Everday Sketchbooks Part 1: Research - Emma's sketchbook

 Watching Emma going through her sketchbook was intresting to see how differently she produces her ideas and the amount of text abd written info she provides.

I liked the part in the skecthbook were she developed prints and sketches of trees she'd photgraphed. With the theme being intersect the use of trees was fun. She mentioned using a writograph machine for the trees and showed the progression from sketching, as well as the using random colours in the hopes of making a happy accident. The use of colours on various tree branches was lovely to look at I was particularly intruiged by these pages...

The fading blues with the cleaness of the white siloheutte of the tree is so pretty. Its an asthetically pleasing of print.

Her work revolving around screen printing (something I was never a fan when doing It in college years ago) actually had a lot of personality and it's shown me some of the cool kind of prints you can actually create and the different combinations of colours and images. This page reminds me of those negative drawings but they've been coloured and the colour scheme is also refreshing the yellow, turqoise, green and white.

Seeing this technique be altered an put in circles is satisfying. As Emma mentioned the view of the trees that stops within the circle would carry on beyond the page and likely be intertwine with eachother its just that we cant see it. So a bit of Imagination is needed as you try to visualise the rest of the tree.

Along with these prints there were plenty of sketches and annotation to go along with It, plenty of ideas and experimentation was documented like these thumbnail sketches, post it notes and little bags to store prints. I liked the mixture of prints, sketches, planning, perosnal projects, photography. The pages being full also makes the sketchbook more exciting and you can see the effort behind it.

Another thing that intruiged me was the mini paper structrues made with post it notes and pieces of paper. I'm just love when sketchbooks are interactive It brings things to life.

Finally, Emma talks about something called conpensation gaurds in which I undertand makes it so you can add more pages into the sketchbook and then offer a stronger support to keep the book together attatched to the binding in the middle. I may take this technique into consideration if I ever want to expland a sketchbook.

In relation to binding she showed in the video how the binding is made and how it is secured with ribbons and thread to keep sections together which is something i've never seen before.

Overall taking a tour of Emma's and sketchbook was a nice glimpse into someone elses techniques and how their creativity is oragnised throughotu the pages. The approach emma took to a task or project even skecthing in comparison to myself is so quite different. I'm quite a spontaneous type of artist were I dont really do much experimetnation or planning when creating becasue ideas just pop into my head. I find it quite tedious all the build up even though it can be quite important in developing better ideas, It's intresting to see how Emma has took the time to explore and adapt her work and clearly write and annotate the ideas and the process is all documented so you can really understand how she got to her final piece. This is something I could learn to get better at.