Watercolor Travel Art Kit: Fits in Your Pocket.

1. Watercolor Travel Kit: Intro and Materials: Welcome to this course on making a pocket size travel art kit. I'm Chris Carter. In this course, you will learn how to make my very smallest version of an art travel kit for watercolor. You'll have a palette. You'll have a brush. You'll have a sketchbook. You'll have everything you need to sketch wherever you go everywhere you go. Here, the supplies that you need for the watercolor kit, you need the cotton socks and a pair of scissors to cut it. You need empty many Altoid tin or some other men. 10. You need one stick on business card magnet strip to empty eye shadow tens four empty watercolor pans. I use 3/2 pans in a full pan, a mechanical pencil, a water brush. These come in all shapes and sizes, but I use a small won for this tiny kid superglue. I have locked tight that I used to glue the strips from the magnet to the bottom of my pans so that they stick inside. You need scrap watercolor paper, a scrap from a watercolor painting or some other. You can have a cover of something or a paper bag, anything that you want to use for the cover of your sketchbook and some rubber bands, and that's it. 2. Watercolor Travel Kit: Procedure: I'll start with the hardest part. First, you can either use a ruler for this or just do it by. I flip your Tim over. The magnet is going to go into the lid, not into the inside of the tent, marking it off where it will fit in the 10 with a little bit of room despair. Cut the strip. There you go. That's perfect. Next, you'll do the same thing here. Now. Another way to do it is just trace like that and cut it a little bit smaller. Perfect. Next. So now we have the size for that. We don't need to put a magnet in the bottom. We just need to put a magnet in the top now, even though these yourself adhesive, I always use a spot of glue, too, especially with the pans because, um, when you're washing the pans out on washing the tin out, you're going to end up getting them wet on. Then the adhesive wears off, so I used the extra clip. Remember, with superglue, you do not want to get it on your fingers or you're gonna be sticking your fingers together . Take the backing off, but just a drop of glue. You have to do this fairly quickly because superglue does dry fast and I take the pan and put it on top of the magnet. That way, I'm not touching Glueck, okay, we'll put those aside and let them dry. The next thing we can do is to cut our sock and you can just cut the end right off the socks. And there you go. Now I use I use old socks. I'm showing you with a new sock, but you can use old socks to make your sketchbook. Take your scrap paper and you could make it any size you want. I'm going to just fold this in half and I fold it both ways and then just rip it like that . If it's not ripping easily, you can cut it. But I like the soft edge. Then I'll fold it in half. They have folded forwards and backwards. That's that's what makes it easy to you can use a bone folder to with that, if you want on, and if it's a little uneven, you can adjust it. I like putting two pages per signature, and you might want to just go with the re. If you're not going very far, that might be in luck. Then you take your water color and over, huh? The way you hold it in is with the rubber bands. Now you can stitch this. I usually stitch mine. But if you're just on the go, you can easily make your sketchbook without any stitching at all. And the 4th 1 is to keep it closed. So there we have the sketchbook. We have the watercolor brush, We have the pencil, we have our wrists sock. And now we can go back to our 10 See the magnet, holds it down in there and squeeze your paints into it. I use a yellow, a warm yellow, a warm read, a cool red and ultra marine blue. And then you're tens. Stick to the lead and you're all set to go happy sketching This is Cris Carter with skill share 3. Watercolor Travel Kit: Conclusion: I just maybe having far too much fun making these classes, and, uh, I can't help but throw things in that I hope will inspire you to be bold and adventuresome . In this class, you learned how to make the very tiniest and most basic of travel kits. I hinted that there are a lot more travel kids that I can teach you to make, including two different Ariel studios set ups for painting while paragliding. The 1st 1 that I made was a little too big. And for the first time in my life, I experienced horrible motion sickness. So I redesigned the whole kit, and now I can fly and paint without any problem. So, um, not that many of you are gonna be out there paragliding and painting, but But the whole point behind it is that you can sketch in paint doing almost anything. Andi, I can help you put together kits that will work no matter what your situation. So if I don't hit upon something that works for you, let me know. Contact may because I have so many ideas and you'll see in some of the other classes that I'm posting. I have kids of all sizes that fit into all kinds of bags, all kinds of pockets, backpacks, will any number of things. Andi, I'm happy to share