Micro Palette and 6 Colors I Chose to Put In
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- Because of all the interest in my Altoids Tin Micro Palette and choosing the 6 colors to go in it, I thought it would be fun to make a video about what I chose and why. Hope its useful and enjoyable.
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I put my smalls palette inside a regular Altoids tin along with a pencil stub, a kneaded eraser half, a piece of sponge and a sawed off brush (yes, I’m armed and dangerous! AND it’s not illegal! Lol!). You’ve chosen some interesting colors. I would like to see what you’ve painted with this.
This 5-year-old video has shown me how to actually fit all the 6 pans I wanna use inside my favorite little tin box (it has a cat on it) so I don't have to compromise with another boring one.
Huge thanks for that one!
Now watching the rest of the video so I can doubt my color choices :D
This is so helpful. I’m new to watercolor. It has been very overwhelming trying to pick out professional grade colors as I can only afford a very limited supplies.
Really loved your thoughtful color choices, Steve, they'll be so helpful to folks! I liked every single one, and you are so right about Viridian over phthalo green, and Moonglow (and Sodalite and a few other hue-biased neutrals) are my favorite DS colors. Plus the palette is just teeny-adorable, which makes it double awesome to me! I think if you ever get the time, you could lightly sand and then gesso and paint the cover (with permanent paints). I always tell myself I'll paint my palette lids and then never get around to it. :p--but I think one of your landscapes as mini art on the lid would make this palette just one of a kind.
Hah, cool idea! thanks for dropping by my watercolor sis!
The Mind of Watercolor Viridian ain’t stopping me
When I make my tins like that, I use poster blu-tack (the clay-like stuff) to hold down the pans. It raises them a bit higher inside the tin, and they're removable if I want to change out a pan. Now I have to pick up a couple of tubes to try this set of colors. :)
I glue thin magnet tape on the back of the half-pans. Then you can move them round, but they don’t tip out.
Ooooo, really liked the choices. I’d love to see a painting using this itty-bitty pallet. By the way, what paint spray did you use on the inside lid to make it a better mixing tray? Does that give it a porcelain feel? Thank you again! Love your videos so much!
I'd be interested in seeing some examples of what you paint with this palette. Great vlog.
yesss it's like he described all the characters in the book, but didn't tell the story!!!
Would love to see some mixes from those colours
Same - want to know how the palette/colors worked out. I'm using Art Toolkit's pocket and Demi palettes.
Love the colors! I would really like to see you paint with the new micro-palette!
Thank you for sharing your time and talent!
yuuuuz dadddd finally new colorsssss!!! the PR122 version of magenta is a better mixer. Its easier to mix much cleaner neutrals and stuff. Not sure if you have tried it already.
good ol' PB60! :D fell in love with the 1st one i tried (da vinci), and how absolutely dark and rich this pigment can go, but recently got into m. graham paints again and picked one up. beautiful! (i always think of you as the m. graham guy. might not even be your top paint at this point, but noone talked about them as much as you. i love when artists have a preferred brand, or even colors, and articulate WHY. :) thanks for this channel. i always love coming back to it when i get on a watercolor kick, even rewatching older vids like this one. cheers!)
Ohh wow that’s awesome! I now have 4 more new colors besides Viridian & Moonglow to check out. Definitely did not think that would hold 6 half pans. Thanks for sharing this wonderful informational video with us.
Wow what an interesting palette. This is probably one of the first watercolor vlogs I follow that hasn't opted for the brightest colors they could fit in a tin.
Reminds me of my 40 year old teeny tiny cotman palette. Still carry it around filled with winsor newton paints of course.
Very very different from what I would have expected, where can I go to see what you painted with this set?
I have a few mini-palettes of 3, 6 or 8 colour sets. I avoid tins with embossed lids so that I can use the inside of the lid for mixing and then clean it easily. Some souvenir soaps often come in small decorative tins that are ideal for this.
My mini-palletes are as follows:
Primary palette 1 (Karuteke paints): rose madder, lemon yellow & indigo.
Primary palette 2 (QoR paints): manganese blue, hansa yellow medium & quinacridone magenta.
Primary set 3 (St. Petersburg): ultramarine blue, cadmium yellow & cadmium red.
X6 half-pan secondaries plus: Payne's grey, raw umber, turquoise blue, permanent orange, yellowish green, violet rose.
