digital camera
vintage box camera (without film)
pinhole camera
scissors
needles
sewing cottons
embroidery threads
yarns for knitting or fibre constructions
cyanotype coated fabrics
silk, wool, linen for eco bundling
sketchbook
pencils
ink
brushes
penknife
I thought perhaps I would ask what you might take with you on your travels?
Do you have a little kit or a favourite tool that always travels with you?
I invariably take way too much with me when I go and gather my art things well in advance of the actual departure. When we go to Cornwall we travel by train and I have to be a bit more circumspect. I then take my camera, never without it, a sketchbook, watercolours and brush, pens, matt medium for collaging, small scraps of fabric, scissors, small bottle of ink and some acrylic white, and a few wax or oil crayons. I also like to take some silk for rubbings or for seaweed dyeing, and also a hand stitching project with threads etc. Can you tell I can never really make my mind up what to take? lol Less is more so they say but I can never master that one :-) Have a great holiday!
ReplyDeleteThanks Julie. I can never make up my mind either.
DeleteI've pared my travelling collection of materials right down. It's an interesting challenge when I don't have much to use - less distracting in a way. Camera, sketchbook and pen, fabric and threads. See you when you return? I hope the rainy weather stays put up here!x
ReplyDeleteI think I need to make myself a little travel kit. I used to have a little drawing kit that fitted in an old tobacco tin back when I was a student.
DeleteI'm not going anywhere on holidays this year - but after listening to the radio this morning - I'd pack a lifeboat!!
ReplyDeleteHave a great trip though - sound like it's going to be very creative!
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Lifeboat might not have been such a silly idea!
DeleteI always take too much! I use my camera most along with my sketchbook, liner pen and watercolours for recording quick sketches. I often take my coloured pencils too :)
ReplyDeletecan't remember the last time i went somewhere on 'holiday' but if i did i would pack
ReplyDeletea big jar of enthusiasm
magic energy extract
my spirit of adventure
and
the belief that everything i need
will be found where i go
happy trails
Camera- always a camera. I feel like something's missing when it's not there. A notebook for writing in (I think too much)...then depending on how long the holiday is I sometimes take a small tin with me that contains needle, thread, fabric scraps, beads etc or whatever I want to work on. I sometimes think to pack something to keep found objects in- stones, bones, rusty wire etc that I find on walks. Lately I'm getting into wood carving so I'd probably take a pen knife...oh dear, no room in the bad for clothes! I'm so jealous you're going to Devon, the west country is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Devon - but very wet!
DeleteI would always take a camera and art materials for skectbook. I have tried taking materials to make something while away but it never worked for me. You cold set a restriction that anything you do is made with found objects...... Make it a challenge.
ReplyDeleteAnd a raincoat!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely! I certainly needed mine last week. I practically didn't take it off!
Deletedefinitely my favorite watercolor brushes, Lukas aquarells, Fabriano softpress paper cut into 5" x 7" pieces--all ready to receive impressions day or night!
ReplyDeleteI always intend to keep it simple and take the minimum, but then other things creep in. sketchbook, pen and camera at the absolute minimum but usually a bag full of other bits, just in case...
ReplyDeleteThanks to everyone for your comments, they made very interesting reading. It sounds like almost everyone takes a camera... what would happen if we didn't? I sometimes think I rely on my camera too much, but that's for another trip.
ReplyDeletei always take too much as well - there's an anxiety that i will feel like stitching/knitting/sketching/watercolouring/fabric bundling and not have the right tools! i knit in the car and we all usually sit around and draw for a bit. collecting bags for collecting treasure on walks. and i'm taking a camera less and less - the camera app on my phone often gives better results.
ReplyDeletei keep intending to build a small on the go kit but come back to the dilemma of what to leave out.
you look like you're having a wonderful holiday :)