What do you keep in a portable kit? What extras do you have in your consulting studio?
Please comment with suggestions!
Basic Portable kit
Paper A3 80gsm plain paper
A4 quality cartridge paper
A4 thin cardboard
Assorted origami paper
Chalky soft pastels
Oil pastels
Watercolour pencils
Watercolour wheel and 4 brushes
Felt tip markers
Fine liners (fine tip markers)
Scissors
Cutting knife and board
Pencil sharpener
Glue stick
Masking tape
Glue gun and glue sticks
Aluminium foil
Pop sticks
Crafting wire
plastic cups
sandwich bag of dry casting plaster
lunch box of small craft objects, found and purchased, including beads, sequins, nuts and bolts, feathers, gumnuts, stones, shells
Marbling inks and tray (the lid of the box can sometimes be used for a tray)
White modelling air dry clay, plasticine or play-dough
Basic clay tools
Avocado stones
Lino carving tools
Paper towel
Newspaper
Tissues and hand wipes
Basic Studio consulting kit
All of the above and
Sand tray
Small objects for sand tray work
Paints –acrylic
Assortment of brushes and sponges
Old magazines, pictures, wrapping papers for collage
Wallpaper glue
Old telephone books
Clay and silt bucket
Sponges and clay tools
Small aerated concrete blocks (approx. 20 cm x 20 cm x 20 cm)
Carving tools
Face masks
Linoleum tiles for print making
Blender, frames and tubs for paper making
Large construction wire and pliers
Rolls of brown paper
Scrap booking materials
Fabric scraps
A roll of alfoil is great for making small models.
Yes! That’s great, thanks Cindy.
String, wool, cotton or embroidery thread. Can do dip in paint and splatter for abstract. Also the metaphors of story threads, weaving, binding things together…
Yes! of course. Thanks Bindi!
How timely, I have been sorting my kits out today and great to check off what items are missing in mine. You may like to add hairspray it is great for setting chalk pastels, blu tac, rubber bands and sticky tape. Love reading your blogs….I am reminded of all of my own distraction techniques, now I have to add reading your blog to the list, :).