Her work can be seen in many different forms, ceramics that fit on bedside tables, drawings on sketchbook papers, paintings that hang in galleries, and murals that sprawl over entire restaurants.
Seriously, no sketchbooks, paper towels, trash plastic bags or any other disposable stuff.
Out of this two-month assignment came AN ARMENIAN SKETCHBOOK (New York Review Books, paper, $14.95), first published in a heavily edited Russian version in 1965, a few months after Grossman's death.
Today, there are scores of imitators dotted around the city, but both the quality and inventiveness of Giannini's work sets him apart - hand-sewn leather diaries or sketchbooks, marbled paper books to write down recipes, address and birthday books, even items as simple as a stylish bookmark.
You can sketch at a table, in the park, in the middle of the city in a sketchbook, on regular paper, or even on a napkin.
A wonderful book for young people, this book has also inspired this old gardener to go out and get one of those nice new sketchbooks with good paper (including one with the book as a gift is almost a must).
There were more than 99,000 tweets about Apple Pencil within 24 hours of it being announced, and even CNN covered the excitement among the design community, calling it the tool to "replace paper sketchbooks".
That's why artists start with sketchbooks and practice paper.
But already it lists a number of strong apps in its library, including popular options Paper and Sketchbook Pro as "coming soon".
