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!
Read MoreR.T. Rognstad is a New Zealand based artist and 2012 Sketchbook Project participant with a background in printmaking and quiltmaking.
Read MoreMaryAnn Loo is a visual artist and three-time Sketchbook Project Participant based in Singapore. We interviewed MaryAnn to learn more about her artistic process and international mural project “100 Dream Trees.” You can flip through MaryAnn’s three whimsical sketchbooks on the Digital Library.
Read MoreIn honor of the release of our 14 Day Portrait Challenge book, we chatted with a few of the artists featured in its pages about their art practice and creating during quarantine. If you want to receive a set of portrait prompts to kickstart your creativity in your inbox, you can still sign up for the challenge.
Read MoreIn honor of the release of our 14 Day Portrait Challenge book, we chatted with a few of the artists featured in its pages about their art practice and creating during quarantine. If you want to receive a set of portrait prompts to kickstart your creativity in your inbox, you can still sign up for the challenge.
Read MoreCarson Fox is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist and Sketchbook Project participant who works across sculpture, printmaking and installation. Fox’s diverse body of work explores history, human emotion, and balance through teetering sculptures, tediously hand-pierced portraits, and laborious installations that reflect the passage and impact of time on the human experience.
Read MoreIn honor of the release of our 14 Day Portrait Challenge book, we chatted with a few of the artists featured in its pages about their art practice and creating during quarantine. If you want to receive a set of portrait prompts to kickstart your creativity in your inbox, you can still sign up for the challenge.
Read MoreIn honor of the release of our 14 Day Portrait Challenge book, we chatted with a few of the artists featured in its pages about their art practice and creating during quarantine. If you want to receive a set of portrait prompts to kickstart your creativity in your inbox, you can still sign up for the challenge.
Read MoreEvery 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!
Read MoreHunter Preston is a filmmaker, designer, and photographer based in Columbus, Ohio. A self-described “corporate creative by day, experimental Frankenstein by night,” Preston has made a career out of pushing the limits of still and moving image-making.
Read MoreEvery 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!
Read MoreRight now, many of us are using this moment to reflect on our past lives, our present choices, and the future that lies ahead of us. The memories we create, either through art or through our relationships with others, real or imagined, shape who we become as people, both in what we lose and what we find throughout our lives. The following sketchbooks evoke this very sense of nostalgia through each artist’s experiences of travel, family, and observation of everyday life.
Read MoreCommuting has never looked this fun! These sketchbooks are a throwback to the glory days of people watching on the subway, bumping elbows with strangers, and taking in the sights, sounds and smells of The Underground. Artists from around the world documented their daily commutes through their cities and the melting pot of strangers they encounter along the way.
Read MoreCities around the world are experiencing major changes. Doors are shut, lights are off, people are at home, and the pulse of any city is not what it once was. This collection of sketchbooks features street photography shot during the times of crowded train cars, busy city streets, bustling marketplaces and readymade street sculptures. Ranging from wide to intimate frames, these photographers captured the life, pace and personality of wherever they went.
Read MoreEvery 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!
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreFrom friend to friend, mom to daughter, and artist to artist, these sketchbooks have traveled far distances and fostered connections all over the world. In light of the current state of the United States Postal Service, we curated a collection of sketchbooks that highlight the dynamic exchange and community-building made possible through the mail system.
Read MoreOn Thursday, August 27th, artist Beatriz Leonardo will lead a workshop in printmaking as part of our Small Talks series. We thought it would be fun to pull together some of our favorite printmaker’s sketchbooks to get you inspired for Thursday’s class.
Read MoreThe following are books we received that were created in the midst of quarantine. Each one used our project to express intrepid individuality and creativity during uncertain times. We appreciate all the artists who allowed us to write about their work, thank you for sharing this with us!
Read MoreThe 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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