Best watercolor travel journal portable#
I have a pocket version that I've used as a portable notebook and I've used a number of the spiral 10" x 7 " landscape books with 50 sheets (100 pages). I've also enjoyed the larger 8" x 10" portrait soft cover book, with 46 sheets (92 pages) for workshop demonstrations and larger test pages. I have used a number of the 9" x 6" portrait hard cover books, as they are a good size for transporting and they have a lot of pages - 62 sheets (124 both sides). The Alpha comes in so many shapes and sizes that it takes some thinking to decide which to get. I have used many of them as my 'play' books, where I test colours, do quick sketches, create demonstrations while teaching, take notes and so on. However it is designed for 'dry media, light washes, ink' and works very well for these. It good enough to get the bones of a sketch or idea down, capture my everyday adventures and get banged around in my bag.As you might guess from the photo above of just some of my Alpha sketchbooks, my favourite Stillman & Birn is the 150gsm Alpha, which is a bit of a surprise as it is not, strictly speaking, a watercolour sketchbook. Its a notebook that doesn’t make me feel like I’m messing up the “good notebook”. Now, I feel fairly confident that if you’re looking for something MORE than just writing paper - that you want more than a Leuchtturm 1917 or Rhodia Webbie because you want to sketch or do some pen and ink or markers or watercolor, the Seawhite Artist’s Travel Journal is a good option. I guess I was worried I was feeling too cocky about the sketchbook being good for me but maybe not right for someone else.
I slapped the elastic around the cover after everything was dry and hopefully that will help flatten things out over time.Īnd in my second round of pen tests, I added in more everyday pens like Fineliners, a Pilot G2, some gel pens and a Pilot Precise. Yes, I got a little waffle after it dried but nothing terrible, all things considered.
I did a second round of testing because I was feeling it… and with ink, watercolor and colored pencil, I was still thrilled with the overall performance of the paper. And I would because this book is just better. To the untrained eye, no one will know its not a Moleskine unless you tell them. The Seawhite Artist’s Travel Journal includes a ribbon bookmark and a gusseted pocket in the back for scraps and momentos as well so all the details are still there. Enough to be a big step up from the Moleskine Sketchbook. Its definitely not watercolor paper but it can withstand a little bit of water and wet media. Felt tip and fine tipped fountain pens behaved well on the paper making it a good book for art journaling, mixed media and dry sketching with light wash or ink. I didn’t have any issues with splining or feathering except with a rollerball and then only very minorly. I tested an assortment of fountain pens with good luck as well, though the paper did absorb the ink a bit more than Rhodia or other paper more specifically designed for writing. I immediately went to it with pen and ink and watercolor and while the paper did waffle a little bit, it did not resist the paint nor did it pill. The paper in the Artist’s Travel Journal is a warm white which is quite pleasant compared to the bright white of the Starter Sketchbook. The Seawhite Artist’s Travel Journal also has a sewn binding and will lay flat with a little training. I have other sketchbooks with stiff covers and square corners that could double as weapons. Its not a stiff cover which makes it firm enough to support your writing or drawing but not overly stiff. The Seawhite Artist’s Travel Journal cover is a slightly flexible hard cover like the Moleskines and the rounded corners too. So… after quite liking the 140 gsm paper in the Starter Sketchbook, I was willing to accept a slightly lighter “cartridge paper” to have a light water-receptive paper for sketching at a reasonable price. While the Moleskine Artist’s Sketchbook claims to have heavier weight paper, it repels most liquid media making it entirely unusable for me since I like to add watercolor to my sketches. Third, the paper is 130 gsm cartridge paper. This is their best effort to replicate a better Moleskine Artist’s Sketchbook and they did it. After my positive experience with the Seawhite of Brighton Starter Sketchbook, I decided to take the Seawhite Artist’s Travel Journal out for a test drive.
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