Travel Watercolor Palettes! Mini Art Haul: Portable Painter, Micro, Pocket Sized Palette + Swatches
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- Опубликовано: 25 мар 2023
- My recent putting together of an travel art bag has led me to delving into the world of travel watercolour palettes, and I've been smitten!
I thoroughly enjoyed deciding what paints to include, filling up some new palettes and swatching them out, here in this video.
I've said it before, but I derive as much pleasure from thinking about, organising and playing with art materials as I do using them in any serious way!
I refer to lots of my other videos in this video, which can be found here:
How I organise my watercolours:
• How I organise my Wate...
Putting together an art travel bag:
• Materials and Kit in m...
Choosing a limited watercolour palette of 6:
• Choosing Six Colours f...
Choosing a watercolour palette of 14:
• Basic Colour Mixing & ...
Making a gouache travel palette:
• GOUACHE! Making a Trav...
Swatching my granulating watercolours:
• Swatching 44 Granulati...
My first plein air experience:
• My First Plein Air Wat...
Paint art haul:
• Lovely Large Jackson's...
Generic white plastic 24 half pan palette (I prised the paint that came in it out, and replaced it with my own):
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Portable Painter Classic:
amzn.to/3JP6mhs
Portable Painter Micro:
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Nomadic Artist slimline metal pocket pallet:
amzn.to/3K5DmU9
Twin water holders:
amzn.to/3K8RMCR
Silver Black Velvet Size 6 Travel paintbrush:
amzn.to/3Zg4Gna
Watercolour paints from Jackson's Art.
Daniel Smith:
www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinm...
Sennelier:
www.jacksonsart.com/sennelier...
A. Gallo Watercolour Paints:
www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinm...
Holbein Bright Rose:
www.jacksonsart.com/holbein-a...
Winsor & Newton:
www.jacksonsart.com/winsor-ne...
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Collecting art supplies is definitely a separate hobby from using them, and so is watching videos of art supplies hauls, swatches and tours! I cant get enough of those videos! Thank you for this one
Ah yes, that's a whole separate hobby!! Happy to oblige!
Totally! Should be a therapy modality ;-) "Art-Supply-Tinker-Co-regulation" with the added wrinkle to find out how small and still useful it can get! 🙂
I'm totally up for the 'how small and still useful' challenge!!
I am totally with you! I won nearly everything in this video and the other things are going in my respective carts for buying later..... hehe 😂
I am so happy to know that I'm not the only one!
So glad you said collecting art materials is a hobby in itself! I have more than I could ever use and keep buying more. But I just love them!
They bring such joy!!
Ok, it’s not just me. 😂
"The amount of painting I do, does not warrant me to have the amount of art supplies I have..."
I hear you ma'am as I am looking down the same rabbit hole of hoarding all the beautiful art supplies which I know I would never be able to exhaust...
But at least it's a highly enjoyable predicament!
'loving art materials is a whole separate hobby." I totally agree!! An art in itself. :>)
Ooo yes! - I like it described like that!!!
Have to agree with everyone, collecting art supplies is a hobby in itself and very enjoyable. I tend to use my in turn, sometimes pencils, sometimes watercolours. Haven’t used the acrylics for a while . I’m a sucker for pretty watercolour paints. Love the twin water pans
Yes, it's lovely being able to rotate around them, and then sometimes use them in new combinations!
I think you might not find too much judgement in this community regarding the amount of art materials we own versus our use of these materials or level of skill. It is likely most of us here are guilty of the same obsession/pleasure with no regrets or apologies for our collections. Lucky eBay find on the Portable Painter. I'm not sure what paper you used for your granulating selection swatches but it sure did those paints justice in displaying how beautifully they granulate.
That's so nice... finding my tribe!!
The paper is a block of Jackson's own cold pressed watercolour paper.
“i’m not very good at minimalism” is the most relatable thing i’ve ever heard.
Haha! We are not alone!!
I’m the same way, addicted to art supplies while trying to learn to be an artist. With so much RUclips help, including yours, there’s no excuses.
Perfect description, yes! Thanks!
My current most micro travel pallet is a $4 tiny repurposed eyeshadow pallet from the polar store. Scraped out all the makeup cleaned and added tube paint. Two next to Each other so they can be used separate or blended into a new colour using the inside lid as a tiny mixing area with a waterbrush. This fits even in my smallest purse with a very small sketchbook. Such as the Talens art creation (9cm x 14cm).
