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Category Archives: Sketchbooks
Sally Kindberg’s notebook selection 2021 so far …
A few notebook pages, roughly in chronological order, sometimes reflective, often to do with journeys, and the use of Pritt Stick usually obvious. Cutting out and sticking is such a delight. Occasionally content will find its way into a … Continue reading
Early spring on Primrose Hill
My early morning walk was a bit earlier than I intended – I misread my clock, thinking it was 8.30 but it was an hour earlier, the light must have woken me. I walked past the hawthorn grove again, no … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Notebooks, Primrose Hill, Sketchbooks
Tagged druids, hawthorn trees, notebook drawings, Primrose Hill, Primrose Hill encounters, spring
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Sally Kindberg attempts to sort her notebooks
Every so often I try and sort out some of my hundreds of notebooks, visual diaries mostly stored in glass fronted Globe Wernicke cabinets which open outwards from the top. This can be hazardous as occasionally I’ve been almost overwhelmed … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Handwriting, Notebooks, Sketchbooks
Tagged flea, Globe Wernickes, handwriting, notebook ideas, notebooks, work in progress
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Sally Kindberg escapes to the seaside
There have been builders in the upstairs flat for the last three months, and they’re still there. Every so often I’ve managed to escape dust clouds and noise to go to the seaside for a couple of days, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Sketchbooks, Travels
Tagged Blackout shop, Brighton, Dungeness, Folkestone, handwriting, Hercules, Hythe, Kent, Mark Dion's seagull, newt, notebook, notebook diary, notebook drawings, photographer mick williamson, Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, Romney Marsh, Sandgate, seagull, seaside, small railway engine, St Eanswythe, visual diary
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Sally Kindberg’s Corona Virus Diary
Not sure now how many days I’ve had this blooming virus, but yesterday spent at the Royal Free Hospital being checked out, as had chest pains etc. I have arrhythmia a not uncommon heart condition but it felt it was … Continue reading
Posted in Comic strips, Drawings, Sketchbooks
Tagged cartoon diary, clangers, Corona, Corona Diary, Corvid19, covid19, diary, isolation, isolation diary, maps, NHS, paramedics, Royal Free Hospital, selfisolation, swannee whistle, virus diary
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Sally Kindberg looks at painting palettes
I’m currently a RLF Writing Fellow at City & Guilds Art School, and when not seeing students or getting on with my own work, it’s good to have a brief walk through the studios. If there are no students about … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Handwriting, Sketchbooks, Travels
Tagged artists' materials, artists' palettes, artists' studios, City & Guilds Art School, Margate, notebooks, painting palettes, palettes, Royal Literary Fund, Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow, Sally Kindberg's notebooks, Sally Kindberg's sketchbooks, Turner, Turner Contemporary, Turner's paintbox, Turner's palette
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Sally Kindberg’s visit to Dorset
My journey last week from London to Axminster didn’t start well. South Western Rail decided to cut the number of coaches from six to three, and these were packed. En route at Gillingham we were told to leave the train … Continue reading
Posted in Sketchbooks, Travels
Tagged blue notes, Dorset, Lyme Bay cafe, Lyme Bay restaurant, Lyme Regis, river Lim, RMT, Roman highway, Roman Road, seaside, South Western Rail, The Old Black Dog, Uplyme
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Nottingham visit
Caught the train to Nottingham from St Pancras last week, happy to see my photograph of railwayman Roland Hoggard in the station. From Nottingham station en route to find the bus to a friend’s house, heading up to the Castle … Continue reading
Visit to Krakow
When I first decided to visit Krakow, partly because I’d heard about the Teraz Komiks! exhibition from comics guru Paul Gravett, I chose my hotel because of its name – the Copernicus. The sixteenth century Polish astronomer, famous for his … Continue reading
Posted in Sketchbooks, Travels
Tagged Bishop Erazm Ciolek Palace, Collegium Mauis, Copernicus, Copernicus Hotel, Higher Synagogue Kazimierz, Kazimierz, Krakow, Krakow Mariacki Church, Mrozek, Paul Gravett, Poor Clares Krakow, relics, St Andrew's Church Krakow, St Stanislaw Kazimierczyk, Teraz Komiks!, The Comic Strip History of Space, Wawel castle, Wierzynek
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