My Favorite Sketchbooks
Vložit
- čas přidán 29. 06. 2023
- I'm starting a new series where I'll be sharing all my favorites and this is my most asked question - what are your favorite sketchbooks. Below are links to the sketchbooks I mention in this video.
ONLINE CLASSES: www.sandihesterclasses.com
SUBSTACK: sandihester.substack.com
INSTAGRAM: / sandihesterart
WEBSITE: www.sandihester.com
SKETCHBOOKS:
*RANGER SKETCHBOOK:
www.jdoqocy.com/click-1001993...
*TALENS ART CREATIONS SKETCHBOOK: www.anrdoezrs.net/click-10019...
*XL LARGE MOLESKINE SKETCHBOOK
www.anrdoezrs.net/click-10019...
*MOLESKINE SKETCHBOOK:
www.jdoqocy.com/click-1001993...
*HARDBACK STILLMAN & BIRN SKETCHBOOK: www.anrdoezrs.net/click-10019...
PODCAST INTERVIEWS:
Jeanne Oliver: Episode 54: The Lies of Perfectionism with Sandi Hester
jeanneoliver.com/the-jeanne-o...
Sneaky Artist: Episode 38 (part 1) Painting for Joy:
thesneakyartist.libsyn.com/ep...
Sneaky Artist: Episode 38 (part 2) Painting for Joy:
thesneakyartist.libsyn.com/ep...
ArtWank: Episode 72 Artist and CZcamsr
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast...
Authentic Obsessions: Episode 31 Enjoying the Process www.authenticobsessions.com/e...
Authentic Obsessions: Episode 45 Sketchbooks
www.authenticobsessions.com/s...
*The links (*) above are affiliate links - it doesn't cost you anything more to purchase when you go to these links - they just help me make these videos! - Jak na to + styl
Sandy for the love of God this is torture. Please tell us you’re gonna go back and give us a very long sketchbook tour or even one sketch each video. You don’t have to do any editing we promise. We just want to have time to see each page and have a good look at it and hear what you have to say. You are an incredible artist.
That made me laugh! Yes, when I finish a sketchbook I give a tour - one coming up soon!
Agree!!!! 😂❤
Sandi has exquisite taste in sketchbooks, and the embellishments on the covers are just charming! It's always such a treat to see what's inside, each one is practically a gallery all on its own!
Thank you Blick!! You’re always so kind to me!
"All the Bad Goes into the Good" covered, limited edition sketchbook, Mr. Blick! Please and thank you. You could even make it a series, first edition by Sandy Hester, second edition, so-and-so....and on and on! Is your marketing department hiring?😅
Since I started following your art journey this past year I’ve got past the fear of messing up a blank sketch book! In the past year I’ve gone through so many sketchbooks!
I’m so glad to hear that!
From you, I've learned that art is a process of action, you gave me the confidence that I didn't have and that push to start. And finally, my arts look good now! Also you were the first art-blogger I started watching on You-Tube. Thank you!
I’m so glad to hear that Jenny!!! Thank you for sharing!
@@sandihester 😍
Oh my goodness I'm sooo in love with your art!!! I would literally frame the pages in your Sketchbook and hang it on my wall and be the proudest person❤I love how colorful it is!!! I can't wait for you to publish a HUGE (please make it a huge thick book) art book presenting your Sketchbook art and your finished art!! I would pre-order the second you announced it!!!!!!!
Thank you so much! Loved this comment!
I love the Talens sketchbooks, and I just took Emma’s lead and chopped the 8.5 x 11” size down so it’s more square - I love it. I use the small 4” Talens book to keep track of my supplies. I have sections for paint, markers, pencils and neocolors. Whenever I buy a new supply I make a swatch in the little book; then when I go shopping (online or in the store), I have with me all the colors / materials I already own so that I don’t buy the same thing twice.
Oh Sandi. All that flip thru did was make miss when you used to paint for us here on CZcams... Loved watching your progress and day to day activities...😢 I wonder what you are painting now if you are no longer painting still life's or lions and tigers. Always loved your imagination. Well wishes on this new venture.
I’ll be sharing what I’ve been painting soon. Been keeping it behind closed doors for now.
