I'm starting to assemble my art travel kit for my vacation road trip. I have a really hard time traveling light when it comes to art supplies. It's very tempting to just empty my studio into the back of my car, but, alas, my car is too small and I'd have no room for a week's worth of clothes.
Choices, choices....Do I take watercolors or acrylics? A small sketchbook or larger paper? Pencils or markers? Or should I just forget all that and take my digital camera? That might be my choice if I were going to be a tourist, but I'll be spending two days with an artist friend and I look forward to some art making.
Since I love to layer paint, I'm thinking of taking some "underpaintings" from the studio, on which I can layer images/ideas encountered on the trip. It might be landscapes, figures, or still life. Whatever the subject happens to be, I'll have an exciting abstract surface on which to work. This strategy helps me limit my load; I can take a selection of acrylics (not my entire supply), a few brushes, pens, and a sketchbook.
Now to create the underpaintings. The image with this entry was built on an underpainting.