X8 half-pan earth, neutral and orange/ yellows: burnt sienna, burnt umber, vandyke brown, Payne's grey, pyrrol orange, Naples yellow deep, new gamboge, Indian yellow
X8 half-pan red tones: carmine, alizarin crimson, quinacridone rose, opera pink, madder lake deep, quinacridone purple blue, quinacridone purple red, permanent red violet. (Not a very balanced set, but it is what I had left over from various previous sets).
X8 half-pan blues and greens:
Cerulean Blue, Phthalo Blue, French Ultramarine, Turquoise Blue, Dusk Yellow (it looks greenish to me!), Yellow Green, Hooker's Green, Deep Green.
Depending on what I'm painting, I'll take one of the primary palettes and one or two of the others. I also have larger palettes of custom mix 23, 24 and 29 paints.
You could say that I've gone a bit overboard, but that's what happens when one goes deep into the watercolour rabbit hole...
Instead of painting the inside of my lids on boxes I've converted into palettes, I've discovered I can use white Gorilla Grip Peel and Stick Adhesive Removable Liner. I cut pieces to fit the inside of the lid (and up the sides) and change them out easily if they stain (I left my phthalos on the surface for a month and they all cleaned off with just a bit of Master's Brush Cleaner). I found a 4"x3"x1/2" vintage cigarette case (with the spring lid) and made a little palette from it (removing the little spring arm to hold cigarettes in place was the only challenge, but the spring open lid remains and is an added benefit). It holds 12 full and 4 half pans perfectly (or 9 full-sized and 3 half pans, a travel brush, and a pencil). I was determined to find a palette that fits under the band on my Rosemary & Co leather brush wallet and gave me the most # of pans! The 4"x3" mixing surface is a dream, too! BTW, you can easily add a stick-on loop to the bottom (the ones they sell for smartphones).
My problem with Maimeri Blu - which I discovered today! - was that after letting two tubes sit unused for a year, it was impossible to get the tops off. Never had this problem with any other brand of paint. Had to throw the tubes away. Also, I compared M Graham prices to Winsor Newton prices at Jerry’s Artarama only - same hues, same size tubes - and, yep, same prices. It may be I don’t have a problem with WN drying up because I literally use them every single day. At least on Jerry’s the prices for WN are not any higher than the other top brands. Just an FYI.
love your vids... you picked a lovely pallet! only 1 tip? I use some magnetic strip on the bottom of the pans so I can remove and clean. I love your style and have watched you for a very long time! you have taught me so much. I couldn't have come so far along in my art without you. God bless and I hope you keep sharing your love for watercolor!
I made myself a tiny palette in a sucrets tin just last week, but instead of putting pans inside, I sprayed the whole thing with white enamel paint and put some dots of watercolor paints on the sides of the tin. That way have more mixing area and I can add more colors since I'm not too limited by the space. Maybe you could try that in your other altoid tin.
The white enamel is a great idea
This is great! Super informative and I love that you found a way to fit in that 6th pan. I wish you had filmed the part where you fill them though, it's always so satisfying to watch!
Whenever I think about these little palettes I always wonder about what brush and paper you plan on using it with that makes having such a small palette worth while? I did see one woman who made a tiny paper booklet to go with it, but I simply don't see the value in that. So, if you paper has to be at least, say, 4" x 4" (cut an Arches pad in thirds both length-wise and width-wise) why not just have a slightly bigger palette to match? This is all just me thinking out loud, but in the end, I really want to see you in the field, using this set up effectively. Maybe a good idea for another video? And what brush(es) would you use with it? I love your videos. Thanks for doing them! 😊
You can take the lid off a 2nd tin and pressure fit it onto the bottom of the 1st tin (not my idea). Bulldog clip the edges together when in use if you want. Doubles your mixing area!
Very anxious to see you using the new micro palette, hope you make a video. Love your color choices!
Okay, saw that your half pans have smaller sides...good to know because I offered my husband $20.00 if he could get the 6th one in and saved $20.00 :)!
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Hey Steve, love your videos!
Quick question, what spray paint did you use for the mixing area? You couldn't just use the tin as is?
Just and appliance white from Walmart. You don't have to paint it but white makes a better mixing surface and helps prevent rust.
@@mindofwatercolor This came up in my feed again - still love your choices. I used flat white to spray a Altoid lid and the paint lies there beautifully - no beading up at all. One of my pans got loose and marred the flat a bit in another tin - ancient cigarette tin my grandpa used for storing parts a very long time ago. The magnet came off of the pan. Using epoxy would be good to help the magnets stick.
