my favorite supplies
♻️ denotes eco-friendly choices
🌿 amazon & etsy lists
- Many of my most frequently used supplies are available at Amazon and Etsy. I've posted handy shopping lists for both:
🌿 watercolors
- I typically use a custom palette of my favorite colors. I've spent years collecting a variety of lightfast, transparent pigments from trusted artist quality brands including Da Vinci, Isaro, Jackson's, Roman Szmal, Schmincke Horadam, Sennelier, White Nights, and Winsor & Newton.
🌿 watercolor brushes
- Princeton Aqua Elite Series on Amazon | at Blick
- Comfortable grip
- Holds both water and color beautifully, snaps back nicely, and keeps a fine point
- Paints exceptionally smooth
- Synthetic and vegan but performs like a real Kolinsky
- The Long Round No. 8 is my favorite all-around brush: at Amazon | Blick
- I also like the other sized rounds from both the Princeton Aqua Elite and Princeton Velvetouch lines: at Amazon | Blick
🌿 notebooks
- these take watercolor well for my ink & wash style; most of the time I can use both sides of the page
- Twone traveler's notebook inserts at Amazon
- Advertised as FSC Certified ♻️
- Handle watercolor well; I can paint on both sides of the page
- Wanderings traveler's notebook inserts at Amazon | Etsy
- Acid free
- Handle watercolor well; I can paint on both sides of the page
🌿 drawing pens
- Tombow Mono, Size 03 at Amazon | Blick
- ink dries instantly, so perfect for watercolors
- jet black
- tips hold up longer for me than Sakura Pigma Micron
🌿 writing pens
🌿 journal covers
- Apple Pig Leather Art
- custom traveler's notebooks made by a master artist and craftsman named Ting
- read years of past reviews at Etsy
- shop at his new website
- Speckled Fawns
- artisan traveler's notebooks made by Terri
- read years of past reviews at Etsy
- shop at her new website
- Fiolofax Malden
- ochre A5 cover at Amazon
- I purchased mine used and already de-ringed from a buy / sale / trade group
- I use this to hold and protect my journaling Bible
🌿 printer