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Here is my newest sketch kit. I have been looking for something very portable, even the small bags seem like I will lose things in them. Many thanks to timoliver1959 for his suggestion to buy an inexpensive pencil kit and adapt it to your specific needs. I can't fit the water bottle and the pencil sharpener and teeny-tiny water container within the 1" width of the case, they just need to be on opposite ends. The entire case is 6"x11"x1", so it is just this and my sketchbook to carry. Now we just need some warmer weather so I am willing to go outside and sketch!
Another Hibernia model sketch for 1:35 scratch building. This time based strongly on this build. I really liked the simple, boxy shape of the original, and I think it lends itself very well to stryrene modeling.
We took bus 124 back to our apartment at Telok Blangah Heights. The moving bus made it quite difficult to move my pencil across the screen properly. 2 ladies sat opposite us. One carrying a huge instrument case; both were very attentive to their smart devices.
A smaller card so used less of the items in the sketch...
HA Supplies: HA CL236 Joys of the Season - the tree was embossed with white ep on vellum; HA CL244 Sparkle Clear Holiday Messages (sentiment); and HA LL227 Quatro: Icicle Snowlfakes..
Other supplies: SU White craft ink; white inksentials pen; Autumn Leaves buttons, SU linen and Basic Grey Patterned Papers - Figgy Pudding!
This is my 2nd fave card from my batch.. Just love itty bitty cards!
We sketch Twitter ideas out on yellow legal paper from time to time. Last week I photographed my sketch with the pen in the frame which made for some unintentional product placement. Yes, we use Paper Mate pens at Twitter HQ—busted!
Abends beim "Drink & Draw" gibt es überraschende Motive in der Seidl-Villa: Die entzückenden Burlesque Mädels von "Isar Gold" begeistern beim deutschlandweiten Urban Sketchers Treffen in München
a few sketches from my trip to Lautrec, Tarn, France
Quelques croquis lors de ma semaine à Lautrec, dans le Tarn pour Noël.
Another iPhone sketch done in SketchClub using a ballpoint pen stylus. This one was done with the Sketchy tool.
So this is my trying to travel light(er) sketching kit, i.e. when I am on the road and not staying in the same place for weeks, or even months, where I would be able to paint in the safety of the home without anybody looking over my shoulders.
The journal fits into the small carry bag and the lot still weighs 1.1kg. Shall see how I am going with this and, if possible, trying to reduce further. 'Theoretically', all one really needs is a pen, an all-important eraser (at least to me...), a sketchbook and, maybe, a few colours.
I am new to 'travel sketching' and, tbh, I am finding sketching in public still intimidating, especially when well-meaning passers-by look over my shoulders, observe, and feel the need to comment :)
Edit 22 January, 2023:
I now tested this kit and all I used during my recent interstate vacation (visiting family and trying to sneak in very little sketching indoors) was the following:
- one mechanical pencil
- eraser
- one felt tip pen
- watercolour palette ***
- two waterbrushes (Pentel Aquabrush), one filled with water, one filled with ink which was, I discovered, not waterproof, nor was the felt tip pen.
- pocket knife to score the paper for veins in a leaf
- sketch book
and, as an after thought: a pipette for easy refilling the reservoir of the waterbrushes.
After returning from my vacation and turning on the desktop mac, it went dead and couldn't be revived :-(
I still have to figure out how to load Photoshop Elements, as well as scanner and printer, on the laptop and hope the old scanner and printer will still work with the new laptop. I am not very good at this and lose patience very quickly with this kind of stuff. Once done, I shall post my humble efforts with waterbrush. Some small sketches worked quite well, others have 'gone bad'.
So, one doesn't really need a lot. The hardest part is to learn to paint with an Aquabrush.
***The palette:
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I am finding this to be a very handy small metal palette. I managed to fit 21 half pans into it.
A suggestion on a website was to glue magnets to the pans to prevent them from falling out. I still have to do this. The lids provide some mixing space. If more mixing space is needed, the whole middle section with the half pans can be lifted out.
That's where the magnets holding the half pans safely in place, come in handy. The edges of the mixing 'flap' are rolled. I think this may be important as unrolled edges may be shar and could be an injury hazard. The rolled edges also provide more stability.
I don't like half pans that much but it allows me to take more colours along. Of course, experienced watercolourists would be able to work with fewer colours and fill the palette with a few full pans.