If you’re a busy person who wants to create everyday, you need to have art materials with you everywhere you go. This can be as simple as a pencil or ballpoint pen and the back of an old envelope. As a mixed-media artist, I carry a bit more. OK, a lot more! But it all fits into my smallest handbag along with my other essentials.

My everyday art kit is a tiny sketchbook, sturdy pencil case, small spray bottle and purse-pack of tissues. The pencil case contains a carbon pencil, three watercolour pencils (yellow, magenta and cyan), an alcohol marker (Prussian blue), white gel pen, small paintbrush and a pencil sharpener. The lid only just closes, so long as I put it all back in the right way.

Drawing on the go teaches me to look for interesting subjects wherever I am, and to be inventive with the materials I have available..

Even if it’s just a five-minute squiggle, I hope you can take time to draw today. I will for sure.

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