For my next journal, I decided to go with this grey toned book from Stillman & Birn. The paper is much lighter than my hand bound books. Really wet washes won’t work at all; semi-wet applications may cause the paper to slightly ripple but it pretty much flattens out when dry. My fountain pen nibs glide over it like silk, and I’m thinking there may be lots of work done in ink only — either black ink with white gel pen, or water-soluble ink with some washed out shading areas.
I’m sort of wishing I went with the beige instead of the grey — or the new version the company has put out with both colors of paper plus black! But this one was already on my shelf.
Instead of beginning with one palette (and changing it repeatedly as I work through the book), I chose three pocket palettes of more earthy or neutral colors, plus some white gouache. For fellow palette-nerds, the colors of each set are listed below.
NEUTRALS + PRIMARY TRIAD:
perylene scarlet, cerulean blue chromium, quinacridone gold
ultramarine blue
titanium white gouache, neutral mix of UB + TRO
transparent red oxide
“LUNAR” GRANULATING:
lunar violet, transparent red oxide, raw umber, lunar black
lunar red rock, monte amiata natural sienna, green apatite, lunar blue
EXTREME LIMITED:
titanium white gouache
lunar red, cobalt turquoise
monte amiata natural sienna, transparent red oxide, neutral mix of TRO + I, indigo
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| Testing inks on back page; ink dries slower, allowing me to wash out even waterproof inks. |
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