Sketchbook Flip Through and New Sketchbooks - My Thoughts

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Strathmore 500 series mixed media sketchbook 100%cotton 90lb
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Stillman and Birn Zeta 8x5
120lb mixed media
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00BW5...

[@madelynsmith8281]

I love your paintings! They all look wonderful to me. Thank you for the flip through. I enjoyed it. What a blizzard! We had close to 90 degree weather today in Texas. I was not quite ready for heat like this at the end of Feb. But it was a beautiful sunny day for plein air at the historical park down the road from me. ❤

[@impish22]

Yay.. now my Tuesday is much better Sharon,.. but first.. have to start the coffee ; )

[@SharonCullenArt]

Ha, I think I’m gonna grab one now to watch other videos!😊

[@ZeeCeeCreations]

Thank you for sharing your work, Sharon!

[@amyb82941]

💜💜💜 thank you so much!

[@MariaClara_x]

I’m so sorry for everything you went through and in so little time but am very happy that you’re super strong to keep going and now I have the opportunity to enjoy your new art videos! 💙 Take your time to keep healing, I’ll be wishing you health, strength, love and light from afar (me and all the people around you and here on the channel probably :) ) see you!

[@SharonCullenArt]

thank you so much. I’m doing well considering. I guess well for me! Ha.

[@denisegurdineer1618]

Looking forward to your ink and wash video! Thank you for sharing. You may not be happy with your work but I think it is lovely!

[@SharonCullenArt]

Thank you so much! I think I am just critical of it. That is a very a bad habit I have had my whole life. I think it stems from being to.d I wouldn’t amount to anything while growing up.😊

[@jenniferdoyleart]

Loved the video

[@SharonCullenArt]

No’s so much Jennifer. 😊

[@BlancaVarguesArt]

Very beautiful painting😍😍

[@SharonCullenArt]

thank you.

[@btwilks]

I have a couple of those Strathmore cotton Art Journals, Sharon and was looking forward to trying them out as an alternative to the pulp paper books which have been giving me so much trouble with blending, layering etc. Now that they've been discontinued, I'm thinking twice about trying them out, because if I like them and get used to them, they'll be gone forever with no further supplies (and your comment about the dulling effect on the paint has also given me pause for thought). I have some other cotton sketchbooks (which haven't been discontinued - so far!) and I might do better to try and get used to those papers, where I can replenish my supplies if I like them. That's so odd that Stillman & Birn would make a sketchbook that didn't lie flat - after all, it's one of the first things that people look for in a sketchbook, I'd have thought. And, as you say, it probably only needs a softer spine to the book to enable it to do what just about every other sketchbook does. You have some lovely sketches in the Strathmore book, despite your reservations about the paper, so thanks for sharing them with us all. I totally understand your feelings about losing Diesel. It's coming up on two years since Trish & I lost Pepe and it still hurts. He's the desktop background on my computer and every night I still say 'Goodnight' to him and each day starts off with a 'Good morning' to him too. It's silly, I know, but we all do different things to help with the pain of losing our little ones. Anyway, my keyboard is about to run out of ink so I'll wish you all the best, Brian.

[@SharonCullenArt]

nah never too long. I enjoy reading your comments. I have Diesel as my desktop on my phone and Tully as the screensaver. As far as the strathmore books go, ya know who loves them? Sarah Burns. So maybe it is operator error on my part. idk. I do think the colors look duller though. just try one page and see if you like em. Have you tried the perfect sketchbook yet? Because if you run out of those you will emjoy that. I even like the white canvas lower weight mixed media cold press paper one. They’re great. I did write them a review on their website about if they lowered the amount of packaging then they could lower the price on them!

[@orchids5557]

Sharon it may help to put a small strip of masking tape on the desk that is the center of camera view. I can see how it would be confusing sitting across from the camera. You just need a point of reference on where to place what you are working on.

[@SharonCullenArt]

I have done that before but I move the arm back when not in use, or change position, and then I have to reset it. But for something like that I should. Thanks for the reminder.