Tip Jar Thursdays! No. 13 - Creative Inserts • Art House Co-op

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Tip Jar Thursdays! No. 13 - Creative Inserts

Welcome back to another edition of Tip Jar Thursday! For inspiration this week, we’ll be looking at how some artists’ sketchbooks stand out by including a little something extra for their viewers to see, find, put together, or even take home!

Our first look today is at the very ambitious 2011 sketchbook of Dona Bergen, from Tenants Harbor, ME.

My favorite of the many cool features in Dona’s book is the back cover, where she inserted two Kodachrome film slides. They are perfectly spaced for viewing, so you can look at your surroundings through the lense of old photographs.

Or, just hold it up to the light!

Our next featured sketchbook may be one of the first ones you notice on our shelves. 2011 SB Project artist, Christopher Whitmore from Harrisonburg, VA skillfully constructed a wooden box container, for not only his sketchbook, but for 30 polaroid pictures as well. The box is hinged with magnet closures and a ribbon underneath to make it easy to remove the contents.

Once you take out the abstract polaroids and the sketchbook, start flipping through the pages and you will find that each photograph makes a fascinating composition. What is the whole image?

Come to the Library & put it together to find out! (Or sneak a look at one of our previous posts documenting the 2011 tour!)

*Handy Note to 2012 Sketchbookers: In making your projects within accordance our new library system, remember that this year the project has specific size requirements! If any participants are into making box enclosures for their sketchbook, just make sure that it is under 1 inch in thickness!*

Our next insert inspiration came from the 2011 sketchbook of Tatiana Lozano from Bogota, Columbia. Perusing Tatiana’s book, I came across smarties in tiny zip-locks with even tinier portraits drawn upon their surfaces.

It is easy to appreciate the intimacy of these particular pages. The diminutive size of her drawings in juxtaposition with the negative space left on the page is very simple, yet dramatic.

Another brilliant idea: leave a souvenir for your viewers! In the back of her book, hidden in a pocket, Tatiana placed many miniature drawings of birds and limbs on vellum with a note to her viewer to “take one” with them!