Ramblers let's get Ramblin'

In the past year I have taken up the hobby of plein air painting. It is a great way to get out of the studio and take on a new perspective. My recent concern was on how to put together a kit which is portable, lightweight, and still allowed the ability to create good work. This kit is made for painting small works in tight spaces and can be used with any dry media, watercolor, gouache, and acrylic.

There are plenty of ways to customize your own kit just as i took inspiration from other setups. This assembly is for my new watercolor painting pursuit. I love how portable the media is and plan to take it with me hiking to new areas.

My setup up is made to fit in a backpack with three separate compartments, side straps, and back straps. The exterior of the backpack will hold a water container, a fold-out stool, and shade umbrella setup. 

Tripod

The VEO-204 AB is my new favorite thing. It's small enough to fit inside a normal backpack yet large enough to hold or your materials while painting. A nice feature about this tripod is the light weight aluminum body, small ball head, 4 section legs with three angel options.

Tripod attachments are all made out of wood. Magnets are used to hold the palette, pencil sharpener, and water cup. Clamps hold a sketch book to the wood backing. The flat surface of the clamps do not leave an indentation on the surface of the book.

Materials

Overview of the materials I carry with me

Front view

Magnetic

I glued a pair of neodymium Magnets to the bottom of the palette using E-6000 industrial adhesive to keep it in place.

More Magnets

An opposing pair of magnets are adhered to the wood panel to hold the palette in place along with a couple other to hold more items.

Canvas holder

A 5"x 7" wood panel is glued to a cell phone tripod holder. I cut off the top end of the phone holder and kept the section that will screw onto the tripod attachment. Adhesive used is gorilla glue.
 

Brush holder

strip of wood has holes drilled in. Each varying in size to accommodate brushes.

Overview

Throwing Some Shade

A $3 umbrella from a daiso store and a $10 tripod, which I got for $2 at a thrift store. I assembled a light weight set up for some much needed shade on hot days.
 

Swapmeet find

Adjustable photostand boom arm clamp.

It works!!!

Out in the field

I will post more updates as I continue to work and take it on the road.