We’re pleased to announce the first ever Scout Books Art Market, a participatory event taking place all weekend at our booth at the Renegade Craft Fair at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Pavilion. All day Saturday and Sunday, stop by our booth to meet and greet a fabulous line up of artists who will be customizing Scout Books! We’ve teamed up with Little Paper Planes to bring you the handiwork of some super skilled illustrators, designers and artists who will be creating original pieces of art directly onto the chipboard covers of Scout Books. Stop by to say hello, check out the live art-making, and get your hands on the sweet designs, all of which will be available for purchase.

Check out our full list of artists below. Get to know them a little. Drool over their work.

In addition to the Scout Books Art Market, we’ll have a full selection of Scout Book three-packs available for you: Classics, Composition, Friends, Illustrated and more! PLUS, we’ll be running giveaways and special deals all weekend! Come say hi. We’d love to meet you.

The fabulous artists participating in our Scout Books Art Market at the Renegade Craft Fair include:

Christine Kesler works at the intersection of drawing, painting, and sculpture.  The artist is interested in making, re-examining, and re-envisioning the creative process in every area of her work, home, and life.

Maggie Haas is interested in the moments where objects and built structures waver in a moment of transformation; when wood is a plank and part of a wall, when a drawing oscillates between object and surface. Haas lives and works in San Francisco, and holds an MFA from California College of the Arts.

Danny Espinoza is a San Francisco-based artist. He is one third of School Night Studios.

Mia Christopher is a multi-disciplinary artist based in San Francisco, California. She is currently a student at California College of the Arts and her work has been collected and exhibited internationally. Check out Mia’s Flickr and Etsy store.

Hilary Copeland-Glenn recently transplanted from Flagstaff, AZ to San Francisco to get some more artiness into her life.  So far, so good.  She loves printmaking, particularly etching, and also employs heavy doses of linocut, silkscreen, monotype, painting, scratching, drawing, collage and sometimes hair in her work.  She often uses celestial objects, animals, puns, feedback loops and Victorian and Japanese things.  Otherwise Hilary enjoys singing and playing ukulele, noticing women’s work, watching birds quarrel in the garden, knitting, the metaphysical, internet cat videos, armchair cosmology and honey.

Kelly Lynn Jones is an artist based in San Francisco.  She has shown across the US and has recently completed her MFA from the California College of the Arts.  Jones also runs the online shop Little Paper Planes.

Lisa Congdon is a San Francisco-based multidisciplinary artist and co-owner and curator of Rare Device. Lisa is a prolific collector of old and unusual things, including bits of nature, and surrounds herself with these things in her home and studio. She is currently chronicling all of her collections in her Collection A Day 2010 Project.

Catherine Ryan has exhibited across the U.S., Europe and Australia and her work has been published in the books 100 Artists of the West Coast, Downy Bird Art Kingdom, and the 2008 Pacific Coast Edition of New American Painting.

Treatzone is brought to you by Matthew and Sandy Lynn Davis, San Francisco-based partners-in-crime who love making something new out of something old, often repurposing vintage materials and imagery in our art and paper goods. We aim to make things that will be a little treat in your day-to-day. Check out Treatzone’s Etsy store!

Jessica Wassil was born in Florida, a haven of gators and delinquents and has made her way to San Francisco the mecca of everything insane and beautiful which is amazing because interesting characters are mainly what inspires her artwork. She loves working with watercolors and ink to bring her drawings to life. Making art that makes her happy and hopefully it can make you happy too!

Nathalie Roland is a San Francisco based artist and music enthusiast who has been printmaking since 1992.

Jesse Hora

See Jesse’s whole notebook below, and get ready: he has another on the way, a collaboration with Abigail Wynne.

At the San Francisco Renegade, we’ll be in the company of some amazing crafters, artists and illustrators. In addition to our Ready Made Scout Books and the chance to place your Make Your Own order, we’ll be running fun giveaways and raffles.