Beautiful choice of colors. Now I'll have to try that anthraquinone, I'm intrigued! I hope you show us this little palette in action, or rather, YOU in action, using it! Hehe! Thank you for sharing.
Will do! 😀
Excellent, I can't wait!
These colors have inspired me. Cant wait to try them togeather. The blue is the only one I'm not to sure on. Why not a French ultramarine? I'm sure u have some reason you picked the blue u did, but ultramarine is such a staple mixing color or used strait up.
Would so love to see how you fill the pans. When I was filling them the other night I don't think I did it right. Do you have a video showing how to do it or can you direct me or tell me how to do so. Thank you. I got some paints for my birthday, 7/14, some Daniel Smith, QoR, Golden, and Schminke. so excited to use them. Thank you for your videos I love them.
I have most if not all of these paints (except Moonglow) so I’m curious to try painting with this palette. The only issue is Moonglow is fugitive (Kimberly Crick Art has an excellent video on this) which is a shame as it’s such a beautiful mix, so this would probably be a sketchbook only palette. I have neutral tint so I’ll just use that. Thanks for sharing, Steve!
Moonglow is rated as lightfastness 1 or excellent. Their highest rating. Definitely NOT a sketchbook only color as far as I'm concerned. None of the three individual pigments are considered fugitive in the least, PG18, PB29, and PR177. That said, when framing and hanging paintings, all should be treated as fugitive even if none of the colors are rated as such. Never hang in direct sunlight and always us UV inhibiting glass.
@@mindofwatercolor you’re right, the pigments individually are lightfast, but for some reason they are fugitive in Moonglow. Kimberly Crick Art’s video goes more in depth about it, but I think even she doesn’t have an explanation as to why this is. It’s possible her tube is a bad batch, I’m not sure. It’s really strange. I highly recommend her video, it’s really interesting.
In terms of tiny palettes, I have discovered eyeshadow palettes for that purpose. They come with built-in pans, many have mirrors in the lid (I have not attempted to paint those white). And most of them are quite flat. My smallest one is about 3 mm high and holds 6 flat pans.
I either use my old used-up eyeshadow palettes or buy new cheap ones because I scrape out the crummy eyeshadow powders anyway. I look for good sized pans and for lids that fold all the way back to lie flat when open.
Are the practical? Wellllll…… the small mixing area is a minus. But they are soooo cute!
I have several micro palettes. I use them to separate my split primary palettes. I'm still a beginner so trying to learn color thoery!! Thank you so much your channel is fantastic and I'm learning so much ❤❤
Perfect! I've not tried Quin Rust but Quin Burnt Orange is a favorite. M. Graham's Viridian is my favorite, not just because they make it just down I-205 from me, but because Viridian is normally horrible for rewetting. Every other brand I've tried leaves me with nasty crumbles but because of the honey, this one rewets beautifully and consistently! Seriously, you've picked some of my favorite odd colors! Anthraquinone/Indanthrone Blue amazed me when I discovered it! The thing I would have done differently was to glue magnet strips to the bottom of those pans just because you can change your mind - or when something spills in the palette, you can clean it out. All in all, I think you've got a winner!
Great lil kit. I am going to do one for myself
Interesting to see your choices. Great video. I picked up the gel pen tip from you and at first i wasn’t sure but after carrying one I take it everywhere with me now.
Yeah, it latches on like a lost puppy. Its great!
I never would have thought to spray paint the tin to have a white mixing surface
I cant wait to throw this togeather. I'm a beginner with watercolor. And most artist grade sets just have to many colors that I dont find myself really mixing at all. And artist grade kits are a lil more money than I want to spend on bbn paints I dont know much about. But 6 tubes is doable, and I really like the warmth of these colors. And I'm taking your word that they will play well togeather mixing since you have way more experience than me. I might grab a few tubes of a more traditional primary colors as well. But for what I like to paint, urban landscape, I think these colors are perfect
Thank you so much! I can't afford any moonglow but managed to replicate the colour thanks to you. Those colours are wonderful, you've encouraged me to use a different palette to the one with ocres that are making my watercolours muddy.I don't have some of those colours so I've substituted single pigment transparent colours that I did have and the painting I did tonight is fresh and not muddy at all!. Thank you so much xx
These are all gorgeous colors, and spot-on for jewel tones. I love that you picked moonglow - it's one of my favorite colors.
