Large Artist Sketchbook 2021 Pages 29 and 30

Here’s another one of my artist sketchbooks for you to see. It was finished in May of 2021 but the artworks were done over the previous year or so, I guess. I’ll be showing you page spreads, one each week, for as long as the book goes on.
As you know, I make these books for my own enjoyment. I work on a page as the inclination strikes me and I never have a plan for the book or for the artwork that goes into it. There is no theme, no meaning, other than what each image shows the viewer and the viewer takes away from the experience.
In this book I did artwork on the front and back of each page. There’s nothing written associated with the images, and the images paired in each page spread do not relate to each other in any way except for being side by side.
I hope you enjoy looking at this book!

Here is the page spread for today:

and as a note, you may have seen the hands page before, back when I first made it. I wrote a blog post about it here. I was inspired by a post on a blog friend’s blog Thereisnocavalry – look here for his version that sent me on this journey.

And here are the individual pages.

9 thoughts on “Large Artist Sketchbook 2021 Pages 29 and 30”

memadtwo April 22, 2022 at 9:10 am

Love the hands. (K)

Claudia McGill Post authorApril 22, 2022 at 3:37 pm

You may remember these hands, they have featured in another post I did a while back. https://claudiamcgillart.wordpress.com/2020/04/27/hands-up-lets-see-what-they-say/
I got the idea from a blog friend mentioned in this post and I also tell what they hands meant to me. Looking at them again, they are full of things I can maybe do now, or have done, but back then, things were so different.
1. memadtwo April 22, 2022 at 7:28 pm
  
  I do remember, but good to take a second look. Hands are definitely recorders of time.

Laura (PA Pict) April 22, 2022 at 12:31 pm

The first one has the feeling of one of those vintage images snapped by street photographers. I really like the hands one. It seems to convey the idea of all of the many and various things that hands do for us.

Claudia McGill Post authorApril 23, 2022 at 6:06 pm

Thank you. The people one was inspired by a sketch done on a scrap of paper that I then glued in the book and expanded. I find that technique works well for me. The hands, they were inspired by another fellow blogger’s post – https://claudiamcgillart.wordpress.com/2020/04/27/hands-up-lets-see-what-they-say/
and I think I need to look these hands over again – I hope to try some of the things they are saying to me.