Scan Man,

hi rez,

then they will be ready for publication and we can say yeah, we used to know him back when ...

Gene Olson
Sculptor
Elk River, MN

Ok Scanning seems like a good idea..It's taken years for my wife to understand that when I say I put something on the computer. I mean that I wrote it on a post it note and stuck it on the screen. But hey...boy will she be surprised.
Brad

I am a very visual person, I do terrible with folders and scrapbooks etc. I am a board/wall person. If I see a color, a flower, or sketch something, it gets pinned on a wall. That way, if I redo a design or as my sketching gets better over the years, I take down the similar and replace it with the new. My ultimate goal will be to have a whole wall just for "ideas".

Laurie O
Anoka

I have sketch pads and sketch pads of sculptures, warrior woman(and men) doodles...papers galore. Sometimes I am sketch -queen. Recently I've stopped sketching all together (only when there's a client proposal due in an hour) but keep telling myself I should buy a drawing table and set aside even a half hour a day to sketch mindlessly. I"ve looked over sketches from years ago and wish I could catch up with my ideas...I really still like alot of them. I do
sketch with steel scraps in the studio...thus studio doodles...and they either become small scale affordable sculptures or ideas for furniture or railings.(aka dragonflies). My 2cents! Janet R.

Laurie O. Sometimes I'm just working out a problem in the sketch book, nobody needs to see that, and at times I'm glad to close the book. I like the bulletin board approach, though. Between the camera, scanner and printer I could lift images and move them to a clipboard for the current in process pcs, or even those that I'd really like to get to. The concept of setting a visual goal, or direction could be part of the process of getting the work out. Thanks for sharing, Brad

Perhaps the observations that Frank and Warren talk about in the raven posts are the things we need to document in some way for ourselves? There has to be a better way than buying a library? hmmm Brad

Yep sketching is always a very rough beginning. I sit at my local bar many nights (atmosphere with the music and chatting going on sometimes is relaxing) and doodle on the napkins. The help knows who I am and always curious of what I am sketching. Kind of fun sharing because they have no idea of what I am talking about. I use to have a center console in my truck and throw the napkins in there. Then you have a coffee spill and there goes some of the sketches.
As far as the other post of having a library. I bought a few books years ago of animals and birds. Still browse the book stores for specials. I started doing this many years ago from a statement a young boy made of one of my sculptures that had a dog. He told me one of the paws had the wrong angle. Sure enough after looking it up I was wrong. Of course those were the days when you just had an idea and made something from the seat of your pants. Now a days I do a little research so at least I might be half right. Not always worried about the proportions so much just the angle of the dangles.
warren
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