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I got a new little notebook. It’s a wee lilac-bound Leuchtturm and it’s got thin (80gm) ivory colored paper. Too thin, but it fits in my pocket and most of my other sketchbook and notebooks don’t.<\/p>\n

It’s easy to smudge the pencil. I probably should be drawing in ink on this paper, but somehow that’s not what my hand wants to use today.<\/p>\n

One of these days, maybe I will figure out how to tell a story about the picture instead of about the drawing of it.<\/p>\n

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I got a new little notebook. It’s a wee lilac-bound Leuchtturm and it’s got thin (80gm) ivory colored paper. Too thin, but it fits in my pocket and most of my other sketchbook and notebooks don’t. It’s easy to smudge the pencil. 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