Our booth at Renegade will also have the first ever Scout Book Art Market! Some of our favorite San Francisco friends will be stopping by the booth all weekend to customize Scout Books. Come by the booth on Saturday and Sunday to meet these awesome artists, illustrators and designers–and get your hands on some ORIGINAL artwork, made right on your favorite pocket notebook.

More details below!

We’ll have Lisa Congdon, Mia Christopher, Danny Espinoza, and a whole bunch of artists from the fabulous creative community Little Paper Planes like Maggie Haas, Treatzone, and Kelly Lynn Jones. Stay tuned for a Scout Book Art Market schedule so you can be sure to come meet and greet your favorite creative people.

Here are some more details about the Craft Fair:

The Third Annual Renegade Craft Fair takes place in San Francisco on July 31 and August 1 from 11am to 7pm each day at the Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion.

The Renegade Craft Fair is always free to attend, and will feature more than 200 of the West’s best indie-crafters, artists, illustrators and more. Find out who will be there at the Renegade SF Artist page:

Find more information here. We’re excited to see you there.

Mr. Bryant also took some time to answer a few questions for us so be sure to check out his answers and more photos of his awesome Scout Book after the jump!

Tell us about how you got to where you are now. When did you know you wanted to do what you do?

The path that I’ve followed has been one filled with blessings and opportunities to be around amazing people. Every aspect of my life has shaped me as a creative especially my childhood. Whether I was playing basketball for hours upon hours, collecting Michael Jordan POGs, hanging around older dudes in bands, watching classic cartoons on CN or Nickelodeon, and playing in the woods. I think I figured out what I wanted to do once I took my first class with Kate Bingaman-Burt at Mississippi State. She brought in Mike Perry for a guest lecture and the events following totally shaped my world.

I’m most comfortable with a drawing pen (right now Faber-Castell PITT artist pens and DR Pilot Drawing pens), but I really enjoy painting. Watercolor is by far my favorite, but gouache is nice to work with as well. I found myself torn between when to use what. I need to spend more time playing and experimenting.

What are some things that you draw inspiration from? Can you tell us a little about your process as well?

Like most creatives, I draw inspiration from daily life. There are loads of wonderful blogs/resources online that provide inspiration. Domy Books in Austin is filled with the best selection of art books known to man. But, the greatest inspiration for me comes from interacting with people and places. My process has often been pen to paper – draw something wacky, like a banana surfing. I’ve used lists a lot in the past and have begun utilizing the storms of the brain a lot more. As far as illustration is concerned; most often I draw things out with my favorite pen – scan it into photoshop and clean it up like its dining with royalty – trace is using Cocoapotrace – then refine it in illustrator. Depending on the application I might keep it in photoshop and utilize bitmap textures and other effects for more chaos in Tejas.

One of my big projects is developing a brand new portfolio site with studiomate Cody Haltom. I’m also working on another t-shirt for Nike, a snowboard deck for K2, several music packaging projects, another Pinball! job with TRLA, and Public School is changing courses. The studio is shifting more into an agency, but not a typical situation. We’re about to relaunch the blog and launch a portfolio site. On top of that I have several exhibitions approaching, including a show with my buddy Rand Renfrow at Domy in Houston. We’re collaborating on prints, murals, and paintings called Summer City that will open August 14.

My favorite part about Texas is Austin. Just come visit and we’ll take it easy!

And here we have a Scout Book created by Want Magazine and distributed free of charge to all the attendees at User Experience Lisbon to celebrate Want’s premiere launch in May (Where did the time go? I’m obviously sharing this notebook a tad late). I heard from a very reliable source that these books were quite well received by all and quite the perfect size to take notes on all the lectures at the conference!

Hooray Eden! Hooray Scout Books, you’ve done it again!

The good folks over at New Belgium sent us some photos from the recent Madison event and it looks like they had a ton of fun. Check out the rest of the tour locations here–if you’re lucky, they might be coming to a city near you!