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James Gurney Discovers a Good Tandem: Moleskine and Schmincke

Posted by nyles | July 09, 2009, 05:23 AM
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James Gurney and Moleskine in Action

James Gurney and Moleskine in Action

Got a moleskine watercolor book? Then you just might find the Schmincke watercolor set to be its perfect partner, size-wise.

James Gurney, an artist known for his plen-air landscape paintings and author of the best-selling illustrated book series called Dinotopia, shows us how we can set up the sketchbook and Schmincke and all other bits and bobs so we can get all comfy while painting — even when we’re “perched on a mountaintop.”

Learn how to do just that here and, mind you, his Gibraltar painting is absolutely lovely.

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  1. by: Nicholas | July 11, 2009, 09:20 PM

    Schmincke’s metal containers are popular and wonderful, but it’s one of the growing number of top-notch artist-grade watercolor brands. I’m of the mix-and-match school, but usually always predisposed to Winsor & Newton (overall/general; but not its Cotman line), Daniel Smith (earths and quinacridone set), MaimeriBlu (luv their pans) and Schmincke (not including the containers, I like their brand for portraiture along with W&N).

    Speaking of watercolour notebooks, anyone interested should also try the large A4 Folios (A3’s are great too but I find them too large). Thankfully the new watercolour notebooks don’t have the perforations they used to have… the idea for that was to easily tear them off but got the ire of many users because it also made pages easily torn unintentionally.. hey if I wanted pages to be torn off my notebook, I’d have used any of the also-classy watercolor blocks anyway.