Filling a Tiny Art Toolkit Paint Palette with 28 Daniel Smith & Schmincke Watercolours! + Painting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Today I am filling up this little travel paint palette by Art Toolkit, which has 28 quarter pans in it. I decided to go for a mix of Daniel Smith and Schmincke Horadam watercolour paints, because they set quickly and are much easier to travel with than honey-based paints like M.Graham and Sennelier. Plus they're lovely paints! So watch on to see which colours I choose, and I will also swatch them all out, along with doing a painting to see how they perform as a colour palette. Let me know in the comments which colors you would choose, and which are the ones you absolutely must have in your travel kit!
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And yes this palette is with me now while I'm in New Zealand. 😁
Welcome to Aotearoa 🍂🍁 it's gorgeously Autumn here on the south island, perfect for painting!
@@megmchanford6767 The weather has been spectacular and beautifully autumnal in Tauranga too. Looks like rain tomorrow! 😂
Oh no! Hopefully it's a quick one and you're back to the sunshine soon!
Girl! There are NO wrong choices. 😁😁 Those tiny pans. You'll use them up fast and can change anything you don't like. I think that's what's so awesome about this tiny palette.
That's very true! Plus spare ones can be bought as well, to swap out colours if need be.
Oooo! The company is right across the water from me in Port Townsend, WA! I have their A5 toolkit in my car. So many neat ideas for plein air painting!
Oh that's cool! I am really enjoying the palette so far!
Enjoying and learning
The music at the end was intriguing, almost mystical
I like that music track, I think it is called Ancient Discoveries on Epidemic Sound. Can't remember the artist's name....🤔
Oh my gosh you weren't kidding, that is super tiny.
It really is! And I found out that a strong wind will blow the lid closed, mid-painting, LOL!
I love my Pocket Palette from Art Toolkit, but I like larger pans and to have a big mixing pan so end up with 10 colors, hard to pick, but I love that I can fill extra pans and switch them out frequently. Enjoy your travels, thanks for sharing your palette colors!!
Thank you 😊❤️
That palette is so cute! You did a great job filling it, great idea to use that clay tool. I love the colors you picked. I really like that Aussie red gold and potter’s pink. Thanks for sharing!
Those are definitely colours which almost always end up in my palettes, especially the red gold. 😊
Love the colours you b have chosen. Looking forward to seeing what you will paint in new Zealand
I haven't had a huge amount of time for art, as is almost always the way when I travel, but I've done a few little sketches and I hope to do some larger paintings when I get home, from my photos. That is usually easier. We are currently in windy Wellington and it's pretty cold so it's not really a great time for painting outdoors, haha!
What a clever idea to sample the palette colors by creating swatch cards for each version! One of the things I love about this palette design is that she also sells pans of many sizes, including some that are painted white inside to use as mixing wells. So it’s a very, very flexible palette design!
They are so versitile! I'd consider getting some larger pans for a second set, but these little ones have been going well so far! 😊
Welcome to NZ! I hope you are having loads of painting fun 😁
Thank you! I've managed to do a few little paintings. A lot of family time at the moment though!
Well done. Inspiring.
I love bright colours, too!
They're the best!
Nice colorful palette and lovely painting! Your choice of colors has given you the ability to paint a wide variety of subjects.
It was great to have a big choice of colours, though as you saw, I seriously overthought it, haha! It's working well so far.
Ooooh what an awesome little travel palette 🎨
It is working really well so far! 💜
I had so many eyeshadow palettes that I was going to throw away but instead I used them to make watercolor palettes out of. They are great because they are so flat and the tins are so flat and they fit perfectly into the plastic case that they were designed for. I had about 20-ish large MAC build your own eyeshadow palettes also and I want to transform one of those cases into a watercolor palette also.
Eyeshadow palettes are so great for watercolours, and they look pretty too! 😊
I love your videos and chats Becky. I've been thinking of getting a small travel palette. This one looks interesting for sure. Thanks for posting interesting content about different products. I'm from NZ, now living on the Gold Coast. I hope you posted some of your trip and paintings. Keep up the great work on your channel. Hope you've recovered and feel better. Rachelle x
I really love your botanical painting at the end too!
Thank you so much! I do have a holiday vlog a few videos after this one, which has our NZ trip in more detail. 😊
Oh my goodness, I had a HUGE comment all ready but TH-cam so kindly lost it for me before I hit the Comment button. Darn it all! Well, here's the gist: 28 colors is A LOT and it's great to have a bunch of convenience colors when your mixing space is small. I love that you chose a somewhat mixed palette - someday I will do that. I'm kind of a "purist" so far. When I use watercolors, I want them all to be the same brand, even though that's silly. I can't remember what else I may have said in the first comment, but I hope you have a great time in New Zealand!
