Illustration: Terracotta pencil sketch of a neighborhood lake scene in the early fall, 2015 by Black Elephant Blog author
This week marks the one-year anniversary of this blog, and so–some 80 posts later–it’s been nice to know there’s been some readership (several thousand different visitors from more than 40 countries, in fact.) The blog’s proven a great opportunity to see and connect with extraordinary talent out there in the blogging, twitter, and urban sketching world.
Also thanks to the blogging connections, it’s been possible to locate great people with many of the same interests I’ve had regarding the quality of paints, papers, pens, and pastels, and other such questions. (Indeed, there is a whole world out there of pure ‘materialists’ when it comes to art supplies–some with stashes of sketchbooks and inks and paints that would put most bricks-and-mortar art supply stores to shame.) Everyone is eager to share their experiences–and ideas of great bargains. Full-fledged engineers have even offered their comparative and very detailed analyses of paints, inks, and pens on their blogs. Whatever your question on whatever subject, clearly someone has likely already addressed it by now.
In addition, it’s been a year of exploring “adjacent possibles”–spaces where creativity and innovation occur despite the pressures of everyday life. The coming year on this blog will be devoted to the concept of experimental syntheses–putting experiments together to create new possibilities, and even different futures.
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