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This was given to me at the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Amsterdam, and is created by an interesting company.
They come in a good range of shapes and sizes, including A5 Large Landscape format (shown left), a similar sized portrait format, the 8¼" x 8¼" square (shown left), a cute 3 ⅓" x 8 ¼" Pocket Panorama, and a larger 10½" x 8 ¼" Grand Portrait format. The books open out flat so it is easy to paint across the gully, and watercolour behaves nicely on the paper.
Drawing papers are intended for final work, so they'll be heavier weight and are generally higher quality.
I realize I'm being persnickety, and have mostly been using Canson watercolour at home (but spirals) and Strathmore 500 but thats soft cover and gets destroyed in bag, and really want hardcover surface without having to glue a cover onto it. All have 30 sheets (60 pages using both sides) and there is a plastic sleeve for storage at the back, a bookmark and a strong elastic closure. Strathmore's Hardbound Art Journal offer artists more choices in a hardbound format, such as 500 Series mixed media paper, Smyth-sewn binding that allows the books to lay flat when open, and a lightly textured, matte, chocolate brown cover.I paint mini paintings in my sketchbooks - detailed studies of leaves, flowers, fruit, landscapes, buildings or whatever - so I look for sketchbooks that will accept watercolour washes well. It is also available in the smaller size - The Perfect Sketchbook A5 Landscape with 300gsm acid free artist grade 100% cotton cold pressed paper (44 pages).
It comes in a good range of sizes and layouts, has decent watercolour paper and behaves fairly well with washes. Many non-artists have also embraced sketchbooks as a handy tool for keeping track of life’s details, using them as travel journals, bullet journals, planners, memory books, and more. If you don't use too much ink there is very little show-through so you can happily paint on both sides of the paper.It was created by Erwin Lian in conjunction with Bynd Artisan bookbinders and I bought quite a few when it was released as a Indiegogo crowd funding campaign in 2015. It is acid free 200gsm weight paper and the A5 contains 30 sheets, which is 60 pages using front and back. Please note - this is not an affiliate link (I will always state if they are) but I really want to make sure that high quality products get seen. The lightly-textured matte covers are a beautiful dark chocolate brown and the durable Smyth-sewn binding allows pages to lay flat so that your drawings can spread across the pages.
The Nova books are available in grey, beige and black, and in spiral (wirebound) or soft cover in a range of sizes. The next range is The Perfect Sketchbook, which is available in A4 Landscape with 300gsm acid free artist grade 100% cotton cold pressed paper (22 sheets/44 pages).
Blick carries hundreds of hardcover sketchbooks, soft cover sketchbooks, bound sketchbooks, and wirebound sketchbooks that hold multiple sheets of paper in a wide variety of textures and weights.
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