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New Baby Watercolour Sketchbook

7/11/2016

 
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Wat am i doin.

I'm halfway (and a year) into my current sketchbook, I am seriously doting on another sketchbook that I occasionally gaze at at a nearby store, and still I decide to put together a side watercolour sketchbook. For watercolour studies I guess.

This always happens. I fill a watercolour sketchbook and then switch to thinner papers so that I'm not "wasting" it whenever I do sketches/notes. Then I get tired of the thinner papers and wish for watercolour sketchbooks again so that my paints actually do interesting things. Maybe I'm just a multi-sketchbook kind of person.

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This only happened because I found an old sheet of watercolour paper collecting dust in a box. I also had a full signature of Stonehenge from way back in the day that I didn't know what to do with. Combined, they make a pretty hefty mini sketchbook. This one is 4x5".

But I like having one book at a time. I like when time is linear and ordered. It's amusing to see the promise and effort at the beginning of a sketchbook, and then watch it devolve into taped-in scraps, notes and rushed ideas once I realize that my stuff will never look like someone else's stuff and maybe I should stop trying so hard, lol.

The moral of the story is, don't purchase a fat sketchbook you won't want to finish. It just goes on forever. Even if it's ten bucks and reminds you of your scribbly youth.


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