Stuff for painting outside

After experiencing some success with plein air drawing (as detailed in the tree-drawing post), I was consumed by my own hubris and set out to assemble a field painting kit. This is a well-tread road, but I wanted something small enough to stuff into a backpack or fanny pack.

I cobbled together a kit with a mint tin palette and a small tupperware container for water. These are attached directly to the book with magnets: I used a pair of small neodymium magnets for the water container and a magnetic metal clip for the palette. This setup has been working out really well, even in situations where I'm sitting on the ground or somewhere similarly uneven. It's not great for standing work, though, since the water needs to stay perpendicular to the ground.

The mint tin is sprayed down with appliance enamel, which I talk about in more detail on the mint tin palette post. I painted both halves of the tin so I could use the entire thing to mix fresh paint. It's a little awkward to jam a full size palette knife in there, but it can be done with sufficient gumption!

Everything else (paint, brushes, rag, pen) comes along in a plastic bag. Maybe at some point I'll come up with a way to keep everything upright and easily accessible, but it works fine for now. I only take a few tubes of paint and 2-3 brushes anyway, so there's not a lot of shit to rummage through.