My Travel Kit with Gatecrashers....

Not quite pen and ink for The Artist's Play Room this week

I have pens in there and they have ink in them right

so I am making use of the whole close enough is good enough concept

I used to use quills and ink bottles

but for the chronically uncoordinated

the idea of open ink bottles in a studio with carpet on the floor

is so stress inducing that I avoided using them

and don't get me started on how many times I stabbed myself

putting those fiddly bloody nibs in the holder

and then there is the splotching, drips, and running out of ink half way through a line

 and black fingers

or green or blue fingers

and the need for bandaids

basically it was a whole saga

I do apologise to the purists

and yes I love all the bottles and things

and have quite the collection

but I tend to use ink with brushes... 

partly because I never get cuts on my fingers from using brushes

but also for some odd reason I never spill paint

Of course on meeting Sakura Microns

 I am afraid the love/hate thing I had going with pen and ink 

tipped over into the distant memory category

these puppies never splotch or injure... they are just so dependable

So this painting is of my travel kit... no clue why I have pencils in there

because I never take pencils

because then you need erasers, sharpeners etc

and the watercolour pencils rarely put in an appearance for the same reason

plus the watercolour wheel is so much easier to use

but with out them it all would have been a bit boring looking

so not really my travel kit, but travel kit with gatecrashers

The main thing is all my favourites are covered

Microns, the watercolour wheel that I use every single day

whether on the road or not

waterwell brush thingy, and a couple of favourite sketchbooks

those few things and I am set no matter where I am

well set if I also have chocolate, and tea

and I considered throwing in a couple of teabags and chocolate wrappers

but figured you could all do with a rest from them...xx

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