This week’s addict is Katerina Sakkas, an artist and writer from Sydney, Australia. She’s been using Daler Rowney sketchbooks for 20 years, filling them with drawings and ideas:

Simple and sturdy with their canvas-textured hard covers and heavy-weight, off-white paper, Daler Rowney’s Ebony journals have served me faithfully for 20 years, as a place to document the process of art-making; to research, experiment and workshop ideas.

Sometimes messy, sometimes elaborate, they hold an eclectic mixture of different media and textures, combining practice drawings and paintings, image designs, reference pics and (more recently) mock-ups of comics.

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You can see more of her sketchbooks/journals in this post from her website, where she also shares images of her incredible paintings. There is lots more to see on her Instagram feed too (@kat_sakkas), where she posted this photo of more journals:

In addition to Daler Rowney, her collection includes Paperblanks, Leuchtturm, Rhodia, Clairefontaine and Moleskine notebooks.

Thanks for sharing your addiction, Katerina! It is always great to hear from fellow notebook addicts!