Art Kits – For Travel and Unexpected Journeys
February 29th, 2012
My security blanket for travel is the bag of art supplies I take along to not only work with, but to give me comfort. Inside are papers, markers, colored pencils, writing pens, watercolors and a small chinese brush.
If for some reason when I travel, if I can’t take art supplies with me so I have a blank sheet of paper to transform with marks, images and words, I feel all nervous that I have left part of myself back home. A part of me that really wants to go along for the journey.
So I try to make beautiful pouches to carry these art supplies wherever I may go.
Usually I have time to gather my art supplies and put them in their pouch before I leave for a trip. But last weekend I didn’t have that luxury. I had an unexpected journey.
Funny things were going on in my body and I knew I needed to go to have it checked out in the Emergency Room. I had a feeling I might be gone for a few days. So with the 30 seconds to gather my things I grabbed a walker bag I had filled with markers before. I grabbed some colored pencils, a few mandala coloring cards and black line markers.
I grabbed the coloring book I created.
As it turns out I did spend a few days getting checked out. Luckily everything is fine. Luckily I had my art kit with me. I had time to create some art including some coloring. I started a mandala coloring card, which I didn’t quite finish before coming home.
And I even got to share my art kit with a visiting relative of my roommate.
To celebrate my return home, I am buying some new art supplies for my traveling art kit, or to call it more accurately, my security blanket.