Travel Kit

We are heading west soon and as long as the fish are biting I anticipate quiet  time for trying out some art exercises, particularly related to colour and colour mixing. (There should be some great photos as well...)

To this end I've made a small travel journal to take with me .....

from an activity in this book............

............using this method.......

(Actually just making the journal was a fun activity.)

For the covers I've used old painted papers (which at the time seemed like they were less than sucessful so were 'filed' (in a pile) in our study. It seems if you wait long enough things will be right for some purpose - and the colours may now be perfect for where we are going .......

For the end papers I used the back of some old watercolour paper that was splotched in some past experiment. These papers will become my palettes for mixing colours.

And inside there are inexpensive sheets of cartridge paper for drawing, watercolour papers and a couple of sheets of canvas (for who knows what? - I've never used it before......)

The rest of the kit will be fairly minimal - Inktense pencils, watersoluble crayons and a few other pencils, pens and odds and sods........

The main thing will be that this little journal doesn't come home with all its pages still pristine white............

Sue xxxx

Note to self: Make sure scissors are in check-in bag - even though they are kids scissors.......