Today I was reading on ‘Have Dogs will Travel’ about ‘Cheap Sketchbook Syndrome’. I definitely have it. I’ve been using a handmade sketchbook that I made myself from Stonehenge paper and the pages are prepped with acrylic paint or ink. This ‘good paper’ inhibits me. All day I’ve been ‘getting around to’ doing a sketch from one of the photos I took when I went to Cockatoo Island. Tonight I decided to draw in a little spiral bound cartridge paper sketchbook that I use for diagrams and notes. Why can’t it all go on the ‘good paper’. That’s what I’d like to know. My Stonehenge book cost me 2 sheets of Stonehenge paper and that’s not such a lot of money. How can I stop myself being like this?
Then I came across what Roz had to say….. every word she says is true, but will it change me?
You just set me off on an hour of reading Roz. Can’t imagine how I’ve missed her blog before but thanks for the link. And yes, I’ve got lots of blank journals that I can’t bring myself to use but from today I’ll be a changed person. I hope!
Ha, ha, now everybody knows my shame. I’m off to Roz to see if she can cure me too.
Well, it’s the advice I (boringly often!) give others. So why do I have paper going foxy???
This is a timely self slap. Thanks, Wendy and Roz!
Wish I had the answer. Aren’t our lives a little like that? The one we have is priceless — how do we paint each day? Hmmm…..