Earlier this year, I started a collaborative sketchbook project with my friend Shilpa – you can read all about it {and find tips for doing your own} here.
We called it Land, Sea, Sky, because we would both be working within our local natural environments – Shilpa on London’s Hampstead Heath, and me on the coast in Cornwall.
It proved to be a lovely project during a difficult year, providing a thread of continuity and connection when those two things were harder to come by than usual.
I’ve put together a short video showing the pages of the sketchbook I ended up with, and have shared some of the spreads from both sketchbooks below.
Page Spreads
These spreads come from both the sketchbooks. They include some of my favourite pages and memories of filling the sketchbooks out in the wild!
Taking a rubbing from an old gravestone in a local churchyard
Drawing a leaf with watercolours
Drawing at the beach
One of my favourite views of the other sketchbook
A true ‘Land, Sea, Sky’ spread
A fun contrasty spread
A spread that plays with scale
Trees featured a lot for both of us!
I loved how Shilpa did the unexpected to my blind contour flower drawings here, colouring around them instead of inside them.
