Today I'm posting a few pages from my sketchbooks.
Well, are they really sketchbooks? I don't know what to call them. I've created a few books like these over the years. They start off as a mix of sketchbook and travel journal. Soon enough, my drawings are covered over with mementos and my mementos are covered in paint. There's a fair amount of regular old journal in there, too. I don't keep a regular diary. I only have the urge to start one when I feel the need to write a particularly emotional entry. After I've gotten that out of my system I don't really feel the need to record my day to day life, and six months or so I return to the diary to find it woefully empty.
So, books like these have become my diary. It's half art, half writing, and hopefully, fully unified.
I refuse to use the word scrapbook. Ugh.
I made these pages after returning from the Shakadang trail in Taroko Gorge in northern Taiwan. It was a treat.
Back to the sketchbook. Please note that Jesus makes a cameo on the left page.
I became interested in the idea of ghosts that are really just shapeless blobs, and here I'm exploring that idea. Blobs: how scary are they?
This afterwards became a recurring theme in my work and I'm still not sure if it's a positive development.
This pages features some ladies done with my (then) brand new water colour pencils. The feathers are paper and they were purchased from one of Taiwan's fantastic stationary stores. They're collaged over top, and let me tell you - they bled like crazy.
I got the Francis Bacon postcard from a really excellent art show. Whenever I see this I think of the quotation below the picture, from Frankie himself: "I paint in order to be loved."And then I think of my friend Jason's response: "I don't think that really worked out for him."
If you're confused about why that's hilarious, please check out this pants-shittingly amazing and horrific Francis Bacon original here.
Tyra Banks might call it "ugly-pretty." I've called it "truth or beauty?" which is a slightly more pretentious road to take.
I hope to get more examples from my books up on here. A complete book from front to finish - maybe one where you could even turn the pages - would be my goal.
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