Loved the color selection ... would it be great to see a color chart made with them 😊🎨
Four years after you posted this I watched it. Thank you for showing me how to get six half pans in a small altoids tin. Have you used this palette much?
Not much. Soon after that video, I ended up using adopting arttoolkit.com palettes as my micro palettes instead. But the Altoids worked fine when I used it. Still love the color choices too.
@@mindofwatercolor I fell into the same "trap". When I saw artists making small DIY palettes I have created a few myself, then I realized when I plan to paint I rather have at least 12 colors and enough space to mix anyway so I actually almost never use the altoid tin palettes. I also ordered and set up the art toolkit palettes but I haven't used them so far. Just adore their beauty. 😂
I once made an eight color mini palette to take on a journey. A different philosophy than yours, I wanted to be able to mix as wide range of colors as possible. I wasn't happy with it during the journey. It didn't work as well as I had hoped. The main problem was that some of the paints I had chosen weren't strong enough to work well in deep mixes. Like Quinacridone Red (that was the biggest mistake, if you take only one red - and no browns - , make it a strong one), Lemon Benzimidazolone and Manganese Blue (hue), very nice subtractive primary colors, both of them, but not strong enough.
If I tried that again, I think I would bring Ultramarine, Phthalo Blue GS, Yellow Benzimidazolone, Pyrrole Red, Quinacridone Rose and finally Quinacridone Magenta or Violet.
About Viridian: PG18. The pigment itself is troublesome in watercolors. M Graham's version is the best (I guess it's the honey).
Love your color choices. Looking forward to seeing what you paint with them....maybe during the 30x30 challenge??
Hi Steve, I really like your colours combination. It's pretty unusual, at least for me but it looks like they mix great together. Also a tiny palette gives you the opportunity to try colours you don't use often. Thanks for sharing :)
Subscribed, this is great content, thank you. I've had a couple of the bigger tins stashed to make small pin hole cameras, but now one will become a travel palette! I have a couple of the Winsor & Newton travel kits but have been dreaming of a smaller stripped down bug out commando palette. Thanks for the inspiration. I agree that it would be great to see the field tests of this invention, and to see some colour wheels and how you overcome some blending challenges with these colours in the great outdoors!
Just wondering, why not just use nickle azo yellow (PY150) as your yellow? The Nickle Quin Gold looks so close to straight PO48 it seems redundant and you're just washing it out to get the PY150 hue? Wouldn't mixing be much cleaner with a single pigment?
I use it as a deeper, ochre like earth tone. Its a convenience mix basically that gets me closer quicker to the earth tone mixes I use in landscape. Tinted out the yellow really comes through so its more multipurpose without extra mixing.
ok, now you gotta paint something with these so we can see them in action. thanks Steve!
I wish I could hire you as my watercolor teacher. :/
I wonder why M. Graham calls their indanthrone "Anthraquinone Blue." That seems confusing!
Also, aren't PBr colors some of the most classic mixing colors there are? The earth tones?
Yes, very classic. No reason not to use them. Its just a personal preference because I seem to get more luminosity out of mixing my own transparent versions. I do still have PBr pigments on a few palettes.
Have you made any videos of painting with this palette? Used your search bar and didn't see any, but thought I'd check with you. Thanks!
Yes, but not sure which at the moment.
I see that you had a QOR tube in your drawer. I only bought one QOR, and it would not mix with my Daniel Smith paints. Have you found that, or did I just get a bad tube, perhaps?
Love Qor. Mixes just fine with any other watercolors.
Hey Steve, very interesting to see your creative picks for this micro palette. When you started to lay down that nickle quinacridone gold as your yellow (it's one I'm not familiar with), I thought you had lost your mind! But I should have known better and trusted you, cuz when you diluted it, wham, there was that beautiful yellow. You're right, it can bend to warm or cool. Excellent vid!!! I love learning from you!
Hello 👋🏾 this was such a cute palette. I was just wondering what made you chose to split the red primary and not the yellow or blue? I would’ve guessed, since you paint a lot of landscapes, you would’ve gone with splitting the blue or yellow.
I have a cool green so no real need for a blue split. Yellow is my least used primary. This one leans warm which is the most useful for me. Plus its deep so will translate well to earth tones.
I like it a lot,! Viridian is my favorite green. Just about the only one I don't turn into mud mixing or layering. Though I've been told it isn't a natural green found in nature. With my limited experience it is easiest to work with and mix. Maybe one day I'll figure out how not to make mud with sap green. Lol.
