After working for months in two large mixed media spiral bound sketchbooks, I've become tempted by smaller, sewn journals once again. The root of the change began with a course I'm taking with German illustrator Felix Scheinberger. He's an urban sketcher and recommends an inexpensive A5 sketchbook - small enough to carry around and paper that isn't intimidating. I've also been following closely the local urban sketcher Becky Cao, who uses a larger, bound watercolor journal. Both prefer the stitched binding so that they can sketch across two pages.
I made one book for my Traveler's Notebook with my favorite mixed media paper, and dug an inexpensive A5 book out of the closet, and sketched them. The inexpensive book is a bit too inexpensive; the paper isn't acid free and doesn't take wet media well. But choices abound at the moment!
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