Can we talk about how cute your cat paintings are?? They are so expressive. ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you! Those are always special to me since they’re our cats
Got the Ranger book based on this video. I love it I got square 20 by 20 cm roughly. I really like it. I love your art.
I love the Stillman and Birn softcover Beta sketchbooks for the thick paper, portability and open flat feature. I have a Zeta in a small size I have yet to try but thought I might like it as my purse sketchbook. I recently bought a Fabriano drawing book and love it for quick paintings with acrylic or gouache, and neocolor pastels.
OHHHH my addiction! Sketchbooks! I love your bed sketch! That looks great. The colors are nice.
Thank you - those are from my family photos series I did - I have a video here on it
Oh Sandi, I just love when you pull out "the weird stuff" It most certainly is some of my favorites. All these sketch books are loaded with fun. I adore them.
I love the weird stuff too 🥰🙌
@@sandihester haha...I hope you keep it up
And so, Sandi, thank you for yet another excellent video. Re Dylusions Art Journal, this journal is part of the artist Dyan Reaveley's Dylusions Collection, by Ranger. So it's pronounced, Dy-lusions, like Di-lusions. As she always says, 'It's easy when you know how'.
I highly rate your advice. Much appreciated.
Hi Sandi. My name is Lily Rosenberg. I just finished your course on landscape and I am on fire…….what an inspiring course…I started skatching right away and I am happy doing if mostly in my studio. What a gift to the world you are. Be well and let your gift change the world ❤️
I’m THRILLED to hear that Lily!!!! 🙌❤️ thank you for purchasing it and for sharing!
Hi Sandi, the Ranger sketchbook is the brandname so that's correct - you might've heard of the mixed media artist Dyan Reveley has her own line of art supplies. Similar to Jane Davenport. I don't own any of her supplies yet but I have checked out those sketcbooks, I've been looking at the royal talens sketchbooks too! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Sandi ❤ More sketchbook tours please 😊
I have one coming up soon!
ahhh i love ranger as well...its one of those sketchbooks i tend to think of as "precious". Thank you for sharing yer thoughts and wisdom, every time i watch yer videos I just wanna go n sketch with confidence . Yer so inspiring Sandi , you gave me back teh confidence to draw and create freely...like you knocked down a wall i was trying to climb before. I carry my sketchbook with me wherever I go and just draw at any opportunity I get. thank you! I hope one day i can buy one of yer paintings to hang on my wall :) sending you love n hugzzzzz
Ohhh thank you! That makes me so happy to hear ❤️❤️❤️
Loved this and love the new series idea! I like the Stillman & Birn also as I prefer white paper to cream, but the Talens are so affordable and come in so many fun colors that I have several of those also. I go for a square format over a portrait or landscape--a holdover from my many years as a scrapbooker, I think. Dyan Reavely also has a line of ink sprays and paints with Ranger and she specifically developed the Dylusions journal with that paper so that it worked with her preferred supplies. She's an OG to us in the art journaling world!
Hehe Sandi changes her mind about liking a sketchbook while she's talking about it! I started using the Royal Talens sketchbooks 9 months ago and I love them! I have the 8x5, 12x12 cm and the A6 one (which is really helpful for carrying in a pocket). I also like the Daler Rowney Cachet mixed media sketchbooks. Unfortunately they don't do a square one any more so I've just started a landscape A5 one.
I don’t think I’ve tried that one. Yes, I change my mind a lot 🤣
I love the 2021 weird stuff. Good to see it again 💖☺️💖🤗
I actually love it too!
I never hear people talk about it, but the Holbein Clester sketchbook and Multi Drawing books are my favorite and most used. The clester is bound and the multi is spiral but the paper is substantial, consistent and takes all media really well.
I’ll check them out for sure!
I love your sketchbooks, your process, please please make a sketchbook tour of the big art creation one 😍
your sketchbook paintings are way too good for ' sketches ' ! every one is worthy of being on the wall.
Thank you so much Sarah!
Sandi, you mentioned that you don't use watercolor paper or sketchbooks because you like smooth surfaces, not textured, so I just wanted to share with you, in case you don't already know, that hot press watercolor paper is smooth, cold press is textured. It won't pill, or ball up the way mixed media paper does. Worth a try, and watercolor paint behaves very differently on 100% cotton watercolor paper than it does on other surfaces. Really enjoyed seeing your sketchbooks in this video, thank you for sharing.
