number five is alive

the view from bainer, again
The last page of Watercolour Moleskine Sketchbook #5. I have #6 ready to go. This is a scene I have sketched twice a year since 2007, once in the summer, once in the winter – with leaves, without leaves. Run them together, it’s like you can see the world breathing in and breathing out. This, being on the last day of June, is the summer one. I decided against the normal colours though and went black and white and blue, to give a familiar, green scene an air of the ethereal.

You can see all the other incarnations of this scene in January blog post “and the seasons they go round and round“.

So Moleskine #5 ran from the start of November 2009 to the end of June 2010. It has been an interesting journey, physically as well as metaphysically, one with an ‘A’ and a ‘B’, not necessarily on that order. You probably say that when finishing your sketchbooks too. As with others it encompasses Davis, London, Vegas, San Francisco and Sacramento. I have tried to design pages a little more in this one, and paste different papers or materials in (particularly brown paper envelopes). Here are some of the spreads.

my cold fingers, in london
moleskine 5
moley #5 on russell blvd
weekend in san francisco
from moley 5
from moley 5

You can see all the pictures from this sketchbook at the following Flickr page: MOLESKINE #5

4 thoughts on “number five is alive”

  2. karen at pen in hand says:
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    Pete: If I ever visited your house, I would just sit with a big stack of your sketchbooks and look through them for a few hours. There you’d be, with your family, perhaps trying to make polite conversation with this weird woman, and I’d be mutely saying, “uh-huh, uh-huh – OH, LOOK at THAT page!”
    These are terrific.

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