This month’s sketchbook challenge: 15 small abstracted typography collages made from letterpress scraps. Some marks and compositions worked, some were too chaotic, some too boring. Here’s what I learned.

I realized I was reinventing challenges I'd already created for my Scraps class. How quickly I'd forgotten the work I'd already done.

So instead, I started over with something simpler: one book, gray gesso, and the question—what does minimalist composition actually feel like?

Why do I keep adding more papers? A day in the studio wrestling with minimalism—and what my scraps taught me about it.

Forage in the woods, the city streets, the beach, and your own studio. Tape what you find to sticks and dip them into ink to make endless marks.