Yes, I’m aware of the difference types of papers. Thanks for sharing in case others don’t know. I don’t care for paper that’s labeled watercolor because it’s usually too absorbent for me. I like something with a little more sizing.
I love so much the light in all off your paintings. ❤
You introduced me to moleskines and art creation and now I have them in so many sizes 🤣 I love my giant moleskin so much it’s my favourite especially for acrylics
It’s a good one for sure!
Thank you Sandi! I came upon the Art Creations sketchbooks at my local art store when I was looking for sketchbooks hard bound and lay flat. I’ve got on of the 4x4s as well as the even smaller size. So fun!
I love journals that I bind with whatever suits my fancy at that time. My go to sketchbooks are the Talens Art Creations and a plain paper XL Moleskine soft cover. I like the Moleskine journal for common place journaling, planning, jotting notes down and sketching with light watercolor wash and gouache on it. I love the sweet, sweet crinkle it makes after the pages dry. I have finished 1 5.5x8.5 Talens journal and am currently working in a large 8.5x11.5, a 2nd 5.5x8.5, a small 5x5 i keep in my purse, and a 5.5x8.5 landscape journal. have a 2nd large sketchbook waiting for me to move into when I complete my large one. I love the paper in these journals and how well they take my Prismacolor Pencils as well as collage, gouache, and watersoluble media. I love the variety of colors these come in, the creamy paper, and I really love covering them with stickers I get from other favorite artists.
Hi Sandi. I have just started following you and I think Ive binge watch 2 years worth of your videos. This sketchbook one is such a huge help to me. I only had one sketchbook (a large Dylusion Ranger) which I love but I just got in a small Talen Art Creations and love it too. Thank you for sharing all you do with the world of creators!
well goodness that's quite the feat to binge two years worth 😂. welcome and thanks so much for watching. I'm so glad this sketchbook one was helpful!
@@sandihester well I got addicted to you. You just have a way about you and I ❤️ your work. Its like watching your favorite TV series like Outlander and you cant wait to watch the next one. 😫. Dickblick thanks you too… just when I thought I had enough supplies but now my Dickblick orders just got bigger 🤣. Neocolors, markers…. Fun days ahead!
@@pjlopiccolo8709 that’s such a nice compliment! And… sorry about adding to the Blick addiction 😬
Love this. Favorite time to art!
I’ve been using oil pastels for 7 years and have never used a sketchbook. I mostly use Sennelier Oil Pastel Pad 12x 16. Now I absolutely Must try a sketchbook. Thank you so much for all the information. I watched this video twice already.
I think you’ll be glad you gave it a try
It was a great video and so nice to see some of the older sketchbooks from before.
I do the singing-random-stuff thing too. And then at the end I say “jam.” My husband always looks at me with a mixture of pity and confusion. And then I’m like, “hey buddy - YOU married me.” Anyway…nice to see someone else breaking into song for no particular reason 😊
😂
Loving the favorites series!❤
So glad!
That was exciting! I think we have similar tastes in paper and sketchbooks. But I use all the formats you don't 😂 I am really into those little Talens 4.7" squares and the landscape 8" x 5" right now. But we share the love of the large size Talens! I haven't tested out any others though I have some back stock (I buy them like they are going to disappear 😂) and if anything looks promising, I will cheer loudly. Have a great holiday weekend!
Format is definitely a personal thing!
Very good informative video, Sandi! Tank you!
Love the idea of your new serie!! Thank you for all your tips 😊
You’re very welcome!
I recently discovered art creations, and i will never let it go 😅 so many inspiring artworks ❤
Love your videos makes me want to go and paint ❤
Amazing idea!
Samdi your sketches are divine I love this idea about sgaring your favorite things I love tge sketchbooks and remember some of tge sketches inside the sketchbooks I'm happy amd inspired thanks for sharing ❤
Oh thank you Sandi! Nice to see you again and again great content ❤
Thank you Ruth!
I’m so excited for this series!! Especially excited for paint ☺️☺️ thank you for sharing so generously!!!
So glad to hear that!
Thanks for this video! I love your beautiful art and learning from you!
Awe - thank you!
