Tag: Chick-fil-A

A gray, rainy day calls for urban sketching from the comfort of my little brown Beetle. On the ring of a mall in Chesapeake, they’ve torn down the Chick-fil-A, to rebuild it. The scene is more interesting than I’ve portrayed it here.

This is Daniel Smith watercolor, in an Indigo handmade watercolor “wiropad” (linked here)… 

(I’ve linked it to Amazon, but I noticed it is about $4 more now than when I purchased it.)

It is 100% cotton paper with a deckled edge. Nice flair! I had a little trouble deciding which was front or back of a page. I’ve decided to try using both sides and see how it does.

And an interesting trait… I don’t know if you can see, but it gets thinner along the edge with the wire binding, so the page can be removed and have a deckled edge along all four edges. Kinda cool.

Also, there’s a piece of parchment (or something) between each page:

This book is 9×6″… I think there’s also a 12×9″ book. I like the paper (so far)… quite thick and sturdy. Strong texture… almost too much texture for using a pen to outline, at least it would be if I wanted every tiny line perfect.

I’m not that enthusiastic about a spiral binding, in general… but if you want to be able remove a page, or all pages, this might be worth looking at. The covers are very thick and sturdy. The book itself is quite thick, heavy and bulky for carrying around, but the quality paper may be worth it. A soft cover with the same paper might be really awesome! I plan to use this to the end, so we will all see how well it holds up!

One bad thing, they put a large sticker on the cover. Unattractive and difficult to remove. I gently pried it off and put it inside the back cover. Decided it was the front cover, so peeled it off to move it, but it messed up the paper inside the cover. So I put it back. 🙂

I may replace it with an ID label, but it’s the only place the name is on the book, so I’m leaving it for now. That’s one thing I love about shopping through Amazon… if I forget the name of something I purchase, I just look in my history. (I use this feature often!)

I am an Amazon Affiliate, so I receive a tiny percentage on purchases made through my links, without any increase in price to you, the purchaser, and I appreciate your support. (I don’t think you have to purchase the exact item I link (although honestly I’m not certain) for it to count, and I use the little bit Amazon sends me to purchase extra watercolor supplies now and then. (Yeah, Amazon saw me coming. They knew they’d just be getting it back)