When I asked Google images what that red logo on the bag was it answered "an emblem" which was uninformative :(

Why on earth are you so modest about your drawings/paintings in your sketch books? You are fantastically talented and you should thank your maker (whomever you believe in) for your talent. Some of us can't even draw a straight line.

Not that it really matters because we're all adults here but in German "KUM" rhymes with "boom", "zoom" and "tomb"

Wow your art is impressive! I wish I was photo realism good like you

Ah fantastic!! I love your bag and I especially love your sketches!! they are breathtaking!! I hope you make more videos :D

Please do a video of your sketch books...love seeing them

The tool bag brand is Lihit Lab pen case, a Japanese brand. The same bag also comes with double layer and triple layers, very good choice.

Can’t thank you enough for both your videos on making your own easel and this bag and supplies as I purchased most of it last year after saving your video. Purchased the tripod, pencil case and those water bottles on the sides. Fantastic setup thank you! 🎨👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

thank you...lovely review...love your bag!

Love the idea of using the flasks... genius!

Really lovely artwork.

Your paintings are amazing.

Yes! I had the Adventure Team GI Joes as well! Oh wait... that’s the Appalachian Trail. That’s cool too.

Great set up. Your paintings are beautiful!

8:29 my favourite part begins ;) " Quick things"... Aha... it looks like photos!

You’re so talented!

I love your drawings.

Love the flask trick ... thanks

Great video, thanks for sharing Brian. Am borrowing some of your ideas like the elastics- less space and weight than clips- they work great :-) and the little mixing tray. Again... "Thank you & much appreciated!"

Thanks, I've just discovered your channel. Lot's of useful information.

fun practice???? they r gorgeous!!!!

Thanks for sharing. Great kit, been using one very similar for years, now downsizing drastically due to age. Jo in France 🇫🇷

Great set up!!

Great Videos, Great Sound , Great art !!! Best regards from Germany Guenter W.

I especially like the idea of using the flasks. Good video. Thank you

Awesome video. So much stuff to carry with you. but still you show everything! I love it!

The little leatherman's pliers: GREAT for stuck on tube caps.

Appalachian trail - did you hike it? Best bag I've seen yet!

Beautiful sketches

Great bag! I like to see others travel supplies as well. I thought the patch was for Appalachian trail (looks similar) so I had to look it up...pretty cool :)

I stumbled on to your work from watching this gear video, which I lost interest in when you thumbed through your sketch books. I went immediately to your site and look forward to more of your technique tutorials to overcome my fear of direct watercolor painting. Your work and subject matter is beautiful.

Hey Brian I ordered that book you did a review on thanks a lot.

Thank you so much for sharing your tools. Always interesting and fun to see what other artists carry around. I'm a watercolor artist living near Tallahassee, Fl. Your paintings, drawings and sketches are amazing. I wondered if you had formal training.?

GIJoe Adventure Team. Yay! Browney points for me!

Thank you for sharing. I've been enjoying your videos and hope you make more. Love your work too! I highly recommend Daniel Smith watercolor for filling half or full pans. M Graham are wonderful paints but some colors never fully solidify and can be messy for travel - best for studio work IMO. I don't fill pans with Winsor & Newton tubes ever - they tend to crumble when dry. You could use gum arabic when filling to help with this but colors can also color shift or have rewetting problems (W&N does *not* recommend this process - best to use their half pans; they have a great Field Box Set). I have had great experiences with DS so far, plus they are fantastic watercolors.

I finally figured out that you are referring to Caran D’Ache Aquarelle water brush/ pens. I like your set up. Could you kindly tell me what specific video shows how to use this item? Thank you, Jeanne

Nice complete set up. You mentioned one thing, M Graham paints. You may want to visit with Steve Mitchell on them. I watched a Liron video were he interviewed Steve. Steve said Denise Soden had some information on fading of some m graham paints. Don’t know the details. Most of what I paint is just for me so I dont plan to change the paints I have.

This is great! What brand are your watercolor palettes? Where did you get them?

