As I drew this, my husband and friends were cooking dinner and I was sitting on the carpet in their living room watching the kitchen. Although the sketch makes the room look empty, it was actually packed with cooks and movement. And, we had a scrumptious meal!
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With rare exceptions, I do all of my sketching these days in a Pocket Size Moleskine (outdated planner) notebook rebound with my own paper. I have created quite a few of these journal sketchbooks and have honed my binding technique along the way. There has been lot of interest in how I do this project/moleskine hack, and so I have written up the instructions for “Moleskine Reloaded”.
The bookblock is sewn together with a form of Coptic binding, which opens flat and complements the Moleskine very well. This binding method can also be used to produce books with exposed spines, as the stitching is plenty durable and quite attractive. I hope that these instructions are useful, and perhaps inspire some ideas for related projects.
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After my recent success with holiday cards, I decided to order some smaller note cards from Shutterfly featuring food sketches I did recently in local Berkeley restaurants. The tapas sketch was made at Bar César, and the sushi at Miyuki. I am very pleased with the results!
These cards are smaller, 3.5 x 5.0 inches, and just big enough to send in the mail. The production on these is not as fancy as on their holiday cards, but they are quite nice none the less and these will be very useful.
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Mt. Tamalpais
This little painting is 1.5 x 2.5 inches, in the moleskine journal as are all my sketches.
I used to think that nothing ever happened in my life, then a few years ago I began ending each year by reviewing my sketchbook journals and making a list of all the significant events that came along. What I discovered, to my amazement, is that many things do happen to me, and most of them are good.
Somehow the routine of life tends to dull our memories of the unique moments we’ve experienced. Life seems more exciting to me now even though nothing has actually changed!
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