Art Materials and Sketch Kits Archive

Clockwise from upper left: Moleskine large watercolor sketchbook, Moleskine pocket watercolor sketchbook, Stillman & Birn Alpha, Hand Book sketchbook, Moleskine large sketchbook)


Because I want to document the evolution of my sketching process, this page is an archive of art materials and sketching systems I’ve used in the past. Please see my Current Favorite Art Materials page for the updated list.
(For your convenience, I’ve included links to online resources for my favorite art supplies, but please shop around for the best value. I am not affiliated with any of these retailers and will not receive a kickback, even though I should, since I give them so much of my money.)


In my everyday purse that goes with me everywhere, I carry:



If I’m on my way to a coffee shop for sketching, I’ll grab:


Rickshaw Folio with Moleskine sketchbook
My “coffee shop sketch kit,” a Rickshaw Bagworks Smartphone Folio containing either a Global Art Materials Hand Book sketchbook or a Moleskine sketchbook, plus a few assorted drawing and coloring implements.


 

 

Sketching vest

 

 

 

For an outdoor urban sketching adventure, I like to keep my supplies as simple as possible so that I can carry almost everything I need in my sketching vest and be able to sketch bag-free:




Recently I acquired a Rickshaw Bagworks Zero messenger bag (in the small size), customized to match my Rickshaw Folio, of course. I take it on sketching adventures when I want to use larger-format sketchbooks than the pocket-size Moleskine that fits in my vest. It has more space than the vest, but I don’t want it to get so heavy that it becomes cumbersome, so my goal is to be judicious in my selection of materials. It contains everything listed above, plus the following:



If I'm in my studio, I have at my disposal all of the above, plus:


My studio.



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