Sketchbook Project - 2019 - 2023

I participated in a sketchbook project through the Brooklyn Art Library. I was supporting the library, and introduced it to ArteMotu.  Being a part of an international sketchbook library with artists of all skill levels and ages is a vision I could get behind. ​This project started in December of 2019 and ended August 15, 2020. I took images of my book, and paid for it to be scanned by the library.  Sketchbooks were scanned, & physically in a library for patrons to view. Eventually my sketchbook was residing in New York, with sketchbooks from individuals from all around the world.  I'm glad I did.  These were sent to New York just before the August CZU lightning fire complex, with was a massive forest fire complex on the San Francisco peninsula where I live.  It was a month of many large fire complexes in the west, and California. So the sketchbooks done in my community just missed the fire.

In May 2023 the library attempted to move their location to Florida. An unfortunate truck fire occurred in route, and burned many of the sketchbooks, in a strange twist of fate.  Mine survived and lives back at home with me!  Sadly in May of 2023 the library closed, after sending the surviving books to their homes, or to other libraries.

I love sketchbooks because there is no demand they be perfect. They are a think tank, a journal, a place to practice new or old processes. The pieces here can be crude and it is totally fine.

Enjoy!

PS. On occasion these do inspire new finished works. My raffle is in here, and masks and clothing designs are, after a fashion. :-)