We will soon be carrying all of your favorites.ĭoes that sound like a smarter way to watercolor sketch?

Always be able to re-use your journal with pre-punched 100% cotton watercolor paper refills.

For the same reason, never leave it behind like your boring black, brown, or grey sketchbooks that blend in with your surroundings.

Our brand new aluminum disc-bound journals are ready to solve all of these worries.

Something that ultimately couldn't be reused, refreshed, or reshuffled.

Something we had to surgically pull/slice apart to save the best works.

Something that took up space on our shelves.

What is that one thing? All the other sketchbooks became:

One thing that we questioned before we even purchase those journals.

One thing that we found in the middle of using those sketchbooks.

One thing that we constantly found at the end of those journals.

We've spent quite a bit of time journaling and painting in a variety of sketchbooks from all the major companies: Thicker paper (300lb paper), thinner paper (90lb paper), spiral-bound journals, book-bound sketchbooks, lay-flat books, panorama-style watercolor books, but one thing kept on bothering us.

And, finally, give back to the Earth while you seek out new journal masterpieces.

Easily pull out a page to work directly on a clipboard if you wish.

Always be able to shuffle your best works to the front or back (and remove those ones you're not quite ready to show the public).

Easily grab the right journal because of it's eye-catching, stylish cotton-bound cover.

I use a Dynasty Black Gold 311 Quill Brush size 4 available at For a list of my favorite watercolors, click here.Wild Plein Watercolor Journals are. 7 mechanical pencil with a kneaded eraser. The Faber-Castell Artist’s Pitt Pen in Fine is an awesome pen for drawing in your sketchbook or use a. I prefer a watercolor journal with 140# cold press watercolor paper. It’s a sketchbook just for you, and as you fill the pages you’ll treasure the experience and the memories you create. Try to connect your shapes for flowing lines and flowing colors. Then I add watercolor and it quickly comes together as a quick sketch watercolor. I like using a permanent fine point pen to just get me going with lines I can’t erase. A window or small vignette is much easier than an entire hilltop village. In a watercolor journal it helps to start with simple projects rather than super complicated. In a watercolor journal, it helps to start with simple projects rather than super complicated ones.

This helps my students let go of perfection and just have fun knowing that anything goes. You can sketch and or paint on top of this underpainting and create something incredibly unique.Īnother thing I do is share one of my journals which includes paintings glued in on pages (on top of paintings I don’t like), collage or stencil on top of paintings that needed some help (you can do anything in your journal), pages with spot color, and unfinished paintings. This initiates the journal and now you’ve got color on the page. One thing I do when starting a journaling workshop is to have my students put some random colors on about 4 pages. 7 x 10 size Arches Sketchbook is a favorite for my personal trips and I tend to go larger when I’m teaching. Also, a smaller sketchbook can be easier to fill than a big sketchbook. I can fit my supplies into a ziplock bag. To make it easy – minimize your supplies so it’s easy to bring them along. Once I let go of this fear and just saw it as a place to experiment and capture my journey then it started to come together. NovemBefore I started painting in a journal, I was intimidated about painting something that didn’t turn out, feeling that since it was a permanent page it my journal it better be good.

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