Guest post series - 'Filohax' No. 11 - Paul

Thanks very much again to Paul for this eleventh instalment of his wonderful guest post series.
You can find all of the 'Filofhax' posts here.

Filohax sketchbook

It's taken me 20 years to figure out my latest 'Filohax', but it has been worth the wait - using a personal size Filofax to house multiple kinds of sketch papers. 

If any artists out there reading this consider the established order of things, you will understand how limited bound sketchbooks like Moleskines are - you get one type of paper per sketchbook, meaning that you have to decide before you leave for a sketching expedition how many different pads you are going to need. 

I made the move away from Moleskines after 20 years, because I knew after getting back into FF that it was bonkers to carry a binder AND a sketchbook when a Filofax can do both jobs. 

At first I just replicated what I had been doing in the Moleskines - using cream paper to do my sketching onto. The change into using whatever coloured or textured paper I felt like happened when I was preparing for a holiday by the sea a year ago. 

It was a proper 'bolt from the blue' moment when I thought how difficult the sea is to render in monochrome, and realised - 'why not draw onto coloured paper using white to create highlights?' 

It all changed in that moment, I can now keep quite a wide range of different stocks in my EDC / Sketchbook (a Slimline Executive in Kid leather), and with my Filofax pencil case snug in the rings I've got everything I need. 

Give it a try; you know it makes sense!

Slimline Executive in kid leather