The Sketch Book

This week in Textile Art our tutor Tom very helpfully gave us some examples of the sketchbook that a lot of us have been fearful of.  At the start of the session I couldn't understand why the textbooks he showed us didn't mark particularly well as they were very artistically done and some extremely lovely looking. Take for example the book with stitches around every single page. How time consuming, I thought. Never the less, I think what I have to remember when it comes to the dreaded sketch book is that it is there as a tool to log my ideas, no matter how scruffy they are and even if I don't use any of them. It is not necessarily a piece of art in itself although some decoration doesn't hurt. One important thing to remember I think is that the sketchbook is meant to be a visual thing, with maybe some notes or lists. The blog is for words and the sketch book for pictures. Does that sound right?