That sounds brilliant!!
I love travel palettes, so you can just grab one and GO! I totally understand the hobby of loving to *collect* art supplies~! It's just so fun to grab something new. Also, I think you should store your paints lid down to prevent the binder separation at the top.
Ah, that's good to know, thank you!
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Such fun!! I totally relate to your comment about the amount of art supplies you own not being proportional to the amount/quality of painting you do. I 100% feel that sentiment. If someone examined my art supply “stash”, they’d assume I was a professional artist who did nothing else, I’m sure 😂… definitely not the situation. I just love all the beautiful colours, palettes, brushes, sketchbooks… all of the supplies are just so lovely and fun ❤.
The Nomadic palette looks very similar to Art Toolkit’s pocket painter… they are so tiny, I don’t mind grabbing a couple of them for my bag and taking with other palettes. I’ve been planning on filling one of mine with granulating colours as well! I have a few spread out across multiple travel palettes at the moment. That’s another thing, if someone looked at my collection of travel palettes alone, they would assume I am on the road 40-45 weeks of the year and never paint at home 😂. I love the size of travel palettes even when I’m painting at home. In the summer, I frequently take my paints outside and paint while sitting on the deck or veranda.
Good job immediately filling your pocket painter and not overthinking your colour selection! I have had mine since December and have not filled it yet 😅.
This makes me feel so at home here, and understood!! 😁
I definitely agree about it being nice to use the travel palettes not just for travelling. I did a painting tonight with the Portable Palette, and loved using it!
Ah, art material...I hope I will live long enough to use all the stuff I buy. 😁
I made a micro palette out of a metal tin for business cards and half high half pans with magnetic adhesive tape put on.
A white adhesive foil glued into the lid for mixing and off you go. Three rows of six pans are possible. But mostly I put twelve in and a piece of tissue to clean the waterbrush.
That thing is so small that you can carry it at almost all times. And so I do, together with a small sketchbook and a waterbrush and a pencil.
Daniel Smith has announced they bought a big chunk of the last batch of PO 48. Might last for a few years.
Thx for the vid.
No chance I'll live that long!!!
Your set up sounds great! I didn't know you could get half high half pans - now I need to go and look!
Also very nice news about the PO48.
Thanks!
You are feeding my addiction to art supplies, thank you. I'm in awe of the designs of these materials, so well thought out. As you were unpacking your recent haul, I felt like an excited child at Christmas !!
It's all too tempting isn't it?! I love it!
Now just make a calendar and assign a paint session for each palette on your calendar. 🌸
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I love that idea!
I thought I might mention that traveling with pans poured from honey-based paint (like Sennellier and M. Graham) can end up quite messy, since they never fully cure, and when traveling you will have less time to let your palette dry before you close it up and move on. Maybe give it a test-run before you head out on a big trip with your honey-based paints from the tube.
And those A. Gallos 😍😍🤩
Thank you, yes - that's a really good point. My Sennelier lemon yellow seems especially runny.
The micro portable painter came out with inserts you can buy; you can have up to 16 colors in the micro now!
I know!! I want some so much, but I can't get them in the UK, without spending an insane amount on shipping!
how fun..!!
OMG! You are the only person I know who loves the art materials as much or more than painting! (besides me!!:) I am addicted also to these little travel kits, So cute!
It's totally true, I admit it! Whole separate hobby! I think I only paint a bit to justify getting more paint!
@@helencryer Well I said that before I'd watched your whole video and you def paint! And well! This is all exciting me to start painting again!
I love watching the process you go through, working out which paints you will use for each palette and how the paints can interact with one another. I also love seeing the different mini-palettes; it's playful and fun yet informative. Thank you for your wonderful videos.
P.S. I too love art supplies.
Thank you again! It's hard to explain why we love art supplies so much, but the love is real!
Great video, so interesting too. I like you enjoy “collecting “ art things, especially pencils, paper & equipments relating to crafts. Thanks
Thank you so much!
Most definitely sign it and be proud. It turned out beautiful!!
Thank you!!
I'd love to have portable painter!
It's very sweet!
Well done done, great palettes.
Thank you! Now I need to actually use them 😬
Yippee! another equipment freak. Sometimes I feel a guilty about having travel art stuff I don’t use but not anymore.
