Isn’t this flower stunning? I love sketchbooks that surprise you with big spreads of saturated color!

The painting is by artist Dasha Egudkina, who says:

I carry about three sketchbooks with me at all times. For the rare occasion I am not, I have a pocket sized Moleskine. Besides a few exceptions, often made for the larger books, I have been drawing, painting or collaging the covers for about ten years. What may simply be a stack of bound paper means more to me than I would often like to admit, and painting the cover has become a sort of ritual for me.

This is the cover of one of her other sketchbooks:

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