Ahh I have done that before too and then managed to delete everything before sending! It took a fair bit of teeth gritting to mix brands because I always go for one brand too. I thought since I am taking the plunge of international travel that I could go out of my comfort zone with two brands for this palette. 🤣 It has been good so far, if somewhat of an emotional rollercoaster seeing family after a long time. 💜
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I tape the color chart on the top of my art tool kit palette. Then you can refer to it when you are painting. I will be going to NZ next April for the Urban Sketching Symposium!
Oh cool! I couldn't help but laugh when I saw that it's going to be held in Auckland, of all places! 😂 I am undecided yet if I'll go; will decide when tickets go in sale I guess!
With such a tiny palette, i think it is especially important to have similar colors arranged into blocks rather than pure rainbow rows. Move the 3 purples from row 3 up to the beginning of row 2 between the reds and blues (reverse the order of blues so the darkest blue is on the far left directly below the darkest purple. Move the 3 turquoises down to row 3 (where the purples were). Move the 4 greens to the right to align below the yellows, reorder so the lighter greens are below the lighter yellow on the far right. And the darker greens are together. Reverse the order of the bottom row so the black is now under the dark blue and cream is below the lightest turquoise.
It sounds like one of those games where you shuffle the tiles about, lol. Good ideas though. My palette is well and truly worn in, after I took it to Greece earlier this year. Surprisingly not too messy though!
Oh how lovely! I didn't expect a Becky-video today. I hope you are having a good time with you mom.
This painting turned out stunning! I love the bright colours.
Isn't the palette cute? I had a hard time finding the Arttool kit items in Australia but last year I finally found them. I have all three sizes of the palettes now and a lot of pans and mixing pans to mix and match. That's what I love about it. You can replace a pan if you want to change one colour.
I scheduled a bunch of videos in the weeks leading up to our trip so I have most of my schedule covered, yay! Gotta keep that algorithm happy, lol. I am loving the palette, it is working out really well on our trip!
I love how sleek that small palette is! And your colors choices are beautiful!! There are a lot of pans so you can't go too wrong, you have a lot of options there...could even fill 2 or 3 with the same color for when you want a very limited palette and need a good bit of paint. I totally agree about the brighter colors! As you said, you can always tone down colors easily, not the other way around.
Very smart!! :)
I didn't think to fill multiple quarter pans with the same colour - that's a great idea for some colours which get a lot of use! But after returning from my travels, I did not run out of any colours - as I suspected, there is actually loads of paint in each pan and they went the distance with plenty to spare, yay!
@@BeckyTregear that's wonderful!! I only thought of it because of a tight budget so have to use a pretty limited palette, yet want a decent bit of color available :) but, same as you, I tend to always have more then enough 😊 have the time I'll think "oh I'm going to use this other color or 2!" Yet once going i realize which i always return too :) and, personally, I'm ALWAYS amazed at how far watercolor goes!!! Especially dried in a pan, it feels like it's never-ending sometimes! Though when I use it fresh I definitely feel like I go through more...but I just thought about it after I wrote about the dried lasting...that it may not actually be using more when I use it fresh, just feels like it, because even a small pan can take a good bit once dry and the water is gone...so...probably either way, watercolor, though it feels expensive for some brands, actually feels not too bad with how long it lasts! I know I end up losing a good bit of acrylic when painting just because the darn stuff dried so fast...though I love it...it can be frustrating, plus more clean up. But, art...or trying to be creative in whatever way fits, is such an important thing in life :)
I hope you had a WONDERFUL time in your travels!!
Thank you again for your lovely videos :) they help me stay inspired and my brain focused positive things which helps tremendously in dealing with chronic health issues. So, very much appreciated!!!
It’s so sleek! I’ll be anxious to see how you like it. I have 2 palettes I take on the go. One is more limited with warm and cool shades of the basics. The other has more convenience colors. I admit, I like the larger choices lol!
I'm enjoying it so far, it's so convenient and also useful even though it is small. The water brushes especially work well with it.
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Great colors! That potters pink always makes we want to try Daniel Smith!
It's definitely an unusual but very useful colour, I really like it. In this case it is the Schmincke version, and Winsor & Newton have an awesome Potters Pink too!
it gives me so much comfort that u used the roygbiv order! love this palette a looot
I always end up going back to rainbow order, haha!
Very well balanced painting. I love it. And the palette would have been my type of choice, especially the greens. Have a great Sunday, Becky.
Thank you, I think we have another day of lovely weather before rain comes in tomorrow. Will make the most of it!
I love your little floral painting as well as the bright colors on your palette. The perylene green served you well for the background.
Thank you - Perylene Green is always a must for my palettes these days. It's so useful!
Beautiful colours! I like brights too. Adorable palette. 💕 Those bright greens would do well for South Gippsland landscapes. 💚 The areas of New Zealand that I've visited remind me a bit of South Gippsland except that NZ is much bigger and grander and more frightening in parts, lol. Have a great time! I look forward to seeing any artwork you do during your trip.
