
I am Peter and I have an interest (obsession) with notebooks, sketching and storytelling. This site will explain the reasons for my interest and hopefully share some information that may be useful to someone, somewhere. I will show details of what I do, why I do it and what I do it with.


I have been making leather notebook covers for a few years from some of the finest, full grain, vegetable tanned leathers in the world. The traveler's notebook style allows for a modular approach to storing more than one notebook. But I also use several other types of notebooks and I will further expand on this with details of what I like and why.


I am a serial sketcher, doing freehand sketching with a very loose, impressionistic style, looking to capture a spirit of the urban environment rather than realism. I use different media from fountain pen and watercolour to pencil on paper that is captured digitally on a tablet. I will show you how I do what I do and different media for different outcomes.
Peter @ Start Bay Notebooks