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The Working ShoreWorkshop practices on the Chesapeake

Section 05 · Sketchbooks

Sketchbook Practice for Field Work

A page a day, tide tables in the margin: how working artists use sketchbooks as the quiet ledger of everything the studio later uses.

An open sketchbook on a dock bollard, pencil notes and tide figures in the margin, a heron working the shallows beyond
(120 à 150 mots : ce que cette pratique couvre sur ce rivage, et ce que le lecteur y trouvera).

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  1. A sketchbook spread held open by a jar of pencils, quick graphite studies of rigging and marsh grass with tide figures penciled in the margin

    A page a day, the sketchbook discipline

    The quiet ledger of the shoreline: a documented month of pages, margins and small readings that later become paintings, pots and prints.

The reference every workroom keeps within arm's reach is our What the tide leaves. Two neighboring workrooms extend this one: Plein Air and Ceramics.