Travel Sketching Materials List

Similar to other SketchingNow courses, Travel Sketching has no specific material requirements.

It’s strongly recommended to use the supplies you already own and are comfortable with.

A key objective of the course is to help you discover which materials suit you best, and the way to achieve this is by starting with your existing tools.

Basic Requirements

A range of pens and pencils (such as a thin pen, a thick pen and a pencil)
Some form of colour that can be used dry (without water). Limit your selection to 9-12 colours. Include a primary triad (yellow, red, blue), a green, a brown, a grey, one dark colour, and two light colours
A small sketchbook with paper suitable for your choice of colour – (size: A5 or 8.5×5.5”) in either landscape, portrait or square format
Optional: Watercolour (there is no need to use watercolour for this course, especially if you are a beginner, but recommendations for a start palette are listed below)

Detailed Listing

This is a list of all the materials that Liz uses in the Travel Sketching course with a few additional notes.

Pens and Pencils

Everyday Pen: UniPin 0.3 mm permanent fineliner or Fountain pen: Lamy Joy with a fine nib filled with Black De Atramentis Document Ink.
Expressive Pen: UniPin brush pen or Faber Castell Pitt Brush Pen (both of these have permanent pigmented ink) or Fountain Pen: Sailor Fude de Mannen 55 degree fude fountain pen filled with Black De Atramentis Document Ink.
Pencils: 2B Castell 9000 graphite pencil or 0.7mm mechanical pen: Faber Castell TK-Fine 9717 mechanical pencil with 2B lead.
Watersoluble graphite: Faber Castell Aquarelle Graphite in 4B.

Watercolour Pencils

Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils by Faber Castell:
104 Light Yellow Glaze – 188 Sanguine – 140 Light Ultramarine – 174 Chromium Green Opaque – 182 Brown Ochre – 232 Cold Grey III – 157 Dark Indigo – 132 Beige Red – 103 Ivory

Notes:

1. You do not need to use the same colours or brand of watercolour pencils as Liz. Any dry media or water-soluble colour will work.

2. Limit your selection to 9-12 colours. Include a primary triad (yellow, red, blue), a green, a brown, a grey, one dark colour, and two light colours.

Brushes

Liz uses both a water brush and her normal sable blend dagger brush in this course:

Pentel Aquash water brush in medium and large.
Rosemary and Co 3/8″ Sable blend dagger R16 pocket brush (this is the same as Series 772)

Notes:

1. A medium water brush is the recommended size for an A5 or smaller-sized sketchbook.

2. A dagger brush is not recommended for beginners—suggest Rosemary and Co Sable blend Pointed Round pocket brush R13 instead.

Watercolour Paints

Liz uses watercolour through Travel Sketching but it’s not a major component of the course or a requirement that you use the same colours. It is recommended that you use your current palette!

In the course, Liz uses:

Everyday palette: Refer to this article for a listing of all the colours in her everyday palette
Small Palette: Refer to this article for a listing of the colours in the small palette that was used for a few Melbourne demos

Notes:

1. If you’re a beginner and have never used watercolour before, there’s no need to buy a watercolour palette.

2. Liz has a lot of colours in the palette that she uses for the Travel Sketching demos but if you want a watercolour palette that will relate, here are two suggestions:

Liz’s Foundations course six colour palette: All colours are Daniel Smith – Hansa Yellow Medium PY97 – Quinacridone Rose PV19 – Ultramarine Blue PB29 – Monte Amiata Natural Sienna PBr7 – Transparent Red Oxide PR101 – Cerulean Blue Chromium PB36
Liz’s Watercolour course 12 colour palette: DS = Daniel Smith, WN = Winsor & Newton – DS Hansa Yellow Medium PY97 – DS New Gamboge PY97, PY110 – DS Transparent Pyrrol Orange PO71- DS Quinacridone Rose PV19 – DS Ultramarine Blue (not French!) PB29 – DS Cerulean Blue Chromium PB36 – DS Sap Green PO48 PG7 PY150 – WN Cobalt Turquoise Light PG50 – WN Potters Pink PR233 – DS Monte Amiata Natural Sienna PBr7 – DS Transparent Red Oxide PR101 – DS Van Dyke Brown PBr7

Sketchbook

In the course Liz uses:

Stillman and Birn Alpha softcover 8.5×5” landscape sketchbook
Stillman and Birn Alpha hardcover 9×6” landscape sketchbook.

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Travel Sketching starts 9th Sept 2024

work through the course over 3 weeks

with an inspiring group of sketchers from all around the world!

Further Materials Information

Here are links to articles on Liz’s blog for more information about the materials listed above.