I can’t help it. I love painting daffodils in spring. It’s a curse. It’s funny though, a few years ago I remember seeing my friend Serena’s sketchbook. She had drawn a daffodil that I fell in love with. I was stunned at how dimensional it looked. I tried back then and couldn’t draw one. Now…
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Leda Sketchbook Flowers + Coupon Code
I love working in the Leda sketchbook (review). It has so many pages (160) that I never have to feel guilty about just playing. It’s wonderful to just let my artistic muse play, not think about balance or composition or perfection. I can just get the pens or pencils out and go nuts. It’s awesome….
(CLOSED)Huge Giveaway Of The Leda Sketchbook
If you’d like to purchase your own Leda Medium Sketchbook NOW, just use the coupon code below at Amazon (US or CAN) and save 25%. LRVY8A2Y Copy & Paste the above code into Amazon just before check out. Winners have been chosen. The above code is good until the 18th of April. Leda Art Supply…
Leda Sketchbook Review
I was so thrilled when Leda Art Supply(Website) asked me if I’d like to review their sketchbooks (US, CAN). They then asked me to be a brand ambassador. Yes please. (Stay tuned, at the end of this post there’s info on a coupon code and a GIVEAWAY!) I’ve been running my new sketchbook through it’s…
Giveaway: #Hahnemühle #NostalgieSketchbook
It’s GIVEAWAY time again here at Just Add Water Silly! Are you as excited as I am? There’ll actually be some really spectacular giveaways coming up in the next few weeks and months, so stay tuned. This time I’m partnering with Hahnemühle to give away a Nostalgie Sketchbook and a bunch of other stuff you…
PRICE ALERT! Sketchbooks (USA)
Stillman & Birn Beta Hardbound I went looking for a new sketchbook and came across this great deal for Stillman & Birn Beta hardbound sketchbook. I’ve used the Zeta and Beta hard and soft cover. I love their paper and I really appreciate that they so succinctly make it easier to know which sketchbook to…
Winsor & Newton Paper & Brush Review
The journal sent to me was the 5″ x 7″, cold pressed 100% cotton paper, 300gsm/140lb spiral bound with 15 perforated sheets of paper for easy removal from the pad. Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour Paper is a luxury paper made from 100% cotton and is naturally acid-free and archival. It is cylinder mould made, and contains…
PRICE ALERT! Strathmore Softcover Sketchbook
Hi all, this just in, Strathmore Softcover Journals are on sale at Amazon! This is the 8″ x 5.5″ softcover portrait watercolor sketchbook. The paper is 300gsm/140lb and there’s 48 pages. All that for just $11.84, that’s 42% off. Obviously it takes watercolor but also anything else you could through at it, pen & ink,…
LIMITED EDITION: “The Perfect Sketchbook 2017”
Hiya. I’ve done a post like this before, I mean about The Perfect Sketchbook. I wrote all about the funding campaign two years ago, you can read all about it HERE. I’m telling you this because I got an email this morning saying that the maker, Erwin Lian, has done a limited edition of this sketchbook…
The Perfect Sketchbook is BACK!!
From the crowd funded campaign page of The Perfect Sketchbook If you’re an artist you’ve probably heard of The Perfect Sketchook. A year or so ago a crowd funded pocket sketchbook was born and it was incredibly popular. It had great paper and all the other wonderful bits that every watercolor or pen & ink…