Nulla dies sine linea

Apeles

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Hands up, who loves the Moleskine range of sketchbooks?

I adore them. Some of the sketches I uploaded here were done in Moleskine books. For those who aren't familiar with these handsome, compact, versatile Italian-made sketchbooks and notebooks with their signature rounded corners, ribbon markers, oilcloth bindings and elastic cover bands, their official site:
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A reasonably good Wikipedia entry with general facts and other links:
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Alternatively, if you simply Google the name, you'll find a host of online retail outlets.

But what I wanted to post about was 'skine.art., a wonderful site in a blog-like manner which I discovered last evening, where artists who work in these distinctive books post their scanned images of whole spreads and pages, ranging from observational sketches to more imaginative renderings, all done with genuine consummate skill:
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I seem to find myself exclaiming 'beautiful!' like a wide-eyed groupie at each new offering. I've been inspired, impressed, humbled and even, frankly, put to shame (in a good way!). I thought I'd share.

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On an entirely seperate matter, I have a small but uncharacteristically forthright plea I'd like to make.

Please read the notes I write accompanying each piece of work.

I know that many of my DA friends already do - and I do thank you for your time and attention. But I've had a few rather peculiar questions in recent days whose answers I needn't have repeated if the questioners had been persuaded to read these notes. What, pray, did they suppose they were written for? I've even had the question 'did you draw that?' ..... To which I patiently replied - with, I hope, not the smallest shred of irony - 'If you saw something from my gallery, then yes...'

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Thank you so much to all recent watchers and favourite additions; and thank you for all your kind comments, as ever. I do truly appreciate them. I must confess I'm enjoying the quiet of the obscurity into which I've now relasped... Ah... (Not that I wasn't grateful, of course! )

Niroot