Once you have all your tools selected, you have to work out how you are going to use them on location…

• How are you going to balance your paints and water and sketchbook?
• Are you going to stand when sketching or carry a stool?
• How are you going to carry your supplies?

Urban Sketching Kit articles

Here are some links to popular articles on putting a kit together and using it out on location:

• Stools and sketching seats
• Support boards (including the StablO nomadic easel)
• Walkit Sketching Bags (see also to the Sketching Bags section for more)
• Setting up a watercolour palette
• How I mix in my palette to reduce paint wastage on location
• Small watercolour palettes (see also the Watercolour section for more about choosing the colours to go in your palette)
• How I carry my paint brushes (see also the Brushes section for more)

Photos of me sketching on location

Showing various sketching positions – standing up, sitting on a stool, on benches and on the ground
 

Standing up (with Maro Taro Holmes in Cambodia) – Sitting on a stool (with some locals in Penang) – Sitting on the ground on my BackJoy (with Rob Sketcherman and Laurie Wigham in San Francisco).
 

These days my preferred position is to find somewhere to sit! I used to use a support board when sitting on a bench but now I don’t bother carrying it. I simply rest my sketchbook on my lap and hold my palette in my hand. I also can easily spread my sketching materials along the bench!