Comments on: Sketchbook Mania

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:16:10 +0000

I love my watercolor moleskin. I just wished that they made it slightly larger for painting. Terry

By: Angela Bounds

Angela Bounds — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:56:21 +0000

I’m addicted to books on sketchbooking. I get on a roll and sketch 20 – 30x/day, then weeks go by…. I love all your books in a pile! I think it is great that you have the habit, even if it isn’t as organized as you think it should be!

By: Janis

Janis — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:22:56 +0000

Hey Pammie Sue! They’re all so gorgeous — don’t do anything rash! I have the same problem with notebooks and journals – many, many with only a few pages of any kind of writing on them. Love the
organizational ideas from everyone. Why don’t I ever have organizational ideas? x o Jan

By: Twelve Tips for organizing your sketchbooks : PaMdora’s Box

Twelve Tips for organizing your sketchbooks : PaMdora’s Box — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:07:44 +0000

[...] the rather disorganized pile of sketchbooks I’ve accumulated. So I posted the question on my last post of how to organize them, andÂ was surprised at all the helpful suggestions I got in the comments [...]

By: Cindy Cooksey

Cindy Cooksey — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:24:01 +0000

I tend to keep one journal per year. Mine aren’t well organized, but they are dated. So long as I keep them together, it’s not too hard to find whatever I’m looking for. I like the backwards table of contents idea. Many of the suggestions for how to organize journals sound like too much work. Or maybe I’m just too lazy!

By: margaret hunt

margaret hunt — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:52:21 +0000

hmmm u know somewhere on the net are directions on how to put a moleskine together…sew the signatures together…and cover it…you might try those
http://michaelshannon.us/makeabook/index.html

By: Lyric Kinard

Lyric Kinard — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:34:29 +0000

Back when I used to write journals I’d date each entry then in the back of the book list the date and topic. I’d end up with a sort of backwards table of contents.
You could scan all the tables – list them by book (all my sketchbooks and journals are dated on the inside cover by start and end date)

you could even organize them in Bento if you are really crazy and have a few years worth of extra time! (maniacal laughter ensues)

By: PaMdora

PaMdora — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:20:07 +0000

Hi Dijanne, I know what you mean about the black Moleskine covers. I tried putting stickers on them to help me tell the difference, but can’t remember which stickers I used.

I’ll have to try something different — I did see one artist who painted the covers of his moleskines, so would like to try that someday.

By: Dijanne cevaal

Dijanne cevaal — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:11:45 +0000

Hi Pam

I also have a huge accumulation of sketch/ideas books. I tend to also write a lot in my books and sometiems there will be months where I don’t draw anything much. I always date my entries . I also travel a lot and treat myself to a brand new journal each trip if it’s longer than a week. I tend to buy different looking journals ( I did go the moleskin way for awhile but on the outside they all look the same) so now I keep all different looking ones- and I seem to remember for which trip they were- don’t ask me how? Sometimes it is hard to get an entirely new and different looking sketch book and I have made covers for them- so that this distinguishes them from the spiral bound black covered ones I use at home. I have also started using large sized spiral bound skecth books ( A3 size) for working on particular projects and put everything I have collected , researched and thought of in there. At first it was daunting to use such large books- but now I am enjoying them very much. In this way I have a big book of lace research which I want to recommence,a big book or organics, I have a big book of Caravanserai. I will be making a big book of Egypt and ruined churches/cathedrals in France.

By: kim ritter

kim ritter — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:40:20 +0000

I sketch on 8.5 x 11 laser paper and keep it all in a big pile that I go through maybe once a month and look for any ideas that slipped through the cracks.