Sketchbook

These days my sketchbook is mostly full of lists. They’re not very coherent- they tend to be a mixture of materials and tools I need, ideas I want to research and stuff I need to get for the kids’ pack lunches. I map figures out in a sketchbook before roughing them out on the bandsaw, I draw mechanisms when I can’t quite fit them in my brain and I occasionally sketch something I’m in the middle of if the composition isn’t quite right. I enjoy drawing but I find it hard to sit still for long enough so I only do detailed drawings if someone asks for details for a commission. Once I start the making process, pieces seem to have their own ideas about how they want to go…