This is super helpful! Thank you so much for posting it! Most urban sketching kits you see on RU-vid are either huge messenger bags, backpacks, or super tiny to fit into a man's back pocket. This is essentially the kit I've been trying to build. BTW, I love the banjo music when you were packing it back up! Sounded like something I'd hear locally (Kentucky, USA). You don't often associate banjo music with Canada lol.
I’m glad that I’m not the only person who brings sketching stuff with me everywhere!😆I love having a water-soluble pencil on hand for sketching and adding fine details
That little bag is amazingly efficient the way everything slides in so snuggly. Also handy that you figured out how to clip it to your bike. Your video gave me ideas for a travel bag, but I like the idea of using it as an everyday carry.
I have a bag so similar to yours! A lot of my supplies are quite similar. I love my fude de mannen pens and the ge great platinum fine nibbed fountain pen. I like small tins and have a selection of them, and some heavyweight tins, it depends on what I want to use. I wish I could say I was going out a lot with my paints and pens but right now it is impossible for me to be independent, so though my bag is by my side and I do use my supplies being an outside artist is still a dream. I have the same stainless steel cup, I had forgotten it, and also have a clip on one too. I have got a bigger bag for the back of my chair and can also take a drawing board and larger paper and even a tripod with me, I need to buy another of those really useful tripod plates for my smaller board, glue it on and then the moment I can get out of my home independently I will be up for some outdoor painting adventures. My smallest box is an 18 quarter pan gem which I will use if I need to pack a sandwich too. That size bag is so useful, I call it my tardis bag. I do like and prefer to paint on loose handmade paper more than a sketchbook. Thinking about devising a folder that will allow me to use the full width of a double landscape spread so I guess some clips are going to come in handy too. Am also wondering whether my bag would make a good support to work on as it already has a body strap. Thanks for all the fab ideas. If I get my dream front door that I can use independently I will be off the first opportunity. When the Holbein masking fluid pen gets to my part of the world at A price I could consider then i will take one of those, my adventures with white gels pens have not given me results I am happy with. I could buy a whole set of paint for one of those pens, I just wish they would sell them in Europe at an affordable price.
I will be buying the glass pen/fountain pen. Thanks for sharing. Also, when you said that you were from Kitchener, I smiled. My favorite comedian, Norm Macdonald has a famous joke mentioning Kitchener.
I can't handle with watercolors out of my home, so I use ballpoint pen and pencil. And I always have a fineliner or two even if I don't bring my sketchbook with me, just in case if I want to sketch on paper coffee cup or something like that.
@@LeeAngold yes, I think if I can carry my phone all around I clearly can take a fineliner too. They are not so different by leigh. Maybe one day I find a case which suits both.
Eve Bolt - Bolt's Vault That glass nibbed pen is my favourite thing right now. I’m really disappointed that it seems to have disappeared off Amazon (at least for an affordable price) right after I bought it. I only spent around $12 on it and it’s SO unique and handy!
Nice! Thanks for making a video of this. I carry around a Pentel Brush Pen, a Faber Castell Watersoluble pencil for tones and a waterbrush with a A5 sketchbook.
Bad news, I got it from a small seller at an agricultural fair, not a big store. Good news, I've downsized my everyday carry significantly, so this bag could be yours ;)
I have been trying to find the best nature journaling bag for a while. Check out my video about that quest here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TC8l8Fhx-rA.html
I dont find the second flap useful as a mixing surface on the tins because it doesn't lie flat (and wherever I can, I mix on ceramic anyway). That extra flap I dont use takes up extra space when unfolded, so I removed it.
@@LeeAngold Thanks! I've actually really grown to love the colors that Jennifer McLean put together for that special edition. Thank you so much for responding so quickly. Great job on your videos!
Vodka doesn't freeze until it is much colder than water's freezing temp, but it otherwise behaves very similarly to water for rehydrating watercolours, etc. You can fill a travel brush or water container with vodka and use it for painting in very cold conditions :)
