Hazel
21st August 2011, 09:59 AM
Danny Gregory rediscovered art in his mid-30s having lost his creative bent many year before. He is a great proponent of art journal keeping and is now an illustrator and prolific journal keeper which he shares with many readers through his website dannygregory.com. He also is the proponent of EveryDayMatters, another of his books and the title of a web group where members aim to add to their art journal everyday and share the efforts.
In this book, Gregory has interviewed many artists and illustrators and asked them to share their thoughts about their journal keeping, their art supplies of choice and we also get to see some of their journal pages - which in itself if fascinating as many of these books are intended to be private. The very point of the art journal is that it is a creative, free, unrestricted space for artists just to play without fear of people seeing their experiments, without the thought of commercial intent, without absolute purpose.
So along with some fascinating words from some of the very best illustrators around we get to see some incredible artwork, some playful sketching and some very private thought. We also have the privilege of seeing some of the illustrators work at a very fundamental level. All to often we just see the end products without seeing what goes into their creation.
The artists that I most enjoyed seeing were Robert Crumb, Chris Ware, Peter Cusack, and Butch Belair.
This book is faacinating, colourful, creative and introduced me to some artists that I will now seek out. I loved every minute of this read.
In this book, Gregory has interviewed many artists and illustrators and asked them to share their thoughts about their journal keeping, their art supplies of choice and we also get to see some of their journal pages - which in itself if fascinating as many of these books are intended to be private. The very point of the art journal is that it is a creative, free, unrestricted space for artists just to play without fear of people seeing their experiments, without the thought of commercial intent, without absolute purpose.
So along with some fascinating words from some of the very best illustrators around we get to see some incredible artwork, some playful sketching and some very private thought. We also have the privilege of seeing some of the illustrators work at a very fundamental level. All to often we just see the end products without seeing what goes into their creation.
The artists that I most enjoyed seeing were Robert Crumb, Chris Ware, Peter Cusack, and Butch Belair.
This book is faacinating, colourful, creative and introduced me to some artists that I will now seek out. I loved every minute of this read.