Snow aside, I’m starting to feel the urge to set out on adventures again, armed with a fresh travel sketchbook. As I’m always tempted when I see a different kind of sketchbook, I now have a drawer-full to choose from, ranging from one from Amsterdam which has handmade Thai paper to a waterproof notebook with its own graphite stick.
But my next travelling companion is going to have to be the Moleskine 8×5¼ inch sketchbook, which I bought from the 1893 Gallery shop in Salts Mill last summer and which I’ve been looking forward to getting started on ever since. I’ve never used a Moleskine sketchbook before and I’m guessing that it’s not going to be brilliant for watercolour but its advantage over my regular Pink Pig is that, lacking a spiral binding, it slots snugly into my A5 format art bag without getting snagged on the inner pockets or the zip fastening.
Only twelve pages to go in my Wainwright sketchbook, so it shouldn’t be too long before I can set off with my new ‘Legendary Notebook’.
Sketchbooks & Notebooks
Those sketchbooks and notebooks from the top to the bottom of the pile;
- Sherlock Holmes Letterpress notebooks
- waterproof notebook
- two A6 landscape Pink Pigs
- ECO Grey recycled leather Freewriters in A6 and A5
- Moleskine Sketchbook
- Yodels of Kendal watercolour spiral bound hardback
- A5 Pink Pig
- Olino ‘Karen Hill Tribe’ sketchbook with handmade paper from Thailand
- Daler Rowney Lyndhurst High White 10 x 7 inch spiral bound pad.