The sketch book! :D
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ellerEveryone, look at this, yhlee made me a sketch book! (To fully admire the craft that went into binding the book, look at his journal entry with more pictures and descriptions how it was made.)
The chess position on the cover isn't random - rather, it's the end position of my favorite chess grandmaster game ever, Tal - Hjartason, 1987. I squeaked when I unpacked the mystery package and saw this diagram! (It's the kind of super-weird position that, uh, has a lot of recognition value.)
The back cover is chess-themed, too. :)
And the book holds a selection of different papers in different colors! YAY! I knew some of them, but others were new to me, so I couldn't wait to test them all! The book is suuuuper fun to use, and for dmonstration purposes, I decided to show the first page of each paper section, with the picture I painted on it. Recently, I've mostly sketched with black and white acrylic pens and my watercolors, so that's what I've used here as well.
The first paper is "Arnhem 1618", and it's awesome, and it immediately created a bit of frustration: no one in Europe sells this thing. Not only is the paper somewhat expensive (which was to be expected), but it's literally impossible to get here. Too bad, because for my technique, this is pretty much the ideal paper... I drew this underwater chess board during the somewhat long-ish lunch break of a chess tournament.
Also drawn during a chess tournament, but with less time. The paper is "Arches hot press", which is a very nice smooth watercolor paper that I also have at home as a large pad.
This drawing, on "Stonehenge Aqua Cold Press Black", was created when my boyfriend and I went to have iced coffee in a café at Planten un Blomen (a local park). Acrylic pen and opaque white worked perfectly fine
on this paper. :)
And this one, I guess, isn't watercolor paper at all... "Eon Comic art board HD Plate" is very smooth, and worked well with my acrylic pens, but roughened somewhat when it came into contact with water. Not a bad paper at all, and it took the abuse well, but I think in the end it's more of a marker paper. I'll have to see how it takes a marker drawing! This botanical drawing was also made at Planten un Blomen.
Another quick botanical drawing from the same date... The brown "Hahnemühle Toned Watercolor Paper", of course, is one I also have at home... In large quantities, as pads and as sketchbooks. It's just such an incredibly useful paper, I love it!
A super-fast drawing on "Fluid watercolor paper hot press" - I had samples of that paper before, and I still like this a lot. :) Drew a flowerpot on the veranda while I waited for someone from my chess club to pick me up for a tournament.
"Arches Cold Press" is another watercolor paper I regularly use. Turns out it doesn't like the acrylic pen - not the paper's fault, of course; it's not advrtised for that stuff. XD Um, yeah, I like to draw roses. The shapes are just sooo much fun!
As you can see, I'm enjoying the book a lot already! :D It's not full yet, but... Only a matter of time. ^^°
yhlee made me a sketch book! (To fully admire the craft that went into binding the book, look at his journal entry with more pictures and descriptions how it was made.) The chess position on the cover isn't random - rather, it's the end position of my favorite chess grandmaster game ever, Tal - Hjartason, 1987. I squeaked when I unpacked the mystery package and saw this diagram! (It's the kind of super-weird position that, uh, has a lot of recognition value.)
The back cover is chess-themed, too. :)
And the book holds a selection of different papers in different colors! YAY! I knew some of them, but others were new to me, so I couldn't wait to test them all! The book is suuuuper fun to use, and for dmonstration purposes, I decided to show the first page of each paper section, with the picture I painted on it. Recently, I've mostly sketched with black and white acrylic pens and my watercolors, so that's what I've used here as well.
The first paper is "Arnhem 1618", and it's awesome, and it immediately created a bit of frustration: no one in Europe sells this thing. Not only is the paper somewhat expensive (which was to be expected), but it's literally impossible to get here. Too bad, because for my technique, this is pretty much the ideal paper... I drew this underwater chess board during the somewhat long-ish lunch break of a chess tournament.
Also drawn during a chess tournament, but with less time. The paper is "Arches hot press", which is a very nice smooth watercolor paper that I also have at home as a large pad.
This drawing, on "Stonehenge Aqua Cold Press Black", was created when my boyfriend and I went to have iced coffee in a café at Planten un Blomen (a local park). Acrylic pen and opaque white worked perfectly fine
on this paper. :)
And this one, I guess, isn't watercolor paper at all... "Eon Comic art board HD Plate" is very smooth, and worked well with my acrylic pens, but roughened somewhat when it came into contact with water. Not a bad paper at all, and it took the abuse well, but I think in the end it's more of a marker paper. I'll have to see how it takes a marker drawing! This botanical drawing was also made at Planten un Blomen.
Another quick botanical drawing from the same date... The brown "Hahnemühle Toned Watercolor Paper", of course, is one I also have at home... In large quantities, as pads and as sketchbooks. It's just such an incredibly useful paper, I love it!
A super-fast drawing on "Fluid watercolor paper hot press" - I had samples of that paper before, and I still like this a lot. :) Drew a flowerpot on the veranda while I waited for someone from my chess club to pick me up for a tournament.
"Arches Cold Press" is another watercolor paper I regularly use. Turns out it doesn't like the acrylic pen - not the paper's fault, of course; it's not advrtised for that stuff. XD Um, yeah, I like to draw roses. The shapes are just sooo much fun!
As you can see, I'm enjoying the book a lot already! :D It's not full yet, but... Only a matter of time. ^^°
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Date: 2023-05-24 04:17 pm (UTC)PS i had a quick look for that Arnhem 1618 paper out of curiosity and you can get it on Amazon UK but Jacksons Art also sell it, though like you say, it's expensive. Would Jacksons ship to Germany, or would the shipping cost be too high?
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Date: 2023-05-24 04:33 pm (UTC)Jacksons has become unreasonably expensive since the UK left the European Union - not the seller's fault, but with intrnational shipping AND extra import taxes on everything (including the shipping cost), I'll think twice before ordering anything there. Which is a shame because my experience with the seller is good, it's just the external bureaucracy that makes it suuuper expensive. I'd consider it in a case of acute paper emergency, but... Let's face it, I have too much unused paper lying around already to justify this kind of expense. XD
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Date: 2023-05-24 05:31 pm (UTC)Plus I too have SO MUCH PAPER. I must not buy any more. 😂
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Date: 2023-05-24 08:01 pm (UTC)I may see what I can do about Arhem 1618, which is, as you discovered, readily available in the USA if not in Europe.
Ironically, I ordered some more Roman Szmal watercolor pans from Jackson's Art despite the high price of shipping from the UK. Those apparently aren't available anywhere in the USA! :p
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Date: 2023-05-24 08:02 pm (UTC)I would be doing traditional if I had a large-format scanner, but my old one died and ones that can accommodate 11"x17" comic board START at like $2,000, which, yikes.
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