Sketchbook Project: Badger, Owl and Stoat

Another glimpse from Life Underground:

"Badger, Owl, Stoat", from the Life Underground Sketchbook © Lisa Firke

Sketchbook Project: Rabbit Warren

More from the book in progress:

"Rabbit Warren", A spread from the Life Underground Sketchbook, © Lisa Firke

Sketchbook Project: Breakaway

Only a few days more to complete this book.

Here’s a spread near the end, called “Breakaway”:

Breakaway, from Life Underground © Lisa Firke

I enjoy the idea of this tree making a break for it.

Pay no attention to the woman behind the curtain

Status

I’m mucking about with code and such behind the scenes. Expect wonkiness.

Persephone in the underworld

So, you know the theme of the Sketchbook I’m working on is Life Underground, right? Well, since the chance to re-do it was thrust upon me, I decided to start at the center of the book and work out from there. This booklet, in particular (because of the heavy paper I used), wants to fall open to the center fold, so I wanted to place something striking there.

On other pages, I’m taking more of a cross-section view, of life underground: seedlings and roots and earthworms and such. But here, I wanted to express what’s always a feature of my life at this time of year–the slightly smothered feeling of hibernation and dormancy represented by the tale of Persephone.

Here’s my Persephone:

Persephone, from the Life Underground Sketchbook