Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Diary of a Fiber Artist

I was thumbing through my sketchbook the other day, and realized it was a journal of sorts. Sure, it contains my ideas and thoughts for new projects...












but I discovered, looking backward through the years, it's also where I put my instructions...


recipes for my dyes...



 random drawings and doodles...



information about other artists, I didn't want to forget, or needed to scratch down for one purpose or another...



to-do lists,



grocery lists,



and a history of my children's drawings...


Kid art that inspired me...








  Any sketchbook I have on my shelf from years prior, I have my children's drawings archived in the back of my books.  It was a survival tactic.  I needed to work, and they needed to be occupied.  So, I opened the back of my book and let them draw from the last page towards the first.  Somewhere we met in the middle and I would start a new book.  I even wrote about this phenomenon in one of my sketch books.



In the end, it's not just a place I keep my ideas. It's my life's journal.  What's in your sketch book?