Nature trail, a natural sketchbook exchange is promising to be an exciting collaboration of 15 botanical artists from all over the UK, Ireland, Holland, Italy and the USA. Each artists' book will have a double page spread completed and then be posted on every month to the next artist. Subjects to sketch and paint will encompass anything to do with the natural world; for example, feathers, shells, berries, habitat landscapes and absolutely anything botanical. Also colour notes, poems, any writing that you would include within normal sketchbooks can go in, in whatever design.
The sketchbooks to be used on the exchange are made by Stillman and Birn with thick, smooth,quality paper perfect for nature studies. The size is a neat and small A5,just right for posting.
This blog will follow the course of the exchange,with hopefully plenty of pictures too.
The sketchbooks to be used on the exchange are made by Stillman and Birn with thick, smooth,quality paper perfect for nature studies. The size is a neat and small A5,just right for posting.
This blog will follow the course of the exchange,with hopefully plenty of pictures too.
It should begin in January when everyone has received their books,added a title page, and done the first page spread to start the book.
My sketchbook has just arrived! I'm really looking forward to starting now!
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff Claire! Looking forward to getting started, not sure whether I'm going to have a theme or not....think I may just go with the way the wind blows. Thanks for inviting me to take part :)
ReplyDeleteLove this page! It's going to be such a fun project! Thanks for having me. : )
ReplyDeleteThanks for setting the blog up, Claire! Can't wait to get started. Still waiting for my sketchbook to arrive though. But I've already doodled my Ex Libris to put on the title page (see my *New Year Card* on FB ;) ).
ReplyDeleteOh, and thanks for putting my blog in the blog-list too!
And... if all works well, I'll be no longer commenting and posting as anonymous but as myself :P
ReplyDeleteGreat ! I can comment ! (Ciuccio51 = Giovanni)
ReplyDeleteThis is a great start and I can't wait to get going.
ReplyDeleteNo Australians! Ah well. This is a fantastic idea! Will be following your collective works avidly and might try and start something similar down here to include our wonderfully weird Aussie plants.
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