Oliver Moss

Most of this must go. I will halve how much I have, at least. This is unmanageable. Toned paper and a few things I don't use will go in the Scrap pile, but most of this will go because I am going to use it up via practice. I can't toss good paper. This is a resource I am going to take advantage of.

Actually, laid out like that it doesn't look so bad. Partially because when I took this shot I missed 4 watercolor blocks, a small bristol, a large pad of isometric grid and two others scattered around. This is an unmanageable mess, especially with those spiral bindings making them hard to stack/store.

Now, some of these do have specific purposes. Some are full or nearly full. Some are from classes I did over ten years ago. A lot of the small ones are because every Sketchbox came with a little sketchbook, watercolor block or paper sample of some kind.

I need watercolor paper for watercolors. The Legion mini-blocks are really useful for project planning. Ideally, I should have all of their mini blocks. My favorite paper is Fluid, so I *might* be able to talk myself into streamlining down to only having Legion, Fluid and Handbook. Each paper works differently, so de-stashing the other brands would also have a mental benefit. It would make everything feel less chaotic. It would look neater, and it simplifies my process.

Actually, let's do a Science!

( Watercolor paper testing )
Some paper is for markers.

( I need my isometric paper. )

And I have made good use of a lot of the small sketchbooks:
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I wasn't originally going to post about paper, but this is my biggest problem. Part of the problem is that I realized a few years ago that using poor quality paper is why a lot of the shading the blending that I practice for hours on end didn't work, and why none of my inking worked. But yet, I cannot get myself to let go of the Strathmore Sketch paper without using it up. So, I must use it up to flush out that part of my collection. At least 7 of those books are going to Scrap. More should go but letting go of paper feels wrong.

Super potato quality pictures this time.



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Though, this is more of a de-stash. This is the pencils portion of my collection

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