This is my last sketch of 2020 on a Seawhite Travel Journal (a Christmas present to myself).
Someone planted a plum tree on the unusually wide nature strip on my street. (The nature strip is a piece of publicly owned land between the front boundary of a house or other building and the street).The plums are popular with birds (mostly noisy Lorikeets and occasional Cockatoos) and passersby.
The house shown has a bit of green tarp covering a hole in the roof and birds have made a nest under it, we can hear fledgelings!
My favourite sketchbook for paper is the Moleskine Watercolour Journal but I'm not so keen on the large journal's extra long landscape shape so I'm trialing the Seawhite Travel Journal. These come in different shapes including an A5 which is less elongated than the Moleskine. I decided to try a square format one (I have a soft spot for square sketchbooks).
Where it comes to paper smoothness it's pretty close to the Moleskine which makes it nice for pen work. It takes water well but perhaps doesn't allow for as nice colour blending qualities as the Moleskine. The Seawhite paper is slightly whiter than the Moleskine (I prefer off-white).
One plus point though is that it dries very fast, perhaps faster than the Moleskine.
It opens flat and the hard cover has a pocket inside the back cover and a bookmark. Both have 200gsm pages but the Seawhite only has 60 pages compared with the Moleskine's 72. This might in fact be a plus point if you are wanting to fill it on a on a holiday trip. Price-wise it will depend on what specials you can find when purchasing.
All in all it's a good alternative to the Moleskine for me.
#Sailorfude pen, watercolour, #SeawhiteTravelJournal 5.5 x 5.5".
