Anna Barnes Supplies List

For Sydney Classes and Anna’s Art, Food & Culture Experiences (with Anna Barnes as the teacher) - you will need a basic sketch kit comprising of:

your favourite sketchbook

a small travel palette with a few watercolour 1/2 pans (yellow, red and blue minimum)

a few watercolour (aquarelle) pencils

a black waterproof pigment pen

a size 4 or 6 paintbrush (or water brush)

small water container with screw top lid

Please avoid Montmartre, Jasart, and Born brands. If you are unsure, see the list with links below.

• This is what Anna takes overseas when going on a sketching holiday

• Anna travels with “carry on” luggage ONLY. No checked in luggage.

• It is the recommended list when learning Travel Sketching with Anna overseas.

• Supplies can be ordered online at Larry Post, and Australian based art supply store.

• (If you have booked a trip with Anna as the host working alongside another Artist Teacher, please see their supplies list on your trips information page.)

SKETCHBOOK

-Travelers Notebook: with Cream MD Paper Insert

OR

-A5 Stillman & Birn Gamma Series sketchbook with softcover in portrait orientation.

PENCILS

-Albrecht Durer Faber-Castell x 12 colours of your choice (water soluble pencils)

-Prismacolor Premiere Pencils (just a few, optional)

-Pencil Sharpener

PENS

-Uni-ball EYE fine (or micro) black waterproof (made in Japan)

-Pentel brush pen (black)

-Posca pen 0.7mm (white)

-Twsbi Eco Fountain Pen with converter (optional)

-Lamy Safari Fountain Pen with converter (optional)

-Platinum Carbon Ink (optional for fountain pens)

-De Atramentis Document Ink (optional for fountain pens)

BRUSHES

-Escoda Reserva Travel Brushes size 2, 4 & 6

OR

-fine and medium sized plastic waterbrushes

-Small Glass Bottle with screw top lid (for water)

PAINT

-Small Metal Foldable Travel Palette filled with 1/2 pans of your own preferences of Daniel Smith Watercolors squeezed from the tubes. Dont carry tubes overseas. Fill 1/2 pans, let them dry and blu tack them securely into the palette)

OR

-Travel Watercolour set, Winsor & Newtown Cotmans Pocket Plus (12 x 1/2 pans)

Daniel Smith Watercolors

(you choose your favourites, you need at least 1 blue, red and yellow. You do not need all these for your first trip)

Moonglow

Lunar Blue

Raw Umber Violet

Perylene Green

Green Apatite Genuine

Undersea Green

Deep Sap Green

Sap green 

Buff Titanium

Potter’s Pink 

Opera Pink

Rose of Ultramarine

Permanent Alzarin Crimson

Carbazole Violet

Nickel Azo Yello

New Gamboge

Aussie Red Gold

Van Dyck Brown

Transparent Brown Oxide

Raw Sienna

Cobalt Teal Blue

Manganese Blue Hue

Cerulean Blue Chromium

French Ultramarine

Indigo

This is what Anna uses and talks about in class. It is not what you must bring to class (see above)

• Albrecht Durer Faber-Castell (water soluble pencils) OR Prismacolor Premeire Pencils (a small handful of your choice)

• Faber-Castell Double Barrel Metal Sharpener (any brand will do)

• Pens - Uni-ball EYE fine (or micro) black waterproof (made in Japan)

• Pentel brush pen (black)

• Posca pen 0.7mm (white)

• Escoda Reserva Travel Brushes size 2, 4 & 6

• Small Glass Bottle with screw top lid (for water)

• OR in lieu of brushes and water, bring 2 plastic water brushes (made in Japan, fine/medium size) with the inbuilt water reservoir-not as good, but ok for beginners.

• Twsbi Eco Fountain Pen (optional)

• Lamy Safari Fountain Pen (optional)

• Platinum Carbon Ink from HERE OR De Atramentis Archive Ink - Black

• De Atramentis Document Ink - Urban Sienna, Green Grey (optional)

• Small Metal Foldable Travel Palette filled with 1/2 pans and my own preferences of Daniel Smith Watercolors squeezed from the tubes.

• Favourite Daniel Smith Watercolors:

  Moonglow, Lunar Blue, Green Apatite Genuine, Perylene Green, Undersea Green, Deep Sap Green, Buff Titanium, Rose of Ultramarine, Boreaux, Permanent Alzarin Crimson, Nickel Azo Yello, Hansa Yellow Deep, Aussie Red Gold, Potter’s Pink, Cobalt Teal Blue, Manganese Blue Hue, Cerulean Blue Chromium, French Ultramarine, Indigo, VanDyck brown, Transparent brown Oxide.

• OR in lieu of bringing your own handmade watercolour palette, for beginners bring a travel watercolour kit such as Winsor & Newton Pocket Plus. 12 1/2 pan colours will be enough. Unwrap them and play with them before you arrive!

• Travelers Notebook- Inserts I like to use; Kraft Paper Insert, and Cream MD Paper Insert from HERE

• OR a good quality A5 sketchbook such as STILLMAN & BIRN GAMMA SERIES SOFTCOVER SKETCHBOOK 150gsm 5.5x8.5 Inch PORTRAIT 46 sheets.

• Steadtler Lumocolor® permanent glasochrom 108 20 (white) (optional)

• Liht Lab Single Zip Wide Open Pencil Case (optional - any supplies case/pouch will do)

• Most supplies can be purchased HERE in Australia. Find your own suppliers for other countries.

• Books and Resources HERE

Chairs on a packing list are generally part of the urban sketching supply list. Do you usually carry one with you? Do you urban sketch already? Most urban sketchers like to carry their own chair, they are very small and light and can fit in a backpack. Usually it is a 3 legged stool from camping shops etc. 

I highly recommend you choose yourself whether to bring one or not.

Here is the reason…

There are millions of chairs in Vietnam and SE Asia, and they are available to use easily. Simply order a coffee or a snack from a vendor and use their chair. It helps with connection to the culture and environment.

However….

Not having a chair/stool will reduce your view points and “perfect sketching” angles, because you are restricted by sketching what is near your chair and within your line of sight. So while not having one greatly increases your connection with the local culture, it will over time limit your sketching and ability to grow as an artist. You may find yourself (as I did) sketching your cafe drink over and over, whilst wishing you were in the street challenging yourself with a bigger view.

Also when you have a significant amount of time to sketch, but are using a street vendors chair to sketch long after your drink/bowl of noodles are finished, the pressure to hurry up and move on will also affect the quality of your work.

NB: If you are a larger body type, or extra errrr…. “Heavy”, then you may have difficulty with market stools and local cafe chairs in Vietnam. They very very small and plastic, also they can be very low to the ground. I have had guests on previous trips struggle with getting down so low, and also being too heavy for the chairs and feeling like they might break them. If this will be your concern, you will want to find a public street bench or a more upmarket cafe or restaurant designed for foreign tourists to sit in.