{"id":13160,"date":"2024-01-07T14:52:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T21:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=13160"},"modified":"2024-01-07T14:52:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T21:52:07","slug":"2023-sketch-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2024\/01\/2023-sketch-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 sketch journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m hesitant. But I want to. Look at the sketch journal, which turned out not to be a sketch journal, but lots of experiments in different media and approaches. It’s all over the place. Maybe by looking at it in a more structured way, I can figure something out? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I’ll start. The idea came from a bookmaking friend. She suggested binding a journal with a page for every day in 2023. It was a big chunky book. I didn’t love how it turned out, but it was serviceable for its purpose and I decided to go for it. I’ve done some other practices for a whole year, so I knew it was within the realm of possibility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have difficulty with drawing. I don’t have any particular way to explain why. I just don’t feel it comes naturally. I took a course in drawing and worked on it diligently for a few years – but the drawing practice I was cultivating drifted away. I’m often visited by a feeling that I don’t like what I draw and lose motivation that way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I also continue to believe there can be a spiritual foundation to drawing – or something to discover, or to contemplate, or pay attention to, or something. I keep at it although the form it takes morphs here and there. Or in the case of 2023, morphed constantly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title page – a calligraphy pen and a dip pen, written after I finished it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Front cover – paper I made with a stencil some time in the past<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pages – alternating white, tan, and black<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The pages are from French Paper<\/a> in alternating sections of white, tan and black. The black was the hardest because I had to work with white media and was never totally happy with my options. (I found ways to work around that, too…) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought maybe I’d try to post my favorite pages, month by month. And maybe slip in some of my least favorite pages too because I can learn from that, right? And use this review to inform what I do for 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe this is too much, overthinking it. Maybe that’s what I’d good at. Worth a try though. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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