Today I had a good day. My husband was off so we went down to Pasadena for lunch and shopping. My favorite art store--Dick Blick is located in Old Town in Pasadena. It's a small store, carrying some art supplies, just enough eye candy to make a girl excited.
I bought a few tubes of Holbein designer gouche. I rarely use gouche and after reading Cathy Johnson's new book Artist Journal workshop, I decided I would try using gouche, in addition to regular watercolor paints. In the book Cathy mentions toned paper...never hearing that term, I did some research and discovered that it was heavy weight pastel paper. I found Fabriano heavy weight Ingres cover paper in many colors. So I bought an assortment of colors to try.
When I came home I thought I would use some of the Fabriano paper, along with my 140lb watercolor paper to hand bind a 6 x 6 watercolor journal. While waiting for the glue to dry on the spine of the journal, I did a quick study of my puppy Maddie with a Faber-Castell Pitt artists pens.
So it was a good artist day for me. Not only did I get a fabulous lunch, I also got lots of new art supplies!!!!
Maddie waiting. 
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