Materials Sketch

My sketchbook and materials for this class. I am currently preferring the smaller size and the alpha paper. I have two going at the moment, a 6×9-inch landscape that I started for the Travel Sketching Class, and a 7.5-inch square that is my everyday. It’s almost finished! I am also carrying around an A5 Stalogy that I was using as my food diary sketchbook since it’s pages are super thin and it does take watercolor without bleeding, so I can have a longer period of time in one book. I haven’t kept it up, so I may abandon it soon? This trio of sketchbooks I’ve been carrying around for a couple months now, so it feels very familiar. (Note to self, I’m looking forward to taking Foundations again in January, because I’m still not getting the angles on stacks of books right! Hardest thing to draw! Ever!) These two sketches are actually on two different pages of my sketchbook, but they would have looked quite good together in one spread!

Should I continue my memory lane search for the materials sketches I did in previous iterations of this class?

My materials and palette sketch from the January 2021 class. The palette in particular brings me back, because I’ve used a variety of palettes since then.

My materials sketch (and a food sketch!) from the August 2021 class.

Sketch of Materials I did for the January 2023 class. I see I used a similar stack of sketchbooks for my composition! I never did use that Etchr sketchbook, though. Interesting. Both those Alpha books got filled up since then, however.

Sketchbooks hold such wonderful memories, don’t they?