the first notebook using my tidewanderings palette

is filled

I’ll be away on the west coast of Scotland for a week, and probably out of range of the interpixies (or piskies as they would have called them in Cornwall) so I’ll leave you with the contents (surprisingly wordless, for once) of the notebook that accompanied me in Bretagne and Cornwall.

I had the DeepDeepLight tidewanderings palette, an ink stick, a Blackwing pencil and some paintbrushes. I found a feather and some dried plant parts, a piece of synthetic rope; all useful for applying ink. I used local water from brooks, puddles and the ocean.

Keeping a notebook isn’t about perfection, for me it’s a means of recording how I feel about places. The camera I carry (that thinks it’s a phone) is good for capturing monocular glimpses of moments for reference, but playing with pencils and charcoal and ink and paint on paper is something that feeds the soul.

It doesn’t need to be prize-winning, it just needs to speak to me.

And just this once, I’m sharing it with you, too.