Having still Arches watercolor paper from a roll I bought years ago, cut in a landscape format, I thought I needed to put the paper sheets together to make them portable. This idea was inspired from Stephanie Bower work, she uses this format very often for one landscape sketch or two square-ish ones in one page, I think it's very versatile.
I could take it to the office store to bind it but I was up to the challenge to make it myself with recycled materials. Long format 16 x 8 in with 24 sheets. I'm so taking this baby to my vacation in Mexico.
A wire bound taken from a 10 year old sketchbook was used to make this new one. This gives me the idea to show these old sketches in my next post!
Leftover fabric was used to make to covers and old wrapping paper for the back side of the covers.
I used a drill to make the holes for the sketchbook, first I secured all the paper sheets and cover together to make a block, then drilled the holes,
then smoothed every single hole with a hole punch.
A ribbon from a gift box that came with velcro was used and I adjusted the length to make a secure band.
Boom! Done. I can't wait to use this baby.
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