Anna Barnes Supplies List

For Sydney Classes 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 more detailed list with links below.

• This is what Anna takes overseas when going on a sketching holiday. You are not required to purchase any of these. They have been listed simply because it is a FAQ.

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

• For “Untutored Trips” (Silk & Spice Journeys) bring your own preferred medium for creating. There is no need to buy extra materials for these trips.

• Supplies can be ordered online at ArtSup an Australian based art supply store.

• (If you have booked a trip and are doing creative sessions with one of our contracted Artist Teachers, please see their supplies list on the TUTORS page.)

SKETCHBOOK

-Travelers Notebook (brand) with Cream MD Paper Insert. Purchased from Bookbinders Design

PENCILS

-Albrecht Durer Faber-Castell (water soluble pencils)

-Caran d’Ache Luminance coloured pencils

-Pencil Sharpener

PENS

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

-Pentel brush pen (black)

-Acrylic brush pen (white)

-Lamy Safari Fountain Pen with a converter (extra fine nib)

-Platinum Carbon Ink (for the fountain pen)

BRUSHES

-Escoda Reserva Travel Brushes size 4 & 6

-Small Bottle with screw top lid (for water)

PAINT

-Small Metal Foldable Travel Palette filled with 1/2 pans of Daniel Smith Watercolours squeezed from the tubes.

I don’t carry tubes overseas.

I fill the pans 1/3 at a time, let them dry for a few days each time, and then blu tack them securely into the palette. (I discard the insert that restricts you to 12 pans only)

OR

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

Daniel Smith Watercolors

Shadow Colours:

Moonglow

Lunar Blue

Raw Umber Violet

Indigo

Greens:

Perylene Green

Green Apatite Genuine

Undersea Green

Deep Sap Green

Sap green 

Fun Colours:

Buff Titanium

Potter’s Pink 

Opera Pink (or Winsor & Newton Opera Rose)

Reds & Oranges:

Rose of Ultramarine

Permanent Alzarin Crimson

Carbazole Violet

Transparent Pyrrol orange

Yellows:

Nickel Azo Yello

New Gamboge

Aussie Red Gold

Browns:

Van Dyck Brown

Transparent Brown Oxide

Raw Sienna

Burnt Sienna

Yellow Ochre

Blues:

Cobalt Teal Blue

Manganese Blue Hue

Cerulean Blue Chromium

French Ultramarine

Prussian Blue

For Overseas Experiences:

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? Some 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.

The heat and humidity of Asia can also affect your willingness to lug around a heavy bag loaded with supplies. A small sketch kit and no stool makes it easier.

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.

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 are 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. This might also be a reason to bring your own.

Anna does not travel with a chair. Anna prefers connecting with culture by interacting with vendors and completing sketches in the time it takes to eat a bowl of noodles. Some street meals need to be eaten quickly to free up the chair for the next customer. Anna is a fast sketcher.

Please reach out if you cant decide what is best for you, and we can have a discussion about your unique needs.