Just wondering 3 years later if you would change anything about this palette and if you used it very much? Thanks!
I use lots of different palette selections at different times, but yes, I still love this selection for a small limited palette.
I can’t quite fit them without one getting slightly warped. Are there different size half pans?
Some can be a bit thicker on the side walls, yes.
Really enjoyed ur explanations and observations in this video
I could not fit 6 half-pans into the mini altoids tin, did you have to sand down some the edges on the half-pans?
No, but the pans I used might have had thinner walls.
@@mindofwatercolor Thank you, I will try sanding down the half pans. Seem like they would almost fit if I sand down the corner to clear the rounded corners of the Altoids tin. I will do it tomorrow and let you know for future reference.
Suggestion for the next guest on the Steve and Marty show . Anita Gadzinska from the Netherlands. Artist/illustrator. She is very sweet and funny and talented as all get out. She has a youtube channel. :)
M graham makes the only viridian I like.
I actually made one of these years ago, didn't use pans divided using thin plastic and got 23 colors in it. Also glued on a wrist sweat band so I could keep on my wrist not have to hold it. also works as a towel to wipe my brushed. wish I could post the picture
Hi Steve, great video. I saw your recent IG story about the watercolor paper samples; if you ask Strathmore to send you some of their paper samples they'll send it in a really nice sketchbook. One of the nicest I've seen.
Wonderfully inspiring, I guessed 4 out of 6, didn't get moonglow, or the magenta, the latter's range I only became aware of a couple of weeks ago, it's beautiful. Now have to track down similarly sized tins in the UK, 'oh no', she cried, 'I'll have to eat a lot of sweets, all for the sake of my art.' Such sacrifices we make. Thanks for another exciting challenge. :)
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Marks and Spencer do a mini tin of mints👍
What spray paint works as a palette when it dries??
I love the teeny tiny Altoids tin for a palette. That is just great!
What did you spray the tin with to make it usable for mixing? It looks like some kind of porcelain coating but as far as I know no such thing exists.
Just appliance spray paint from Walmart.
The pocket palette and bijou box I prefer.
You should make a video of the M Graham Paints you have
This looked like a fun palette, so I just got all of these colors to try. How are you enjoying yours? :)
Good but not had much chance to use the micro yet.
I loved this video. I would love to see a video of all the things you can do with it or using out in plein air. I’m in the process of making my own limited pallet like this and I have a hard time picking colors so this was very helpful!
thnx.I have 2 tins.One is size of your smallest one and my other is size of a pak of sigarettes cause I used a cigarette tin where it has clamps to hold sigarettes.In one side I put small cut wc papers and othet half holds 3 rows of 6 half pand.I took blue tack put it on the back of the pans to keep them to stick to the other half of that tin.
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Steve, you mix brands on your palette ~ I understand that Sennilier is made with honey ~ Would that matter if you wanted to mix it with other brands on a palette?
Nope. Totally fine.
Micro Palette is of interest because I am always looking for something very light for backpacking and/or travel. It isn't a difficult decision to take or not take art supplies with me when I can make it a very light package that fits in my backpack easily and doesn't add a lot of weight.
Please make a painting out of those colors!
Your videos very fine for me. And when am i doing watercolour im thinking you and im doing good art. Thank you the mind of the watercolour and i want to heart please.😊😊
Very nice palette. PB60 is great choice, it is basically the same hue as PB29 and give nice dark mixes. I have to try PO48 one day but neither Schmincke nor Lukas have it. My travel palette is very different: PY155, PR176, PG7, PB29 and PBr7 (raw and burnt), all from Lukas.
I think you are going to really like this color set up. Quin. Rust, Quin Gold, and Moonglow are some of my most used colors. I like how much more transparent and vibrant of an undertone Quin. rust and Quin. gold are compared to Burnt Sienna and yellow.
Loving it so far!
That's my favorite blue. Good to know about the veridian paint. I tend to mix my greens, but that looks like a good one to buy. Looking forward to seeing what you paint from this palette.
So interesting to see your choices here Steve, and I really appreciated your explanation of each. You probably already know how much I love anthraquinone and I look forward to hearing what you think about it! It's so much more blue than other PB60s, so I think it can function well as a solo blue for sure.
I was pleasantly surprised to see PO48 in your selection. It's a color I used to use alll the time but haven't used it as much lately, however I've actually been getting rekindled with it this week for Color Spotlight! I'd also be curious to hear about your decision to include the Nickel Quin Yellow over a Nickel Azo Yellow in the limited selection of colors. Ease of mixing? Just what was on hand? Thanks for sharing this little palette!
