The Quicksilver Workaholic

What IS it with this book?! Not that I'm complaining, mind you, but I'm still getting quite a few orders from my website catalog. Does anyone have a clue why??

I suspect that a teacher or class is recommending it, and I'd love to THANK THEM!

Hi all!  I was recently honored to be asked to take part in a group article in My Midwest magazine, the in-air magazine from Midwest Airlines.  The magazine wanted contributors from their various destinations--very interesting!

Gabi Campanario, founder of the Urban Sketchers blog, curated the article, and Gabi, Tommy Kane, Fred Lynch, Thomas Thorspeken, Shiho Nakaza, Christian Tribastone, Marc Taro Holmes and I were invited.  We just got to see copies of the magazine, and Gabi put it online at issuu--I think you have to subscribe, but it's free...

http://issuu.com/urbansketchers/docs/mymidwest_usk_article

The article's a delight, thanks Gabi!  It really emphasizes why we sketch, as well has where and how--it should be of interest to all journal keepers, as well as to those who wonder what we're about.

I plan to ask my webmistress to put the PDF of the article up on my site, to make it easily accessible, too...

And by the way, this is Urban Sketcher's 1st anniversary, so the timing is excellent!  Happy Anniversary, all, to a vital and fascinating group of
sketchers!

...and I'm reminded of some of my favorite books on the subject! Danny Gregory's latest is a compilation of work by a lot of different journal keepers...I'm delighted to be included. If you haven't seen it, do check it out...you can click on the link below (not the graphic, sorry) and do the "look within" function on Amazon.

An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers

My longtime favorite, and one I still recommend to my students, is my friend and fellow journal keeper, Hannah Hinchman's first--
A Life In Hand: Creating the Illuminated Journal.  This small, mostly black and white book is FULL of ideas and encouragement, beautifully written and illustrated.  Truthfully, it changed the way I kept my journal, helping me to integrate my life rather than compartmentalize it and consign it to 6 different books. 

Before, I'd had a journal, a sketchbook, an organizer, a note pad, a place for grocery lists, a steno pad for minutes of meetings--and I could never lay hands on the one I needed, quickly!  Now, my journal contains all of this, for the most part, and it's always to hand. 

Someday I'll even figure out how to index it, as some artists do, to find what I need again, quickly.  But...I'm not holding my breath.  Too much going on NOW...

I was finally able to find in a Windows Newsgroup info on how to delete a floating caption!  It kept fading in and out over other captions, making them impossible to read, but the normal delete title trick didn't work!

You just change to the Timeline view and look for the title in the lower most track called "Title Overlay"--I had to use the tiny down-arrow you can barely see to get to that place.   Select and delete.

If you have trouble seeing the Timeline, you can zoom in--page up and page down buttons or the little magnifying glass.

NOW I can finish the new simple bookbinding CD and also FINALLY the one of my Sierra Club presentation from 2005...wahoo!