new travel sketchbook with artist Renee Walden

new travel sketchbook

30 May 2015

Travel journal with copic stitch, hand-painted cover and Fabriano hot pressed watercolour paper

You'll be seeing a lot of this book over the next few months. But most the photos will probably be of the inside so I thought you might like to see the cover.

I always have fun with the cover. They're not always painted like this one - sometimes I use pieces of material which have memories, or hand made papers. I'm going to miss my studio, canvas and paints, so for this one I thought to take my favourite colours with me.

Just finished binding it this morning. 4 more sleeps!

Sketchbook with Fabriano hot pressed watercolour paper

out and about in my sketchbook

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One of my all-time favourite paintings of a stormy day in a ruined Roman town in Spain.

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