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Sketchbook 3

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Started August 2023
Completed October 2023

📖 Born Visual Art Diary, A5
🎨 Daniel Smith, White Nights, , Micador watercolours
✏️ Prismacolor Premier pencils
✒️ Lamy Safari, Kaweco Sport ...plus lots of other random materials

This was kind of a “junk” sketchbook, until I finished Sketchbook 2 and it became my main one. I didn’t have high hopes for this cheap mixed media sketchbook paper, but it was almost great, considering the price. It wasn’t just that it cost me less, but not feeling at all precious about “wasting” it was freeing and meant a lot more experimentation and risks, some of which paid off. I’d consider buying it again if it came in a smaller softcover version.

Some things I enjoyed trying out were permanent inks, my kids cheap watercolours, and sketching my travels, recent and long past.

market sketch of fruits highlighter and pen sketches of plants watercolour painting of a local house watercolour and ink painting of a bee and flowers watercolour sketches of a black cat and my dog, ink sketch of a room in disarray as I was organising a cupboard ink and watercolour sketch of a street with trees ink sketches of flowers, plants and bees, as I tried to use up an ink cartridge sketches of San Sebastián and Lisbon in the kids cheap watercolours watercolour sketch of the view from my dining table out to the courtyard ink and watercolour sketch of my living room with my son and many toys watercolour and ink sketch from a trip in the southern region of Western Australia - Wild Hop brewery, flying a shark kite, eating ice cream watercolour sketch of Yallingup Bakery counter ink sketch of a coffee truck in Japan watercolour sketch of the Neuschwanstein Castle