{"id":36755,"date":"2020-08-19T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=36755"},"modified":"2020-07-30T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T21:23:26","slug":"whats-in-my-bag-betsy-delph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-bag-betsy-delph\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in my bag? \u2014 Betsy Delph"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Betsy Delph<\/strong>\u00a0is a classically trained chef who manages the kitchen for an outdoor science school, has spent six years as a wilderness fire lookout for the US Forest Service, and is a\u00a0forest therapy\/shinrin yoku guide<\/a>. She loves carrying this super-portable watercolor setup into the mountains, woods, or backyard. You can find Betsy on Instagram\u00a0@betsystarshine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

The bag is a\u00a0Rite in the Rain Side-Bound Notebook Cover<\/strong><\/a>. It fits a plethora of things and it\u2019s only 5.5″ x 8.5″. It\u2019s made of Cordura, so it\u2019s super-tough and has just enough structure to protect my brushes, palettes, and paper from the inside of my backpack.<\/p>\n

What’s inside the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Pocket Palettes by Art Toolkit<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0are simply phenomenal. They\u2019re compact, with a mixing palette, and various sizes of magnetic pans so you can create your own custom selection of color. They also make pre-filled palettes to give you a jump start.<\/p>\n

I filled my pans with\u00a0Daniel Smith Watercolors<\/strong><\/a>. They have more than 250 colors, which is enough to bend your brain. I started with their Essentials Set and picked up one of their Dot Cards so I could test-drive some of the colors my favorite artists use before picking some more to buy\u2026I\u2019m up to 34 colors now.<\/p>\n

I started off with travel brushes that have a little water well in the handle, but I didn\u2019t like how I couldn\u2019t control the flow very well, and pretty much used them like normal brushes. So I upgraded to still\u00a0very affordable synthetic sable travel brushes<\/strong><\/a>. My prize one is real sable, from\u00a0Rosemary & Co<\/a>, but the set from Amazon is great and 3 brushes cost as much as the single nicer one.<\/p>\n

I like to use\u00a0watercolor blocks of various sizes<\/strong><\/a>. The pages are glued together in a \u201cblock\u201d, which means the paper stays flat without having to tape it down. Fluid Watercolor Blocks are a good value and quality, and come in a wide array of sizes. One of the 4″ x 6″ blocks fits right in the bag, or I\u2019ll carry a bigger one along with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s in my bag? issue #63<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2303],"tags":[1553],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36756,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36755\/revisions\/36756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}