I go out painting several times a week, I am not
particularly interested in fancy techniques and am much more interested in
recording the places and people I see.
If you click on my Facebook profile you can see what I paint,
but this post isn’t about that, it’s about carrying all the equipment with you
for a day out painting, sitting on benches, low walls or at café tables, being
able to post what you are up to on the web, without getting flustered and
without having loads of bags and boxes.
Everything, all the equipment I use goes into a this
item of clothing which has a large poachers pocket at the back that holds up to
an A3 sketchbook.
This is the contents of its pockets, my artistic take is that until I can paint what I see, so you can say that's Canterbury Cathedral or JWM Turner without me telling you what or who I set out to paint, there isn't much point in my painting the deep and meaningless stuff inside my mind.
This is for if it rains hard, I sometimes carry a fold up umbrella
The only thing not in the photos is my smart phone as i used the camera in it ti take the photos, I do carry a spare charged battery for it
and clip on lenses for it so I can take wide angle shots of the view I tried to paint
Blow up cushion, you may have to sit on a damp stone wall for over an hour
sunhat
Tablet to post what you are doing to social media
Bamboo brush roll cut down to fit into side pocket
I don't skimp on brushes and usually use Winsor and Newton Series 7
Sunblock
any paintbox will do, I buy watercolour in tubes and top up as I need to
this one has a water pot and water bottle
I use a cheap A4 sketchpad
you don't need to stretch paper as everything flattens out because of leaning on the pad in the back pocket as you see I now need to go to A3
I write my name in the pad as this is the thing I tend to leave behind
the problem with the A3 pads is that they are often fat and therefore heavy, open up the spiral and take most of the pages out so you don't keel over from the weight.
sketching outside in the summer the glare from the paper will give you padblindness so sunglasses and if you need reading glasses sunglasses with reading lenses in the bottom
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.