Shaftesbury and back: Sketchbook

Sketchbook - Sep 24th

This weekend I went to stay with my friend (and very talented mixed media artist) Jeanette Maisy House in Shaftesbury. The lovely girl bought me a new A5 handmade sketchbook, made by Helen Smith of Hypsela to match the smaller A6 one I had bought a few weeks ago. Whilst there, we spent some time (so I could take photographs) in the three acre landscaped garden of her parents called Breachfield. Sadly, I didn’t have a lens with me that could capture good shots of the garden, and also the light was very bad, but I did gets some great close up, bokeh and macro shots, which I will blog soon. I did a small line drawing based on some of the daisies I saw there in the A5 sketchbook she gave me.

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Sketchbook Stuff…

Sketchbook II

The last two pages of this sketchbook are now filled. It was definitely one of my favourite sketchbooks ever. The thing I liked most about it was, that the pages were different textures, weights, colours etc.  So, I chose a page to draw on according to my mood and whimsy.  Also, it was beautifully handmade by Helen, the cover being subtly tie dyed fabric. This one lasted two years. Why so long? Because I have a LOT of sketchbooks. Anyway, I shall miss this one. I think I will definitely need to get another from Helen.

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Creative + Passionate + Inspired

Lorrie Whittington is an illustrator, designer-maker, free spirit, chocolate eating geek, living in the heart of the Sussex countryside on the south coast of Britain. She draws, paints, reads a lot, makes things with clay, likes scf-fi and hangs out with her daughter.