Inside the Sketchbook

Study of Tree Bark, 2013, Krystal Booth

Ink on Paper, 11x8"

Nothing is as exciting as a drawing of tree bark.  Nothing.

Okay, well maybe somethings are more exciting...like the lifestyles of gypsies and plywood cut-out yard flair.

Makeup and Hot Glue Guns

Anyone like lichens?  This is what I've been drawing in the sketchbook lately.

Sketchbook, lichens, Krystal Booth, 2013

After years of drawing pads, sketchbooks, and journals, I have found my favorite one - Crescent RendR No Show Thru Paper Sketchbooks.  The one I'm working out of now is the hardcover 8.5x11" version.  In terms of my excitement about this sketchbook, it can be summed up by the audience member (Amy Poehler) at 2:39 of this Oprah's Favorite Things skit on SNL.

I watched a couple of Ryan Trecartin's videos online this morning and I was certainly entertained, horrified, and completely disoriented at times.  It was as if I was watching my brain's understanding of what went on in my early twenties or what a condensed bad acid trip would be like if there were endless amounts of makeup and hot glue guns.  Trecartin made my morning coffee time seem like an experiment of the mind.  Would my brain explode if I actually made it to the thirty minute mark?  Will I go insane and never come back?

In the end, it just made me want to go play with him and his friends with costumes and wigs overflowing.

If you want to be confused, overwhelmed, annoyed, and entertained, watch these:
http://vimeo.com/trecartin/roamie-view-history-enhancement
http://youtu.be/Z5nclmEYkqk

Currently working on...

The beginning of a painting on a 36x24"canvas...I will be adding to this today.



Detail of the above work...



Inside the sketchbook

Inside the sketch book

Just a bit of what's in the studio and sketchbook - find myself seduced by line a lot lately...

Recent Sketches...

This sketch was made from a wierd webcam photo of my best friend- It's definitely a weird rendition, but it adds a lot of life to my sketchbook!

Just a quick landscape from my mind.

Quick line rendering of mi amore.


Getting a new sketchbook really motivates me to fill it up with new ideas and quick sketches.  There's definitely nothing better than a fresh sheet of paper-

I've had this wierd belief though since I was a child about paper and predisposition.  It knows what it wants to be.  It knows what marks will bring it to life before we do.  Our job is to unravel the mystery by setting our pens and pencils in motion.  This is similar to my beliefs on life, but my mind wasn't mature enough to understand that yet...though I'm still having a debate with myself on life and to what degree it is predestined...or not.  What do you think?