Draws take 2

Starting a new drawing, on a new drawing pad. 

Pen to denote the rough size of the sheets. These aren't very big as you can see, and in fact this watercolour pad isn't new either, because what am I if not a shameless solicitor of papers.

I got this drawing pad from my sis-in-law from my last visit to the country, and she was a bit spooked by this drawing pad and didn't use more than two sheets and has had this on her person for more than one too many years without using.

The thing is that like most good papers for watercolours all the pages are glued in a way that one has to use a cutter of sorts to pry one sheet loose from another, and this does entail a bit of work and neat slicing of the edges. 

I loved the texture of these pages and of course lugged it back with me for usage and today I begin a new drawing on it.

Let's see how it works, and the next couple weeks I'm going to stay engaged with watercolours.

Something fun, something different something silly as well.

Let's see