Moleskines on the Road

Who can live without a Moleskine anymore? They travel, they're trendy and they're pretty durable, which is important, because mine tend to get dragged everywhere and get kinda beat up.

I used the unlined sketchbooks in different sizes in hard and soft cover. There's also a Japaneses album, a storyboard sketch and pocket watercolor books.

 

The watercolor books really are great; strong durable paper that can take and hold color and ink very well. I carry a Niji waterbrush along with a Cotman mini pan watercolor set. Banded together it's a nice compact road kit.

 Each one of these have a story to go with them; I'll share them in future posts.

Two fresh Moleskinnes wait their turn.

What you carry with you...

Tom Stoppard said,  “If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” I gotta believe he's right. If I cannot carry at least one drawing tool with me at all times, I'm out of sorts.
I thought I'd share the contents of my every day go-bag; the stuff I don't leave the studio without. When I have it, I know I can do all the dumb stuff I gotta do...

I've got a Black Paw messenger bag that is pretty roomy and presently holds the following:

• 3 Moleskine sketchbooks (1 soft cover, 1 storyboard, 1 watercolor)
• Canson Mi-Teintes pastel pad (9x12)
• Strathmore 80lb Windpower Drawing pad (8.5x10)
• 60 lb Strathmore Sketch, 100 pgs, (9x12)
• A Niji roll with one set of Blick colored pencils
• A Windsor Newton travel watercolor with 14 mini pans
• A set of 12 Diane Townsend pastels (the fat stubby kind)
• A Nomatic PE-08 Easy pencil case (red). I'll show the contents in a future post. (JetPens)
• A Lihit Lab Teffa Pencase (brown). Again a future post. (JetPens)
• A Pleple Choco pencil roll case, great for brushes. (Loew-cornell 4,6,8,10) (JetPens)
• A set is Stablio point 88 mini markers
• a bottle of Higgins black drawing ink (a Ziplock bag is a MUST!)

All not too heavy or bulky. It works well for on the run and in the studio. Naturally I can't carry it everywhere; my solution to that in a future post...