They can be laid out horizontally on the floor, held on a shelf, laid out on a table, or hung horizontally. Got so excited, couldn’t stop watching. Karen thank you for an inspirational workshop, time now to collect my ” toys” and supplies – and start exploring. Am a fairly experienced painter – but you have ignited my creativity to sketch and begin to explore my new home county of Rutland. A big thank you. Maggy

The sketchbook suited the wax crayon function of the Woodys the most, bringing out their strong pigment with only a slight amount of wax buildup. When diluted into watercolours the paper again showed a slight predetermination to warp, if only in a minor way. I recommend that you start with Buildings or How Wild is my Garden so you can see the way I work. I continue to build on the techniques learnt in Allotments and Abstracts. Fold them each in half lengthwise, EXACTLY. Line up the longer edges so your fold is perfect. (I find this a much better solution that measuring and drawing a line. The fold irons out over time, and there is no pencil mark to try to erase, which inevitably smears grey all over.)A chance to browse through 26 travel sketchbooks. Lots of fresh watercolour, ink and pencil location pictures.

My online courses are perfect if you find yourself too busy to attend classes and cannot find a suitable sketchbook class and you are happy to work around your own commitments So pleased this online workshop has taken off. It’s really transformed my mindset to sketching’ Gillian Chose a material or materials for the cover that you feel is appropriate for the content of the sketchbook, that lends itself to being collaged. Fabric, tissue paper, old letters, maps, photographs, dead leaves, anything goes! Exceptionally comprehensive information on watercolour paints and equipment. Exhaustive details on pigments, translucency, comparing brands etc. Essential viewing for the true obsessive.You can trim any tape that hangs over the edges by folding it in half along the cut and trimming from the edge side with scissors. Not at all! My sketchbooks are much more about mark making and exciting surfaces, with as little or as much drawing as you like. Some participants draw lots, some collage lots. I do provide some pdf photographs for you to work from for inspiration, if you need them. I can fill one side of a sketchbook in one session or it might take several weeks. However, if I have an idea, I might choose colours that fit my theme or decide on dark and light areas throughout the book. Sketches and drawings Something to collage the covers with that relates to sketchbook – tissue paper, fabric, maps, photographs, collected bits