 Well hello and welcome to this sketchbook tour video. Yes in this video I walk you through a 2008 sketchbook. Now if you watch my video why I'm pivoting my art then I talked about my previous art career back in the UK and how I've had to make a massive leap now I'm here in Western Australia. Of course I had a lot of sketchbooks back in the day, a lot of them have been lost or gone and some things are in transit as we speak on the ocean coming over here. I did bring this book with me because I was really fond of what was in it, the process I went through etc etc. So enjoy the walkthrough, if you like more videos like this you'd like to see a bit more behind the scenes in how I create what I create. Then don't forget to give this one a thumbs up and leave me a comment below to let me know if you'd like to see more of this sort of video. Alright let's do the walkthrough, here we go. So here we go, here's a sketchbook from 2008 and it's the only one that I've kept actually but I thought it might be quite interesting to show you. So you can see that I've got a list of topics, some photographs, some kind of playing with the shapes over here and again some sketches and then just like you see I've played with the ladders and the shapes this is how I'm getting my sort of semi abstractness. So one of my favourite places in Pol Perro that I've painted from a lot, I've even drawn out some of the windows just as a reference point and again photographs that have been cut up, some drawing here, some playing with shapes and design over here and more of the same after I've developed it I've got a bit of an obsession with these shapes of the ladders and the windows and then there's a little bridge there that features a lot in my work. And then just playing with some colour and shape over here and I've even got this is tracing paper so actually that belongs to a different page altogether I think. And then just continue it again, we're just playing with ideas and simplifying shapes and not many of these have actually arrived in completed paintings but there's a process there that you can see. So again another photograph probably Pol Perro, more sketching, more playing, playing with colours, playing with shapes and then we've got old blue and orange that I've used a lot over the years. More photographs, this is actually things primarily Pol Perro I think. Again I think that might have turned into some sort of painting and just literally reducing the shapes down, reducing and then you can see here that there's a bit of a tracing paper sketch so sometimes I would play with tracing paper and just make something different out of it. Palette has changed a little bit over here, muted colours, these definitely turned into originals I think a few over here that definitely went all the way. Again colour palette and then I've just changed, I don't know why but I got interested in doorways and suddenly we've gone a little bit kind of Indian or Moroccan I don't quite know what's gone on there but I've obviously got a bit influenced by something there so this is what happens in a sketch because you go off and you develop those. Those did not go into paintings, it was a bit of a distraction. Here's a bit of a photoshopped from the sketch. Pretty sure a couple of those might have turned into something, really got into that shape clearly so carried on there. You can see the similarity. These did not go anywhere in terms of paintings because they didn't really fit with what I was doing but you can just see my process plus it's fun to look back in time. Here we are back in familiar territory and just some pen and ink going on here. Again pretty sure these came out into definite paintings, this one 100% did. I've got some mousel harbour there I think, I've painted that a few times. These definitely were ones that I think all three of those came out into paintings and have all been subsequently sold, a few of these as well. So as you see how it all looks stuck together through the time and again continue playing with the theme, perhaps we'll put one of these back through here. I've filled the whole book to the point where I've even stuck some photoshopped playing around stuff at the back. So there we go, that's my 2008 sketchbook, thought I'd show that to you as part of the process. Perhaps when I bring all my stuff back it's finally arriving in February I'll actually get to bring back some more things to show you as well.