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<\/p>\nRecently my sketchbooks have been brimming with ideas for future paintings, so I thought I’d post some here. It makes me a bit nervous…they are for future paintings, which means they might not happen for awhile or at all. But they happened in sketchbook form, so why not show? And I absolutely LOVE<\/i> to see other artists sketches posted! So much work goes into a final piece, from inspiration concepts to little notes in the margins to color ideas and torn pages…usually unseen behind-the scenes scribbles and such. My sketchbooks have become more and more valuable to me, I can dream of having piles and piles of well-worn sketchbooks filled to the brim with little ink, pencil and watercolor, mmmmm!<\/p>\n
\nAlthough I tend to switch back and forth I LOVE this sketchbook’s paper! It’s a hardcover 8 1\/2 by 11″ acid free recycled light brown.<\/p>\n
\nBee stings and rosey things like cheeks and cherry red lips…and the girl wearing the garden is getting painted, without a doubt!<\/p>\n
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Recently my sketchbooks have been brimming with ideas for future paintings, so I thought I’d post some here. It makes me a bit nervous…they are for future paintings, which means they might not happen for awhile or at all. But they happened in sketchbook form, so why not show? And I absolutely LOVE to see … <\/p>\n