Fountain in garden

A fountain in the business area near my place.

2hr
spec:
Pencil drawing, watercolor on Arches 300 LB cold press watercolor paper 5.5 x 7.5 in

Food log 6

 

The Ramen from this place is really tasty.  We went there after lunch hour but still need to wait for more than 30 mins.  It is worth the wait. 🙂

Sapporo Shoyu Ramen

Ink: Platinum pigment ink burn sepia
Pen: Sailor 1911S extra fine
Water color: DS and WN
on Moleskine Watercolor sketchbook A4.

Alameda creek trail

Alameda creek trail
2hr
spec:
Pencil drawing, watercolor on Arches 300 LB cold press watercolor paper 5.5 x 7.5 in

Rainy day on the road

1 hr 35 mins
spec:
Pencil drawing, watercolor on Arches 300 LB cold press watercolor paper 5.5 x 7.5 in

Coyote Hills painting 27

No Name trail

Trying out my new DIY watercolor sketchbook.  This paper handle water much better.
2 hr 15 mins
spec:
Pencil drawing, watercolor on Arches 300 LB cold press watercolor paper 11 x 7.5 in

DIY accordian fold watercolor sketchbook

Finished up my moleskine watercolor book and I don’t really like the paper on the new version of moleskine book. So I decide to make myself one with Arches paper.

Product list:
Arches 300 LB cold press watercolor paper 22 x 30 inches.
Thick cardboard for book cover (I used scrap illustration board.)
Book clothing
Some non-acid adhesive.

Watercolor paper fold into 16 small rectangle pieces (around 5.5 x 7.5 inches per page.) Accordion method, keep folding it in half and half…

 

 

Cut a bigger cover then glue the book clothing to it. Glue the book clothing to the card board. You can leave it blank or design a nice picture on it. Since I know I will make it dirty in no time, so I decide not to draw on it.

 

For the pressing I just place the book under two dumbbell and it works great.

The book size is 8.25 x 6.25 inches, the actual paper size is 7.5 x 5.5. a bit shorter than the molskine book. It also a lot thicker because of the 300 LB paper weight.

Inside the book. You can drawing on 4 pages together at once. Good for landscape drawing.

3D fish painting

Acrylic paint on resin. I think I used at least 10+ layers for each cup. The actual painting time is not much, just the drying time takes forever.( You should plan ahead with multiple drawing together to save some resin.

Here are some close up photo: