Armchair Sketchbooks

Anyone who has ever been shopping with me knows just how much I love sketchbooks. They are portable, nice to handle and you can work in them whilst sitting comfy on your settee.

I often use watercolours in my sketchbooks teamed with oil pastels, Pocsa pens and colour pencils. Oil pastels make great resists and I use them to create doodle style patterns and shapes that can be painted into or over. It’s simple and mindful.

It’s colour therapy and because I find joy in bright and shiny colours, or at least I do at the moment, many of my recent armchair sketchbooks have metallic paint in them.

Small, smooth but strong paper sketchbooks work well but sometimes they feel restrictive so then I can extend my compositions by using concertina sketchbooks.

Today’s four photos are of a selection of pages from my small and concertina sketchbooks.

My intention with these experimental watercolours is to combine my approach to abstract composition with my method for drawing fine line doodles which up until then I had seen as two distinct art genres.