Sketch supplies and a botched sketch revisited...

I thought I'd share some of my sketch supplies this week

I LOVE my travel palettes!
The hardest part is deciding which one to take
when I do go on a sketch outing.

The large palette is one I don't use much at all, even at home,

because it is so big and takes up a lot of room on my art table.

I've labelled the palettes for your convenience. 

I use a mix of brands in the tube watercolours - 

Winsor & Newton, Daniel Smith, and Art Spectrum. 

I simply fill the empty pans and leave them uncovered

 to dry out overnight. 

I always re-wet with a water spray bottle 

before actually painting with them.

Another watercolour medium I like to play with on occasion 

are my Mungyo Watercolour crayons.
These were my go-to medium before I got my hands on my travel palettes.

I tend to use them in a similar way to how I work with a travel palette. 

I leave the crayons in the case, as is, and 

just pick up the colour I want with a wet brush. 

There are actually two sets pictured, 

one has had a lot more use. 

And these are my trusty biros/ballpoints 

in a variety of colour ranges which make another
great tool for sketching.
You can get a fairly good range of values with ballpoint pens.

I love my fountain pens and brush pens too.

On top of the art supplies pictured above,
I also have a range of Derwent watercolour pencils, 

Derwent Inktense water-soluble pencils,
Derwent and Prismacolour colouring pencils, 

Faber-Castell PITT pens, 

Prismacolor, Copic and Letraset PRO markers,

and lots more...

Don't get me started on my sketchbook stash.

As artists, do we ever stop adding to our art supplies?

Do you have a favourite,
can't be without,
art medium or art tool?

I think, for me, it would have to be
a sketchbook, a ballpoint pen and/or a fountain pen. 

****************************** 

In January, I completed a month of portraits in my sketchbook. 

I confess that I had started one portrait but never finished it. 

You see, I had only outlined the initial sketch 

in ballpoint pen, and then went to add emphasis and detail 

with my Platinum Carbon pen when it decided to cough up ink. 

Disheartened, I moved on to a new sketch.

Since then, every time I flipped through my sketchbook, 

the bare skeleton of the sketch with ink splotches 

glared back at me.
Unfortunately, I neglected to take a photo
of the bare bones sketch

but, on Friday, I decided to go back and finish it.

I'm glad that I did because, 

 despite the messy ink splotches, 

I kinda like how she turned out.
Still minimal but much better than the bare bones look.
Her hair could be better but
I was trying to disguise a couple of ink splotches.

This was sketched in my Hahnemuhle D & S A5 sketchbook.

******************************

Over the past week,
I have become hooked on the Netflix series, Orphan Black.
 I'm now onto Season 2 already.
I thought a sketch of Sarah was fitting.
I went a little long with her nose,
which is a common mistake I tend to make with faces.

Sketched first with a BIC fine ballpoint pen
followed with my Platinum Carbon pen
in Holcroft A6 travel journal

I'm linking up with Sunday Sketches again this week.
You can check out the other participants HERE.

Happy Sunday to all!

I love my Owlly!

I like to carry some minimal sketch supplies with me at all times and,
recently, I found the perfect little case to hold my sketch kit.

Meet Owlly!

No, I didn't sketch this cute owl or name it for that matter. 

The cases already come in various colours and designs.

There is a flap inside to hold my art pens plus two compartments for

my pocket A6 Moleskine sketchbooks and more pens.

How cool is that?!!

AND...it fits perfectly inside the middle compartment of my handbag.

I'm a happy girl!

Now, IF ONLY I can get over my fear of sketching in public.