DIY Travel Sketchbook

Pencil, ink, graphite watercolor, regular watercolor 

I picked up some tickets to the Republic of Georgia in late December(trip in April) and, being rather excited, decided to make a sketchbook for the occasion. I single sheet bound 140lb paper between 300lb paper covers, using this video to learn how.

Now the tough part will be filling it with quality haha

Making My Own Manganese Blue

Still some left!

As manganese blue is such an uncommon pigment for characteristics and rarity, and as I've had such good experience with it thus far,  I searched out and obtained this lovely pigment in dry form to turn into my very own watercolor! I love a good project, and was optimistic about this one :-)

The ingredients

I chose to add clove oil to prevent mold, as I was interested to keeping this paint wet.

I wore a respirator for safety sake, as this pigment is rather poisonous and easily airborne :-)

In the mix

The final product :-)

You know, I'm happy with the final product, it was easy to make and now I have more of the paint I like so much :-)