that with you. I hope that you've enjoyed this class. And really, even if you never make a travel camp, I hope that I've just sparked the idea that you can go ahead and and just do something, Derek, that you thought maybe you couldn't dio You thought maybe it was impossible. But I don't know. I've I've dreamt of a lot of things and halftime. Quite a view of them. There are still a lot more to go, and I hope that I'll be around a long time to continue sharing them with you. Oh, please join me on my adventures. And I hope I can support your adventures to travel the world and explore with I didn't brush. This is Chris Carter. Have a great 4. Bonus Lesson One: in this video, you're going to see the travel kit in action, and the only additions that you'll see is you'll see this clip, which clips to the sketchbook and then allows you to attach your palate without having to hold on to. You'll see a different book. This'd is another really easy sketchbook that's made by folding back and forth piece of watercolor paper or other paper. It's called an accordion sketchbook or concertina sketchbook, and this just slips in to this case that I made from postcards. This is the paraglider that my son and I I used to fly one. And can you just hold it in with the rubber band? So you're gonna see actually this painting being done in a moving car? There will be a paper towel that you'll also see me use. The video is going to be kind of jittery and jaggery here. Some cyclists, because I'm in a moving car and the camera is attached with suction cup to the window. Now I'm, of course, and the passenger I take full advantage of being a passenger, since I'm usually the one driving. But when I am a passenger, I paint enjoy the video. This is your kit in Action way, - way . I have 5. Bonus Lesson Two: I decided to give you one more bonus. Listen, and this is just a treat. Sit back and watch it. This is going to be several clippings from previous videos of different locations than setups that I had using the many outweighed 10 Teoh paint and water color. Um, sometimes just using one pigment. I often do that too, when I'm in the city during buildings, because I'm looking at shapes and values, and I'm not as concerned about the color. In some cases, at least when I was starting out, um, exploring Paris. That's what I was doing. Um, So I hope you enjoy it there. Some of them are our early early videos, and that will be kind of obvious. I hope you enjoy them. Uh, over 6. Extra Tips: Tiniest of art kits: Now I'm going to give you a little bit of a bonus. You may think that you can't bring your sketching gear with you when you run. I mean, maybe you go out and you run 4 miles every morning, and then you come home and say, Well, I lost all this opportunity to sketch. Now I'd like to show you how you can carry this around, even if you don't have pockets. If you have a runner's belt like this, you can take this everywhere, even if you don't have pockets. This is a runner's belt, and here you can put in your phone. You can put in your sketchbook. You can put in your pencil, your water brush. Zip it up. And in this little pocket, you can put your palette and your wrist sleeve. Then you just fasten around your waist, and off you go. 7. Extra Tips: Pack Light - Paint More: In this video, I'm presenting several different travel kits, most of which you can make yourself. I'm presenting a few that are made using tins, mostly altoid tins, but any kind of tin, the mini Altoid makes really nice small palettes that you can just stick in your pocket. And then there are some vintage whiskey palettes that I've collected over the years. And then the main feature, I think, is the special aerial studio that I made for painting while paragliding with my son. And that entailed a different kind of travel palette The palette is actually built right into the sketchbook. I had to hollow out an area in the sketchbook, and my son printed three D printed a little palette insert. I gave him the dimensions for the little pans that I would adhere using the magnetic strip, and he printed those out, and I inserted them into the sketchbook. I made two different sizes, a very small one, and then a slightly larger one. And the reason that I made these was that my original aerial studio was a larger foam cord board. And it was just a little too big. It wasn't very big because I had to take off. You know, I had to run off the cliff with it, and everything has to be attached to the well, to me, so that nothing falls while I'm flying around. So my fountain pen, my brushes, my spray bottle, the paint palette, pencils, brush. All of those were actually attached. And you'll see they were attached with strings to me. Um, but the first time, it was too wide, so I ended up getting a little motion sickness because my eyes thought that I was sitting still, and, of course, my body knew that I was flying around. And I'd never gotten motion sickness before. So this was a bit of a problem trying to paint, enjoy the incredible scenery, the incredible sensation of flying around in the air. And, you know, while Well, I'm