These sketchbooks by Leah Reena Goren are simple but beautiful confirmations of everyday life, something artists have an eye for. She is an illustrator and surface pattern designer living in Southern California.
More on her website, here.
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The first picture is so beautifully detailed, looks more like a painting than sketchbook. However, I think sketchbooks have really gotten more detailed, i.e. I think of a sketchbook as quick sketching.
I think the emergence of Instagram and Pinterest etc has enabled artists to think about their sketchbooks as canvases instead of just a first draft, although obviously lots of artists still see sketchbooks as the technical aids they were originally. I like both, a lot.
Yes, I like them, they have become so elaborate. Art journals.