 I'm so excited. I'm going on a trip. I'm gonna leave my little studio and I've packed up my bag I got a new little suitcase our other suitcases all got destroyed during the flood you guys are probably tired of hearing about the Flooding of my home But we had we've had to get so many things new But I love this purple suitcase because I can identify it when we're on a trip and I have my art supplies So this is dedicated just to my art supplies I know some of you guys can relate because I've seen some of your posts about how we pack and we spend more time Packing our art supplies then our clothes As artists sometimes, you know, just our little precious babies are more important than how we look So anyway, I thought I'd just show you some of the things I packed just maybe give ideas to other people outside here This has all these compartments. I feel like 007 or something. I've got a little thing where I have my business cards With a little easel because sometimes people walk by when you're painting and they're like, who are you and What do you do and how do I get in touch with you? So that's a good thing to just have them available easily and Let me see. I don't even know I've packed so many things away in here. I have oh, this is a neat little light You can get from They actually gave it to me free Jerry's are the wrong if they have their name on it here. Yeah, Jerry's In case you don't have great lighting This is just a nice little very bright light in case you're kind of in dim lighting and you find yourself in a spot Where you can't see so it has like three levels. So I gotta make sure to turn it off Yep, and I got um my little earbuds there for listening to music and things and I'll probably have all of my adapters and things in there inside I'm not gonna take everything out of here, but I have my tapes and I don't even know what that is. I have brushes and Watercolors because I have enough supplies to do an underpainting. I have my little tripod thing for my camera I have a little applicator in case I want to apply to just so which I have over here and Let's see. What else do I have? I have my iPad Stand that I got from Ikea, which is really handy. Some of you may have seen the pictures I pasted or posted earlier today with my Sienna plein air box and I have various some sketch pads and things To take with me. Of course, I have my pastel papers. They're tucked away back here Along with some glassing what sometimes once you paint something and you're on a trip you have to have a way to protect them So glassing it's almost like wax paper. You put between your paintings when you're done and keep them safely I've got in this little clear pouch anything liquid you want to protect. I've got a bottle school of alcohol and water Or you know what I want to do an underpainting maybe with some Some kind of medium underneath. I've got a bottle full of just water I've got my clear gesso. I've got my little handy dandy phone Stand thing that I hopefully can do some recording on the ship and make a video I hope I've got an extra extension cord because sometimes you can't find an outlet when you're traveling Or or you can't find one close if you need to recharge your iPad or your phone So that's always handy. These are just little things I've learned over the years. I've got various pencils sharpeners erasers and I used this box here. This is just a Rembrandt pastel box I got but I repurposed it and I have all of my neutral pastels and my harder new pastels That I came up with a way that they're they're pretty safe. So you don't even hear them rattling around So now when I go through at the cruise ships sometimes they want to know They want to open up your bag and they want to inspect it make sure you're not carrying drugs or weapons or anything like that And so you can say no, I'm just a peaceful artist But I'm tell them to be gentle with all of your things So I've got all kinds of other art supplies underneath here, but this makes for a very nice bag that is safe and When I get on the ship, I can just it's I like this when it has the rollers that spin all the way around like that So purple bag with my art supplies. I'm ready to go. Oh my goodness I'm gonna relax. It's been so long. So anyway, I love you guys. I hope that helped anybody who wants to pack for Painting on a trip