Daily Sketchbook

I'm very impressed with the whole-heartedly ambitious new year's resolutions that my friends are making for this year. I agree - never before has there been so much collective anticipation for what the new year will bring. Especially because personally 2010 really wasn't that great. I've never been one for making new year's resolutions because inevitably I fail on day two, whatever the tenacity of my resolve. Instead, I make the vague yet important statement that I'm going to try to make this year better than the last. I purposefully have not qualified "better" so that it doesn't become a scorecard game. All this said, if I were to make a goal for this year, it would be to use my sketchbook more. It's a really lovely (pink!) moleskin notebook that I carry with me every day. Yet, only 3 pages have been filled. Perhaps the book is too lovely; that there's pressure to make a perfect drawing every time. Or that my drawing skills are rusty, or that I don't have the time. You see where this is going. Now, this blog gives me the perfect excuse to make time for that notebook, and I've found the perfect artistic inspiration for sketching rough, everyday life, no matter how thoroughly or lightly conceived. Check out the blog of Jason Polan titled "Every Person in New York".  I'm not going to reproduce his sketches on my blog out of respect for his own blog. But really, it's worth a look. And if this doesn't convince you, he's also a featured artist at one of my favorite shops, West Elm. A snap of one of his products is below.  I guess you never know where your daily sketches will go.  I'm off to crack open that pink book of mine. - l.o.d.

Jason Polan Glass Decoupage Trays