The palette is working well, and yes there are quite a lot of similarities with South Gippsland, especially at the moment because it has been quite dry in NZ lately. It is very autumnal here and I am so glad I included the Aussie red gold! 😂
Such a cute video. Thanks for sharing. Hope you are enjoying your vacation. Much love ❤️
We are, the weather has been fabulous so far! Thank you 😄
Lovely painting Becky 🤗🤗🤗 Do you ever feel overwhelmed about how many watercolour palettes and watercolour sets you have? Do you ever feel pressured about finding opportunities to use them all? And wondering IF you'll ever use them all up?? I have only a fraction of the amount of watercolour paints and sets you have and I feel overwhelmed about how I'll ever get to use them all on a regular basis and IF I'll ever use them up in my lifetime....
Yes to all, but at the same time I have mostly gotten over my worries, and just use whatever takes my fancy at any given moment. I am also not as stressed about "wrecking" sets by using them, and I get into those paints with aplomb and make a big old mess, haha!
Love your palette! And your painting! Thank you for sharing!
I hope you both are having a lovely holiday! I love your flower painting and your beautiful choice of colors. I also love the brighter colors! 😄👍🎨✍💐💖👋
Thank you, we are having a great time in NZ. 😊
Loved your flower!!!
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my Art Tool Kit palette. Bought it over a year ago. I bought mine with the large white mixing pan. I totally misunderstood the sizes and got two pans the same size. I used a glue gun to make three sections out of each. In those six sections, I keep the Daniel Smith essential split primary set. I have four little pans. In those I have Daniel Smith burnt umber, neutral tint, sap green, and undersea green. In the small ziplock bag I carry the palette in, I have a plasticized swatch card, some scrap pieces of watercolor for testing, and a couple of alcohol prep packets. I use those for quick cleaning followed by water. Inside the palette itself, I have a plasticized business card to hopefully help with paint leaks.
On the outside top edge, I put a sticker plus limited name & phone number. It helps me keep the palette right side up.
HOPE YOU ARE HAVING OR HAVE HAD AN AWESOME TRIP!
Glue guns are so handy, and it sounds awesome having the split primaries in there. I like the sound of the additions you've made! I am also enjoying my little palette...and our holiday too! 😊
I was sceptical about that pink but .. that was a great picture and I like the choices you made tbh :)
The Opera Pink? It is a crazy colour but I have grown to love it, haha!
You're a delight, Becky! Your videos are clear, no nonsense with great advice and tips. 👌👌👌.
I've ordered the folio size palette from this same company. It can hold 60 of the tiny squares, but you can order pans of various sizes and mixing pans that have been treated with a white base. They all interlock to create millions of combinations!
Interesting how in your top row, you go from red to yellow. I always go yellow to red! That's what I love about art...we all do things so differently! All the best! 😄😄
Thank you! I really like the look of the folio sized palette too, and I also bought the tiniest demi palette which I haven't filled yet. They have so many amazing pans and setups. Sometimes I start with yellow, but I guess this time I went with red, haha!
My Demi palette has just 4 standard pans (Hansa yellow med, Quin Rose, Ultramarine blue and Burnt Sienna) grouped around a small mixing pan. Perfect for living in my pocket.
The standard pans make me worry less about what the tin edges might be doing to me good travel brushes.
Sometimes the mixing pan gets replaced with four tiny pans (usually Transparent Pyrrol Orange, Monte Amiata Sienna, Phthalo Blue GS and Perylene Green), but I usually get sick of not having enough mixing space and swap them back.
Such a cute palette!
I'm really enjoying it, and it is actually quite useful despite its miniature size.
I saw these on Mind of Watercolor's channel, they are soooo cute!!! My Schminckes pan up so nicely, but Daniel Smith -- well, it's a total gamble. Some pans part like the red sea.
The only one I have had issues with is the Daniel Smith Ultramarine which dried a little too well and fell out whole! I have stuck it in with a tiny bit of tape, lol.
@@BeckyTregear Oh! And you remembered to add glycerine even. It doesn't seem to help the DS paints much when I've tried it. Hope you are having a wonderful holiday!
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Nice!
I received the ArtToolkit Folio palette for Christmas. I have configured it with a whole load of pans and have been working and working to determine what paints will finally go into it. I wanted this as a full-featured travel palette. Normally I end up taking two or three palettes to cover the paints I think I might want on the trip. This hopefully will end up having just what I need on a trip in a very compact format. I am definitely going to have the Schmincke Haze super-granulating set as five of the pans, but otherwise I am still swatching and debating…
I also spent a lot of time deciding which colours to go with. So far my choices have been working and I am really enjoying the palette so far on our travels! The only thing is that the lid will blow closed in strong winds, haha!
