Links to our favorite websites
One of our most asked questions is: Where do you get your watercolor journals? These days more book makers are making blank books with watercolor, but they don't seem to make it consistently to our local art supply stores. So, we make our own in classes hosted by Brenda Jatho. We make our hand sewn coptic stitch binding, hard covers with chip board and lovely papers as covers and inside the cover in her classes which can be found at: www.brendabooks.com.
 Brenda Books: Brenda Jatho's handmade books have just come online! Designer and Craftsperson, Brenda Jatho, creates her hand bound journals by going through a process of prototyping until the journal is exactly how she wants it. She uses an array of fine materials to craft the journals including: fine watercolor papers, decorative end papers, beautiful cover materials, ribbons, beads and other accessories. Much of her work is inspired by the artistic needs of artists Gay Kraeger, Christina Lopp and the students of their Illustrated Watercolor Journaling workshops.
Renaissance Art - wonderful leather bound books
Amano Books - Another online "One of Kind" Journal maker
Inspiring artists and websites
 Michelle "Shelly" Berg is a good friend of IWJ as one of the inspirations behind the whole class. Anyone who's taken our class knows that Christina went to Paris in 1994 with Shelly and some girlfriends and Shelly's wonderful journaling and willingness to take a bit of time to journal was how Christina got started! Check out her site at: www.michelleberg.com.
 Danny Gregory: Looking for inspiration for your journals? Danny's work is truly amazing. His book "Everyday Matters: A New York Diary" is now regularly used in our journaling classes. To top it off, he just came out with his newest book, perfect for anyone wanting to learn about how to get inspired creatively called "The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to be the Artist You Truly Are" His description of the learning the draw process is so right on -- so true. We think this guy is exceptionally gifted and very honest. Don't believe us? Then check out his weblog and see what he's all about -- more of his fab drawings included!
Susan Iannucci's Watercolor Traveler website is a wonderful look at the amazing places she's traveled in the past several years, as well as images from her current home in Finland. She is a past student of ours who is still taking our encouragement to enjoy journaling her own life to heart!
Jerome Domurat is a long-time journaler, naturalist, and all around inspiring recorder of life's many treasures, including the Class Notes from our Recreation Department classes. (see here for more about that!) Frequently he shares his wonderful books from his years of collecting an extensive library. For more inspiration, take a look at his wonderful list of Journals and Sketchbooks with a lot of inspiring content at Amazon.
Archives of American Art website: Visual Journals have been created for centuries!
A lifelong sketchbook artist Corey Senderov Jackson' s wonderful style of sketching and working out ideas on paper.
Tom Wood - "They are working books and I don't edit or clean them up for public consumption. Over the years they have become an essential part of my practice as a painter." Wonderful imagery!
Jonathan Keegan - His sketchbooks have illustrations that show up in the Wall Street Journal.
Paul Antonson - More sketching into WSJ. Sketching can be big business!
Paul Ryan A UK artist's sketchbook
Surfbirds - Sketchbooks by many bird-watching artists
Dan Price's "Moonlight Chronicles" : "he's searching far and wide for those few rare souls who believe in his quest for ultimate simplicity and a purely authentic life" He's at it again with his Pigma Micron pens!
Teesha Moore: We were introduced to Teesha's work when we learned about Somerset Studios! A wonderful inspiring artist!
Sabrina Ward Harrison won a place in our hearts with her lovely journal/book "Spilling Open" and then again with "Brave on the Rocks" -- wonderful, spilling artwork covers her lovely pages.
Illustrated Nature Journal: Ideas about how to get started drawing the world around you.
Writing Techniques: A good idea when you don't know what to write or draw about!
Page of Journaling Links: More great journaling links
1000 Journals: Started in 2000, 1000 blank journals are circulating throughout the world and people everywhere are adding to their pages and passing them on. Very cool!
Online Art Supply Stores:
Cheap Joes: all sorts of supplies -- great store we hear, with fantastic classes in North Carolina!
Daniel Smith: Based in the Seattle area, we buy most paper and much of our watercolors from this online store.
Hollanders: Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this is a wonderful store with everything you need to make handmade, hand bound books. Great paper as well!
Flax: Based in San Francisco, CA, a wonderful place for paper of all kinds as well as all sorts of art supplies. We love field trips to this store!
Utrecht Art: This is also wonderful art supply company, and we buy our Matte Medium online here. Best prices we've found for it!
Dick Blick:: Another tremendous art supply store.
Art Store: More supplies!
Palace Arts: One of our local art supply stores here in Santa Cruz. Sometimes you need to just go in a browse!
Lenz Arts: Another local art supply store (Santa Cruz has a lot of artists!!) with wonderful paper, paints, and collage items of all kinds.
Beverly Fabrics & Michael's: two stores that seem like they might not have what you are looking for -- but they do! Our Beverly's in Soquel carries so many supplies for making books, scrapbook/collage pages, etc. Pretty amazing places!
More interesting sites
Somerset Studio Magazine: We learned about this wonderful paper arts and more magazine when we were asked to contribute to it in the July/August 2002 edition. We were thrilled to be a part of such a wonderful creative offering. We've since bought quite a few things from it's pages!
Sparking Art: One of our students has a wonderful company of her own; it's mission is to strengthen people’s connections to their creative essence. Take a look at her lovely programs, classes and inspirational online journaling prompts. Based in Mountain View, California.
Altered Books Some interesting altered books
Have a link you think we'll be interested in? Send it to us! info@watercolorjournaling.com
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