Moleskine #012

Welcome to Moleskine number 12.

I started this sketchbook back on January 20th 2021, and finished it on July 9th 2023. (Yep it has taken me a while to get around to post this,  But here it is)

If I remember rightly we we in one of the many lockdowns that we had over the two years 

I enjoyed doing his one as it combines two of my styles and water colour. The Water colours that I used are from Roman Szmal, which come from Jackson Art. 

I love the granulating colours from this range as you can create some wonderful effects with them.

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Moleskine 11

Moleskine Eleven
The Swatch Book. Book One

In 2018 I started using a moleskine A5 landscape watercolour sketchbook as a swatch book.
As I had several small sets of watercolour paints and inks, I wanted somewhere where I had a swatch of each colour and the name.
Also I thought it would be interesting if I documented each palette I had by putting each colour down in the order in which they sat in the tin. Which is great as I can see the evolution of the palette.

My Cass art, Schmincke and Windsor and Newton are possibly the ones that have grown and changed the most since starting the book. Also the amount of pallets have grown since I done a post back in May 2018 Water Colour Paint And Pallet Collection. I only had half a dozen pallets back then, now I have quite a few. A lot of them are in this book but As it got full there are some missing.

(May I'll go through them all and give each one a post.)

I decided to put my Cass Art and Jackson Art water colour paints in the same pallet as both of them are made with a honey binder and work really well together

My Winsor and Newton profesional set has grown form a 24 set and now lives in a White Knights large plastic pallet which holds 64 half pans.


I  no longer have my Cotman water colour set. as much as I loved it I found myself no longer reaching for it, and in stead going to my other professional sets so this one got rehoused to one of my Neices.

My Daniel Smith set is in 2 pallets. One houses the water colours and the other houses the primatek water colour. 

The Roman Szmal pallets are possible one of my favourite brands at the moment and now is housed in 3 tins

The Schminke brand is definitely one that has grown over the years. I have one Pallet with the Super granulating colours in and another tin with the standard range

The following swatch pages are of Japanese water colour paints that I cot from Choosing Keeping.

A Gallo is a Italian brand which I have yet to use properly

The White Knights brand is a lovely set. How ever since the war in Ukraine stared in 2022 it is hard to find UK art suppliers that stock them.

Ink tober 2021

I tried to do inktober last year, hoping that it might get me back in the swing of drawing. 

I got 3/4 of the way through and got distracted and stopped. I may pick it up again and finish the book using the prompts.