Your kit is so cool to see. I used to travel with more specialty supplies but I was using them so infrequently that anymore I just travel with a few of my favorite pens in different thicknesses and a pencil or two.
Charcoal is one of my favorite mediums but I only ever used stick/nubs, and it's SO MESSY. It's part of the appeal for me - doing art is something I LIKE being messy about, the tactility of it is part of the joy (much like being in my garden - being messy and tactile is part of the appeal, even if I know gloves would save me wash time and the occasional injury).
I think I often am bad at estimating how I will spend my time on a trip, and that is part of the overpacking. I am considering every eventuality!
Recently we took a day trip to my parents' farm and I decided not to bring the kids' swimsuits because it's been so chilly. Of course, then it was in the 80s and the oldest wanted to splash in the pool. I can see a world where I had a little freakout about it, but instead I just let him splash in his clothes with a lifejacket my parents have, and we changed him into his jammies for the ride home. no harm, no foul, and it saved us from cramming a bunch of pool stuff in the (already-full) diaper bag.
I am trying to carry the "non-issue-ness" of that trip to the next one.
Chronic overpackers unite :[
Your kit is so cool to see. I used to travel with more specialty supplies but I was using them so infrequently that anymore I just travel with a few of my favorite pens in different thicknesses and a pencil or two.
Charcoal is one of my favorite mediums but I only ever used stick/nubs, and it's SO MESSY. It's part of the appeal for me - doing art is something I LIKE being messy about, the tactility of it is part of the joy (much like being in my garden - being messy and tactile is part of the appeal, even if I know gloves would save me wash time and the occasional injury).
I think I often am bad at estimating how I will spend my time on a trip, and that is part of the overpacking. I am considering every eventuality!
Recently we took a day trip to my parents' farm and I decided not to bring the kids' swimsuits because it's been so chilly. Of course, then it was in the 80s and the oldest wanted to splash in the pool. I can see a world where I had a little freakout about it, but instead I just let him splash in his clothes with a lifejacket my parents have, and we changed him into his jammies for the ride home. no harm, no foul, and it saved us from cramming a bunch of pool stuff in the (already-full) diaper bag.
I am trying to carry the "non-issue-ness" of that trip to the next one.