tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14672405.post2824680227406782733..comments2023-10-30T13:27:44.690-04:00Comments on Painting My World: How to Prepare for an Art WorkshopKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17239336384191511625noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14672405.post-6995104879537724202018-01-29T23:43:52.881-05:002018-01-29T23:43:52.881-05:00One tip on that Notebook - years ago on a whim I b...One tip on that Notebook - years ago on a whim I bought a Bienfang Notesketch. It just looked cool, the idea of those old scientific field books appealed to me. Each page is half ruled and half blank for drawing. So there's enough room for both written notes and copied diagrams or other sketches. It kicked around for a while till I took an online workshop.<br /><br />Whether you tend to lengthy notes as I do or to lots of unlabeled diagrams, the layout evens that out. The fact of illustrating with captions on the fly encourages thumbnails practice in effect - especially when I used small brush pens for it, but soft colored pencils would do just as well. Or scribbled textures in fine point pen. Just something that colors well on unsized paper without bleeding through. <br /><br />Or you may just use a lined notebook and sketch on it ignoring the lines. It's just that the split page thing also encouraged those little sketches. Doing them helped as much with the lessons because thumbnails got easier, all sorts of preliminary sketching got easier including color studies.<br /><br />An alternative would be using two notebooks, one plain and one lined, but keeping them in synch might be harder and one might get neglected. I really like the split pages for both taking thorough notes and doing a lot of quick-drawn sketching during any class. I guess it'd work to use a ring binder or mini ring binder alternating plain and lined pages.robertsloan2arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02598847116529877475noreply@blogger.com