Sketchbook Tour
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- Опубліковано 8 січ 2023
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Today, I'm sharing a small but significant sketchbook with you. I hope it's useful and/or inspiring.
Because I knew I'd have busy times ahead, when starting this sketchbook, I chose a small sized book. It felt accessible and it was easy to carry around as well. We were selling our apartment and preparing to move at the time, so the pages in this sketchbook hold memories of all that, and the last drawings of the oh so familiar living room and home that I've lived in for 13 years.
Even when I'm busy, I keep my drawing habit. I NEED to draw and to capture my life in such a creative way. It relaxes me, it gives me a meditative moment, it brings me back into the moment, and it's almost kind of like a gratitude journal. These are all reasons that make me want to make time for drawing. I know it's not easy to find time, or to make time in a busy day, but you can do it! You don't have to change your whole life to add a little habit like drawing, but DO make it a priority, because drawing makes you happy!
Sketchbook shown in this video: Hahnemühle Nostalgie sketchbook size A6
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It's great to see an artist really pushing the boundaries of what a sketchbook can be- fill up every page, use mixed media, draw right across a 2 page spread and stick in little mementos! A sketchbook really is a well of inspiration, a diary, a mad scientist's laboratory, and a little tiny galley all in one! Thanks for letting us have a peek!
I totally agree! Thanks for checking in!
I loved watching your sketchbook thank you
What a special book to keep such a special time in your life - I so enjoyed this! Thank you for sharing with us, Koosje! ❤
Glad you liked it, Heather!
You inspire me so much. Thanks a lot for sharing your personal space through your amazing artistic view. "Paint in verbs, not in nouns" is what I follow & see in your works. ❤
Thank you so much!
i luv ur style
WHAT are gouache sticks??? NO, NO, don’t tell me! I don’t need another art supply!!!!! Sketchbook looks awesome. I have a little book, I should use it every day too
LOL - they are also known as tempera sticks or poster paint sticks, usually sold in the kid's section
Thank you for sharing! 💞 I just came here from the video you have shared today and it's so interesting to see the slight differences in your style. 😃
Isn't it interesting how it's always shifting and developing?
you are always an inspiration koosje
Thanks!
When you showed the flower doodle page I thought that it reminded me of the book I just got. Then when you said the name of the book and author, I smiled because it's the same book! I love your sketches and decided that this year I need to draw, paint and create more! Thanks for sharing and best wishes in your new home😊
Funny coincidence!
Thank you for sharing. I really enjoy your style and found your sketchbook tour helpful and inspiring, as I sit here staring at a blank page. :)
Go fill that empty page. You can do it!
Thank you for inspiring me 😃 and i will be buying your book!👍
Wonderful!
I love your sketchbook sooo much! I want so much to have a sketchbook like this! I love your colors, style and subjects! I keep feeling frozen when I look at my sketchbook thinking that I have to create something "perfect" or "pretty". I need to go back to reading your book for more inspiration!! 🥰❤
Done is better than perfect, Gina!
Your sketchbook was very inspiring, thank you.
I love this loosen stile! It's so cool that you made this visual diary of a period of life. I want to teach myself to make fast sketches too. Because every time it takes so long for me to capture something, that I cannot draw every day :(
But after this video I'll try to force myself to get rid of this stupid fear of an imperfect drawing.
Your sketches are perfect! I stopped video several times to take a closer look at some of them. I falled in love with them 😍
Maybe you can make it into a game. Set a timer and try to get as much on the page as you can within 5, 10 or 15 minutes. It's a great way to practice loosening up because there is no time to slow down on details.
Hello, l like your drawings very much and try to lern from your videos and your book. You give me a lot of Inspiration, thank you.
Happy to hear that! Thank you!
Me encanta tu libreta y dibujos. Gracias por compartir. Saludos desde España 💚
I so enjoyed your sketchbook tour! You are so talented and creative!
Thank you so much!
Gorgeous pictures 😊
Thanks so much.
I like this, and like your style. It feels good when I begin recognizing people's styles on IG. (is your friend Alvin "The Art of Alvin" Alvin?). I've had your book on order, but it's in New Jersey and hasn't moved in a WEEK! I've contacted the shop... Also, learned something else here. You mention "selling" your apartment. In the US there aren't many places where one owns an apartment. New York City is one. But around the country most apartments are for rent. I do understand the loss one feels when moving from a long-time home. In early 2018 I moved from my lifelong home (house) after 60 years. Mom died, and the house was sold to divide among the 6 kids. I lived there caring for both parents, 24/7, for 24 years. (Fri 1/13 is the 29th anniversary of Dad's stroke which launched me into being a caregiver.) A long road. I actually, after a lot of searching, ended up in the house literally next door!
Yep that's Alvin.
And wow, that must have been an interesting move, moving next door, and after all that too.
@@KoosjeKoene just walked out all across the driveway!
Gorgeous sketchbook Koosje! Your art is beautiful and inspiring. Thank you.
Thank you so much!
Wonderful sketchbook tour! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I BOUGHT your book and look forward to having it arrive all the way here in Japan! I’m excited!
Awesome! Thank you!
That fella in the drawings sure loves his hand-held device!!!😂😂😂😜
Thank you for letting us enter your illustrated life, you are a great inspiration for me ❤️
Thank you so much!
I bought your book from ABC Den Haag in November and loving it! I just hope one day you’ll write another book (or books!) and I can meet you at your signing event. Thank you for giving us the motivation and lots of ideas 🎉
I'm so glad you like it!
I laughed when you mentioned you do something to the cover of your sketchbook so you know where the front is. I accidentally started working in my last Nostalgie sketchbook backwards and upside down. ;) Oh well! Thanks as always for sharing your inspiration and I hope you're enjoying your new home!
Ah yes, oh well, upside down or not...you're drawing! Yay!
I did the same thing! But, I just made a fun notation about my “mistake” & carried on!
skethbooks are great fo keeping our memories in 😀
So true!
I just bought your book through the Book Despository...should arrive mid February (as I am in Canada). Can't wait for it to arrive. Have followed you for some time now and love your videos, they've helped me to keep sketching! Thanks so much Koosje!
Awesome! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing Koosje. Wishing you many happy years in your new home 😊
Thank you!
Hi Koosje, which gouache sticks do you use? Thank you for all your lovely videos!!!!
You are amazing!!!!
The materials are in the description, but the brand really doesn't matter. Whatever you can get your hands on will work.
I like i! So much nicer than mine. haha. But, you're more practiced at it, & mine is the first one I've been doing.
Now that we've seen your drawings of your hubby, what does his photo look like?!? =)
Nothing like the drawings I make of him. That's for sure. LOL
I love your sketches, can you tell me what pen you used to get your thin and thick lines?
I use a fountain pen with a calligraphy nib: Sailor DeMannen Fude calligraphy fountain pen
@@KoosjeKoene Thanks! I have that one.
How many sketchbooks have you filled? You seem to go through them fairly quickly! And how do you store/display them? I’m starting to accumulate quite a few myself.
They're on the shelf and I've never counted. But I've been using sketchbooks for over 10 years now and I fill one a month or one every 1.5 month.