Trees on a Monday
25 March 2019
Nymans
22 March 2019
Pevensey
Pevensey Church
Main entrance to the medieval castle
Road through Westham
South east tower of the castle, with a lump of the 4th C Roman fort in the foreground
Two gates in the park
19 March 2019
Keeping it simple, in just black and white. No sun today, just thick dark clouds, so there wasn't much colour in any case. Two gates at the edge of the park that lead onto footpaths across the surrounding fields. Rotring Tikky Graphic marker pens in Stillman and Birn sketchbook, 18 x 18cm.
Wind and rain in the forest
18 March 2019
Trying to draw in Ashdown Forest. Started off sunny, but clouds soon spread in from the west. Fighting against the wind and sudden rain, but, in spite of the name, this forest doesn't have many trees to shelter under. You can see the pictures getting sketchier and wetter as the weather deteriorated.
Benches and trees
17 March 2019
A day of mixed weather: sun and blue skies, then wind and rain, then hailstones, and then more sun.
Sketchbook from one sheet of paper
You can make a sketchbook from a single sheet of paper, with no gluing or sewing.
You need:
You need:
- a sheet of paper for the pages (any type that you want to draw or paint on, for example cartridge or watercolour paper)
- a sheet of paper for the cover (choose a colour)
- knife
- pencil
- (optional) thick card to stiffen the cover.
The dimensions of the sketchbook will be one quarter of the paper that you start with.
For example:
- A1 paper is about 60 x 84 cm, so the sketchbook will be 15 by 21 cm.
- A4 paper is about 30 x 21 cm, so the sketchbook will be 7.5 x 5 cm.
- Letter size paper is about 11 × 8.0 inches, so the sketchbook will be 2.75 x 2 inches.
Instructions
Put the paper the same way as you want the sketchbook: landscape or portrait.
Divide the height by four, and mark.
Fold the paper into a “W”. Make the folds perpendicular to the drawn lines.
Following the drawn lines, make three cuts going three quarters across; one from the left, one from the right, and the last from the left.
Cut the red lines; don't cut the dotted lines:
Cut the red lines; don't cut the dotted lines:
You end up with a zigzag cut.
Start folding at the bottom left, following the creases.
When you get to the end of the row, fold the pad under the next row (mountain fold), and then keep following the creases.
You have a book!
Add a cover: For small books, use a sheet about 3cm (1 inch) bigger than the open book.
For stiffer covers, cut two pieces of card the same size as the sketchbook pages, and stack them one on top of the page block, and one on the bottom.
Fold the top and bottom edge inwards.
Fold the book in half, and then fold in the end flaps.
Tuck the end pages of the page block into the flaps.
That's it!
If you've used thick paper, you might need to leave the sketchbook under a pile of books overnight to flatten it.
When you've finished the sketchbook, you can take out the sheet of paper, reverse all the folds, and then assemble it again, so that you can now draw on the back of the pages.
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