12/23/2023 0 Comments Moleskin sketchbookDon’t waste precious time fretting over the news all day. Garden, Sew some Placemats, Cook an Almond Cake, Draw, Crochet, Craft, Paint, Sculpt with the contents of your shredder, Embroider, edit a family video, build a blog, listen to podcasts or an audiobook while deep cleaning your home. If you’ve been sent home, and your job can’t be done remotely, you just got a gift of time.Plenty of others have already figured out do-able strategies for quelling a willy-nilly mind-meander. Try not to reinvent the wheel on distraction.Clean your art-making space, and listen to some podcasts, like this.So, now I’m trying to do watercolour on proper paper and finding it really difficult. From what is kind of a negative thing, I’ve got into painting this way and enjoy the results. They react pretty strangely to watercolour almost repelling the paint so you have to work in washes almost scrubbing the paint into the page. I use watercolour pretty much all the time in Moleskine sketchbooks. He writes in this post that working to master watercolor on sketch paper made switching to watercolor paper a challenge. Since the paper is not meant for watercolor, he’s learned to adjust his application to work beautifully on those pages. He paints with watercolor in Moleskine sketchbooks. Wil Freeborn is a fabulous painter and illustrator based in Scotland. As a beginner, keep your paints and surfaces consistent to improve your skills. You *could* paint in a moleskine sketch notebook with watercolors, and get familiar with how your paints react, but that may slow your acquaintance with painting on watercolor paper. Watercolor on the pages of a standard Moleskine sketchbook… the pigments bead and repel, leaving interesting marks.
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