{"id":25635,"date":"2019-07-31T07:29:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T11:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=25635"},"modified":"2019-07-31T07:40:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T11:40:45","slug":"gone-and-already-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/07\/31\/gone-and-already-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone and Already Forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Another cheap sketchbook has bitten the dust. It wasn’t a terrible sketchbook, and I would probably pick up another one if it was on sale, but it contained none of the magic of the improbable Sketchbook from Heaven<\/em><\/a>. For reasons unknown, ideas would just bubble up from the pages of that original sketchbook. This pad from Dick Blick<\/em> had no magic. It was a slog killing it off.<\/p>\n

Oh, well.<\/em><\/p>\n

There are a few partially finished or partially started sketchbooks of varying quality that I will throw in my bag. Let’s see if I can wring any magic from them.<\/p>\n

I had a teacher in art school who taught a freshman illustration elective, and she referred to sketches or drawings as “your dirty little marks.”<\/em> She wasn’t the happiest of people. See my dirty little marks<\/em> HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Another cheap sketchbook has bitten the dust. It wasn’t a terrible sketchbook, and I would probably pick up another one if it was on sale, but it contained none of the magic of the improbable Sketchbook from Heaven. 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