Traveling with your Sketchbook

This kit of supplies is available for purchase here, and can be shipped for a fee, or picked at the store in room 217 of the Torpedo Factory Art Center. The kit includes the underlined items. Please indicate in the notes section of your order if you need your kit mailed to you or would like to pick it up at the store. Please contact us at store@theartleague.org if you would like to purchase a selection of items different than the kit.

Traveling With Your Sketchbook Supplies with Susan Abbott

Small ring bound sketchbook, such as 6” x 6” or 7” x 10” Canson field sketchbook or Holbein multimedia drawing sketchbook—sized under 7” x 10”

2 or more permanent (waterproof) black felt tip markers

Sizes fine and/ or medium. Faber-Castell PITT brand if possible. Optional extra colors: red or sanguine

HB or B pencil

Glue stick and scissors

Paper towels  

Watercolors 

A small empty white plastic folding palette and the following pigments:

Permanent Yellow or Cadmium Yellow Pale or any primary yellow

Yellow Ochre or Raw Sienna

Permanent Red or Cadmium Red or any “orangish” red

Alizarin Crimson or Thalo Red or any “purplish” red

Ultramarine Blue or any primary blue

Thalo Blue or Winsor Blue or Prussian Blue or any greenish dark blue

Burnt Umber

Fill the stall in your palette a few days ahead so that the paint dries before class.

Note: Watercolor supplies come in student or professional grades. Student grades (such as “Cotman”) are less expensive, but the color and handling are inferior to better quality paint. Buy professional brand paint, and if cost is a factor, buy just 3 primary colors (Permanent Alizarin Crimson, Thalo or Winsor Blue, and Permanent Yellow) in professional grade paint. If you already have a palette set up with watercolors, you can use that.

Round watercolor brush— small (not tiny).  A #6 Winsor & Newton round Sceptre series brush is a good choice (Don’t get a cheap brush like squirrel’s hair that will be too limp.)  

OR colored pencils or water-soluble pencils if you want to use these instead of watercolor

The kit includes the underlined items.
Cost is $104.06 plus sales tax of $6.24 for a Total = $ 110.30
Please contact us at store@theartleague.org if you would like to purchase a selection of items different than the kit.