My kitchen rules....

I was thrilled to go back to skool this morning. 

Danny Gregory was teacher for the first week of 

the 'SEEING' course at Sketchbook Skool. 

I can't wait to get started on homework but first, 

I needed to finish my homework from the first semester. 

Tommy Kane was such an AWESOME teacher! 

He's a detail man when it comes to sketching so 

that suited me perfectly. 

He also likes to work directly in pen...

me too!

One of our homework assignments was to sketch our kitchen. 

So, this morning, I pulled up a chair and got to work 

on a double page spread in my Moleskine A5 sketchbook...

I had already started adding watercolour when I'd realised that

I hadn't taken a photo of just the plain black and white sketch 

so there is a little colour on this one.

After the initial pen sketch,

I did a watercolour wash....

Then a little coloured pencil for more emphasis....

I'm not sure that I'm fully finished with it yet....
but I did enjoy the process.

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I recently bought a Holcroft Artist's A6 Travelling Journal
at Riot's Arts and Crafts.
It has a flexible Italian-made cover,
 160 pages of acid-free, recycled, quad-ruled, 120gsm paper.
And just like a Moleskine,
it has a pocket for ephemera at the back of the journal,
 a place marker ribbon,
and an elastic enclosure belt.

My first page spread below.

It handled my Uniball Vision ELITE ink pen very well without any bleed-through.
It did buckle quite badly with the wet media but dried reasonably flat,
 also no bleed-through with the watercolours.
All in all, it handled similar to my Moleskine sketchbooks...
but maybe a little more accepting of watercolours.
I think I'm going to enjoy playing in this journal
especially for fast, daily sketches.

Today, I'm linking up to Paint Party Friday.