Sketchbook 21: Dreams, Drifts, and Digital Detours
Welcome back to my visual diary, where dreams spill onto paper and memories find their way through pastels. This time, we're diving into something a bit different - a collection that started with a dream and wandered through airports, Japanese characters, and marble-printed experiments.
Dream Fragments
Ever tried to catch a dream before it fades? Last night, my mother was teaching me to color - such a simple scene, yet so vivid. When consciousness tried to pull me away, I stubbornly held on, determined to complete that dream-drawing. Armed with oil pastels during my first college tea break, I attempted to recreate it. Funny how dreams lose their edges in daylight, but what emerged wasn't exactly what I saw in my dreamscape - maybe that's the beauty of it.
Airport Chronicles
Life's been moving fast lately. Between takeoffs and landings, my sketchbook became a travel companion. Quick sketches captured in those liminal spaces where time feels suspended. There's something about airport waiting areas that breeds creativity - maybe it's all those stories passing by, or just the coffee from overpriced airport cafes.
Butterfly Paper Experiments
Been playing with marble printing lately - my butterfly paper book has become a laboratory of sorts. Traced Jerome and Gilad's faces directly onto the marbled patterns. Something magical happens when structured portraits meet chaotic patterns. It's like watching order and entropy have a conversation.
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November's Mixed Media Mayhem
This month's been less about traditional sketching and more about exploration. Loose papers, watercolors, and miscellaneous paintings have taken over. Sometimes you need to let go of the book's borders and let art spill wherever it wants to land.
Waves of Confusion
Last weekend was strange - sunshine everywhere but somehow the sun stayed hidden. Ended up doing a watercolor of waves crashing against beach rocks. Sometimes nature mirrors our inner weather, doesn't it? The water told better stories than I could that day.
Japanese Journeys
"You gotta be careful about where and how far you go," Murakami warns, "once a path is taken, it cannot be undone." Well, my obsession with Japanese culture isn't showing any signs of undoing itself. Been practicing calligraphy - there's something meditative about those strokes, each one a commitment you can't take back.
But perhaps the most interesting evolution has been watching how different mediums start conversing with each other - watercolors seeping into pencil lines, calligraphy meeting marble prints. Each page becomes its own ecosystem of techniques.
Just like my brain keeps building new neural pathways, these sketches keep finding new ways to connect. And isn't that what art's about? Making connections we never saw coming, whether they're between dream and reality, science and creativity, or just pencil and paper.
Catch the full journey on Insta, X or BlueSky - where these visual thoughts find their digital home.
Until next time, keep dreaming, keep drawing, and don't be afraid to let your art take unexpected turns.
P.S. Still can't believe I managed to remember that dream-drawing, even if it came out different. Maybe that's art's superpower - not just capturing memories, but transforming them into something new.
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