Thank you Leo, Dorris and Damian,

By paying consideration to my drawings position within and beyond a sketch
book has offered up a further arena to explore my ideas/drawings.

Gathering / collecting / building / sequencing / finding and utilizing new
spaces to draw on / the frame / the rectangle (!) / the "exhibition"  space
/ the object / the flatness / static,still / making, made.

It has been positive to share and I will keep reflecting
(as ever) drawing. . .

Thanks

Lucy


Quoting "Duff, Leo" <[log in to unmask]>:

>
>  Dear Lucy
>
> Referring to your two comments in the email below,
>
> -------------------------------------
>
> I use sketch books, which I call note books, all the time. It is simply a
> sequential way of working with out loosing half the work, and I like the
> book format and playing with the turn of the page, the gutter and working
> on the backs of pages etc.
>
> In the past I have frequently taken sequences of drawings out of sketch /
> note books for exhibition, usually to demonstrate the context of where
> ideas in the more complicated works in the exhibition have come from. I
> have also exhibited entire sketch books. At times I have stuck in work (
> inc notes) made on other pieces of paper to the current note book.
>
> Now I can scan drawings in notebooks and print onto sympathetic paper and
> use in this format if I want to experiment further with them with out
> damaging or spoiling the run of the note book, in the past I would have
> photocopied to play around with the possibilities for progressing an idea
> through the drawing. Sometimes I copy my drawing from a notebook onto
> another paper at a different scale, there need be no rules.
>
> Having said that I do not take out pages for any other reason, preferring
> the book to be complete as the note books do form a personal archive of
> the way one has worked and developed and been intrigued by particular
> visual situations, objects and ideas over a long period of time. It is
> intriguing how things link up over a period of time with personal themes
> and challenges ( often the thing to pick up, not avoid)  reappearing
> frequently.
>
> ---------------------------
>
> Small drawings on separate sheets not in a note book.... are small
> drawings
>
> Are they useful to your work?  Do they play a role in your work now? They
> may do so in the future of course.
> Put them on the wall where you  can look at them several times assessing
> objectively what they are to your work, then proceed with your
> work.....and keep the small drawings for future reference would be my
> advice... both wearing my teaching hat and from personal experience
>
>  Leo Duff
>
>
> Leo Duff.
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> ________________________________
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> From: The UK drawing research network mailing list on behalf of Lucy
> O'Donnell
> Sent: Wed 28/05/2008 09:53
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> Subject: To remove pages from sketchbooks? or not?
>
>
>
> What happens to us our drawings and our sketchbooks if we remove/take
> away
> any pages from the "sketchbook"?
>
> ...
>
> At the moment am wondering (and asking) what should I do with some small
> drawings that I did not make in a sketch book. I am unsure what "role"
> they
> are playing for me or my work. Is that clumsy? In the opinion of Stephen
> Farthing, " A drawing should take into account the role it plays in the
> world beyond the imaginations of artists designers".
>
>
> I would appreciate any thoughts or reactions,
> Thanks
>
> Lucy
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