Sketchbooks

My philosophy is that if I have to schlepp around the country for work, I may as well take advantage of it. So recently I travelled to London early to get to the Horniman museum and also went to a late opening at the British museum. Despite the dire lesson we had on my City and Guilds course on sketchbooks ( sum total advice: Cut some pictures out of magazines that are inspiring and stick them in) I have begun to understand the concept and purpose much better after reading this book.
I have a lot to learn but in the hope that it might inspire you, I display below some of the pages I made relating to masks (although they do not photograph very well - sorry scanning is just too much for tonight) and then a photo of the largest masquarade costume in the world ( or some such like - its the biggest of some kind!) from the Horniman.

I still find that my sketchbooks ar every neat note taking things rather than very artistic free pages. I did a very good online ocurse with Sharon Boggon through Joggles.com in which she gives very good tips, inspiration and examples of how to use a studio journal. Now I just need to start putting the lessons into practice!