14 Day Portrait Challenge Roundup

Congratulations to all of the artists who have signed up for (and completed!) our 14 Day Portrait Challenge! Whether they’re extending the original 28 Day Challenge or looking for a new way to flex their creative muscles while in lockdown, we are so excited to showcase the many talented responses to our prompts over the past two weeks.

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Beyond the Page: Gumi

Gumi is a Volume 15 Sketchbook Project participant and multimedia artist currently based in Honolulu, Hawaii. Working primarily in fiber arts in the form of weavings and embroideries, Gumi creates colorful, layered works that simultaneously reference nostalgic motifs from their childhood and the growth and decay that has since absorbed them.

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Beyond the Page: Natalia Tcherniak

Natalia Tcherniak is multimedia artist and architect based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada who is currently working on a Volume 16 sketchbook. Read on to learn more about Natalia’s practice, cyanotype process and other projects.

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Friday Finds

Every Friday, we take to Instagram to showcase some (of the many!) amazing sketchbooks our visitors check out in the Library. Because of present circumstances, what better way to keep the traditional alive than by sharing a few favorites from our Digital Library? We hope that, no matter where you are or how you like to express yourself creatively, you can turn to these books for inspiration, comfort, and motivation to take on a new art project!

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Beyond the Page: Beatriz Leonardo

Beatriz Leonardo is a multimedia artist based in the UK who is currently working on a Volume 16 sketchbook. Working across illustration, printmaking and graphic design, Beatriz’s body of work references mythologies and histories from around the world and brings them together to show our collective humanity and relationship to the natural world. Read on below to learn more about Beatriz’s practice, where she finds inspiration, and her thoughts on how to be creative during this time.

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Sketchbook Tour: Emma Deesing

The Brooklyn Art Library doors may be temporarily closed, but this hasn’t stopped our talented community of artists from filling their own blank sketchbooks, documenting their everyday lives, their creative processes, and the current moment through all kinds of materials and experiments in technique. These ‘Sketchbook Tours’ give you a look inside some of the newest additions to our collections from creatives all around the world.

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Sketchbook Tour: Lisa Frühbeis

The Brooklyn Art Library doors may be temporarily closed, but this hasn’t stopped our talented community of artists from filling their own blank sketchbooks, documenting their everyday lives, their creative processes, and the current moment through all kinds of materials and experiments in technique. These ‘Sketchbook Tours’ give you a look inside some of the newest additions to our collections from creatives all around the world.

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Sketchbook Tour: Lara D. Smith

The Brooklyn Art Library doors may be temporarily closed, but this hasn’t stopped our talented community of artists from filling their own blank sketchbooks, documenting their everyday lives, their creative processes, and the current moment through all kinds of materials and experiments in technique. These ‘Sketchbook Tours’ give you a look inside some of the newest additions to our collections from creatives all around the world.

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Sketchbook Tour: Federica Marinaro

The Brooklyn Art Library doors may be temporarily closed, but this hasn’t stopped our talented community of artists from filling their own blank sketchbooks, documenting their everyday lives, their creative processes, and the current moment through all kinds of materials and experiments in technique. These ‘Sketchbook Tours’ give you a look inside some of the newest additions to our collections from creatives all around the world.

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Black Lives Matter

We will be pausing our usual content in order to use our platform to support Black artists, businesses and community organizations. Here you can find a collection of some of the many Black creatives and organizations that you can help support!

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Sketchbook Sunday with TOAF & BAL: Rebecca Moss Guyver

Rebecca Moss Guyver is an American artist living in Suffolk, United Kingdom. As a painter and printmaker, who also incorporates pastels and collage into her practice, her depictions of still lifes and her surroundings turn everyday objects into ephemeral dances of light, color, and form.

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Artwork From Home: Megan Mraz

With so many of us spending time indoors, ‘Artwork From Home’ is a look at how artists from around the world are making space for their own creative endeavors and how they maintain their daily art practices.

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Artwork From Home: Greg Kletsel

With so many of us spending time indoors, ‘Artwork From Home’ is a look at how artists from around the world are making space for their own creative endeavors and how they maintain their daily art practices.

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Anatomy of an Artwork: Anne-Margreet Niemeijer

Anatomy of an Artwork features images by artists of their work surrounded by the tools and materials that went into creating their finished pages. We reached out to a handful of artists on the #sbpprocess tag to share the bare bones behind their completed sketchbook spreads!

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Artwork From Home: Julia Yellow

With so many of us spending time indoors, ‘Artwork From Home’ is a look at how artists from around the world are making space for their own creative endeavors and how they maintain their daily art practices.

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