Two Story Sketchbook

April 2nd - April 8th

2010-05-11T10:40:00.000-07:00

Here is our new week of images. (click any to view larger)

THEME: Song titles and lyrics

THOUGHTS: WE'RE BACK! With our favorite recurring theme.

PICKED BY: M&S

April 2nd, 2010

April 3rd, 2010

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April 8th, 2010

MISSING!

2010-04-21T11:29:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone!
Things around 2SS have been pretty quiet lately. I'm sure the whole internet has noticed.
WELL! There is a good reason!

The Two Story Sketchbook headquarters is getting ready to participate in the 12th annual SOMERVILLE OPEN STUDIOS!

We are painting and drawing and photocopying and crafting and cleaning and arranging in order to welcome our adoring public into our respective stories.

2SS will return to its regularly scheduled posting (including a huge post of back-logged drawings we're saving up) once SOS is over. You WILL receive your promised 365 drawings.

Come see us May 1st and 2nd from Noon to Six each day to get a peak behind the scenes and to see what else we do besides pencil/pen sketchbook scribblings with a weekly theme!

~Marissa & Sarah

March 26th - April 1st, 2010

2010-04-05T20:21:00.000-07:00

Here is our new week of images. (click any to view larger)

THEME: Guilty

THOUGHTS: Last seen at the scene of the crime. You have the right to remain silent.

PICKED BY: Marissa - wanted in six states.

March 26th, 2010

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April 1st, 2010

March 19th - March 25th

2010-03-30T08:14:00.000-07:00

Here is our new week of images. (click any to view larger)

THEME: Growth

THOUGHTS: Enlargement, progress, development. A change in scale.

PICKED BY: Megan Mary

March 19th, 2010

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March 25th, 2010

Things We Love Thursday -- Marissa

2010-03-25T12:30:00.000-07:00

I love miniature food!

It started when I had a dollhouse as a child, or maybe before, as I have a certain fondness for the Beatrix Potter story "A Tale of Two Bad Mice" and their bizarre dollhouse adventures. Here is fake food that really would fool a scrounging mouse:

These exquisite examples are made by an Etsy seller called Petit Plat. Aren't they great? I love the detail, and the fact that they are so ridiculously small (that tray below is less than 2 inches long). Amazing work!!

Things We Love Thursday - Sarah

2010-03-25T11:48:00.000-07:00

Edward Gorey and his love of cats.

This video for Scholarship at Langara 2010

The delicate adorable functional ceramic/porcelain work of Joanna (prettyrandomobjects) and Sawako (alleluja).

March 12th - March 18th

2010-03-21T16:56:00.000-07:00

Here is our new week of images. (click any to view larger)

THEME: Old

THOUGHTS: Likely succeeded by an updated model; antique. (Also: I'm older than I've ever been and now I'm even older.)

PICKED BY: Marissa

March 12th, 2010

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March 5th - March 11th

2010-03-15T19:09:00.000-07:00

Here is our new week of images. (click any to view larger)

THEME: Best (best theme ever)
THOUGHTS: Better than all the rest. (best thoughts ever)

PICKED BY: Sarah (best picker ever)

March 5th, 2010

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March 11th, 2010

February 26th - March 4th, 2010

2010-03-07T17:04:00.000-08:00

Here is our new week of images. (click any to view larger)

THEME: Duplication
THOUGHTS: You know, when you make more than one of something.

PICKED BY: Marissa

February 26th, 2010

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February 28th, 2010

March 1st, 2010

March 2nd, 2010

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March 4th, 2010

Things We Love Thursday - Sarah

2010-03-04T12:30:00.001-08:00

Cat Jam Print from the OhMyCavalier Etsy shop!

Legare Sustainable - 36" Straight Desk.
No tools needed! Beautiful and easy to build and move around!

The arrival of spring! So inspiring. Nature is making things, I should too!

February 19th - 25th, 2010

2010-03-02T05:24:00.000-08:00

Here is our next week of images. (click any to view larger)

THEME: Seven Continents
THOUGHTS: Sarah drew animals from each continent - what did you expect. Marissa drew mail received from each continent (and one request/challenge!) - again, no surprise there.

PICKED BY: Sarah

February 19th, 2010

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February 12th - 18th, 2010

2010-02-22T05:14:00.000-08:00

Here is our next week of images. (click any to view larger)

THEME: Pet Peeves
THOUGHTS: Not to get all Anne Shirley on you, but February is what I like to think of as an annual, month-long Depths of Despair. It's dark, it's not going to be spring for a long time, everyone is cranky and cold, it's a great time to listen to "How Soon is Now" by the Smiths, etc. One thing I DO like about February is complaining about things that annoy me, which is why I picked this as a theme.
PICKED BY: Marissa

February 12th, 2010

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February 5th - 11th, 2010

2010-02-22T05:09:00.001-08:00

Here is our next week of images. (click any to view larger)

