I was cleaning out one of my lockers and I found this little binder from my days as a Health & Safety Rep. It's 7" x 9" and it seems like a nice size so I decided it would be a good travelling journal. The reason I don't use the 9 million books I already have is that I can never decide which one I like best. Sometimes I want to draw and other times I want to paint. So I have all different books of paper types and brands. I have a few pages done in each one - then it annoys me because they're all out of order!
So I took my Canada Labour Code and I threw away all the boring stuff, then I made a new cover for it:
There's a little pocket in the front, so I put a colour wheel in and I filled the binder with different kinds of paper - watercolour paper, mixed media paper, bristol board and sketch paper. I'm thinking that once I fill all the papers or finish a theme I'll just take them out and use binder rings to make them into a complete book.
And my dream finally came true! I saw the Peerless watercolour film at Akamai Art Supply in Port Townsend and from the moment I bought them I've been wanting to make a travel palette, like Jane Davenport shows in her video. I finally made one for my new book!
I'm not getting on an airplane anytime soon, but for now I think it'll travel well - maybe to work or to a coffee shop. I'll even admit - the place it's likely to travel to first...is the couch!
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