Very helpful recommendations thank you Sandi. Can't help but drool over your sketchbooks.❤🤩
Thank you Trudy!
Thank you, thank you! I’m on the hunt for a sketchbook that I can be less precious about, and I think I’ll give the Art Creation a try. Always love your videos, Sandy. ❤
🧡🩵🤎 my fav video of the week!
Ohhhhh I’m so glad to hear that! ❤️
I find your videos really inspiring. Thank you so much 💗
I’m so glad!
Seriously... I think you could go to Blick and work with them on a limited edition sketchbook pre printed with the " All the Bad Goes into the Good" cover. Blick has commented on your videos before, so I know they know who you are😊 That would be so awesome, as I have said in the past. Just an idea, if you or Grady are looking for a new project!
This was SO helpful. Thank you!! I just went to order three in three sizes in the creative. I love the cats!! 👀♥️
Absolutely love this Sandi! Im ordering sketch books so this is perfect timing. I love the art creations books but I want to try the others you have too. Great idea for future videos! yeahhh...my fav channel and fav artist. Thanks bunches
Awe you’re the best Gwen! Thank you and I’m glad this came at a good time!
The Art Creation sketchbooks have been my favourites for YEARS as well! Love the Art Collection Mokesline too, but it's quite expensive for me. Stillman&Birn is a fave brand as well, I'm a big fan of their softcover Gamma. I've never seen hardcover Stillman sketchbooks around where I live!
You should try the square ranger….then you will get a landscape shape over two pages.
I really like concertina folded sketchbooks for projects. Otherwise I like 20x20cm sketchbooks that aren’t too expensive. Otherwise I feel too inhibited! Love the pocket on the first one though 😻
I’ll have to try the sketchbook brands you suggested.
Thanks Sandi. Ordering a Ranger sketchbook tonight. Looks perfect! And I love the cream paper as well.
🙌
This is a wonderful series!! I already watched this one twice and so excited to see more . God bless
Thank you!!!
Loved this, thank you
❤️
Sandi.
I am presently taking your landscape class and am learning from and inspired by all your great content.
Looking forward to the Acrylics class and your new one. Woo hoo!!
Elizabeth thank you for letting me know you’re enjoying the class!!! I’m currently working on the next one 🙌
26:32 Thank you so much for sharing your favorites! I've recently purchased 3 sies of the Art Creations sketchbooks, and they quickly became a favorite!
I haven't been on You Tube in several weeks and I have really missed your videos!
Take care and Happy 4th of July to you and your family!
Sandi, I can watch your videos again & again! Thank you so much; I've learned quite a lot from you.
Thank you Terry! That makes me so happy to hear!
Me too
Me too!
I really like Moleskine sketchbooks a lot. I am also a big fan of the landscape format. I used one of the A5 watercolor landscape books at my beach trip in May and did two page spreads of the dunes and ocean view. Very pretty. Stillman and Birn are good, and lately I've been purchasing Hahnemuhle Nostalgie sketchbook, which have pretty sturdy paper.
I love this idea, Sandy!! I really appreciate hearing your thoughts, likes/dislikes about different art supplies. Helps me out a lot when deciding different things I want to try!
I’m so glad it’s helpful
Hello Sandi. Have been away for a while but I’m thrilled to be watching your latest video. Have been following you for a few years and I was just beyond myself looking at your art of a few years ago. Love what you are doing currently but your still lives really reach out to me. For heaven’s sake, I even miss Hank! Love all your videos, glad to be back.😊
I miss Hank too! 😂❤️
Also love your fun tigers!
Thank you!
Thank you, Sandi! I always enjoy an “artist’s favorites” vid! I value your opinion about artist sketchbooks & paper because I know how much you put them through! Great info!❤
That made me laugh! Yes, I’m kind of brutal to them 😂🤣
@@sandihester i know that you’re laughing, because it’s a legit compliment!😂❤️
When you did your videos using the large Moleskines, I was like , “wow, I’d have to be so brave to try something that big!” I did buy one and have used it a couple times. I need to get it back out! Thanks for sharing.
