Category Archives: sketchbook challenge

the filler’up sketchbook challenge

The annual Filler’Up Sketchbook Challenge is on! Fill your sketchbook during the month of March and turn it in to the folks at ARTiculations to display on view. I set myself a personal challenge to make a flip book. And … Continue reading

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sketchbook challenge finale

I turn in my work for the Fill’er Up Sketchbook Challenge at ARTiculations this week. It worked out perfectly… March has 31 days & my paperback novel had 31 chapters for me to fill every other page with a drawing. Final … Continue reading

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sketchbook challenge week 4

My sketchbook challenge is quickly drawing to a close. Here is a selection of my favourites from week 4: The Fill’er Up Sketchbook Challenge has been a yearly event hosted by ARTiculations. It culminates in a group show held in their … Continue reading

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sketchbook challenge week 3

It’s the end of week 3 for the March 2015 Fill’er Up Sketchbook Challenge & here’s 7 of my favourites from this week’s batch & it includes a centrefold… This has been a yearly challenge posed by ARTiculations which culminates … Continue reading

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sketchbook challenge… the end?

While this is the last sketch of my sketchbook challenge, I think it has been a positive experience & I need to move forward. So I’ll keep going but with another focus. I’ve loved the process of making all of … Continue reading

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sketchbook challenge – second last post

Today’s sketch is a hand stitched phrase in ombre colours on a beautiful grey paint chip. It’s been about a month & this is the second to last post for my sketchbook challenge. It’s been fun & I think I’ve … Continue reading

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sketchbook challenge – when the wrong side is better

I tried my best to execute a piece of hand stitched embroidery with a similar unfinished quality as the reverse face of yesterdays’ sketch and still maintain a readable message. Normally I would have done this in black & white … Continue reading

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sketchbook challenge – thread

Is this a saying you use when you are about to complete a project? No? Just for the sewing trade? Or is it doctors? This month long sketchbook challenge is to coming to an end soon. For this sketch I … Continue reading

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sketchbook challenge – diet

After being so full from yesterday & dining out the night before that… the first Monday in May seems like a good day to start a diet. So I cut the weight of all my letters in half today. Do … Continue reading

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sketchbook challenge – I’m full

This was an exercise in covering the paint chip with type that I cut free hand from the J Crew catalogue. My goal? Fill it up! I like the unbalanced serifs! Tomorrow is the 1st Monday in May, a good … Continue reading

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