Sketchbook play with artist Karen Abend

The global arts community open their sketchbooks

Below are a selection of images taken from the fantastic online Sketchbook Revival workshops the studio took part in with US illustrator, Karen Abend, now based in Italy

‘ The whole process reminded me that all kinds of drawing can contribute.

Drawing with the needle is not my only inspiration.’

From impetuous one-line cat drawings to architectural perspectives and various forms of mark making, this is just a small cross section of the suggested techniques and inspirations to play with.

Potential

Unstable boundaries

Bringing to life an idea from a single scene in nature, using colour and light, and then allowing that idea to move from complexity to fixity through the use of unstable boundaries and hues.

“The stages of design work are never the same. A colour taken from a scene in nature, transforms, breathes, expands, separates, coalesces, returns, finds it shape.” - Lisa Smith, studio founder.