Shopping Cart (EDM 115) for Plein Air Art Supplies

Ink and watercolor in Aquabee 6×9 sketchbook
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This week’s Everyday Matters drawing challenge is to draw a shopping cart. I spent about an hour drawing my funny grandma shopping cart that I use to haul my plein air supplies around and then added a bit of watercolor. Before I got my new easel that has a shelf attachment, I needed something to use as a table when painting outdoors so the clip towards the top of the supplies in the cart is attached to a piece of foam core board. Once I’ve got my junk out of the cart I clip the foamcore board to the top of the cart and it makes a nice little table. Other items include a folding stool in a bag, my palette, brushes in a brush holder, a floppy hat, block of watercolor paper, a pad for sitting on the ground. I also usually throw in my small painting/drawing bag that has pens, erasers, teeny squirt bottle, kleenex, view finder, and other miscellaney. I either go out sketching with only what fits in a 6 x8″ bag or with my cart and everything but the kitchen sink. I like my comforts.

I experimented with Flickr’s annotating capabilities by noting all the items in the cart so if you’re interested you can click the image to hop over to Flickr and as you move the mouse over the little squares they will tell you what each item is. (Not that it’s so interesting, but I had fun playing with the technology). You can also see it bigger there.