The Winsor & Newton case is the Sketchers' Case that is now discontinued - I ended up with one of their last two for just £18! It came with a Cotman pocket sketchers' paint box (the one I already use), an A6 hardback sketch book, a paintbrush, a pencil, an eraser and a water bottle. I harvested the paint pans from the set and put them in my surplus paints box, then used the empty box for my 12 homeless artists' watercolours. When I go out I take the paint box that I've already used with me - I tried one watercolour sketch on the day that I got it and it looks so awful I don't even know if I'll blog it. I'm gonna need to read that book quite carefully I think!
The rest is for stretching paper so that it doesn't end up as dead as my current sheet is. I've never stretched paper before so that's going to be quite messy. I got an A3 MDF board and an A2 MDF board, plus tape and a knife. Soak paper, lay on board, tape down, leave to dry, paint, cut off board? As far as I know. I have books that have paper stretching tutorials in them so I'll give those a read before I destroy a piece of paper. It's really gonna annoy me not to have paper the exact size anymore due to what I'll lose by cutting it off the board, though.
I also did a bit of Googling and found this!
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