Today's link is yet another great article on Hyperallergic.com about the sketchbooks of painter Richard Deibenkorn. There is an upcoming exhibit at Stanford University of the painters sketchbooks, which are loaded with highly varied imagery in differing media. The images are playful and surprising, based on observational subjects and highly abstract and imaginative ones. Seeing just a few images in this article got me pumped for sketchbook play again.
Seeing the sketchbook pages made me want to dig a little deeper. Here is a nice summary of the artist's life and work. I also found a page of quotes about art from Diebenkorn, which illustrate the emphasis he placed on the process of making art (as opposed to the finished product.) His art is about wrestling media to a resolution. I can relate to that! Finally, a good overall gallery site of Diebenkorn's work that shows a range of styles. So many artists have such consistent bodies of work -- it is refreshing to me to see so such a range.
Off to school today to start getting my classroom in order, frozen peas crucially located on my lower back. What will you make today?