doing this page was supposed to help me decide what to do but I am just as perplexed as to what sketchbook to use.
A number of tensions that I am trying to resolve:
- Would love to use A4 moleskine but too heavy for daily use
- Would love to Stillman & Birn A5 Beta but would go through it too quickly and would be too expensive an option in the long run
- Other options are compromising my watercolour which I want to focus on…but at the same time I like recording my life. Really struggling with working across the spine in my alpha A5 books and not quite bonding with it like I used to – the landscape version would give me more options…but don’t know how heavy it will be.
- I really don’t like having two sketchbooks…
Oh! I think I am in a Post Trip Dip… it often happens in some shape and form I know what I am doing when I travel…. life seems much more complex when I am back home)
Well… choosing the ‘right’ sketchbook isn’t such a big issue – I should just pick one and go for it!
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Just get the 124 page Stillman sketchbooks.
Stillman and Birn Sketchbooks First Impression
They are good enough for watercolour also.
yes absolutely!!! the beta paper is great for watercolour – I think that the moleskine paper suits my way of using watercolour slightly better. Alpha is great too! there is just something about the a4 moleskine that I LOVE!
It's could be because Moleskine is one of the rare manufacturers that make A4 landscape watercolour sketchbooks.
yes – I think it is the freedom that that format gives me!
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