blue sketch 5 x 5

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Blue sketch 5 x 5 is another sketchbook for my creative journey into smaller formats. In 2014 and 2015, while I was left to my own devices outside of college courses, I started this sketchbook. I attended SDAI’s “art gym” at the Museum of the Living Artist in Balboa Park. At My Art Shed in La Jolla, I also utilized this blue sketch. I created a few images in ARTF210C at San Diego Mesa College, as well.

Life models found in this section of the sketchbook include the following: Jono, Sabrina, Joel, Zoe, David, Rob D., Anonymous Three, Yoni and Meghan.

After that humble beginning, I shifted into other projects and shelved this sketchbook.

I picked it up again in 2022 and my spiral, flower, and butterfly drawings started getting peppered in. For more of those see my site fluerdecie.com.

I started adding in abstracts and gently exploring with wet media.

This 2014 five minute eraser sketch of Rob D., (shown above) was updated in 2023. I added acrylic paint via a gel plate (shown below). This transitioned into use with a gel plate to apply acrylic paint to paper (paper that generally does not handle the moisture involved with acrylic paint, but works when done just right with a gel plate).

From this point in 2023, this became one of my new sketchbooks for my photo reference drawing/painting with Instagram life models. I also started utilizing images from my own model photography. And, of course, I continued my exploration with abstracts and wet media.

Life models found in this section of the blue sketch 5 x 5 include the following: @luniversphotos_de_p, @giovanniortiz6151, @lifefigure_, Anonymous One, @artmodelstl, @vivastra_life_modelling, @vlad.uvarov.cg, @mrkendonagasaki, @stokesjaronalex, @mistry.3y3z, @gjthefiguremodel, @malemodelmtl, @lifemodel.rach, and Harry Covair.

Well, that was a wrap on 2023. I noticed at this point that I started a habit of closing out the year with a flower / spiral drawing and starting the next year with another.

Life models found in the 2024 section of the blue sketch 5 x 5 include the following: @maxexhibiart, @stuinsd, @ayax_moon, @brocktonwarwick, and @lorent_live_model.

Well, that was a wrap on 2024. Fewer photo reference drawings were added into the blue sketch 5 x 5 this year. I started 2025 off with a spiral. It seems I stopped the habit of ending and starting the year with a flower / spiral.

My focus had shifted to other projects and other sketchbooks. Life models found in the 2025 to 2026 section of the blue sketch include the following: Earl, Donovan, Scott, Anonymous Three and Glen.