When I attend a fancy-dress event, such as an opera, a wedding, or a black tie fundraiser, my sketching gear has got to fit into a single pocket. Here's what I bring:
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, one filled with clear water, and one with diluted 
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filled with 
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• I add the white gouache
to the collar later.
to the collar later.
to the collar later.
Thanks for showing this today. I have been wanting to try a water brush using watercolor ink and this post was the motivation for me to go out and do so.
ReplyDeleteIn my pocket sketch kit, I have a waterbrush, mechanical pencil, super skinny stick eraser, water soluble graphite pencil, white china marker, Pentel Hybrid Technica technical pen which has ever so slightly water soluble ink, and a fountain pen with bulletproof ink. The china marker is nice for white highlights but also can produce sketchy lines which is why I tend to favor it over a white gel pen. These all fit in a soft-sided, open top eyeglass case that I can attach to a small sketchbook with a stretchy hairband.
ReplyDeleteAlways fun to see what everyone else carries! How I wish they made water-soluble graphite leads for lead holders.
Lovely works
ReplyDeleteI'd recommend bringing along a white gel pen so you don't have to add the white gouache later. Not that bulky.
ReplyDeleteHi James, As primarily a colored pencil artist working in a saturated multilayered style for my main work. there is a White Water-soluble pencil made by Stabilo, which writes on glass, china, metal and more. Stabillo Aquarelle. If I use the tip of my fairly dry water brush directly on the tip of the pencil to pick up a gouache like consistency of pigment it will top bright highlights off just like gouache! And it will stick to very heavily waxy colored pencil, water color, and other media. Nice especially since I have had a white gel pen leak in my purse and a gouache filled water pen leak too! Yuck!
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