 Hi guys, welcome to Art Joy of Sharing. This month we are talking about favorite things and I'm trying to clear the table while I'm talking to you. If you don't know what Art Joy of Sharing is, it's a Facebook group and a YouTube channel. Chelsea and Peg Robinson do lives there once a week and they have an associated Facebook group to support artists and inspire others, which is great. This month in January we're talking about favorite things. So if you've been following my channel or any of my social media long enough, you know my favorite things are watercolor. If I had to run out of the house tomorrow, I would at minimum grab this because this is my current watercolor kit that usually lives downstairs, I brought it upstairs today. So at least I would have this watercolor. When we packed and moved I made sure that I had some watercolor and this daily drawing bag with me, everything else had to be packed. But I'm going to share both with you today. Let's start with the watercolor. So I have a number of different kinds of watercolor palettes. The kind of palette you have doesn't really make any difference. I have a number of different brands and kinds and different themed palettes that I've created like this one, which is a flesh tones palette. I'm currently working on a journal, finishing a journal with eyeballs in it. So I've been using this one a lot. It's much easier to have a sort of premixed arrangement of flesh tone colors or things you would use to make flesh tones or make faces other than say if you needed to add blue or green eyes than just having to mix color all the time. So I have that. This is my actual travel watercolor palette. It's a mixture of Daniel Smith and Koi. Yeah. It's been around the bend and back. You can see it is well loved. It's yeah. So but I've used it a lot. It works great. It has for me a fabulous selection of colors in it. I keep it generally just this one in this little Delfonics bag and I can just grab this bag when I'm traveling and I can just put it in my backpack or in my travel little art suitcase. And I have a couple of white pens. I have a white gel pen and a white correction pen. I have a black fine tip Sharpie. I have a black paint pen and a black pilot varsity disposable fountain pen. I have a mini water sprayer. I have a number of these are mechanical colored pencils so that color on the lid matches the color of the lead. They are great for working in my watercolor journal. Here I have a watercolor journal. Generally when I'm traveling I like this size. It's a good size. This size or this are my two favorites. This is a pentallic journal and this one is a moleskin. Yeah, this is a moleskin watercolor journal. This one is three and a half by five and a half the pentallic and the moleskin is eight and a quarter by eight and a quarter. The brand of journal doesn't make any difference. Just get one with watercolor paper in it and the one that's in your budget and then just play with it. I do like a hardcover journal especially from when I'm traveling it sort of protects the work. I always have a couple of clips to hold things open. Inside here I have a number of different kinds of travel water brushes. These are actual brushes that go like this that you can use with water which is my preferred actually. I prefer to have a cup I can dip my brush in for water and I will just use a disposable paper cup wherever I am. I do in my art case carry a Faber-Castell mix a cup that squishes down flat and I do have one of those. I don't always travel with it though. I do travel with a couple of water brushes. These are the Sakura water brush. These are intended for travel so they come with this little black stopper in the water barrel part that you can put in. They actually do not leak either. I know somebody is going to ask me that but they probably leak. They don't leak. They come on planes in suitcases. They don't leak. These are the bottoms. These are the tops. There's a fine tip top and a medium tip top. They do come in a large, they come in three sizes. So those stay in here. I have a plain graphite pencil. Yes this happens to be from Ikea. I have a Stabilo all water soluble pencil and a white crayon for saving white space. In the back here I have a rag. Some test paper. Test paper. Black test paper. There is some scrap watercolor card. A piece of paper towel. Some wax paper. Some plastic wrap. So when you are working with watercolor if you have a piece of plastic wrap while it's wet crunch it up and put it in the wet watercolor. Push it down and let it dry. When you lift this off it's going to create an interesting texture. The same with the salt. It's in here. I carry little salt packets from like a fast food place and a dry eraser. In case I want to erase the graphite pencil. I don't normally do that. I usually am okay with leaving the marks but just in case I have one with me. So this is one of my favorite things. This goes with me everywhere. When I'm home it lives downstairs. I have other watercolors upstairs and then I also have my daily drawing bag. So my daily drawing bag is one I made. It's from my daily drawing bag I made. It's from an accordion bag pattern and if I can remember I'll link it in the description below. I'll link as many of these things as I can remember. But I made this bag and I made it larger than the original was intended. So that I could put my favorite coloring and drawing tools in here and it to have downstairs. Again this lives down by the sofa and it's one of my favorite things on the planet. I in the back here have my daily drawing journals. I also have my daily chronic pain folder. Now if you want to know about this this is something that we're doing over in the Art Facebook group Art Through Chronic Pain and there'll be videos here on YouTube but that's coming soon and this video is not about that but this is something I work on downstairs so it lives here in the back. It has three pockets in which I can put rulers and this middle one has some pencils and some drawing guides like circles and things like that. This one has my retractable fountain pen, a glue stick, a rag. On the outside there are elastic so I can put my favorite, these are my favorite downstairs highlighter markers. The brand doesn't matter. I like adding color with the highlighter markers because they're transparent. They do come in a lot of different colors. These are called Java Power. These are Faber Castell. These are Stabilo Boss. So just look highlighter markers set on Amazon and see what's in your budget that comes in a lot of colors if you want to try this but I do like them a lot and I like these Java ones because they have a gray and a nice green as does the Stabilo. Anyway, I have those. In the middle I have my regular drawing pen so my favorite drawing pen is a bit crystal, inexpensive. Back to school time you can get them like 10 for a dollar but I also have some uniball signals. I have black and brown and white. Yes, they come in other colors besides white. I have a orthographic liner which I like. I have a pilot permable pen and an ink precision pen which I think is from Dollar Tree. This is a pilot varsity disposable fountain pen. I don't know what this is. Oh, it's a Muji pen. I have two water brushes. There is a mini watercolor palette in here somewhere. These are my favorite highlighter gel crayons. Like the pens they're transparent if you take a water brush to them as soon as you put them on the paper they pigment and then will spread out a little bit and be even more transparent. So they're kind of almost like a watercolor on a stick. Now I know in the past there have been people who've reviewed them and they say they have problems with the pages sticking together. I never have a problem with that. I don't know if it's something about how much of the crayon you put on there or how much you do or don't spread it. I don't know. It's never been an issue for me. I have this, I usually have random things like my half-glove for drawing on the iPad Pro the little charging thing for my Apple Pencil my reading glasses which I need and a test swatch of paper which are the colors of these Java pens and then this little brush care pamphlet I picked up when I was at Arthur the Carolinas which I haven't really read yet. This elastic is for when I'm traveling and holding that together. That's what that's for. And then this lives in here as does this. Yeah. And so these are my favorite things. You know, this whole thing together didn't cost a lot of money and it took some labor to make the bag but you could do it in anything. You could definitely just have any kind of tote bag but just a few of your favorite things in it. This thing follows me around the house. It's been in a couple different states. This little bag's been around the country a couple of times. But you don't need a lot of expensive things to make really interesting art and to have fun doing it. So just experiment with what you have. Play with some inexpensive tools and if you have a favorite product that we especially haven't shared with you here in Artjoy of Sharing we would love to hear about it. Go over to the Facebook group and do share we would love to know. That's it for today. What are your favorite supplies? Share in the comments down below. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe. And above all, go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys.