Love of Language

Thanks to John and my aging mind, I seem to work better under pressure. I searched all over Nice for a Moleskine, ordered one on Amazon that didn't arrive and luckily found what I was looking for on holiday in Sweden. Most of what I've done, I did on the plane. This is where John and pressure come in. I'm a plane spotter but terrified of flying. Thanks to the pens that John gave to me, I concentrate on line and color rather than turbulence and crashing. So, I made use of some delicious paper that I found at a gorgeous paper store in Stockholm, included the raven and a few Swedish words and this is the result.

My theme centers on both communication and language as well as text and image. I've included a variety of questions and words in the back so that you may have some fun playing around with text and image. The current exhibition of Eija-Liisa Ahtila at the Moderna Museet got me thinking about how we communicate both verbally and visually. Conversations with my French/English travel companion made us laugh when we discovered how often we miscommunicated using the same language. He often uses big, complicated words that I don't know and we often came away from an exhibition with completely different opinions. Language just makes for a spicy, meaningful life.

Sketchbook was put in the post this morning. Phew.

An Embarrassment of Riches

I just wanted to provide a glimpse of the joy of having three sketchbooks on my hands this morning -- my sketchbook from our workshop with Petr, the project sketchbook Petr sent me, and my new project sketchbook which started making its way to Monaco this afternoon. I laughed out loud at one point because I kept having to open them up to remember which one was which (and to be sure I didn't send out the wrong one!). Petr, you must have a ton of these -- do you put little marks on them to tell them apart?

John's Sketchbook - Entry 1

The theme for my sketchbook is "passage." This could refer to many things. For instance:

• a section of written work
• a rite of passage
• a portion of musical work
• the act of passing from one place or condition to another
• freedom to pass
• a journey
• a channel or opening
• or any number of interpretations from your perspective!

I was inspired to capture some of my time in Prague and elected to remember modes of passage, things seen, placed visited, and inspirations borrowed...

Petr's Book / Entry One

I’m kind of in love with my monster. 

In the back pocket of my book you’ll find a couple eyes to pick from and use one or two as a part of your own piece – how essential, dominant or peripheral part of your piece they’ll become will be up to you. 

I’m really into monsters right now and so when I picked “my eye” all I knew was that it will be a monster’s eye – what kind of monster I had no idea. I stuck the eye into the format and miraculously I was right in the flow – making the rest was joyful and somewhat easy – it just all fell in place. And so here he is. 

ps: When you get my book feel free to take more than one spread – there’s plenty space!

Thursday afternoon

Thursday afternoon: tons of tasks awaiting. Yet I make the time to scribble a doodle, cut and paste for my ELMLE sketchbook team. Once again proof that we need to stop and smell the roses.

"Pretty Sketchy" Photo Pool on Flickr

Friends,

I thought you'd find this group image pool on Flickr interesting. It's a growing set of sketches submitted by Flickr users everywhere.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/prettysketchy/

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Themes

Hello All! Petr, I appreciated your suggestion that we set up a "new/different/altered" theme for our books. I'm thinking about starting a new one altogether and pondering themes. I was curious what others were considering as the theme for their sketchbooks. I'd love to hear all of your thoughts.

Winter in SLOW MOTION

Hallo, all!
Wonderful to be joining you here on this page...
I discovered the following today, and wanted to share: 
http://vimeo.com/35668241
Also, a photo of my own capturing of winter:

Enjoy playing in the snow,
Caitlin

WELCOME

Welcome Sketchers and visitors!  

This blog exists as a venue for ELMLE Sketchbook Exchange participants. We're a group of 5 not only Visual Arts teachers from around the world.

The ELMLEsketchers blog is a good way to communicate with the whole group, to see the progress of books that we wouldn't otherwise see until the very end and to just have a public place to show off our creative efforts.

Sketchers, please take a second to add a "shout out" to the group and then post a photograph or scan of your first of many entries.  Thanks to you all for playing!

For our visitors, we’re glad you made it to our blog and we hope you enjoy the work.