Field Sketching Supplies
I love to sketch in watercolor! Especially on the road. This small kit walked along the Embankment in London and pilgramaged to Santiago de Campostela, wandered though muddy fields in the Netherlands and sheltered from the rain in cloudy Monteverde. When travel sketching, I start with a pencil sketch, ink it in with Micron Pens, and then watercolor wash over the drawing. I finish by erasing the pencil lines, once the watercolor is dry. Here is a list of the supplies shown in the photos above.
Folding plastic palette with my favorite pigments squeezed out and dried, or Windsor Newton folding watercolor kit. Splurge not in picture: A Schminke 12 or 24 half-pan kit.
Pigments I love: Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue, Quinacridone Red, Cadmium Red, Cadmium yellow deep, Cadmium Yellow Light,
a few brushes, especially my favorite travel brush.
small tube of white gouache.
Micron Pens in sizes, 01 06 and 1 mm.
2H or No. 2 pencil and eraser.
small plastic spice jar for water. I usually carry the water in a water bottle.
Zip lock bag for storing the sketchbook in—I have wrecked a sketchbook with a burst water bottle and from a leaky roof.