 Well, hello and welcome to today's video where I'm talking about art materials. Yes. Hello art materials So I'm specifically talking about what art materials to take with you when you're traveling Now if you watch my previous video that I'll have links to below this one And if you like a card up there as well That was all about how to travel with your art business But now we want to get down to the nitty-gritty of what we've made the decision to get traveling What should we take and why so in today's video? I'm going to share what I have specifically brought with me from Australia to the UK why I chose those items and What I bought once I got here Well, hello and welcome or welcome back to my channel My name's Sophie and I just love to help artists like you to set up market and grow a highly successful Profitable art business on this channel I share all things art business related and maybe now a few art videos as well If you'd love to learn more about how to build that art business, then you're in the right place Don't forget to subscribe and hit that bell to get notified every time I post a new video Okay, let's get to it. What did I bring and why so first off we're gonna start with my trusty kind of giant pencil case that is actually artwork from an artist In northern WA and I can't exactly remember the name So if you're looking at this and you're the artist, please make sure to let me know in the comments My daughter bought it for me and I absolutely love it. It's my color and it just holds a good number of things So let's take a look what I've got inside So initially, of course, I've got a good old a5 notepad nothing spectacular Nothing reasonably expensive just nice paper that I could do some on-the-go sketching with Then I've also got and I newly purchased and I'm in love with these Beautiful chroma flow colored pencils now I could have and I would like to have bought a much bigger tin But I stood looking for quite a while and I thought well this again is roughly the same size and fits together With the sketchbook so it's easy to travel So inside this it has two levels of pencils So as you see, it's nicely stacked. Now. These are not watercolour pencils. They are really rich in colour And when you use them, I could do a quick demo or a quick Show a quick picture that I did actually on the aeroplane It's just a bit of a sketch that you can probably see even just the colour there. It's really rich It's really vibrant and really easy to use So I prefer this type of pencil over watercolour That's my preference because at the end of the day I'm an acrylic painter and I had to leave the acrylics behind More on that in a moment. So I have these things Then I have see I'm really loving the little tins here. So these are Karen dash Neocolour 2 now these are water soluble, but what I really love about them and these have not been used actually But they're in a little tiny tin super easy for traveling and really easy just to give again some Vibrant colour to what you're doing. So you notice now my pile is like that But it's still not very large and it all fits in here. Then I've got one of my favourite collapsible That's making a big noise Water containers so I can just take that wherever I go Then I've got a little dish and in the little dish. I've got a really nice rubber and I've got a pencil sharpener two sides So they just kind of sit in there and then it's like another it's like a merry Poppins bag, isn't it? I've got just a Cloth for wiping up any spills It is actually covered in acrylic paint because I haven't got that with me and then one of my favorite Watercolour stacks now. I'm not a watercolour artist. I'm an acrylic painter But I'm going to talk to you in a minute about why I made the decision I made to bring what I brought and you can probably see so these are just great if you haven't seen these before They're just a stack. So I've got kind of reds on the top I've got some greens and blues under there and they probably stuck together They've stuck together in the heat So we'll open those later But there's some browns and there's all the colours of the rainbow in there be where to clear them up properly So they don't stick together just like that. So if he's going to have to unstick those Right, so all of that just fits in this trusty bag So I also brought some other things just because I thought what if I really want to expand and actually want to paint something a Bit larger and I really want to dive into watercolour Well, I bought these in Florence maybe three years ago So these are Schmincker watercolours and again, I'm not making any money off any of these I'm just sharing with you my preferred Tools of the trade So here's a full watercolour set that I bought and I can mix the colours in the palettes and it all just Clips away now. Here's the downside to that It's a little bit heavy and I did leave it to one side and I thought I wasn't sure should I shouldn't I? But when I have been doing a little bit of painting I have actually gone to this Over this this is great on the go, but there's some beautiful quality colours These are in a whole different level of color and quality, so they went over there Then you might be thinking to yourself. We haven't even talked about pens Sophie. So here's a little pencil case Overstuffed with pens and pencils. I need to let you know I didn't need to bring all of these I have used a vast number of them So in here is a whole variety and I'm not going to go through don't panic every single pen There's a good selection of pencils Lyra. I really love a Lyra pencil. I've got some Ecoline brush pens I've got the Posca Uni pen for white I've got I think what have I got here? Copic markers here and then good old art line pens in various thicknesses I've got a couple of gray kind of again colour wash things and What else have I got my firm favorite at the moment and this is another Copic multiliner and it's kind of in a nice kind of coppery brown and it's a 0.3 and I absolutely love it So I've got all of those in there. Let's talk about brushes if I'm going to do watercolor painting What am I working with? Well, I've got these so these I've got three of these With different sized brushes at the top and I'm sure if you have traveled at all or you like to work your watercolor You're familiar