Question: Indispensable art supplies

[mekare]

So, I'm moving this month and have started packing things. That led me to the question which indispensable art supplies to put aside for easy retrieval and which ones I could probably do without for some time until I get to the box.
So far these made it into my list (because I still have art to do for a challenge and also need stuff for spontaneous inspiration):

• H pencil


• my watercolour sketchbook


• two brushes, one medium, one very thin for detailing


• my palette of watercolours (I think I have 16 colours in there)

I think might get by for a month or two with these if I had to (I'm hoping to get unpacking done earlier, but you never know).

What about you? Say, if you had to choose 4-5 (including paper) which would those be?

Comments

[writedragon]

I'm a mixed-media artist, not a painter like you, so my list would be a bit different from yours, and a bit longer, but still quite manageable.

A set of colored pencils (12-24)
one .7 mechanical pencil with extra leads inside
one white gel pen, one black permanent ink pen, and one black Pitt India ink brush pen for outlining, crosshatching, and highlights
a set of watercolor pencils and a water brush (or a small set of acrylics)
dual sharpener
Staedler white rubber eraser
two paintbrushes (one flat acrylic with a straight edge -- small to medium, one scruffy boar bristle for scumbling)
a gold Sakura gel pen for accents
permanent glue stick or two
small pair of scissors
mixed media paper pad

All of this fits into a pouch about the size of a laptop and is surprisingly portable, especially if you organize the supplies into smaller fabric pencil cases with zippers.

[mekare]

How could I forget the sharpener? :-D I do use gel pens, and gold pens in some pieces but I thought I could probably do without them for some time.
Are you doing the aerial creature challenge? I‘d be very interested in what you come up with.

[writedragon]

I'm not currently doing any drawing challenges, as I've been preoccupied with the due South/C6D Big Bang and writing some fanfic, and dealing with life. I'm lurking on that comm though, and will be interested to see what other folks do. I hope to do a drawing challenge sometime -- I do Inktober every year (3 or 4 years running now), so there's that.

Good luck with your move --

[mekare]

YAY DSC6Dbang! I ma so looking forward to claiming!