How to make a watercolor journal

Learn how to make your own DIY sketchbook. You can also turn this into a DIY watercolor sketchbook depending on your paper choice.

Keeping a color journal may be the best thing you can do for your mixed-media art; discover ways to explore color in unique journal pages.

At Artful Haven, you'll find incredibly useful tips for art journaling beginners who'd love to learn how to paint with watercolor in their journals.

I am having so much fun filling my watercolor journal by painting every day – or almost everyday – no one is perfect right? My pages are of the moments of joy I experience each day. I c…

Using watercolors with stencils may seem like two things that don’t go together in your art journal. The loose nature of watercolor appears incompatible with stencils. But with a bit of experimentation and imagination, you can get some amazing and unexpected results using watercolors with stencils. When adding watercolors to stencils, you may need to change your expectation for the final result.

Watercolor Palettes are what I would consider the top three essentials for watercolor supplies. But what watercolor palette is best for you? And how do you go about choosing one?

What to use when you don't have watercolor paper. Ideas for watercolor paper substitutes and alternatives, different watercolor painting surfaces, how to make regular paper work for watercolor, best watercolor paper alternatives, tips for using watercolor on non-watercolor paper.

Explore sketching for watercolor and discover how it sets the foundation of your paintings.

One of my absolute favourite mediums to use in my journals is watercolour. I get asked a lot of questions about whether you need to have watercolour paper in your journal and for different ideas about how you can use this product. In this blog post, I am going to share 5 of my favourite ways of using watercolour, depending on the type of paper in your journal.Add Drips & SplashesJust about any paper will cope well with light watercolour drips and splashes. It's a really fun and quick way to…