John the Monkey
May 31st, 2012, 06:22 AM
Well, not quite, as I don't cart these around with me everywhere. Yet.
http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2012-06-01/mHkzohckslzHrlkvHGxpaaeGibEDCxpiikmahFuxGHgCIebrJy vjAxfEsvfa/IMG_0047.JPG.scaled1000.jpg
The white box is a Winsor & Newton "Cotman" watercolour "Sketchers" box. It's on top of a Moleskine pocket reporter notebook, to give an idea of the size. I picked mine up in a sale for £7.99 (US Amazon seems to have them for $9).
http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2012-06-01/jxAJevCDoslqrlwAgrcidteoxJGhaEwjbeJhjrildbjodrEbcm vgnfGBhInj/IMG_0048.JPG.scaled1000.jpg
Here's the open kit. There are 12 half pans of paint, and travel brush (the brush handle comes apart, and the front end of the brush tucks into the rear. Think of it as the Kaweco Sport of paint brushes). The brush is a bit too small for large washes (it doesn't hold much water at all) but works on a small scale, or for detail. I'm mostly working on A6 size paper (slightly larger than Moleskine "Pocket" size) and it's occasionally too small for that! If I was carrying this around a lot, I'd get a water brush (http://www.stutler.cc/other/sketchbook/waterbrush.html) to go with it. At the moment, I just use my ordinary brushes. (Incidentally, whilst you're at that site, have a look at the author's DIY compact sketch kits (http://www.stutler.cc/other/sketchbook/sketchbook_c_04.html), really nifty).
http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2012-06-01/EyipxImrClafABIEjuwEfoAakpmDuxfaoxfDowjdhwydgCjCwE mFwoyurHAf/IMG_0046.JPG.scaled1000.jpg
Here's the first thing I did with it (don't look too closely, it's very much better from a distance) colouring an old sketch of a character from Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder books. The paints mix nicely, and there's a good selection of colours in the box - I think I may swap one half pan for a black, or grey at some point.
http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2012-06-01/mHkzohckslzHrlkvHGxpaaeGibEDCxpiikmahFuxGHgCIebrJy vjAxfEsvfa/IMG_0047.JPG.scaled1000.jpg
The white box is a Winsor & Newton "Cotman" watercolour "Sketchers" box. It's on top of a Moleskine pocket reporter notebook, to give an idea of the size. I picked mine up in a sale for £7.99 (US Amazon seems to have them for $9).
http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2012-06-01/jxAJevCDoslqrlwAgrcidteoxJGhaEwjbeJhjrildbjodrEbcm vgnfGBhInj/IMG_0048.JPG.scaled1000.jpg
Here's the open kit. There are 12 half pans of paint, and travel brush (the brush handle comes apart, and the front end of the brush tucks into the rear. Think of it as the Kaweco Sport of paint brushes). The brush is a bit too small for large washes (it doesn't hold much water at all) but works on a small scale, or for detail. I'm mostly working on A6 size paper (slightly larger than Moleskine "Pocket" size) and it's occasionally too small for that! If I was carrying this around a lot, I'd get a water brush (http://www.stutler.cc/other/sketchbook/waterbrush.html) to go with it. At the moment, I just use my ordinary brushes. (Incidentally, whilst you're at that site, have a look at the author's DIY compact sketch kits (http://www.stutler.cc/other/sketchbook/sketchbook_c_04.html), really nifty).
http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2012-06-01/EyipxImrClafABIEjuwEfoAakpmDuxfaoxfDowjdhwydgCjCwE mFwoyurHAf/IMG_0046.JPG.scaled1000.jpg
Here's the first thing I did with it (don't look too closely, it's very much better from a distance) colouring an old sketch of a character from Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder books. The paints mix nicely, and there's a good selection of colours in the box - I think I may swap one half pan for a black, or grey at some point.