Bushcraft visits the Brooklyn Art Library

This month I led Bushcraft on a field trip to the  

Brooklyn Art Library! 

It's the permanent home of the Sketchbook Project, and you can sit there and flip through tons of artists' original sketchbooks! (You all know how much I adore sketchbooks) They're organized by city, theme, artist, and year.  And it's totally FREE!

 

  

Some of our group have already participated in The Sketchbook Project, like Diana Arge whose book from 2011 was there in the library...

 It was really fun to pick out and share our favorite sketchbooks with each other. It was interesting how some were very conceptual, some were not finished, some artists really altered the book itself, etc. It was QUITE inspiring. I'll just share a few...

After the library, we went next door to Radegast Biergarten where we played drawing games. 

(Look how focused we are!)

For this game, we all started with the word "Bushcraft" and then passed around our paper so everyone could each turn a letter of the word into something. We each chose the theme for our paper, so by the time it made it back to us we had a whole collaborative drawing! Here are some of them...

Then us late night kids played some rounds of drawing telephone, which was a drawing game I actually featured in "Page by Paige." (But this was more, ehem, adult themed!) Here are some highlights...

If you want to see ALL the pics from this month and previous months of Bushcraft adventures, click here.  And I recommend checking out Andrea Sparacio's blog post about this latest field trip...she has way better pics than me!