My sketchbook is my treasured travelling companion. I generally work in pen and ink, pencil, watersoluble graphite, or in a combination of these media. I work in an Aquabee 808 sketchbook because the paper works well for all media, including watercolor (it stays flat), or I will sometimes do the drawings on papers I find on-site. I find that drawing on-site is the very best way to bond with my surroundings, to imprint what I see before me on my subconcious. My sketches serve no purpose other than the the enjoyment and meditative process of doing them. I don't frame them, make prints of them, use them as direct source material for paintings......I just do them and store them on the shelf in my studio (and in my mind)

The following is just a sampling: