new year notebook

2015 will mark a significant break with tradition, or habit, for my notebooks.  For twenty-some years I've carried a hardbound notebook in my briefcase or purse, usually a 5"X7" Moleskine or "note•book" . . . always austere black. 

This new one is a departure; it has a cover picture, a clever trompe l'oeil of small animals walking off an oil painting of the African veldt, onto a desk.  "Safari – Coming to Water," copyright © Bo Newell. 

Another departure is that the pages are lined.  I've always used unlined books because I draw pictures in them.  But the pictures are sketches, not for publication.  Besides, in Italy last year I saw a museum display of contemporary artists' notebooks, and a lot of them used lined paper.  Why not?  It's handy for the written parts and doesn't spoil the drawings.



Joe