The Sketchbook Challenge

 I found this blog following this  link.   Notes from the Voodoo Cafe  Looks like it could be very instructive.
It will give me a chance to use some of the sketchbook / journals I have been making for the past six months.

Coptic Binding

Last June I took a workshop at the Owl & Lion in Edinburgh. Since then I have been busy making journals and sketchbooks.  I have learned to make my own bookcloth and my local art shop stocks Italian decorative papers

and hand made papers. Folding and cutting paper is very soothing. Not so the pasting, if I don't concentrate I can get in a bit of a pickle but I least I have found a use for old magazines and catalogues as papers to paste on.

 I have cut and folded some old watercolour experiments and I'll be binding them soon to use as art journals.

Recent paintings

Last week I did the chimpanzee and this week the garden.

Himalayan Poppies

Spectacular Himalayan Poppies at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh