Uses of sketchbook pages

What I do with my sketchbook pages sometimes

Most mornings my sketchbook pages are purely for my (and your) amusement. Like this one in progress which, at the moment, has no purpose beyond the written words reflecting my thoughts and pigs have been fun to draw lately.

When I'm creating fine art for one of the commercial art galleries that represent me I often use my sketchbook pages like a catalog, I'll flip-through my book and use the sketches as a starting place. For example here's a sketchbook page of a pig skating…

… I liked my sketch and the reminder the drawing has for me that it's okay to accept help I don't have to be as “independent as a hog on ice”. So for an upcoming one person art exhibit at Caplan Art Designs I created a 3d wooden cube that's 8 inches square…

… which I've titled “Independent As A Hog On Ice". Here's a close up photo of the hog. As you see I tried to capture a blue ice sensation on the cube.

Now and then someone sees one of my sketchbook pages and says they want an art print of it… like this page…

… and so I create an art print in my Society 6 shop like this 👇.

More than a few of my fellow coffee lovers asked me to make a coffee mug from this page…

… so I used Zazzle to make a tall 15oz coffee mug there. 👇

Other people saw my owl and parakeet sketchbook page and wanted tea towels….

… so I turned my sketchbook page into a fabric pattern for tea towels on my Spoonflower shop. 👇

I have another small sketchbook in which I keep my recipes. My family cooks from this sketchbook. About half of this sketchbook I've already published as a book called Favorites So Far. But below is a new page, with a new recipe our friend Beverly shared as a gift for my birthday …

… there isn't a photo of the real-life sandwiches because we ate them right up.

Here's what happened another morning to the sketchbook page I started this newsletter with.

I hope your weekend is pleasant!