Tag: sketch and wash

  • Flip through end of 2024

    Flip through end of 2024

    Two more notebooks completed at the end of 2024. Travellers notebook 003 passport size – uses MD paper Home life Home made notebook with watercolour paper and marker paper Some of my favourites

  • Line and wash painting book reviews

    Line and wash painting book reviews

    It’s been a while since I’ve done a book review. I’ve just got a haul of watercolour and ink painting books from the library as I’ve been delving into the world of calligraphy and sketch and wash. Modern Watercolour by Kristin Van Leuven This is an old goody that have popped up. Flipping through this…

  • Japan travel notebook flip through and best bullet journal layouts for busy tourists

    Japan travel notebook flip through and best bullet journal layouts for busy tourists

    Before we went to Japan I had planned to paint my way through Japan and so brought a Hahnemühle travellers notebook to sketch and wash in and a Claire Fontaine notebook to test out for journaling. When we arrived we found out that it was rude to   stand and eat and there wasn’t any places…

  • Travellers watercolor notebook

    Travellers watercolor notebook

    Loving the travellers notebooks. This is the watercolor paper version and for a 25% cotton watercolor paper it’s thick and can hold water washes, great for sketch and wash and landscape paintings. Portrait it held up under the multiple layers of glazing, and was ok with scrubbing. However at one point felt like I was…

  • Travel sketches – cruise holiday

    Travel sketches – cruise holiday

    I went on a cruise earlier this year our first since kids and here’s some of the sketches from my Hanhumule travel notebook. It was the perfect size as I could bring it every where and do a quick ink sketch then paint sometimes on the spot and sometimes later. Also work up early to…

  • sketchbook – Camping and weekends

    sketchbook – Camping and weekends

    Another sketchbook done. This time I was experimenting with sketching with different water soluble inks and doing washes with them. Here is a flip through gif Here are a few of my favourites

  • Travellers notebooks and calligraphy paper comparison

    Travellers notebooks and calligraphy paper comparison

    I just finished yet another Hanehmule travellers notebook and am averaging one every couple of months and have been using other notebooks for daily journaling. I would like to get back into bullet journaling but don’t want to waste my good paper so have been looking at cheaper alternatives and also experimenting with making my…

  • Handmade watercolour sketchbook!

    Handmade watercolour sketchbook!

    At the end of last year I kept the spare paper from my daughter’s exercise books and have been making little notebooks from the scrap paper just by collating the pages folding them together and using the back of the cover as a cover. Cutting to size then stapling it. It’s a great way to…

  • Another sketchbook done

    Another sketchbook done

    First time experimenting with a gif! These are my favourites It was nice to experiment with ink and wash true to the name. Usually when I use that term I think of waterproof ink followed by a watercolour wash. But this sketchbook I experimented with sketching in water soluble ink and then just painting water…

  • Practising portraits

    Practising portraits

    A lot of art is just practise. I’ve been practising portraits with close family and friends usually after a meal when we’re just chatting. I like being able to listen in but often the conversation turns to a topic where I’m listening but nothing to contribute. I like that I can keep practising my art…

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