Trip to The East Coast - Part 5: Materials After Returning

As I mentioned in my original materials post for this trip, I did my best to note what I was missing during the trip, what I used most, and what I did not touch at all, and here are some results:

1. This was a very short trip, so this amount of gouache was enough, but if I were traveling for a longer time, I would definitely take some tubes to both refill my palette and also to have access, for some "just out of the tube" thick paint that is needed, at the finishing touches, often. I had five different blues so I was fine - but yellows were 

2. I really enjoyed my first-ever posca pencil (ivory) - it was doing a really good job covering over other materials.

3. Little gouache sticks are amazing - I wish they were more widely spread - but access to this instant color with the possibility of texture is for me a difference between starting a sketch or not - if I feel like I do not have enough time. 

4. I missed yellow. I have a favorite yellow marker at the moment, it is semi-transparent and layers over other colors in such a luminous way that I can use it with just one other color and still call it a full-color sketch. 

5. I missed some purple. I had a violet-gray from Luminance but needed something brighter. And I missed some brown, which I tried to figure out at the end of my sketchbooks, going over all the browns I could find, but I did not pinpoint what exactly was missing. This is something to remember for the next time: to write a little more about the color that I am missing - brown is not enough! After all, when I am teaching, I always ask people to use at least 3, between 4 and 5 words to describe color - why didn't I do it myself and just scribbled "missing brown"?

6. I missed my Pilot Parallel pen - I had a great substitute (zig calligraphy), but this beauty is capable of making such an expressive line that the sheer prospect of seeing it glide on the page can be a motivation enough for me to take a little sketching break. I guess rule number one of packing for a trip is "take your favorite tool" :) 

here are some color-swatching pages on which I was trying to figure out what exact color I was missing:

Trip to The East Coast 2025:
Part 1: Packing My Sketch Tools
Part 2: People, Bids, Animals and Apples
Part 3: Landscapes
Part 4: More Landscapes
Part 5: What Materials worked and what I missed
Video of the Sketchbook Flip-Through.