Sketchbook Challenge

This is my first blog on this new site. I typically blog at www.sharenchatterton.com, but because I am participating in the Sketchbook Challenge, I thought it might work out better to have a blogger.com site to use for the Challenge. The site http://sketchbookchallenge.blogspot.com/ , is a jumping off point for a group of artists initiating a monthly sketchbook challenge for themselves and anyone else that wants to join in.  You can follow along with select artists as they fill their sketchbooks based on a monthly theme that will be announced on the first of each month. Each month they announce a new theme on the blog site and throughout the month they will be showing you images from their sketchbooks and talking about the intention and inspiration behind them.  Along the way they will be sharing tips, techniques and tutorials. I will be joining in and posting my sketchbook creations here on this blog spot and also on www.sharenchatterton.com. The January theme is "Highly Prized", my sketch includes first and foremost, my new grandson Finley, he is definitely highly prized in my life, as well as my faith, my family, God's beautiful creations all around us, and so much more, see my sketch below. Sketchbooks, art journals, whatever you want to call them, are such a great way to put your creative thoughts and ideas down for future inspiration or just to have a place to try out new things, no rules or constraints. I have several sketchbooks and art journals that I have been working out of over the years. I must admit I have been known to sketch on graph paper, post it notes, envelopes that happen to be in front of me when I am on the phone, or whatever is available at the time. I am working on keeping a sketch book handy so that all my ideas, thoughts, etc. are in at least two or three places, instead of scattered everywhere. One of my goals for the coming new year is to be more creative, hopefully to  do something creative everyday; my sketchbook-journal will enable me to carry that goal through the entire year. This is the beginning of a new creative journey, come along with me through the year, there is no telling what we will discover.

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