Art Bag
Story of my life.
It takes me forever to decide what I’m gonna pack. Partly, because I don’t know how I’ll feel when I have the opportunity to sketch. I might wanna do watercolor… or work with colored pencils instead. So I wind up packing everything… and usually using just the sketchbook and my brush pen.
What? No easel, chair and drink holder?
Versatility can be a blessing and a curse.
I’m thinking about yesterday’s strip involving 50,000 art supplies necessary for traveling… And the AM/PM gas station convenience store slogan comes to mind… “Too much good stuff.”
So what if an artist is a versatile sculptor who doesn’t want to be limited during his or her travels? S/he may need to tote supplies for spinning clay on a wheel and firing it in a kiln, plus pouring bronze castings, plus carving sculptures out of marble, trees, ice and, maybe, sand.
Personally, I’m impressed by the assorted chain saws used by tree carvers.
stick… talk about the straw that would break the camel’s (Randie’s) back… although, a towel (which you should never be without anyways) would be great to sit on.
A prepared artist is one who’s ready for action… I don’t know that action sculptors bring their kilns with them… certainly a sketchbook.
I can totally understand where this strip is coming from. When I used to do a lot of sport fishing, I would always pack way to many hooks, lures.gadgets, and knives than my poor tackle box could concievably handle. Then I only ended up using just one hook and sinker the whole time.
This is rad. Sadly, this is kinda why I gave up the fine art lifestyle. I love the simplicity of comics! RAWK!
I’ve never really thought about what it takes to produce art. Kind of like everything else I take for granted, like cell phones and restaurant meals, I imagine someone just waves a wand, and POOF there it is. OTOH, I do know what it takes to produce buildings, in great detail. Great, great detail. So glad to be retired from all that.
After years of backpacking, where every pound and every ounce of things you bring you have to carry – I’d gotten very good at packing only those things I knew I was going to use and/or couldn’t hike safely without.
Once the first son showed up, and then the second, the third, the fourth, and finally the fifth, I’d lost most of the backpacking skills and acquired “anything to keep the quiet” packing skills.
squid… Yup… that’s how it goes.
jack…. I agree that comics is simpler… I love watercolor! and it’s not too cumbersome… I do also love acrylic… a little more cumbersome… and then there’s collage… and…
Kona… Poof! there it is…. Poof! there it is! The process (the stuff before the poof) is the fun part.
Pete… Yah! My Gram, when I was a wee Bridgett, made me a “ditty bag.” It was a basic square bag with a shoe string tie a the top… and I filled it with all my stuff to take with me on car trips. I put books and pencils and paper and my Star Wars cards and whatever else would keep me entertained! I loved the idea… and have since maintained this into adulthood with messenger bags and back packs… and well, see the cartoon above.
Yes, I have demolished many a satchel and other carrying bag by overloading it, causing it’s premature destruction! I understand it all too well….