part 1:light or heavy?

so I have been doing a lot of landscape painting lately, but I lack a digital camera and scanner, so I am having trouble posting the results. But soon enough I will have them up.

I figured why not blabber on about landscape painting a bit since I don't have the stuff up yet.
I want to talk about a very important topic and that's wheather to go light or heavy?

You first reation might be "well that's easy, just go light". But it's not that easy.

You see bring a lot of stuff with you to go landscape painting might actually help you.
If you are using oil paints you load is almost always heavy.

possible things to bring with you are: You have to bring you your brushes, tubes of paint, paper towels, pallette, easel, canvas, umbrella (yes umbrella!) pallette knife, gloves, paint box, brush soap and medium (thinner, liquin, etc)

You might be thinking why the heck do I need all this crap? Well the hard fact is that going landscape painting with oils takes a lot of endurance, Oil gets everywhere, on your hands, your clothes, your face, underneath your fingers, everywhere! So why even use it? Well that's simple, because it is probably the best medium. As many things in life, the things you have to strive hardest for are really the ones worth getting.

Believe it or not, sometimes bringing more stuff with you actually makes it easier! Let me demonstrate in part 2:the gear