with these you fill that with water Make sure to empty before you get on the plane if you've got me in your hand luggage Because they will count as liquid and they might ask you to throw them out So make sure you've emptied those if they're in your hand luggage So this is really easy on the go But because I knew I could bring a fair amount of stuff with me I was only coming to the UK. I did bring something else as well And that is a little selection of brushes and again I went through my studio and I just chose a few different brushes some Sort of large or wash watercolor brushes a nice round one Then I've got a variety a couple of flats I've actually got for memory my mother's sable watercolor brush, and I probably will not use it because it's very old It's a little bit rough around the edges, but it's a Kalinsky sable and my mother painted with it So it's my little good luck charm And right down the end of course, I've got some super small brushes And I've even got a nib in case I pick up some ink somewhere Because I used to really love doing pen and ink And then of course I've got little tiny diddly brushes Not at all what I paint with when I'm at home in my studio So let me just share with you one other thing and then let's talk about why I made this choice So I'm pretty fussy with my paper So a lot of you watching are going to go oh, you're not doing sketching on that. So for you So I've got Fabriano watercolor hot press paper here And I've chosen hot press because I do like the flat surface I'm not a watercolor painter as I've said several times. So therefore I'm not looking for that watercolor finish I'm looking to potentially do Something that I could perhaps then go home and work on And produce into a finish painting perhaps then on canvas, but I want the good quality surface So oh, yes, I have got the good quality paper So again, if you'll notice I could have brought a smaller one but I find that really Constricting so I landed here. I got this and I did go shopping But before I show you what I bought, let me just explain why I made the decisions I made So I chose these items because I knew primarily I would be sketching Primarily, I would be doing line drawing likely. So I wanted pens and pencils So I could specifically just pull a few of these out take my sketch pad a couple of pencils in a pen And I can pop those in a handbag. So that way I knew that was easy Obviously the water color choice is because I haven't got the mess I couldn't bring it didn't want to bring acrylics because then suddenly I've got to get them out somewhere and Then there's they're drying quickly and then I've got the brushes that need cleaning and just that general You know now I've got a palette full of wet paper and I've got a painting that's perhaps wet Whereas water color drives pretty easily. I haven't got the mess I haven't got the worry that I'm going to spill acrylic on my friend's couch It's easy to clean, right? So that's kind of why I made the decision However for me it has been a bit of a challenge because I'm not getting the color intensity and I'm not getting of course the finished Picture that I like so I'm probably going to be thinking differently when I travel again I might look at bringing more pens like thick colored pens to get something a bit more similar to acrylics But I made that decision because I knew primarily I would be sketching and maybe just a bit of color in there to enhance the sketch All right, what have I bought and why? So I went into cast art So I love cast art because it's just a great place to get affordable Materials and I go into the Brighton store. So hello to the Brighton store if you're watching this I've bought several things from you and taken the back with me In fact, I think even those those empty the water the brushes that I bought from you many years ago And I have a feeling I bought this from you on my previous visit as well So I brought these little bought these little set these little collections of sketch pads because I get through sketch pads Really quickly who would agree with me? Don't forget to leave a comment below this video by the way with what your favorite materials are for traveling or Going out and about sketching and why you choose them because I'd love to get some other ideas So I went and bought these because I thought they're lightweight I can take them home with me or I can leave them here whatever and then I bought also the a3 I bought them a little bit bigger and I've just done a couple of Simple water color sketches in here and that's what made me realize It's kind of not giving me a result that I really want but it's it's enabling me to capture a sense of something So I'll probably get through one of these on this trip and then take the others home with me And then because I knew I wanted to maybe paint something a little bit larger I did splash out on a watercolour pad now I Initially looked at the fatter one because obviously there were more pages But it was so heavy and everything weighs when you're traveling you have to make a weight decision So in the end I just got this one. I believe it's got 12 sheets. It's 140 pounds Again, it's hot press. Obviously. It's a different paper to the Fabriano, but great to just get started on So I just played around With a bit of a semi-abstract design on there and then I will continue because I've got 12 sheets Which means I can do 12 kind of ideas for paintings before I get home Ideally I like to work really large even being constricted to this I find a bit challenging But my main aim for traveling with my art and choosing my art materials is to go home with a plethora of sketches and ideas I've taken hundreds of photographs already as reference points So I don't paint from a photograph But I use them as a reference just a mark or a shape or a color or a tone or something that will help me Create the images that I'm creating So I hope you found this little reveal Exciting as I said, don't forget to let me know below this video Art materials that you like to travel with and why because I'd love to hear from you And don't forget as I said if you've loved this video to give it a thumbs up because it really helps the growth of my YouTube channel Thank you so much for watching happy painting and creating and I'll see you on another video