title: Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art
author:  Jennifer New 
description: "Refreshes the power, beauty and possibility of knowing ourselves through daily chronicle and tactile sensation." -- <i>Santa Fe Reporter, September 7, 2005</i><br /><br />A richly illustrated exploration of 31 list-, chart-, and sketch-filled journals by painters, filmakers, engineers, designers, and other visual thinkers. -- <i>The Boston Globe, August 2005</i><br /><br />A window into the creative minds of people from all walks of life. -- <i>Anthem, May 2005</i><br /><br />Shows how various talented people use their journals as a record and rough draft for their lives and work. -- <i>Metro New York, July 2005</i><br /><br />&#34;Painters, photographers, a psychiatrist, a gardener, a songwriter and assorted travelers chart their journeys. The book breaks down the 31 journal keepers based on how they work: observation, reflection, exploration, and creation.&#34; -- Linda Brazill --Capital Times, December 10, 2005<br /><br />&#34;Journals kept by 31 creative types, from cartoonist Lynda Barry and cognitve scientist/engineer Erwin Boer to painter Julie Baugnet, who teaches graphic design at Minnesotas St. Cloud State University, and sketches from a project journal kept by Mineapolis landscape architect Thomas Oslund.&#34; -- Mary Abbe --Virginia Pilot, September 25, 2005<br /><br />&#34;In Drawing From Life, New interviews 31 journal-keepers on how they use their notebooks to observe, explore, reflect, and create their worldsand then she lets their words and images speak. The faithful scribes and artists behind this collection of journal excerpts unlock the secrets of their lives and hearts. The result, bound in a journal-like book with rounded corners and a graph paper background, is visually stirring.&#34; --Iowa Alumni Magazine, October, 2006<br /><br />&#34;there is something romantic about this journal...&#34; -- Stephanie Rosenbloom, --The New York Times, September 8, 2005<br /><br />&#34;Jennifer New offers a compelling examination of the limitless methods of journal-keeping. . . . With contributors ranging from a musician, to a medical illustrator, to an architect, the book documents a whole series of everyday career-people with unusual ways of cataologing the world. &#34; --Resonance, November/December 2005<br /><br />&#34;Picasso left nearly 100 little sketchbooks filled with doodles and drawings that, to the delight of scholars, trace the evolution of his artistic styles.&#34; -- Mary Abbe --Brunswick Times - Record, November 3, 2005
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  This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are
  products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any
  resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any
  means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any
  information storage and retrieval system—except in the case of brief
  quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews—without the written
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  Cover Art design by Amber Anderson of ADK Designs, LLC:
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  Originally published as THE RUBY
  
  Copyright © 1992 and 2013 by Roberta Helmer
  
  First Dell Publishing Edition: 1992
  
  First Steel Magnolia Press Publication: 2013
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Sincere thanks to L. Somi Roy for reviewing the terms in the glossary and t