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Moleskine Exchange: Favorite Things   July 29th, 2008

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The First Sketch (larger)

Inspired by the ongoing Moleskine Exchange projects, Lisa and I decided to do one of our own. She moved away recently, but this is a way we can still sketch together – remotely!

We used the same pocket-sized Japanese-style folding book, but I rebound it with HP (hot press) watercolor paper, as is my preference with the regular books.

We are going to send the book back and forth between us, and when it’s done we’ll scan it and construct a copy so we each can have one. There are no rules: we can do whatever we want – no pressure! – and take as long as we like.

We do have a general theme though: Favorite Things. I started the book off by sketching a flower pot that Lisa gave me before she left. I have four rabbits, so this shape is quite appropriate! This is the same pot that I sketched recently with a few others on the porch.

Lisa has posted about our exchange on her blog, and has now added something to the book for me. I can’t wait to see it!

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I have been negligent in recognizing the kind ackowledgement from no less than three of my fellow sketchbloggers: the Brillante webblog award. I must really deserve this 🙂 These folks are all inspiring: check out their wonderful blogs and see for yourself!

The tradition is that I now nominate some other blogs, but this award has made quite the rounds. So, I will instead recommend a visit to any of the wonderful art blogs listed in the Places to Visit section, just to the right side of this page.

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Leah’s Moly   July 6th, 2008

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Leah’s Moly So Far (larger)

It’s time for another round of the International Moleskine Exchange. This month I got to work in Leah’s moly. Her theme is “Enter the Carnival”. Great idea: this was sure fun to do.

This time I used an Ultra Fine Sharpie for the drawing, rather than my usual fountain pen, and the same watercolor pencils that I’ve been using, for color.

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My Addition (larger)

More Entries in this Project:
     My Moly_x Drawings

For More Online Information:
     Moly_x Explained [requires Flickr login]
     Moly_x Image Pool
     Moly_x_20 Project Blog

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Lee’s Moly   June 1st, 2008

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Sketch in Progress (larger)

I just completed my International Moleskine Exchange contribution for this month. I am in group 20 (aka moly_x_20) and got to work in Lee’s Moly this time around. His Hawaii idea intrigued me, so I decided to keep with that and printed out some of my previous beach sketches for reference. I included some little critters too, to tie into Lee’s playful theme.

I’ve been experimenting a bit with how to best add color to this paper. Last time I used watercolor pencils, but this time I combined those with regular Prismacolor colored pencils of which I have many. I think I prefer the results with watercolor pencils alone: I’ll go back to that next time.

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All Done (larger)
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The Book So Far (larger)

Update:
Lisa (rightside) has done the next entry in this book.
Check it out!

More Entries in this Project:
     My Moly_x Drawings

For More Online Information:
     Moly_x Explained [requires Flickr login]
     Moly_x Image Pool
     Moly_x_20 Project Blog

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International Moleskine Exchange   May 27th, 2008

   The Moly_x_20 Project

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moly_x_20 Book, Napa Sketch (larger)

This is my first contribution to the popular International Moleskine Exchange (aka moly_x) mail-based art exchange project. The idea is that artists work in small groups filling accordion-style Pocket Moleskine notebooks that are mailed, round robin fashion, around the group. Thus far there are 29 groups formed: I am in group 20 (aka moly_x_20). Each group has an individual blog to track partipation and communications, and all projects post images to the unified Flickr group: a great place to monitor the progress of the project at large.

For my own book I decided to do a variation of a sketch I did recently in Napa. I’d never really reprised a sketch before but found it a lot of fun to figure out what to change and add to make it work in the new format. The paper in these Moleskine books has a waxy finish which is resistant to watercolors (which is why I rebind Moleskines for my own use), so I also had to do some experimentation to find a similar way to add color.

I discovered that watercolor pencils work fairly well in both wet and dry form. The pencils I used are Caran d’Ache Supracolor II, of which I happened to have a few assorted colors on hand. I think it’s time to go out and round out my collection of colors, in anticipation of this project!

Update:
Lisa (rightside) has done a beautiful next entry in my book.
Check it out!

More Entries in this Project:
     My Moly_x Drawings

For More Online Information:
     Moly_x Explained [requires Flickr login]
     Moly_x Image Pool
     Moly_x_20 Project Blog

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