Wednesday 9 September 2009

'Plane' boredom


Well, after a little pause, I'm back with two examples of how the most useless moments of our daily routine can become something productive. A very dear friend of mine makes cute, but above all, very portable and user-friendly (double meaning) hand sewn 9x12cm sketchbooks. Most importantly, he assembles them out of scraps of Fabriano and Canson paper of the highest quality. Quite the ecological and touching feat, I may say!

No matter how silly drawings like these may look, they're precious for me. I doodle and sketch a lot on restaurant mantels during lunch - I can't help it, the pen seems to fly on its own on their surface! It may also be a bit of a brag sometimes to sketch on a table mantel on a full restaurant. Here, on the other hand, the drawing is very intimate and nobody but me sees it. Now you too.