An artist have a good convenient box

To have a good convenient box in which to keep the colors and brushes is indispensable to an artist.

It is better that the box should not be too large and cumbersome, as for sketching out of doors a large, heavy box is inconvenient. A neat black japanned tin box, measuring 13x6 inches, and 2 inches deep, costs about $1.25. This, though small, will hold every thing necessary for a day's sketching. A folding square palette can be bought to fit into the this box, and which should be kept exclusively for sketching; as for home large oval palette is much better. A larger sized box which gives a little more room measuring 13x9 inches, and is 23x4 inches in dep. This costs $1.50, empty, and may be pre by some. Such boxes have places for colors, brushes, oils and turpentine bottles, and palettes.

Some clean soft cotton rags should always be kept in the box to wipe off the brushes from time to time when they become too full of paint; rags are also useful in a variety of other ways, and the want of them is sometimes a serious annoyance to the artist.