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Choose the Right Sketchbook for You

Date: 30-06-2023
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Journals form an artist’s living library, a place where ideas develop through drawing, scribbling, painting, and sticking things in. They get smudged, coffee-stained, and well-thumbed as they’re carried in bags, pockets, and glove compartments, always ready for when an idea strikes.

YOUR FIRST SKETCHBOOK

Gordon Harris Visual Diaries

Our Gordon Harris Visual Diaries are the perfect companion for kids and students. Ideal for pencil, colour pencil, charcoal, pen, and ink work. Unlike some brands, we take care to specify paper in our Visual Diaries that is suitable for sketching and visualising.

Available in A6, A5, A4, A3 - Portrait or Landscape, spiral bound, 110 GSM

SKETCHING AND DRAWING

Hahnemühle Sketch Book D&S

Hahnemühle Sketch Book D&S is made with high-grade, 140gsm drawing & sketching paper which is suitable for pencil, charcoal pen and ink, and even watercolour sketches. These sketchbooks are cloth-bound and made in Germany. Available in a range of different sizes and formats.

Fabriano Sketchbooks

Fabriano offers a wide range of sketching books, in various paper weights to suit your preferred media, and in different sizes and formats. They come both cloth-bound and spiral-bound, which some artists prefer as it allows the book to lie flat. Made in Italy.

  

WATERCOLOUR 

Hahnemühle Watercolour Books

You can choose Hahnemuhle Watercolour Books in 200gsm Aquarelle and 250gsm Pure Cotton papers, both designed for the watercolour artist on the move! Cloth-bound and durable, and with fine-grained, natural white paper, these journals are ideal for creating full-width panoramic paintings. Available in a range of different sizes and formats, and Made in Germany.

 

  

Fabriano Watercolour Books

These hardcover watercolour books are Made in Italy by Fabriano. The 25% cotton paper is perfect for watercolour, acrylic, pen, and ink. Available in A4 and A5 sizes as either a 200gsm cloth-bound journal or 300gsm spiral bound with a window cover so you can easily personalise your book.

  

UNIQUE 

The Grey Book

The Grey Book provides a mid-toned, cool grey surface, so you can sketch in highlights and dark areas to quickly render drawings with instant tonal depth. The smooth 120gsm paper is ideal for working with ink, pencils, fine liners, acrylic markers, as well as other water-based pens.

Available in A5 or A4

 

  
 

The ZigZag Book

No matter if it is a giraffe with the longest neck, the widest panorama or an Instagram-style pictorial, the Hahnemühle ZigZag book can do it all. This expandable format is ideal for urban sketchers and all those that love to paint and draw while on the road. The watercolour paper features a fine-grain surface on both sides and is perfectly suited for all wet techniques with a brush or pen.

Available in A6 and 14 x 14 cm

  

 

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