People ask me all the time where I purchased my tiny watercolor palette. I made it myself! Here I am, mid-flight, painting color swatches into my journal. I was on my way to an Alisa Burke retreat!
As you can see, I own a lot of watercolor palettes!! Can't take them all; bigger ones must stay home.
There are many watercolor travel palettes on the market today. These two are from Winsor & Newton.
Many travelers use an empty Altoid tin as a clever, compact watercolor palette. I wanted to go even lighter and was happy to find a thin plastic storage case already in my stash (bought years ago at a scrapbook craft store in England).
Danielsmith.com sells empty full-pan and half-pans that can be filled with tube watercolors. I was careful to squeeze out the pigments I wanted and let everything air-dry overnight on a flat surface.
Tip: anchor all your pans with a touch of rubber cement to prevent them from falling out.
I made a tiny color swatch on watercolor paper, cut it to size, and then laminated it.
Don't forget to make a tiny pull-tab with transparent tape.
- Laminating my mini color swatch functions as a perfect divider or barrier between the watercolors and travel rag (I use a simple dish towel).I decided to take out one of the slots to hold a tiny sea sponge.At the airport with my trusty tools, waiting for my flight home. :)
Gina Lee Kim is a watercolorist that fell in love with mixed-media. She is an art journaler, pen hoarder, paper addict, a registered nurse, and a new mom. Gina's artwork was recently published in Cloth Paper Scissors PAGES magazine (Summer 2013, Vol. 3 issue).You can view Gina's work at: ginaleekim@blogspot.com
I love this post and I loved the pictures that Gina shared after the retreat. I think there is a mistake with her blog address.
ReplyDeleteI thank you for the info nice and very useful
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! I often struggle with the watercolour palletes which you can buy as the selections of colours in them aren't always the ones I use most, so this is a great idea for putting together a custom one :)
ReplyDeleteGreat post! love this idea and so useful!
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This is a wonderful idea for having a custom set of your most used colors. I love that it is so tiny for travel.
ReplyDeleteLove this! Thanks for sharing this with us!
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful idea! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteLove this idea!!! Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE this idea!!! It's great to be able to choose your own color palette from your stash! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteso ingenuous! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteLove this. A great way to have exactly the paint colors you use the most often and so nice to make a small travel size.
ReplyDeleteOh my god this is SO COOL!
ReplyDeleteI love it!!!
I have to make one of these for my sister!
Thank you for Sharing it :)
Well, who knew? Super cool.
ReplyDeleteThis was a great post. Such a good idea! Thank you both!
ReplyDeleteI have been thinking of making something like this in an altoid tin, but I love yours much better. Thanks for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this:)!What an absolutely awesome idea:)!!!
ReplyDeleteWow. This was such a beautiful post.
ReplyDeleteThank you Alisa and Gina Lee Kim.
Love this post and you 2 lovely wellsprings of creativity!!
ReplyDeleteSuch a great mini palette! And thank you so much for sharing the resources. I'm always taking an entire tote of waaay too many supplies and use a fraction, so this will really help me downscale when traveling:0
ReplyDeleteamazing. thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThank you both for sharing this great idea! I love it . . .
ReplyDeleteI really love this - in particular the swatch that doubles as a barrier. Thank you soi much for sharing both of you :)
ReplyDeleteThat was a blog post to adore! Thank you! :-)
ReplyDeleteLove this post! Would Gina mind posting the watercolors she put in her palette?
ReplyDeleteThis is a fabulous idea....thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteLoved this post so much I had to make myself a watercolor journal (http://craftsparklepop.blogspot.com/2013/08/handmade-watercolor-journal.html). I haven't gotten to the travel palate yet! I love your posts and now follow Gina as well. Thanks for sharing your awesomeness!
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Love this idea. But I'm wondering does the paint get harden? I don't mind that. Like I said I'm wondering, that all.
ReplyDeleteI love your home made travel watercolor pallet. You truly inspire
ReplyDeleteI love this post and I loved the pictures, thanks for showing
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