Well this week my sketchbook got soaked in coffee at Starbucks on 3rd street

I was having a terrible Tuesday already and then my iced latte tipped over right onto my open doodle page. Completely ruined like 8 hours of sketches I did over the weekend, all that detail work just washed away into a brown mess. I spent the rest of the day trying to save what I could with a hair dryer but it's all wrinkled and stained now. Has anyone else ever salvaged a waterlogged sketchbook or should I just toss it and start fresh?

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williamm828d ago

Heard a trick from a watercolor artist once where they freeze the book to stop mold from growing. Never tried it myself with a sketchbook but I had a paperback get soaked once and freezing it kept the pages from sticking together too bad. Might be worth a try before you toss it, just let it thaw out flat with paper towels between the pages. Your mileage may vary but I'd say give it a shot, coffee stains on sketches can actually look kinda cool if you lean into it.

sam_thomas7d ago

Bet you could make some cool texture prints from the frozen pages too.

felix_williams717d ago

Used the freezer trick on a wet library book once, forgot about it for a year, and when I pulled it out the pages made cool crinkly sounds like leaves.