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A Sketchbook Adventure Part 2

artRoben-Marie SmithOctober 12, 20156 Comments

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Using Stencils in Art Journaling

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Art Journaling with Deli Paper

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What if you played without rules and trusted the process?

Explore the FREE Step-by-Step Guide to Beautiful Painted Collage Papers and create your very own
backgrounds for your art journals, collages, envelopes, and so much more.

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Every day “art” objects sketched with pen. 🖋️ I decided to add the reference so I took a photo, printed and glued into my sketchbook. It will be nice to look back and recall what I was sketching.
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Day 3: 100 Days of Creative Dr

Sketchbook practice with pencil, pen, and a touch of watercolor. Exploring blind contour drawing, loose contour lines, and simple value studies.
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Learning how to draw a cup from observation is trickier than it looks, but that’s the p

And we’re off! The 100 Day Project started today. My theme is 100 Days of Creative Drifting: a Sketching Practice.
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Decided to start with a blind contour drawing and then a contour drawing of the same image. 🖋️
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Practice, pr

You know that feeling when you watch another artist create and suddenly think, “Wait… you can DO that?!”

Like when you realize fabric can live happily next to paper. Or that stitching isn’t just for quilts - it can hold a wh

Colorful handmade watercolor concertina book with circle swatches. Stitched with fabrics and collaged with papers. Letting past projects inspire new ones. 😊 ❤️

Year ten of the 100 Day Project.

For nine years, I chose themes where I felt confident—little books, collages, things I knew how to make. This year, I’m choosing sketching. Something that feels less familiar and more uncertain.

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I’ve been working on something for you and it’s finally ready. The 100 Day Project Companion is here… and it’s completely redesigned.

If you’ve used my previous workbook, you know it was structured and organized, desig

take a look around!

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