You mentioned honey in the watercolors it might surprise you that Yarka and some of the other Russian paints use honey n their binders too..I was actually surprised at how good even the Yarkas were.they havesveral different sets in they are line with 6 tom12 colors and you can find them for less than 10 bucks..you would think they would be something like prang with such a low price bbut I was blown away with the vibrancy and quality of bsuch inexpensive paints.

Awesome stuff! Have you heard about James Gourney? kinda the same style!

Funny, that which artists claim they wouldn't want to sell is exactly that which I want to most. The sketches, studies, etc. I prefer that over a finished work.

Love your setup! I know you posted this two years ago, but I’m interested to know how the M. Graham watercolors traveled with you? I’ve had to just keep mine in my stationary art stuff because I’ve found that they don’t dry fully and they run. I also live in an extremely humid region though. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I loved seeing what was in your bag! I also have a little pouch like the one you carry your tools in. I love it! Please, can you tell me about the little mixing tray that is in the front pocket? That would be great to include with my tools. Thanks for sharing!

Love to know how heavy the bag is loaded with all that stuff. Enjoyed the video.

Hi you mentioned a new brand paint with honey.... have you tried Sennelier? These are very vibrant and also made with honey. I have their full range and made up swatches. Beautiful colors and range. 98 colors I think. The only color they could not provide with my set was opera rose. I love them all. Very moist and rich.

WoW, that's a lot of stuff. You might try Daniel Smith as an alternative to Winsor & Newton. I have found Graham to be gummy and runny in the palette, but then so is honey. Lovely work examples in your examples of some of your paintings.

Hey Brian, just stumbled onto your video -it's always nice seeing what's in someone else's to-go setup. I've been cracking up because your contents are nearly identical to mine, and each time you pull another item out, YEP! got that! Including that little zippered supply bag, which is by "Lahit Labs" - I have two and they've proved to be my very favorites over the years, neither show any sign of wear at all. I have one setup mostly for sketching and mixed media and one for watercolors. I keep my watercolor gear in a mini Fjallraven Kanken backpack, another quality piece of gear that holds up to abuse. Love the DaVinci travel brushes, want a couple more, also the little pop out water cup is nice. Did you move to M. Graham? If so, how have they worked for you? I've also been a WN person for years, but have recently been playing with Schminke and Senneliers. I've also been hacking my travel palettes to make them lighter to haul + hold more pans (by removing inner clip tray & adding sm magnetic strips to bottoms of pans - works great!) Anyhow, thx for a great video. You've inspired me to make a video of my setup. Am curious to see more of your videos. Best! Pix

Good stuff--thanks for sharing

I enjoyed your video. Thank you for sharing. Which series of the Escoda brushes are you using ?

Switch yo QoR watercolors they rewet beautifully are very bright a ltiile goes a long way almost no color shift. And use aquazol as the binder which helps with lightfastness and is used to restore old art. I love them!. They also love to move. They explode in water. Let me know if you try these and if you switch to them. They are my fave and i have 83 of their colors. They just came out with 3 mew colors but they have those 3 only in half pans for thr moment If they release them as open stock ill buy the 3 colors im missing. I hope you enjoy them. Maybe you could do a side by side comparison/review.

Water bottles look like flasks to carry whiskey. They are beveled on one side and the tops look like they would hold a wee dram!

Your "awful" paintings are still better than what I'm currently able to do. I'll get there some day.

Brian says “this is pretty awful”, and I’m like OMG that’s amazing!

Nice video. What is the size of your bag? Looked it up on Amazon and they had two sizes, a 14" and a 17". I was curious about what the size your bag was. Thanks for the video.

Great video! Is there a chance you list the equipment names etc?

Nice bag. Did you mention the brand of the bag? Though this is way too much stuff for me to carry. If I got a big bag, I’d just be tempted to fill it up...

Great info!! Thanks. I’m not going to say that word.” lol 😂

Great video! That 5.11 Mike bag comes in three sizes...just wondering which one you had in the video. Tks.

Enjoyed this. Can you tell me brand & where u got the curved flasks. Looked on amazon . Don’t see this one.

Have you tried Roman Szmal paints?

M Graham paints will dry enough to carry in a pallet. I do it all the time. I have spoken with the company and they have worked with their formulas so that artists could be able to do this. It may however depend on your climate. They are a great company and very supportive of artists and community.

