Went on an art supply splurge. One of the things I bought was

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5. What a great gift to yourself.

And a beautiful first watercolor to break it in.

I recently bought myself a spiralbound sketch book, only 5"x 7", to encourage myself to go out and sketch before work or whenever I don't have time to devote to a more ambitious piece. I'm not sketching daily, but more days than not. I started after looking at Charlie Hunter's work and watching his video where he talks about the importance of regular sketching and shows off some of his own sketches.

In case you'd like to see it, although he's not a watercolor artist:

This is a long video, about fifty minutes, but he gets right into his work around three minutes in and folks can get a lot out of it without watching the whole thing.