Artist dilemnas

As an artist, you face many challenges. What to paint, where to paint, what colors to use, what mediums to use, how large should something be? ETC!!! Well, recently I got my new pochade box to paint outdoors at an upcoming two week painting trip to Tuscany, but when painting outdoors, your supplies have to be at a minimum and the weight of everything has to come into play. So the first thing was getting the right weight box...the pochade as pictured works perfect, it came with everything I need and more including a bag to carry it in.

Now I am trying to decide what oil colors to use because I don't want it to be weighed down with a ton of oil paints. For a normal class I can use a ton of colors and I do, but I have a rolling cart to carry my supplies in, which I won't have for the trip, unless I figure something different out. There's also more supplies than usual to carry like a tri-pod, a folding seat, drop cloths, waste bags, etc, so I have to be really particular! Then I have to figure out what colors are best to paint TUSCANY, I mean, you use different colors to paint those scenes than you would a snowy scene in Vermont! So I'm doing online research and I will also ask all the artists I know to help me with my questions. I know my friend Diane will say go minimum, three colors and white, but SHE can paint with just those amount of colors and do it good, I need more variety. What I need to do, is go painting with Diane and practice using the pochade box...want to go Diane? I'm ready...

Well, just about...haha!

Just goes to show, every painting has planning in it...