Portable art supply box

Along with my little Canson sketchbook, I carry a pencil box filled with the essentials. It's small, lightweight, and the items are easy to take out and use when I'm on the train to work.

The box came with a set of regular office pencils (which I gave away). I put some double-sided foam tape in a few spots, then started adding the things I usually use when playing away from home.

The box includes:

• 6 Faber Castell pencils (H4, H2, H, HB, 2B, 4B)

• a UNI mechanical pencil (2B)

• a multi-colored pencil for coloring

• several kinds of kneadable erasers

• a pencil sharpener for the UNI pencil

• a mutli-colored crayon

• a blending stump

• a Mono zero erase

• a "Slendy" flat eraser

• a brush (for graphite)

• the tips off several Caran d'Ache Neocolor II watercolor crayons (If I know I'm going to be using these, I will take a Kuretake watercolor brush. Just fill it with water and you can do watercolor anywhere!)

The great thing about this is that the double-sided tape keeps everything from falling out, very important on a bumpy train! I added a band on the outside to keep the case shut. Easy peasy.

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