https://www.skineart.com/forums/ 'skine.art.forums. » Tag: moleskine - Recent Posts en Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:42:17 +0000 https://www.skineart.com/forums/topic.php?id=143#post-1131 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:32:21 +0000 Nikira 1131@https://www.skineart.com/forums/ <p>Hi, Chepablo. Ha, I checked this set today in the morning to lift up my mood. It looks a lot like japanese paint, I got on Ebay sometime ago, but mine is in full pan, I liked mine, colors are bright and juicy, but something about Shin-Gansai by Holbein is different. Especially my 20-yearold set. Colors more muted, premixed into melancholic palette, 2 amazing colors flesh-pink and pastel- ochre absent in the new Shin-Gansai set. One of interesting colors in japanese sets is turquoise blue. My Fabriano is Acquarello Studio, 140 lbs. I think it would be good for Sepia. I should check Venezia. Now I have to sneak out to try new books in peace. :-) </p> https://www.skineart.com/forums/topic.php?id=143#post-1130 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:26:22 +0000 chepablo 1130@https://www.skineart.com/forums/ <p>Hi Nikira. I'll try to remember but it may be some time before I get to it. Since you are buying Fabriano, I should say that my current favorite is their small Venezia notebook. It uses their Accademia line of paper which is quite good for WC.</p> <p>As for making the journals yourself, I can only say that the Coptic binding is _easy_ yet elegant. Some willingness to sew is all it really requires and a rough edge should only give it more character. That said, we are all short on time so spending it on the things you most enjoy is important. I can understand focusing on your WC.</p> <p>Off topic: JetPens just put up an Akashiya watercolor set that looks Gansai style. I would be interested to hear your opinion of it. If my memory serves me well, you are a big fan of the elusive Holbein ganai WCs. </p> https://www.skineart.com/forums/topic.php?id=143#post-1126 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:18:22 +0000 Nikira 1126@https://www.skineart.com/forums/ <p>Thank you so much, Chepablo. I bookmarked it and will get it as soon as I recover from my artstuff spree in Manhattan and Ebay. I really have no patience to do it myself, I am afraid I wont make it neat. But got Arches book and Fabriano to try. Please, let me know, when you'll try it, how good is the paper. I use to like German Torshon blocks. </p> https://www.skineart.com/forums/topic.php?id=143#post-1123 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:50:53 +0000 chepablo 1123@https://www.skineart.com/forums/ <p>The wand is waved around the top hat twice, raps it hard once, and "Voila!", a small portrait watercolor moleksine appears:</p> <p><a href="http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/a6-sketch-book-for-watercolor-342584/" rel="nofollow">http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/a6-sketch-book-for-watercolor-342584/</a></p> <p>I have a few but haven't used them yet since I wound up making a journal myself. My suggestion: buy yourself a sheet of your favorite watercolor paper, some thin wood (look in a craft story next to the balsa for the 3" maple slats), and look up "Coptic binding". You can make a beautiful journal in about an hour. It's actually quite fun to make and you can have _exactly_ the paper you want. I prefer hot press WC paper which will never make it into a commercial journal. </p> https://www.skineart.com/forums/topic.php?id=143#post-1117 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:24:05 +0000 Nikira 1117@https://www.skineart.com/forums/ <p>Check it out, please, and follow the link to join.<br /> <a href="http://www.ninajohansson.se/2010/06/portrait-format-moleskine-anyone/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ninajohansson.se/2010/06/portrait-format-moleskine-anyone/</a> </p> https://www.skineart.com/forums/topic.php?id=114#post-926 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:18:24 +0000 John Speight 926@https://www.skineart.com/forums/ <p>I made the mistake of buying notebooks rather than sketchbooks, and even pencil shows through. Rather than waste the books though I discovered that if you put plain grey or plain black paper behind the page you're drawing on, the drawing on the other side then doesn't show. It works on scanning into the computer as well. You can see the grey paper clearly on my scans but you can't see the previous drawngs. Don't know if that's useful to anyone, but it may help you to keep using a book that would otherwise irritate you. </p> https://www.skineart.com/forums/topic.php?id=114#post-925 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:39:54 +0000 Boofredlay 925@https://www.skineart.com/forums/ <p>Thanks ziza. </p> https://www.skineart.com/forums/topic.php?id=114#post-923 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:02:22 +0000 Ziza 923@https://www.skineart.com/forums/ <p>You are right: You need thicker sheets for ink. I suppose the best for that would be a sketchbook, which is however not designed for watercolour (it has "greasy" surface and watercolour runs away - although some guys managed to master it). For watercolour use watercolour notebooks. All of them are on the same site - this page <a href="http://www.moleskineus.com/moleskine-art.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.moleskineus.com/moleskine-art.html</a><br /> The other two types (storybook and Japanese) also good for art. Open your wallet, pick the size that you like, select the desired number and there you go! :) </p> https://www.skineart.com/forums/topic.php?id=114#post-922 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:08:31 +0000 Boofredlay 922@https://www.skineart.com/forums/ <p>Hey all, I purchased my first 'skine today and really like it. However using a felt pen I can see the image clearly on the following page as the paper is fairly thin. I got the large plain notebook on sale:<br /> <a href="http://www.moleskineus.com/largeplain.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.moleskineus.com/largeplain.html</a><br /> -<br /> I am assuming the Large Sketch Notebook is the one I need for ink. Someone please confirm this. I might also use markers and watercolor in the near future. If not the Sketch Notebook then what would you suggest?<br /> (Post a link too if you please)<br /> -<br /> My only concern with my purchase is that I only have 120 pages to sketch on and not 240, but with the deal I got I am not too concerned :)<br /> -<br /> Thanks for any info. </p>