I love looking through my Morning Ink sketchbooks. I mean, I love looking through sketchbooks in general – mine and others’ – but these ones feel different. Seeing the themes and motifs that come up again and again – the tiles have been around for ages now, and feel almost a part of me, and flowers are on almost every page – and cats, there are a lot of cats. Spotting little runs of something that will often coincide with something I’m working on separately (like paisleys when there was a paisley spoonflower theme, or vegetables when I’m workingon illsutrated recipes), or with something I’ve been practising in my other sketchbooks, or digitally (like people) or some art history I’ve been digging into (like the Great Mughal exhibition and trees and buildings that came from that). Seeing times when words are creeping in – like rest and sleep!
I love this!