I would love to have a van like that enjoy travel and painting

I'm going to make a board like that. I don't really do plein air, but I've made a little kit to have handy to do art at appointments or any time you might be twiddling your thumbs.

Bit late but, this was so interesting. Thanks Paul

I loved watching you use the hake brush and you doing the van life thing I would love to do that

Hi Paul nice to see you back. enjoyed the video thank you

An alteration I have made to the mint tin box works well for me. You may have noticed the top is slightly larger than the bottom. The tin is thin and the hinge can be defeated to liberate top. I affix two small magnets to the top at the hinge with an epoxy resin, filling the holes where the hinges were. Now the second top fits under the bottom and you have two mixing pans and your pan pallet in one slightly thicker tin. Remove the top from underneath and stick it to the original tin with the magnets.

I don't want to learn about your garbage

A new addition to my sketch kit is the top of a 100% cotton white tube sock, rolled up onto my left wrist for wiping off my brushes. Comparable sweat bands are over $10US but I was able to buy a pack of 6 pair of white tube socks for less than that and have the rest left over for my students!

lovely video! and thanks for the idea about the tripod mount!

This was great video. I personally like to see what everyone uses. Again imho it is a benefit to most of us. And keep that bag, it has character just as you do.

Awesome system!

I just saw something like the sketchbook attachment you showed in an Etsy store called "Just Go Sketching" he sells something called the "JustGoSketching Companion".

🎨 Beginner here... what useful, wonderful information! Affordable, too!!!

I routinely breakdown and sort thick cardboard to use just to tape down and 'stretch' paper, and just keep that mounted stretched paper at the ready for when the motivation strikes - not plein air, just at home in my art little room. I always love seeing these types of DIY videos, so thank you for this!

Having watched your video two weeks and having tried to juggle paint box, sketchbook , water pot etc in the freezing cold on Saturday- i realised what I needed to do. Demolished old clip board, bought magnetic tape off Amazon- cobbled something very effective together!! Thanks so much for the ideas!!! Sue beginner urban sketcher

Just found your channel - I’m working on mine😂😂

I love the way you show simple and inexpensive ways to make travel painting.

I oil paint too. It's my favorite paint, but quite expensive sometimes. I decided to try watercolors before Christmas and ended up making Christmas cards this year using watercolors. I had so much trouble with detail when using watercolor paints because unlike oils you can't make really dark shades and with oils you can.....it's so different. 😂 I'm such a detail oriented person. Beautiful painting btw. Happy New Year to you & your family!

That little homemade watercolor kit using an Altoids tin is so cute! Definitely going to make one. I have a Bob Ross mint tin my husband bought me for a gift last summer....... I'm going to use that 😊

Brilliant ideas! I thank you for sharing them! I realize that I have everything to make a small travel kit. I am making one now. 😊

Try three blues three reds three yellows three earth colours

And just when I thought I had bought all my art supplies. Now I have got to get myself a Calarabelle.

Lots of great idea's thanks

Thank’s Paul, love the sketches. I am also trying to copy the plein air board you made, using adhesive strip magnets?

I love Clarabelle! My camper is the best piece of art equipment I have invested in! You know how that feels! Thanks for the videos I’m binge watching since I found your channel. Jo in France 🇫🇷

Hello Paul, I saw you painting some leaves at the trees in the distance with a very small brush. Would this Methode would work with watercolor too?

i've enjoy this interesting to see how it developed slowly. Thanks

Thank you, this was a wonderful idea! I was thinking about putting together an Altoid mini tin as my pallet, but I'm rethinking this now after seeing the color choices you made. Thanks again!

Congratulations! Clarabelle seems to be very cosy and the video was much more than watchable, it was wonderful. I had allways been dreaming of a camper, and when I finally got one (I am 60+), it was just like I had dreamed or even more. I had not been even inside of one before, but when we, me and my dog, started our first trip it was like we never had been doing anything else. We left quite late, so we spent our first night in a vast (in Finnish scale) parking place of a twin gas station. There has never been happier campers in that place, I swear. It was sweet to go to sleep and hear how big trucks slowly rumbled by to their resting area. My camper is an old Fiat Ducato Hymer, and I love it. My dog adapted to camper life from the first moment, and sleeps on the passenger front seat. I got the same happy feeling from your video as I have in my camper. The painting is beautiful, it's the special moment when the sun looks back, like we say in Finland. I wish you great adventures with Clarabelle!

I love to see what others have in their sketching bags. This was very interesting, thank you for showing and explaining. Not everybody has to be a minimalist, the different approaches really make everything more fun and creative.

White,cool and warm red, yellow and blue and white is enough for me.

Good. It never works out painting tree trunks brown. Black or white works better.

Would love to buy some of that magnetic tape. The one I bought is too weak. Could you add a link for the one you purchased?

Thanks for sharing! I love the ingenuity on your book panel!

A suggestion. I buy pen loop that have an adhesive tab that is made to attach to a journal. The 3x5 pentapic Agua journals already have one pen loop. I then make a paper palette on Yupo, with dots of tube watercolor that folds up an fits in the back pocket of the journal. I take one fountain pen with permanent ink, one water brush and a cut off sock that fits under the elastic. This whole things fits in a placket. The palette clips to the back of the book. Very compact and goes everywhere with me..

Hey Paul great ideas for portable boards for watercolor. I have an aluminum sketch board with magnets taped on and a hole that I can drop a naglene bottle into. Btw you called us “you guys” a number of times.. guess what.. we are not “guys” . It would be so wonderful if you adjusted your language to include WOMEN! “Hey ARTISTS,, etc.. thanks for updating you language…

The most wonderful thing about your bag is that’s it’s yours. You get to put as much or as little in it as you want.

Thank you! Im exploring possibilities. Learning to paint again after many, many years.

I love your sandwichmaker! Is it only for use with a gas stove? Or would it also work on a electro stove? Congrats to your Clarabelle 🎉

Paul, come to Islam n success

Wow, what a stunning garden...the lilly lake, the space, the view, the birdsong, my dream garden! You did the garden justice Paul with your lovely painting, thank you for taking us there with you

Well done for managing to paint in the very windy conditions

Thanks, Paul, really enjoy seeing these videos - learning a lot too!

Really impressed with the way you've taken a pretty average scene and made a really good work from it.

Thank you Paul, a very enjoyable video. It was heartening to see what can be achieved with a relaxed attitude and a sense of what will be will be considering the adverse wind conditions! Love the final result and your cheerful determination to see it through to the end...very inspiring as always. And well done Clarabelle for giving you shelter from the downpour at the end!

What a blustery day that was! Thank you for sticking with it!

Amazing painting! I absolutely love it! Is there any chance that it is available for sale?

Hi Paul, I wished I had you as my art Teacher back in the day, even though he was very helpful, you do have that calm & warm personality and I'm certain I could have learnt so much from you, especially as I had a habit of constantly asking questions if there was something I wasn't sure of. The strange ironary is even though I loved art at school but I never really buckled down and took it seriously but it's only been these last 7/8 years that I began to take it seriously as a hobby, it's so relaxing and your videos are so helpful and informative aswell as practical. I wish you great health and continued success of your brilliant channel, Take Care Buddy!!

Hi Paul. Jim from Madrid, Spain (a New Yorker expat living abroad). You are one lucky man to have Clarabelle with you in your Art Adventures (my wife doesn't like to share me with another "gal"!). God knows I can use a Clarabelle in my plein air trips! 😓😃😁👍 Hope this summer you can go out for many more plein air sessions. Cheers from Sunny Spain! 😁👍😎

Paul I would rather see you paint not what's in a bag of supplies