I recently got it back out and am loving it again
Looking forward to the series. Reasonably new here - and your singing and style always makes me smile or chuckle. So my opinion is ‘You do you boo’ (a saying in our household) 😊
Glad the singing gives you a chuckle! 🙌😂❤️
Hi Hank! Haha your sailor pictures with Hank the shirtless sailor cracked me up so much back in the day. That’s when I first found you, your Instagram, and CZcams. I ❤ your weird period art 😊
Well it’s a miracle you stayed if that’s when you found me 😂🤪
Thank you for sharing your favorite sketchbook brands. This will save me a lot of time and money.
🙌 glad to hear it!
When I see your sketchbooks, I wonder what it would be like to be inside your head as you plan each project, the colors you decide on, and the subject matter. The variety is so lovely as you page through. I think a neat class would be to take us through a large variety of subjects and media just as you do in your sketchbooks! I would love to be next to you painting or drawing right along with each of the different subjects like landscape, coffee shop, animals, still life, like I just want to try it all but I experience so much resistance to using up my supplies.
But yes I like the sketchbook journal company brand and moleskin mostly. But I plan to get some art creations and delusions sketchbooks for sure! Thank you for the great inspiration and humor that we all enjoy so much on Fridays! 🎉❤😊
I feel like that’s what I give you in my online class Taking Notes In The Landscape- you might want to check it out
Thank you for another fun vid! The Dylusions by Ranger will be my next one to try.
I’m in this experimental phase where I have set aside my usual spiral bound sketchbook (The Strathmore mixed Media Visual Jounal) for cheap pocket sketchbooks with medium-weight cream paper, cheap craft paper sketchbooks, and a wild-card: a Walgreens journal with “stone paper”. Don’t know why it’s called stone paper, it has a very smooth texture & is the weight of writing paper, but is surprisingly very hard to rip in half!
That’s funny about the stone paper!
Love the pigeons. Yes I agree about the different sketchbooks sizes, orientation have a huge bearing on how we work.
Yessssss
This was great! I also love the Talens Art Creation sketchbooks and the little square one that you don't love is my favorite! 😆Perfect to just fit in my pocket with a pen or pencil and make little sketches while I'm out or jot down notes when I get an idea. I love it!
We all have our favorite shapes don’t we!❤️
Thanks ugh! Now I just bought another sketchbook, the Ranger! haha I use talens. I used to hate it, but now I am finding because it is so cheap that I constantly go to it. It is not great for watercolor but I also add inktense pencils and markers. I have filled quit a few now and its my go to. Thank you so much for your recommendation a ways back. Can I get sponsored. haha I also like Stillman and Birns but not sure when to really use them. I have a nice Beta I took to mexico, have one in the car also maybe Zeta? They have thicker pages as you have said and I don't want to "waste" them so I constantly pick up a talens! Thank you always for your sharing and teaching!! Hug
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this useful video! I would request a video on your favorite organizational tools to organize your art supplies and to carry them out for plein air art.
👍🏻
Yassssss to favourites videos 🤸♀️ , this was great I remember the stuff from 2021 didn’t you paint a funny man called Hank !? I adore your videos and rewatch my favourite ones 😂 . So joyful thank you xx
Yes - Hank! Loved that guy!
Never too long!!! Like the series and I look forward to a gouache favs one, perhaps the pastel pencil, sharpener, paper, stuff. If I was to mention any journal, book, I would mention the Fabriano 1264 Mixed Media journal. It is, however, spiraled, but I like how it takes watercolor, pastel pencils, charcoal, but I don't really use colored pencils on it. Haven't tried my POSCAS on it, yet, either. I don't ever recall your using any spiral journals. I do like the Ranger journals. They are very nice. And I have purchased the Moleskin 12x16 after one of your videos. Love it!!! Especially for my acrylic paint work. It's lovely to work on. Thank you!! I have the smaller one, too. I really appreciate your suggestions!! Wonderful work.
So glad you like the Moleskine! I used spirals when I first started in sketchbooks forever ago but I don’t love them anymore
lovely paint videoo
I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A REAL TOUR IN ALL OF THESE SKETCHBOOKS. SO MUCH YUMMY WORK IN THEM.
I have several sketchbook tours on here so take a look and enjoy and I have a new tour coming soon
I love the painting at 6:18 of the dog and 2 figures. I use the Stillman and Birn, Alpha Series for the shape and thick paper. Thank you, Sandi!
Thank you Lisa!
