Featured Artist: Sharon Frost

My "sketchskines" are an intrinsic part of my work as a whole.  In a way they're very existence has led to trains of thought and images that wouldn't have been there otherwise.  Their physical properties mesh very well with my life and allow me to carry my work everywhere.  I'm very particular about drawing instruments: use Pilot Better Retractable and technical pens: Rottring and Rapidograph. Also carry a watercolor field box -- sometimes I use coffee or red wine.

I do a drawing in my book every morning -- something in front of me and, when I feel like it, I include a fake haiku (17 syllables but my own rhythm).  Additional drawings are fine but the first one is very important. From that drawing in the moleskine I build the rest of my work:  a continuing thread being the effort  to make sense of the physical environment from fragmented perception. I’m fascinated by the pull to define experience through perceptual elements.  The moleskines give me the foundation vocabulary and, in many ways, they're my foundation art.

I go through one every 2 or 3 months.

Sharon Frost.

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Comments

[Luka]

An utterly unrelated comment - what kind of blog software are you running? Me like.

Oh, I like the concept too ... :D

[Armand]

(In Don LaFontaine's voice):

"Moleskinerie is powered by Movable Type
hosted by TypePad."

[Chris Meisenzahl]

Very impressive!