I'm one of those highly obnoxious people who has to be different. Maybe having been born at home, during a blizzard, on an extinct volcano, in the middle of the Bering Sea has something to do with it. Anyway, while the rest of the planet extolled the virtues of a tiny mite of a sketchbook ( to wit, the Moleskine), I pooh-poohed it. You know I HAD to. Too small, too precious, too trendy, bad paper--you get the drift. I tried it again today. Guess what? It's cute! It's quick! (I can finish a sketch on a moleskine page in minutes!) It's handy (slip it in the old pocket and go.) Sure, it has problems (doesn't take watercolor well), but who among us doesn't?
So, here's my tiny, sketchy
second self-portrait for Sparky's Self-Portrait Smackdown:
And here's my husband driving:
We're drawn with five Prismacolor pencils I had, the lord knows why, stashed in my handbag.
I'm not giving up my customary larger sketchbooks, no way, but I will keep one of these Moleskines frequently near my person, just in case.
Marly, you were right not to resist! I love being embedded in one of your stories, no matter how tiny ;D.
Posted by: Laura | June 20, 2006 at 07:12 AM
I knew you were tall... Just couldn't resist, given the tinies.
Posted by: marlyat2 | June 19, 2006 at 06:41 PM
This is a fabulous bunch of comments! Moleskines elicit strong feelings, eh, guys? :D. I haven't tried the wc one yet. I have my curmudgeon image to uphold, you know. Marly, I love being a fairy tale character, but find it hard to envision myself or my handbag as teeny-tiny.Can you be tall and teeny-tiny at the same time? Melissa, it might have been 6 or 7, but still. Thank you, buddies, one and all!
Posted by: Laura | June 19, 2006 at 11:13 AM
Fantastic use of colour! You look very glamorous too! I'm one of those anti-Moleskine-ers too but I have to admit they are so handy! Wish that paper wasn't quite so smooth. I've taken to rubbing the whole thing with an eraser before I start as the yellow comes off slightly but looks better!
Posted by: Felicity | June 19, 2006 at 06:03 AM
ONCE upon a time there was a teeny-tiny woman who had a teeny-tiny (moleskin) notebook and lived in a teeny-tiny house in a teeny-tiny village. Now, one day this teeny-tiny woman put on her teeny-tiny (but snazzy) glasses, and went out of her teeny-tiny house to take a teeny-tiny drive with her teeny-tiny (but cute) husband. And when this teeny-tiny woman had gone a teeny-tiny way, she found five teeny-tiny pencils in her teeny-tiny purse, and she said, in a teeny-tiny voice: "Why, I can make two wonderful pictures in my teeny-tiny moleskin notebook with my five teeny-tiny pencils."
And so she did.
Posted by: marlyat2 | June 18, 2006 at 08:25 PM
Teeheehee!
Posted by: Katherine | June 18, 2006 at 07:32 PM