Hey Denise! Glad you got a chance to watch. Your review and comments about PB60 definitely put me over the top with that color. I think the deepness of the Nickel Quin Gold is what attracts me. As a landscape artist primarily, especially for THIS palette, it gives me great options for browns and mixing luminous, transparent earth tones since I rarely use PBr pigments. Not that PY150 couldn't have sufficed too. I have both, but was interested in sticking with deeper tones this time, for the fun of it if nothing else. I'm jazzed enough about these colors that I think I'll be working them into other fuller palettes.
The Mind of Watercolor awesome - thanks so much for sharing your insights!
I'm really excited about this palette! I recently purchased Moonglow on a whim, never considering using it as a neutral! I can't wait to see what you paint with this palette.
Nickel Quin Gold is gorgeous when mixing greens for landscapes. I especially like it when trying to paint the Golden glow grass and trees get when the evening light hits them.
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I love Daniel Smith's Moonglow, and Lunar Blue for neutrals. Lunar blue makes an instant shadow or night sky. Moonglow on the other hand calls for adventurous inventive uses.
I couldn’t get 6 pans to fit
I really love your channel. I have learned so much and love your sense of humour.
Beautiful colours. Would be interesting to see how they mix together.
Nice to use the magnetic strips
Hi Steve! Love your shirt .(I'm guessing you've seen Deadpool & Infinity War by now?) thanks for another cool video. I think the colors you choose were great!
Thanks. Seen IW but not a Deadpool fan.
The m grahm rust is a favorite of mine
Completely concur on the DS Viridian. Worst of all my paints. Thanks, Steve!
Did anyone suggest magnetize good the pans with magnetic stick on dots?
Yes, several. Its too tight a tin and I don't care about removing them or swapping out pans. I'll just make another palette if I want different colors.
This is such a helpful video. Thank you. I am very new to water colour and do it primarily for art therapy. That said, I want to learn to do it better; this has really helped with this selection of colour and the like. I have a Windsor Newton small pallet with about 12 different colours. My next job is to make a sheet with the different colours so I know how what they look like in their fullness and in their washes. A learning curve. Finding difficult to get 300lb watercolour paper from the shop in the UK. No art stores near me. Online job - anyone have any good suggestions where you doing get ripped off, that would be great.
Hi Steve, I love this video and seeing how and why you made your six non-traditional colour selections. I'm a newly-converted fan of Moonglow, it's so versatile. Now we all want to see a video of you using your new micro palette to do a painting. Pretty please?!
Will do.
What great fun!!! I so want to do this -- YAY!!!!! 😀
I would have loved to see you use this palette en plein aire. ...also when i used to make little palettes, i always did an Alec Kudrow style color mixing guide to see what colors i was going to accomplish. The only problem i had
was either beach or city colors as I am not as familiar with either.
I have made a palette using the regular Altoids tin using water bottle caps to hold the paint and I am excited to try the tiny tin. Thanks for the advice on colors.
Kat Boyd Great idea on the caps!😀
Oooooh, super interesting selection of colors! I loved hearing your thoughts behind each choice and I can't wait to see these in action!!! :D
Thanks Eve! Can't wait to put them into action. Stay tuned! 😊
I love mini palettes they are great for sure I use mine everyday I don't need no 12 color palette I enjoy using 6 I just skipped the lid painting and I mix my colors on my hand
So you put the paint from the tube into the boxes and leave them to dry?
Yes.
I have a couple of very small WN Cotman travel palettes - as I use up the student grade paint in sketchbooks, I refill with professional grade.
Mar-vel-ous!!!! Thanks Steve, hope you have a great time trying this....out, outside that is.
Oh to raid your paint drawer! I do have so many paint questions and although im sure cute tiny pallettes are awesome for out and about.....but i have a more splurgeypants kind of question. If you were going to add to your mgraham selections or sennelier palette etc. and were going up to say 36 or even 48 pans, and were to just add colors you love even if not so much just for mixing (but also mixing) what would you pick? And what oh what (video suggestion/beg) are allllll the things in the paint drawer? Do you find mixing brands with lots of honey mixes ok with nonhoney paints?
I just got quin rust from Turner watercolors - it's a much more orange than the one you use here, and a beautiful color. Good for autum-y things.
Very interesting explanation and all. Now I want to see a painting 😭. I like Veridian.