It always feels great to paint in my sketchbook. It feels liberating and keeps the juices flowing. Also, I can focus on an area that I can improve upon, such as capturing the figure and work towards improving them.
Looking back through the pages of a sketchbook one can see an artists progress as well their topics of interest. In many ways it is all about experimenting - with newer techniques, a variety of differing surfaces and unlimited pigment combinations.
On this page a landscape doodle became a moody orange scene, while on the bottom, primarily, cool colors describe a summer day by the lake.
For me a sketch book is all about the drawing -training the eye to see what is in front of you so you can make changes or delete elements to make the big picture stronger and simpler.
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