Robin Lee Carlson

I travel light in the field and am almost never carrying more than a pen or two and either a waterbrush and small paint palette or a handful of colored pencils.

The items listed below are some of my favorite tools.

Pens

• TWSBI Eco Fountain Pen (I have two, one with the EF nib and one with the Stub1.1 nib)
• Rotring ArtPen
• Pentel Pocket Brush Pen
• Pilot Parallel Pen, 3.0mm
• Sailor Profit, 55^o Fude

Ink

• Platinum Carbon Black
• Platinum Pigment Blue
• De Atramentis Document Brown

Paints

• ArtToolkit Demi Palette with slices of Daniel Smith paint sticks in the pans:
  • Quinacridone red
  • Hansa yellow medium
  • Burnt umber
  • Cobalt blue
  • Cerulean blue chromium
  • Cobalt teal blue
• BEAM Paints (I’m using the following single-pigment colors, the pigment name is in parenthesis):
  • Mars violet (transparent red oxide)
  • Cherry magenta (quinacridone magenta)
  • Strawberry red (naphthol red)
  • Harvest wheat (yellow ochre)
  • Fall poplar yellow (hansa yellow medium)
  • Coudless sulphur (hansa yellow light)
  • Boreal (chrome oxide green)
  • Lake Huron teal (copper phthalo green)
  • Almost night (copper phthalo blue)
  • Prussian blue (prussian blue)
  • Great ocean (ultramarine blue)
  • Blueberry mountain (dioxazine violet)

Brushes

• Pentel Aquash Waterbrush
• Niji Waterbrush – Wide
• Rosemary Travel Brush – R16 Dagger
• BEAM Paints Travel Brush #4

Sketchbooks

• Leuchtturm A5 Sketchbook
• Canson XL Mixed Media Sketchbook
• Hannemuhle Watercolour Book
• Stillman & Birn Nova Series – Tan Paper

Other Supplies

• Close-focus binoculars, like Pentax Papilio II
• Hand lens
• Pocket knife
• Cloth for wiping brush
• Binder clips

Art Toolkit

Art Toolkit makes the most thoughtfully designed tools for field sketching that I have yet encountered, and most importantly, they are designed by an artist for artists. I’ve been using Art Toolkit supplies for years now as constant field companions, but even when I’m not in the field, I just about always have either the Pocket Art Toolkit or the A5 Art Toolkit on me.

I am excited to share with you a discount code from Art Toolkit! You can use the code ROBIN10 at checkout to receive 10% off Art Toolkit Products. I receive a small commission on sales made using the code.