making a pocket journal

Art Toolkit posted a live art demo on Wednesday on making pocket journals with Judith Dollar from Urban Sketchers Houston (find a link to the recorded version HERE). A visiting granddaughter was on spring break from college so I didn’t get around to watching it until today.

For my cover, I used a leftover scrap of handmade paper used to make covers for two other handmade sketchbooks. It went together so easily, with its accordion-fold watercolor paper inserted in an inside fold! I will definitely make several more.

The second photo shows all three sketchbooks made with the same handmade paper for covers: a Coptic cover made in 2009, a hard bound one from 2016, and today’s pocket journal.