It is said that moleskine sketch books and notebooks were used by Van Gogh,Matisse, and Hemingway just to name a few, although this is probably just romantic hype made up by marketers to get us to purchase a moleskine. It seems a moleskine is a threadbound notebook with acid free pages, with an interior, expandable pocket to carry our "stuff". It's apparently very durable and comes with watercolor paper or sketching paper, as well as ruled or unruled. Some of them have decorative laser-etched covers. One can even purchase personal replacement paper to make your own moleskine.
If you carry one and use it in public, you are suddenly part of a "culture" with your own personal identity of being a moleskine user. You are immediately tagged by those unfortunates outside the moleskine culture as an artist or a thinker. Someone named Armand Frasco even has a blog called Moleskinery, dedicated to this product. I haven' t found that yet.
I am going to have to get one of these mokeskines...with an "e" , so people will recognize me as an artist AND a thinker! . Oh yeah -- the mole part? It's heavy duty cardboard. Now, where did I put those Michael's coupons!?
AND..... SOME ART
RESTAURANT TABLE, Pencil
GRIEF, Pencil
11 comments:
I always love your pencil sketches! They are both excellent.
I admit to having just bought my first moleskine and I love it. I have tried other sketchbooks but they're either too big or they are too flimsy and fall apart when I carry them in my purse. So far this little book is holding up and I find I'm actually using it!!
I just love the sketches!!!!Outstanding work! Thanks for sharing with us!
These are beautiful, Judie - whether they're in a moleskine or not, they're wonderful~XOX
Love your sketches Judie. Glad you did the research on the Moleskine I've never had one either....
thankfully they aren't made from lots of little moles.
I have a moleskine, actually more than one. I already filled one of the sketchbooks and started another. It's what I draw in at night using various mediums. I also have the watercolor one but so far there is only one drawing in that done a year ago. It's easy to carry and withstands even embellishments when closed. Had they been made from Moles (ha!) well let's just say that's creepy to even think of.
Your sketching is AMAZING!!! Oh to have that talent to shade in all the right places to make it come alive.
XOXOXO
I thought you were an artist but once you have your moleskin I will know that you are.
Say Mol ah skeena . HA HA ! your drawings are wonderful..I cannot draw ..or let's say I won't draw because I can't draw worth a darn!
Came by your way to see how Mz Wee is doing, did the last trick work, is the pink stuff all gone? Glad you shed some light on the moleskine, and glad to know it is not made up of little moles, however pesty they are. You really captured the sadness in the drawing
BE BLESSED :-)
I have a moleskin and what i want to do is send it to artist and have them art in it. they send it back to me and i send it to someone else. Wanna be my first.
Ang
Those drawings are impressive!
Writing in a Moleskine is sort of like sitting in public with your MacBook while wearing a shirt from a band that a member of Wilco used to play in. Or something like that.
I wrote in Moleskines for a couple of years and liked them, but have found new similar notebooks at Jerry's Artarama that are just as durable but with more luxurious paper, and they cost less. So I've switched.
But I still think there's something alluring about those simple black notebooks.
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