The past month, my desire to sketch has been sporadic at best. Even with the initial excitement of my new tiny Traveler’s card-sized notebook which I now use as an ID and credit card wallet. But today I finally finished the first two pages.
Three of these were sketched from photos on my iPad taken during a 2015 family camping trip on Mustang Island. The ghost crab (of which there were multitudes!) was drawn from an online source. I used watercolor, followed by a touch of pen. Even though this is not watercolor paper, it actually worked quite well. Gouache would probably work even better.
This Demi Palette holds my version of Marc Taro Holmes’ Direct Watercolor palette done in collaboration with Art Toolkit years ago. The brush I use most for these tiny sketches is an Ooku round #2 travel brush, and the pen is a Uniball Signo DX 0.28 in brown black. The larger brush is a Rosemary & Co R26 #4 round.
When I decided to use the pages of this tiny notebook for tiny sketches, I made a lightweight card stencil to draw in the tiny blocks. It is easily tucked in to the notebook’s kraft paper pocket, and can also be used for larger one-per-page blocks.