Enjoyed this video..liked your colors i have some of the d.s.vwc paints as you picked....🎨✍👩🎨
Oh cool, I am glad we have some of the same colours! 😆
You did a great job picking the palette
Thank you, it took ages to choose them all, lol.
That would be a wonderful plein air palette. Do you do plein air? I’d love to see it in your beautiful country.
I have been doing a bit of plein air on our trip, in combination with painting from photos. Plein air is fun except for when it is windy, lol.
Ooh such a pretty palette! Okay, definitely bright for me but as you said, neutrals can be mixed! Haha so my only experience is really the senneliers and im curious what some other, not honey-based paints feel like! I just know that regardless, I’d make a big mess with filling a palette😂 i loved how your flower turned out. The painting is a little bit tropical to me! I hope you’re having a really nice time in New Zealand!!💙🌸
These paints go a little drier but still rewet perfectly well. The ultramarine dried too much and fell out completely! 🤣 I had to stick it in with a tiny piece of tape, lol. And yes we are having a great time away so far! ❤️
Also, what is that blue second from the right on the second row? It’s gorgeous!
I think that's phthalo turquoise...in my next video I will actually have a much bigger swatch of them with the names written down, lol! The card I made in this vid was just too tiny to write on.
that was very satisfying watching you pour those paints! some are a lot runnier than others, is there a reason for this? also I really loved the blue next to the cobalt! your little swatch card looks beautiful. I love the vibrant colors. 😊
My best guess is that it depends on the actual pigments - some are really fine and others are a lot more coarse, so when they mix with binder, they create different consistencies. I hope that's right! 😂
The picture you painted is lovely. I looked for that artist toolkit palette and could not find. ☹️ However, it probably costs more than I can afford.
Nick bought it in a local store, and it was difficult to find online anywhere! I think it is more of a boutique item rather than readily available in lots of places. And it is indeed expensive, much more than standard metal palettes. In one of those "12" ones you can fit 20 half pans if you pull the insert out. 🙂
Can I make a hard question? XD
If you had 4 spots which watercolor colours would you chose to have there?
I imagine 3 primaries and another but I can't figure out what you'd say.
I surely can't figure out the one I would add, a neutral tint? A burn Siena? A sepia? Another primary colour to have alternative?
So ... Yeah I'm sure you'll have a good choice since you always chose nice colours and have interesting tastes :)
4 spots. 5 the most if you really can't chose one.
Have fun xD
I'd probably pick the sepia, neutral or payne's grey. Or maybe the dark green as that is the one I always seem to want, haha!
What brand are the two big palettes in the video? And do you like them?
The big tins are fairly generic and easy to find as a number of different brands use them. These particular ones are by Meeden, and I bought them on Amazon. The options are 12, 24 and 48 - the big 48 tins which I showed in my video will actually hold 52 half pans in the rails. Meeden tins often come with the empty half pans, or you can buy half or full pans separately to fit into any tin like this. I hope you find them! 🙂 (And yes, I like them - I use these sorts of tins the most because they're more solid than plastic palettes.)
@@BeckyTregear amazing. thanks!
wow it is so tiny
It is! 😂 But it's actually working out well on my holiday so I am happy with it.
@@BeckyTregear it looks so good for travel !
Where can you get the art toolkit? I noticed you didn't link a resource for it! I would love to get one.
I either forgot or it wasn't on Amazon...I think I couldn't find it online? We got it from an Australian store called Senior Art Supplies, which is in Melbourne.
Did you add the Washi tape just for the border or does it also help keep the paper from wrinkling? I just got My first set of watercolors and am excited to play around with them!
In this one I used it as a border. If you tape the paper down to another surface like a board or table, it can help keep the paper flat. But if you are using a good quality cotton paper it generally won't warp too much. Most of the time I don't bother with any tape and just paint to the edges. 😊
@@BeckyTregear thanks for the info! Your videos are fantastic - very informative and entertaining!
Hey, where did you get the metal tool? I’ve been using toothpicks for that purpose, but I’m interested to know where you got the metal spike tool.
You get can a pack of them on Amazon. I got a pack of 4 for around $5. I live in the US tho so depending where you live the prices might be cheaper or more expensive. But you can definitely find them on Amazon. Also most art stores that self clay and sculpting supplies will also sell them but they will most likely be a lot more expensive then if you got them off Amazon. Hope that helps.
I think its official function is as a pottery needle tool, so anywhere that sells clay and sculpting tools should have them. Craft stores too I would imagine.
What paint is in your pallette ? I am going to make one I have everything to make it I’m looking at what I havent paletted of my Daniel smith……. My dumb ass ordered dups which is ok except kind of a Easter of money ugghhhhhh
I think in the next video showing my international travel kit, I swatched out the colours in my sketchbook and wrote all the names of the paints down then when I had a bigger bit of paper, lol.
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