THEME: Furniture
THOUGHTS: Sarah would like you to know that she decided to draw furniture she remembers from her childhood. (And it's her fault this post is late, she was busy having fun in Canada!)
PICKED BY: Sarah

February 5th, 2010

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January 29 - February 4, 2010

2010-02-08T06:16:00.000-08:00

Here is our next week of images. (click any to view larger)

THEME: Lost
THOUGHTS: Sarah would like you to know that she dated a few of her drawings incorrectly...lost her calendar maybe.
PICKED BY: Marissa

January 29th, 2010

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February 1st, 2010

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February 4th, 2010

Things We Love Thursday -- Marissa

2010-02-04T09:32:00.000-08:00

Meat Sections is a genius art-of-the-day blog which, by its own description, "involves drawing (and perhaps the occasional photo) of butchery-style diagrams, of not just the standard pig, cow, lamb, and other edible creatures, but odder items as well." It's made by a lady named Alyson who lives in San Francisco, and I think it's brilliant. But I also really like meat and meat diagrams.

Shaun White, aka The Flying Tomato, is probably going to inspire a lot of drawing on my part as he returns to the Winter Olympics next week. Between his bold appearance, bold moves, and the fact that he's frequently airborne, this dude makes me want to draw a whole fleet of flying snowboarders in my sketchbook. I used to draw a ton of extreme sports back in the day; maybe it's time to get back to that?

January 22-28

2010-02-01T06:53:00.000-08:00

Here is our next week of images. (click any to view larger)

THEME: Imaginary Cities
THOUGHTS: Marissa wants you to know that the tickets and other ephemera in her drawings come from the streets of Boston, and the names of places come from a map used as the end sheets of her sketchbook. She does not really want to know where they are, but presumes they are somewhere in Scandinavia.
PICKED BY: Jon, friend of Sarah and professional busy person.

January 22nd, 2010

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Things We Love Thursday - Sarah

2010-01-28T10:34:00.000-08:00

Colour Lovers Dot Com

Photos from the old World's Fairs.

Brown Kraft Paper.

January 15-21, 2010

2010-01-25T08:31:00.000-08:00

Here is our next week of images. (click any to view larger)

THEME: Q
THOUGHTS: Toughest letter of the alphabet - especially in Scrabble.
PICKED BY: Sarah

January 15th, 2010

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January 21st, 2010

Things We Love Thursday - Sarah

2010-01-21T10:15:00.000-08:00

Apparently I have a theme this week - cuts.

The paper-cuts of Henri Matisse - endlessly inspiring.
this piece - la gerbe
site

Ubiquitous by Naoko Ito
site

These amazing, often hilarious, pieces from Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre
site

January 8 - 14, 2010

2010-01-19T08:04:00.000-08:00

THEME: Song titles/lyrics vol. 1
THOUGHTS: I don't think we're going to draw as detailed as these every week. But I do think we'll do songs and/or lyrics again. So much material! Feel free to suggest some for us to draw in the future. Marissa's dad suggested her 1/14 song title, and yet he won't tell us what it means!

PICKED BY: Sarah & Marissa

January 8th, 2010

left: Blood in the Snow by Horse Feathers
right: 20th Century Boy by T. Rex

January 9th, 2010

left: Tell it to the Volcano by Miniature Tigers
right: Regulate by Warren G and Nate Dogg

January 10th, 2010

left: Cannibal's Hymn by Nick Cave
right: My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist by the Decemberists

January 11th, 2010

left: Summersong by The Decemberists
right: We Want a Rock by They Might Be Giants

January 12th, 2010

left: from I'm a Ghost by Ted Leo
right: So Fresh, So Clean by Outkast

January 13th, 2010

left: from Thirsty by The National
right: Poker Face by Lady GaGa

January 14th, 2010

left: Number One Blind by Veruca Salt
right: SWLABR by Cream

Things We Love Thursday - Marissa

2010-01-14T11:17:00.000-08:00

I saw this poster by Frank Chimero recently and was struck by the composition (lovely!) and the sentiment (been there! always!).

Frank's site
Frank's blog

RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan commissioned a reworking of Washington crossing the Delaware featuring himself as the father of our country and some of his pals in the painting as well. I kind of wish I'd thought of this first, but kudos to you, RZA, for thinking big. You can get yours here.

Things we love Thursday - Sarah

2010-01-14T07:39:00.000-08:00

Ben Kehoe - his palette, his textures, his compositions (I love squares!), his trees.
flickr
site

Recovering Lazyholic's 12 Steps - good advice for everyone.
site

Sarah Caterisano's travel sketchbook - full of beautiful details and an enviably effortless feeling.
blog
site
etsy

January 1 -7, 2010

2010-01-09T11:05:00.000-08:00

Here is our first week of images. (click any to view larger)

THEME: New
THOUGHTS: New year, new project, new blog, new goal to draw some drawings every day of 2010! GO!
PICKED BY: Sarah & Marissa

January 1st, 2010

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2009-09-02T10:33:00.001-07:00

We're gonna write some stuff about drawin' some stuff.
-SHC