SKETCHING
The word ‘sketchbook’ is simply a convenient label that we use for a book in which many things can be recorded and inserted, and where they remain, bound between two covers. You can use a sketchbook in a number of ways: as a travel journal, a diary, a place for experimentation, and as the basis for finished work. One of its uses can be as an to your everyday life and experiences as well as your travels. You don’t have to be restricted to simply drawing and painting what you see; it can be an expression of your particular thoughts and feelings at a certain place at a certain time. A sketchbook is a personal thing and if you wish, it can be for your eyes only, a storage chest of thoughts, memories, and self-reflection. It can be a place where to the outsider, certain apparently unconnected things come together. It doesn’t have to be beautifully organised and prepared for presentation, andnow appearing as smudged streaks across your watercolour landscape. There might be stains of crimson where some red wine has been spilt whilst painting outside a trattoria in Tuscany. All of these things will remind you of where you were, and perhaps who was with you at the time with far more intensity than several photos taken with your phone that you may rarely look at again, if ever.
