Disc Bound Journaling #hahnemühle #hahnemühleharmony #peerlesswatercolor

I made a disc bound journal!

Awesome!

In a post you can see here, I show you in 

great detail what I did with the journal. 

The paper I started with was 140 lb. hot pressed

watercolor paper called Harmony, and it is

made by Hahnemühle Fine Art. 

The pages were roughly 9" x 12".

I cut each page into 4 sections of 4.5" x 6".

The reason this is called a "disc bound" journal is

because the pages are held together with special

little plastic discs that allow for easy page

turning. They also allow for easy removal of

pages to work on one at a time.

You can move the pages around and change the

order, which I did many times.

I even changed the size of the discs because

those pink ones were too large for this project.

I am going to walk you through my favorite

page in the journal and show you how to make it. 

I removed one page from my book.

Those scraps of colored paper are actually 

bits of highly concentrated water color. 

Peerless Watercolors actually.

These were bits I cut off other sheets in the past,

and kept because even a little 1/2" x 2" scrap

will give me lots of color to work with.

To that add one water brush filled with water. 

I am no watercolor wonder, but anyone can use

these swatches - I promise!

It is as easy as rubbing your water brush across

a bit of the peerless swatch.

That immediately picks up the color that

you then 'paint' onto your page. 

There is seriously no rhyme or reason to the way

I work, I just use the colors I like and put it

down in patches.

They can blend into each other if I want.

Or they can stay in their little areas if that

is what I want.

I let this dry for a couple hours.

I could have sped the time up with a heat gun

but really - I had 31 other pages to work with.

When I came back to this - I used a 

Tombow Mono Drawing Pen 

and started tangling in sections.

I filled the darker pink sections with printemps.

A couple of the blue sections, too, apparently.

Hahaha!

And I just continued adding tangle patterns.

I try to stay with specific color blocks and let

the shape of the color block act as my 'string.'

You can see I did this with crescent moon and 

diva dance rock 'n roll. 

Then I looked to identify places where colors side

by side could use a cross-over type of tangle

like arukas. 

That is the one with the small black circles and the

lines that reach across colors and join with

other circles. 

Once I was happy with the tangle patterns I added,

I went back with a white gelly roll pen and added

highlights to sparkle the printemps.

Adding this page back to the disc bound journal

was as easy as laying it top of the other pages

and popping the slotted holes back over

the discs.

Easy peasy and done with one page! 

The Hahnemühle Harmony 

Hot Pressed Watercolour Paper can be 

purchased here. 

Have fun playing! If you make a disc

bound journal, I would love to see it!