Isabella Cotier

 

Vivid, vivacious colour sketches by Isabella Cotier.

A.R.S.Poetica

 

The soft, gentle pages of sketchbooks by A.R.S. Poetica.

Linzie Hunter II

 

I thought we should have a second post featuring Linzie Hunter, this time I'm focusing on her character pages because they are full of inventive joy.

Helen Hil

 

Helen Hil repurposes old unwanted books as sketchbooks that marry the patina of aged paper and print with her wonderful mixed media observations. 

April Bedard

A wonderful mouse collection from the sketchbooks of April Bedard and frogs with their tadpoles.

Rebecca Davis

 I love the collage and multimedia journals of Rebecca Davis, they are so lively and vibrant.

Bäst NY

Bäst NY is an artist whose style is irreverent punk graffiti that crosses genres of sculpture, performance art and street art. Here are some examples of sketchbook works collaged in mixed media.

Rachael Flynn II

More wonderful studies from Rachael Flynn's sketchbooks.

Maisie Shearring's Sketch Books

 A glimpse into the tiny magic world of Maisie Shearring's sketchbooks a world of hula hoops, music, and lots of upside downs.

Didi Jellema I

Didi Jellema has just graduated from Gray's Art School Aberdoon in Painting. Didi's sketchbooks were phenomenal, rich with media; thought and gatherings of sights and atmospheres, everything you dream of a sketchbook being.

"To live in diaspora is to be haunted by histories that sit uncomfortably out of joint, ambivalently ahead of their time and yet behind it too. It is to feel a small tingle on the skin at the back of your neck and know that something is not quite right about where you are now, but to also know that you cannot leave. To be unhomed is a process. To be unhomely is a state of diasporic consciousness." Lily Cho, To Turn To Diaspora, 2007

"I inhabit a place of diaspora, a place that is an in-between. Akin to being adrift at sea, I am adrift between homelands, countries and nationalities. My paintings are a woven mass of childhood memories, of voicing myself in two languages, of sailing between two countries."  Didi Jellema

Artem Krepkij III

Artem Krepkij's sketchbooks are a wonderful glimpse into other lives caught moments of everyday life made exceptional by the fact that Artem has turned hand to capture them. Creating an amazing documentary of his life and times.

Inga Dalrymple

Inga Dalrymple's sketchbooks are so loose and look like she is having great fun layering paint and colour. Inga is an artist who lives outside Sydney "my paintings are the older wiser adults . . . my drawings and sketchbooks like wild kids." Inga 

Sabine Timm I

The tiny sketchbooks assemblages and observations of Sabine Timm often make me smile chuckle or laugh out-loud. I really love her instagram and all of the characters she makes from stuff and nonsense, she is a smile factory.

Edward Goss II

Edward Goss's sketch books are really textural bundles often  bound in coloured string and thread.  Full of secrets and intrigue, beautiful mysteries.