Today’s sketch is a pair of tiny paintings I did of houses from the Tiny House Blog. Back when I was brainstorming ideas for using my notebooks I decided to keep one by my computer and paint things I saw on the internet.

Well, this idea didn’t stick. While I’ve been a bit too busy lately to pause and sketch something, the main problem was the notebook.

The book doesn’t want to stay open while I’m working in it. I’m fighting it all the way.

So I’ve decided it will have another use: recording quotes. I have heaps of these floating around on scraps of paper. When I hear a quote I write it down. Gradually, during tidy-ups they end up gathered together in a pile on my desk, or the bottom of the box I keep my post-it notes and lip balm in. It’s time I started writing them down, and this book looks like a good one for that.

As you can see, I’ve torn out the two sketches I did. I’ll glue them into the main sketchbook I use. The other notebook idea I had – the art journal – is going really well. Just this morning I tore out an article on a famous sculpture in Melbourne to glue into it.