Artists are driven to create, which inevitable brings the necessity of a place for stuff. First you need a place for your art supplies, and then you need a place to store the art you create. It’s a challenge, but by no means impossible to create art while traveling. And if you can embrace the idea of not needing to display your art physically, or be happy giving it away, creativity on the go becomes much easier.
There are tons of tiny art kits, of decent quality. All you really need for painting is a small tin of watercolor with a brush or two, and a small sketchbook or mixed media book (even Walmart sells a small book made by Canson for a few dollars). If you like to switch between drawing and painting, watercolor pencils or ink-pigment pencils like Derwent Inktense pencils are awesome.
And if you’re a girly girl who needs a little sparkle for her mixed media journal, a gold Liquitex paint marker or a bottle of Liquitex gold ink goes a long way.
There are many well known brands of watercolor that come in compact cases, like Windsor & Newton and Daler Rowney. I love to supplement my Aquafine travel set with inexpensive sets from Prima and Jane Davenport. Prima sets come in an amazing variety of colors, some of them neon, others shimmery, etc. I also carry a water brush and a small water spritzer.
If your love is for pastels, your biggest issue will be the mess of the fine dust that goes into the air. I wouldn’t suggest doing it in your car because you’d need to shampoo your upholstery often. But you can carry a small box of half pastels that take very little space. Pastels break easily so you might not want to carry expensive ones. I made this scenic pastel painting with Mungo pastels. They’re bright, non-toxic, and cost $12.
The hardest part of art making for me is what I do with it afterward. Even my space at home is limited so I don’t make large pieces of art. Most of it stays in my sketchbook or I give it away. I made several painted tissue boxes for coworkers and gave them away.
If something is really dear to me, I’ll give it to family. That way I get to visit my art now and then, and my relatives know how special they are.
Of course I take pictures of all my art and share them on Facebook. Occasionally I’ve sold art this way or been commissioned to create work based on something I shared.
So pack up your your paints, pencils or markers, and don’t forget to take lots of pictures!
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