboo look from the beach area out onto the lake. |
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Page 66. (2014) We've travelled up to Superior Lake Provincial park an many occasions. It's a long drive, but worth it as the scenery is spectacular. Here, I've used the sketchbook as a workbook to produce a rough sketch to sort out some details for a more detailed drawing. |
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Page 70. (2015) A couple of weeks ago we travelled through Algonquin on our way home from Ottawa, and as we passed by Tea Lake I observed another peekaboo vista.
I do hope that you've enjoyed my romp through one of my memory books. I'm going to take a bit of a break in order to finish my new book. I'll let you know the result of my efforts in due course. In the meantime get out there and do a bit of sketching!
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