Travel Palettes Refresh
It’s been a year and a half since I made my bijou travel palettes. Today, I updated them based on how my paintings have evolved. I have two metal bijou palettes that hold 12 colors each, so I swapped out…
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Earth Tones Palette Update (again)
After creating my Autumn palette, I decided to swap out a few more colors in my Earth Tones palette. I have been wanting to experiment with creating natural textile textures in watercolor, such as the natural color variations and patterning…
Autumn & Earth Tones Watercolor Palettes
Now that we’re officially into Fall, I assembled a vibrant Autumn watercolor palette. It consists of all Roman Szmal Aquarius paints and leans heavily on greens, yellows and oranges with lots of jewel tones. In addition, I’m augmenting it with…
A. Gallo Signature 2 Palette
I just received my new A Gallo Signature 2 palette and a series of watercolor brushes. The packaging, as always, is very special and feels like receiving a birthday gift. It’s fun to assemble and swatch out a new palette,…
Sennelier Watercolor Palette
Assembled a Sennelier palette with lots of vibrant colors
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Recently, I’ve been working on a series of topography style watercolor paintings. I’ve enjoyed this so much, I created a specialized palette for it. It consists of teals, greens, off-white (ecru) and muted orange. I have yet to use the…
Auxiliary Travel Palette
Because I had 2 travel palette boxes, I decided I might have an auxiliary palette for travel with convenience mixes. That way if I want to travel light I can take the primary travel palette, but if I have more…
Making a Travel Palette
Assembled a new travel palette with a version of split primaries and a some convenience colors
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I decided to review my primary watercolor palette and swap out a few colors. I wanted to add a couple new colors so I reviewed the whole thing and did a series of comparisons. Here are a couple pages showing…
3-Color Mini Palette
Color mixing with a 3-color palette—it’s pretty amazing what a CMY palette can do!
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