Looks like a VERY complete & compact kit for most every sort of outdoor painting. I have just one question about your bag. Are those straps at the bottom of the flap side of your bag adjustable in length, at all? Would you be able to slide a fold-up lightweight easel under those straps? I realize that the easel legs (even folded up) would stick out of either side a fair amount, but might be handy to have along for plein-aire work. Just curious...

Where did you get the sketch bag!

great art

Thanks for making these videos. Really fascinating to see how a professional sets up their art kit. I noticed in this and in one of your other videos your very limited palette . I’d love to see you do a video where you went through each of the colours and why you ended up with that set. Thanks again

Neat bag, where did you get the bag? Has it got a makers name to it?

i like idea of cutting off the brushes to make them fit. kind of like a sawed off shotgun.

Nice video and lots of interesting additions. But what's with the patch? Are you a hiker? if so, do you hike and paint (near the trail)?

Brian, thank you for very interesting and useful presentation of your toolkit. Can you please share how you prepare your new tinboxes? There is a very annoying beading of paint on the enameled palette surface. I tried a few recommended things like washing with baking soda, with toothpaste etc but all of them are not good enough. What is your method? Thank you in advance.

I love m graham but the rewetting feature is actually a disadvantage when you pack up, as they stay wet longer and they run a bit. I just got a winsor Newton In a sale so carry that or portable painter with Schminke. 3 great brands 1 enthusiastic painter. Thanks

Its like my purse LOL I need one

have u replaced that bag ?

Damn, I think I would have just bought a longer bag than cut up my brushes, lol.

I just bought the LIMA because of this video. :) Hoping it's not gonna be too big.

Your very humble

Where did you find those neat Flasks Brian?

I really like the 511 bag! Can we ever have too many pockets? I don't think so!! It would be nice if you labeled the items and brands in the description in case some brands are hard to spell, etc..., but I think my notes will suffice. Thanks for the video.

AT Maine to Georgia ❤️

Im so curious. Where does the A stand for? Anarchy?

Where can one purchase this bag?

I hate pencil sharpeners. Havent used one since third grade. Because they often times dont give you the right sharpness and you cant control the length of lead that sticks out. When I’m doing a quick sketch for a painting I like to use a harder pencil so it doesnt leave a dark mark. I use a knife to sharpen the pencil lead to about an inch long exposed and its so great for that. Pretty much never needs to be sharpened again until several sketches later

Is the pentalic journal size 5” by 8” or 7” by 10”?

Couldn’t find that bag for sale anywhere; don’t think they still make it.

Did you have a list of links to the items in this video? I love your videos ! Thanks

You can actually fit more pans in those tin pallets. Pans fit nicelly in the middle as well. You can fit 21 half pans in the smallest one. I've heared that Pentallic jouranls fall apart and don't hold pages well. Is that true?

How heavy is it? Looks like just shy of 5 kg

Where can you buy those curved flasks? can you share a link? Thanks.

Hello, What is the brand of the bag and the pencil case? Thank you

Nooo sketch books are interesting - more so than finished work - stay safe!

...most important, do you still have that bitchin' yellow plastic 6-wheeled vehicle in which your Adventure Team figures could go blasting across the backyard?

You can pronounce that German company's name with no concern. It's actually pronounced KOOM. Check out JetPens' handy German stationary pronunciation guide (they also have a clever video about pronouncing Japanese stationary items too BTW). kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pbSVh5efrL2nZGw.html

Where can I get those patches from?

Are you sure one bottle hasn't something a little stronger than water, for cold days??? With Regards Gary Tangeman.

Your sketches are amazing, really love them! Btw, you can buy a portable sable blend dagger from rosemaryandco.com so you don't need to cut your brush :D

KUM's website says Kunststoff- und Metallwarenfabrik, so I guess that KUM comes from that KU.nststoff and M.etalwarenfabrik. (The company exists since 1919.) Not the best PR decision ever, but probably they never thought their brand will become internationally known. 😂 (We all know the company PEN ISLAND, right? 😉)

YOU CARRY TOO MUCH

lol I just use a laptop bag.

nice , but twooooo much things !!!!

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