not feeling too well. So anyway, I solved that by making a whole new system, which you'll see in this video. And the larger sketchbook is great to attach my shoulder straps and use it as a body easel. It works really, really well. So you can stand and sketch. It works with the little one, too, but the big one is just a little bit. Better for my purposes of urban sketching and sketching while in crowds, standing in crowds or at festivals, that kind of thing. So you'll see that there are different systems, travel art kit systems that I've developed for different purposes. What I really like about the little mini altoid is that I can have a very limited palette, and it forced me to use a limited palette. So usually I use a cool yellow, a warm and cool red, and an ultramarine blue. That's my standard mini altoid kit for going anywhere. What I do when I travel overseas or to, you know, some place that's maybe tropical is I'll probably bring two mini altoidsO that is specific to the um weather and the circumstances, environment of where I'm going, and the other is my standard with the uh cool yellow, warm and cool red, and the ultramarine blue. And, of course, the warm and cool red are so that I can make beautiful violets and also have a nice warm red because I love cadmium red light, but that does not give me a nice violet at all. So here we go. I'm going to narrate just a little bit of it because this video is made up of clips of a lot of different videos. So I'll just say a few words as I'm going through it. And there is my standard mini Altoid tin. You see how tiny it is. Sometimes I just use caput mortem, especially for urban sketching with buildings. I like to use that as monochromatic. And see it just all piles up, slips into your pocket. And I use the sock around my wrist to wipe my brush on, clean my brush off. And here you can see different sizes. That is a business card palette. There's a well used business card palette. And that's a Windsor Newton palette. It's also very, very handy. Here are the whiskey palettes. Here are four watercolor whiskey palettes. These are Vintage palettes. And this is one that I purchased in London several years ago. These two have been handed down to me from my two most important mentors in my life. This one was given to me by Betty Stropel who introduced me to the joy of watercolor. This one was given to me by Adolf Conrad, who I can't say enough about him. He was my mentor for over 30 years. And he really didn't mentor me in watercolor at all, but in the journey of an artist and an oil painting. This one I found at a flea market, perhaps I'll tell you the story behind that. And as I said, this one I purchased in London several years ago. You can see the flasks. They do get rusty. These are the books with the palette insert that I made for paragliding. Okay, so here we're gonna test it out. I've got the sponge that I hook these on, and no, I didn't suck up any of the taint, so that's good. Now, on the back side, I have no water supply. So and a new system, it is. Mm. I tied it to a spot. We shall. Okay. Oh. This is gorgeous. Oh, this is so much better than the other to. Oh. Oh hi. Welcome to Dunmop. It's gorgeous up here. Look, deep in one of these trees today, I flew with a bird I've never flown with before. It has, like, brilliant white feathers. Red tail hawk, no fun, no. So ridiculous. You just can't get news like this any way. The road looks pretty cool. It's like a little snake. Welcome. I love the view of the rocks here. Oh, my God. Look at that. Do people climb over there? What is that? Yeah. The trouble with painting up here is that it's just there's such beauty to just keep looking at. I love the changes in color, too. Maybe it's my sunglasses, but that green over there looks beautiful. And I love all these, the grays and the blue grays and blue greens and the purples, yeah. We're coming into here, right? We have a little we're gonna come in hot, okay? What does that mean? Pretty fast, huh? Yep. They were so jelly, but it was much better. All right. Yes, much better. Thank you. That was so much fun. Beautiful. That's a high. Oh, I did. It's not about great stuff. We can figure out what the air's like by your drawings. I like that say. Yeah. That's a level one, turbulent stay. That's a level fun. And here are both of the books. You can see the size of them. This is the larger one with the three D printed insert, and I'm just doing a landscape sketch in my front yard. The business card Hallett. Remember, these are just small clips from these videos. Here's the Caput mortem. Just the monochromatic value sketch of the building. This is the church. In the drive and draw, I pick a distance or a time. Say, 10 minutes, and I'll drive 10 minutes, find a good place to park. Sketch for ten to 15 minutes, get back in the car, go another 10 minutes, stop wherever it is, and paint what's there. And this is along my evening walk in my neighborhood. Again, the business card, Hala. That's a magnetic strip so that I can have a puddle of warm colors and a puddle of cool colors. Thank you for watching. And