and a ballpoint pen.I'm using One-Shot lettering paint (chrome yellow)
on a Pentalic watercolor journal
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Previously: Your sketchbook covers
Titles on sketchbook covers
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
New Sketchbook Cover
and a ballpoint pen.I'm using One-Shot lettering paint (chrome yellow)
on a Pentalic watercolor journal.----
Previously: Your sketchbook covers
Titles on sketchbook covers
I love the Pentalic watercolor sketchbooks! Thank you for recommending them!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your new sketchbook and cherish the crafting :)
ReplyDeleteLove the organic poetry of choosing the first sketch for the sketchbook title. It has led to some strangely evocative phrases.
ReplyDeleteLinking this to yesterday's post, I was struck by how many pages in Edelfelt's sketchbooks were far from completed drawings. It seemed sometimes he had ten minutes to give to something and then either had to abandon the sketch or simply didn't like what he'd done and had turned the page. These, of course, were interspersed with wonderful, more fully rendered drawings. It was reassuring to me to see the high percentage of false starts.
Have you used sign painter quills? Nothing better to move 1-shot. Those are really fun brushes!
ReplyDeleteGreat method! How do you still holding likeness of your book and, for example - you painted a picture in gouache. Do you wait for it to dry out or not? And how do you deal with gouache paintings that are «failures» and, stupid question, if i want to cover failed portrait with wc pencils that weren't dissolved, and when I cover it casein picks up color from the previous painting. How do you deal with that? My book is a mess, I draw ugly but I am still trying to get better, and mostly because of your blog.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your sketchbook covers, Jim! I've got them all screen-captured whenever you show them on the blog or in videos! ha! I'm a little obsessed. My favorite is the "Report from Planet Earth" cover. Thanks for showing this one off – Such a beauty! -Robb
ReplyDeleteHi James, I really like your idea to give your sketchbooks unique names!
ReplyDeleteJust a question, I started my first paint sketchbook (thanks to your blog) and I wonder if there is something to fix/seal gouache paintings?
Tobias, no need to fix the gouache if it's protected in a sketchbook. You could spray it with a clear finish, but test it first. It changes the surface and makes it no longer workable.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Robb! Glad you're enjoing them. It's good to be obsessed.
HNK, if a sketch doesn't work out, I can always rub it out with a damp cloth and start again, or just turn the page.
Jeff, I haven't used the actual sign painter's quills. They're made of squirrel hair, right?
Steve, I hadn't heard the phrase "organic poetry." Did you coin that? Yes, Edelfelt's sketchbooks make him come alive as a person and an artist.
Thanks, Jennifer and Gyrus.