I'm already on the road headed into California Gold Country for the week, but as part of my trip preparations I decided to revise my watercolor palette and downsize from the large one I've been using to a smaller one.
First, I emptied the small box and gave it a good rinse. There! All clean!
I especially like this small Schmincke palette box. I bought it filled with Schmincke pans but I've used them and now I fill empty pans with Daniel Smith tube paint. And yes, I pulled out the metal base with the prongs that hold the pans, because I can fit more pans in without it.
Instead, I cut a piece of quilting or stenciling template plastic the size of the base.
That holds the pans and then I can pop them out easily too -- as here, where I pulled out the last configuration of pans in this palette box...
The palettes are stuck to the plastic with that blu-tack putty you can get at art supply stores.
But look how many half-pans I can fit inside: 21!
I don't know a tidy way to fill the pans from the tubes. I'm just messy at it, what can I say? At least I didn't end up with any paint on my face. And voila -- now to let this rest and dry for a bit.
I have a lot of my usual favorite colors but I'm trying a few new ones this time. Here's what's in the palette (All Daniel Smith except for one WN):
Row 1:
Lemon Yellow
Hansa Yellow medium
Perinone Orange
Pyrol Scarlet
Quinacradone Rose
French Ultramarine
Indanthrone Blue
Row 2:
Green Gold
Green Apatite Genuine
Jadeite
Perylene Green
Cobalt Turquoise (WN)
Carbazole Violet
Diane's Bistre (burnt sienna + french ultramarine)
Row 3:
Buff titanium
Quinacradone gold
Goetite
Burnt Sienna
Indian Red
Raw Umber
Lunar black
Lunar black is one of the new ones. I usually don't include a black in my palette but I've read that this makes interesting mixes and granulates well. So I'm giving it a try. Every time I fill a palette and start using it, I discover that there are colors I just rarely use. Perinone orange might turn out to be one of those. We'll see.
So SMART!!! I hope you have a wonderful time.
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ReplyDeleteOMG! It's so CLEAN!!! .... definitely not mine.
ReplyDeleteI love seeing your new palette choices. Hmmmm, might have to try a few of those... just what I need, more tubes.
OMG! It's so CLEAN!!! .... definitely not mine.
ReplyDeleteI love seeing your new palette choices. Hmmmm, might have to try a few of those... just what I need, more tubes.
Is that the Schminke travel palette. Brilliant idea to pull out the middle part. You can fit so much more in. I will have to try this while I'm on the Cape. Not thrilled with the Schminke shades that are in the travel palette anyway. I just love my beloved DS's!
ReplyDeleteI have decided already that:
ReplyDeleteI need to remove the scarlet red for a bluer red, maybe back to carmine...
I need to pull out lunar black and add a full pan of the ultramarine/sienna mix
Amazing how quickly things become apparent when you start using the colors...