Constance Pierce: Moleskine #3 (April 09) D.C. Museums & Yale campus and British Art Center

(Please click to view in 480p/ not 360p to view better quality) I completed this Moleskine sketchbook during the month of April 2009. I took a road trip to Washington D.C. and also to the campus of Yale in New Haven, CT. It was, among other purposes, a "sketchbook sojourn." I spent hours wandering through the museums with my sketchbook and a couple fine-point Micron pens. What a joy to sketch bits and pieces of the images that attracted my eye, creating spontaneous compositions across my pages. I also incorporated notes, tickets, cards, receipts and washes of watercolor to a few of my pages in the evenings. I visited the National Gallery of Art (both East and West wings) the Phillips Collection, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (where I exhibited my sketchbooks in 1994 and in 2007) and the Katzen Art Center of American University while staying in DC. Then I drove on to New Haven where I sketched at the Yale Gallery of Art, the Yale Center for British Art and various and sundry other beautiful places such as the Sterling Library and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. (I was able to view selections from their amazing collection of Whitney French Illustrated Books with art by Bonnard, Lautrec, Picasso, Matisse and more!) I also exhibited a selection my own sketchbooks and illustrated journals at the Yale Divinity Library in April 2009. It has been a decade since I resided at Yale as a research fellow. What a joy to return to the campus and sketch in all of my favorite places! Keeping a sketchbook journal truly deepens and enriches travel in powerful ways.

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[constancelaundon]

aaron2da,

Much appreciate your response to my sketchbook....

I just viewed YOUR sketchbook and really loved the drawings.

What a draftsman you are!

[constancelaundon]

I very much enjoyed seeing your Black and Red Sketchbooks!

I appreciated the fine quality drawings.

The "page turning" effect I utilized is just one option available when creating slide shows in iPhoto on my Mac book.

[constancelaundon]

Thanks for your comment and response to my sketchbooks.

I always carry Micron 005 pens in black and blue along with my Moleskine. I add touches of watercolor wash in the evening after a day of sketching. Sometimes I collage in small pieces or strips of color from other left over watercolor works.

[szabofilms]

you have some serious talent!

[kathleentanguy]

Stunning work!!! Mad skills!!

[hakadoru]

How does the Moleskine hold up to watercolor?

[aaron2da]

wow very good work! the composition of every sketch is wonderful!! Your Great!!!

[ChadSmith1452]

@constancelaundon

I very much like your hatching technique, as well as your sense of light and shade. Tour pen drawings remind me a bit of Van Gogh.

[SinisterFelix]

Wonderful and inspiring work! Also, this is one of the best-made flip-throughs I have seen to date. Nice!

(Aaand: I like the music!)

[yatsura7]

I appreciate that.. thanks! No, I have'nt drawn MJ yet. But I plan to. I'll be lookin forward to seeing what you do next my freind.

[yatsura7]

Very good work!! Love your cross hatching style and the way your lines flow. Also, your handwriting... awesome!

[hyperion311]

sweet stuff, like the crosshatching