The Sketchbook Project is taking place in the USA but anyone is welcome to be involved!
Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across the country. After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view.

Anyone - from anywhere in the world -even us here in Sydney can be a part of the project. To participate all you have to do is pay $25 to register and they will send you a sketchbook. You have till January 2011 to fill it with goodies and send it back to them and the tour starts in March 2011.

Visit sketchbook project to get the details and official dates. Even if you don't want to participate it worth visiting the site to check out last years projects!

Anna-Wili Highfield found in Sydney

Silver Gull

Barn Owl

Scarlet Robin in a Jar

Magpie

I love when I find new artist from Sydney. It is like they have been under my noise the whole time. Searching through the internet I stumbled upon the work of Anna-Wili Highfield.
 

She is currently making sculptures of animals from torn paper and copper pipe. Anna-Wili completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts, worked as a scenic artist and is the daughter of a puppeteer. You can really see all her experiences combined together into creative new forms

For more of her work visit her website