I hope you'll consider offering glicée digital prints of your sketchbook pages, as I would love to purchase a few! Thanks for sharing all the things about your favorite sketchbook brands, Sandy! ❤
Superb video! Illo sketchbooks (7.5x7.5) are fun and similar to Art Creations. There’s a pocket too. Etchr really rocks watercolor and gouache. (not too toothy). But I want that big Moleskine anyway!
What a treat ---I was just looking at Blick's today for sketchbooks. I have a Ranger one that has not been used so glad it gets a good review. Am so inspired by your sketchbooks. Happy July 4th!!!!!
Yes, I’m absolutely loving the Ranger!
The Hahnemuhle Nostalgie sketchbook (8,3 x11,7", 80 pages) is my favourite, 190gsm and the acid-free paper has the most beautifull natural white color I have ever seen. The grain is so fine that my color pencils and inks also look good on it. (It costs the equivalent of 21 USD over here. In the USA it's about 36 USD. I can imagine that's a disadvantage.)
Sandi I must say, that face of the lion eating pasta is genius. I want to see a collection of paintings about that lion. Wow. ❤ also, not sure if you have any near you, but many Joann Fabrics now stock Art Creation sketchbooks and if they’re doing one of their 50 or 60% off coupons, you can get these at SUCH a good price. ☺️☺️ Thanks for your sharing, as usual.
WHAT?!?!? That’s news to me - thank you for telling me that!! My mom goes there like every day 😂 so I’ll have her keep an eye out
@@sandihester yes! Hope yours has them! I think you can also check online to see which locations stock them near you. 😊
Read my mind! My sketchbooks are full and am on the hunt for the next one to try.
Oh good!
Always fun seeing your sketchbooks and hearing your recommendations. You are great at filling them up with lots of studies and experimentation. Are you doing any large paintings on your easel any more? I recall you were exploring composition and other things, but I don’t recall you showing any large paintings in process this year.
Yes, I’ve been working on a series that I’ve been doing behind the scenes and I’m about to release those paintings. I’m in love with them!
@@sandihester So glad to hear. I miss seeing you work on large paintings… they are all so creative.
The stillman and birn gamma and delta are ivory and I love the less thick one (gamma) it’s lovely. I’m sure the delta is amazing but I need lots of pages.
You’re making me want to grab my sketchbooks and get to working! ❤️
🙌
Me too 😄 I'm off to the garden right now x
Let's go🤗!!!
Fun sketches. I love all of Dyan Reavley Dylusions products hence the spelling,she is one of the designers for Ranger.
Ohhh gotcha!
More More!
Sandy, could I please make a request I totally understand if you’re not able to do it, but I think there be a lot of people that would love to see a video that isn’t sped up of watching you just work. I just want to say I don’t care how long the video is if it’s a couple of hours or couple of days of a few hours every day where you just go through your sketchbook process or a painting. I just love watching how do you progress through something and how you build things up and it be nice to know what you’re using if you could just tell us like okay, I’m starting with squash or charcoal and then when you switch to another medium you could maybe do a VoiceOver later intermittently.
The best way to see that is through my online classes. That’s where I take more time to share my process in detail.
❤️
This was awesome! Love this series! What’s your favorite color? Favorite thing or place to paint? So good to be back!
So glad you liked it Diane!❤️
Loved the video! I have tried all of them but the one from Ranger now. Lol. I was beginning to think I wanted white paper because of using watercolor. But now I'm getting out all the stuff again. Do you decorate the covers on purpose or does that just happen? Love it!
It just happens because my hands are always messy. Sometimes if I have a glob of paint on my and instead of wiping it on my pants I’ll wipe it on the sketchbook so I guess that kind of ‘decorating’ it 🤷♀️😂
To clarify Dylusions is the range by Dyan Reaveley a British mixed media artist manufactured by Ranger.. hence why all the names 😀
Haha… and just realised my profile pic has my Ranger apron on.. I might just have worked with their products for a while 😂
Painting the covers ? Could B a series.
Making ur own with different weighted papers...
Love this ❤ your work is so inspiring.
I am looking for paper that is similar to the talens art creations sketchbook- I love the cream coloured non textured paper - any recommendations for finding some professional paper similar to this for final paintings?
Unfortunately no. I do have an older video about cheap good paper but it’s not cream