Haha, yep - guilty!
Nomadic Artist!! I heard about them but it’s the first time that I see them on RUclips.
I just saw them on Amazon, while looking for Pocket Palette. I'm assuming Art Toolkit is an American company, (because I can't get hold of their products, which is a good job, otherwise I'd be tempted to buy them) but don't know anything about Nomadic Artist.
@@helencryer If I am not mistaken, I think Nomadic Artist is UK based. I first saw them on Etsy, I think?
I couldn’t find Nomadic Artist on Etsy. Maybe I saw it here on RUclips or on Amazon?
@@awatercolourist Yes they are on Etsy, but much cheaper on Amazon.
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1110910701/watercolour-paint-palette-empty-travel?ref=share_v4_lx
Thanks! I actually just bumped into them on Etsy, just right now. I thought it was the Art Toolkit, but then it turned out to be the Nomadic Artist. And they do dispatch from the UK.
Daniel Smith has said that they have enough PO 48 to last the next 12 years so don't be afraid to use it.
Thanks!
I love my portable painter, out doors I tend to rest it over my knee as I sit and paint I don't use the brush that comes with it myself. I am salivating over that Nomadic palette, got to get one
Travel palettes are just so irresistible!!
I Love collecting watercolor palette and this video definitely does not help 😅😅 but I'm loving the colors you can get with your mini portable palette 😍😍
Haha! Sorry about that! Yeah, I'm pretty happy with it!
Love them all! 😄
Me too, though now I just want to take them ALL with me!
@@helencryer 😂 how is Helen going to choose what to bring?! did cross my mind. The not-altoid tin because you spent so much time choosing the perfect colours. The super thin one with the granulating colours, because it's so thin and the 6 colour tiny one. Because it's cute and tiny. The other two you can save to play with when you come home, so they will still be new and shiny. So choices made. You're welcome 😉😄🥰
😂 You are a mind reader!!! I went out painting this evening and took exactly those three, for exactly those reasons! Though I actually only used the 6 colour one, and it was fine.
@@helencryer 😂 It's so much fun to see others enjoy the same things I do.
I'm loving RUclips for that reason!
I find collecting supplies and the hobby itself always turn into different hobbies. The same goes for my beading/jewelry and stained glass hobbies! I have more materials than I could use until I’m 150. It’s looking the same for painting and paint supply collecting! 😂
Yes, totally!! Oh well, if it keeps us happy!
I would use the micro for my split primary… red yellow(warm)blue and magenta yellow(cool) cyan
A good solid choice!
I think that in updated palette for micro I’d replace brown with something like payne’s gray - this would give me olive with yellow and grayish color helps with lazy shadows. About nomadic artist palette: I got Art toolkit’s one from Artemiranda, but then bought steel business card holder from Muji, some magnetic sheets to cut and stick inside and moved those pans to it - so now I have same palette but it sticks to magnets. I actually have two now: one with my basic colors and big mixing pans and additional with tiny pans and more fun colors
Yeah, that sounds great! Love hearing your take on things, thanks!
Thank you for the video! Recently I discovered Rosa watercolors. They are not expensive, but they are professional watercolors. The paints are so good that I bought all 60 tubes.
I haven't heard of them - I shall go and take a look, thanks!
They look really promising! I think I'll buy a couple of pans to try them out!
The Mini Portable Painter can be connected to a watercolor book!
I've seen a couple of methods for this - with a metal disc on the back the attached to magnet on a board, or attaching velcro to the back. What method do you use?
Winsor Newton half pans are slightly smaller than standard sizes. The Winsor Newton pans may be the size that fits into your Derwent palette. The Portable Painter half pans are the same size as Winsor Newton half pans.
Funny tho…the Portable Painter micro does not use the same size half pans as the larger Portable Painter model.
Ah, makes sense, thanks!
Helen loved the video we are going to lake como in September and the micro pallette would be great to take with me as a newbie to water colouring and the pallette only having 6 pans which colours do you think I should put in the pallette considering it will be water grass and I guess trees and buildings I will be painting pleaase
Oh how lovely!! Yes, I think it's a lovely little thing. I'm not an expert at all, but if you have a warm yellow (ochre or quinacridone gold kind of colour) and a cool yellow, (like Lemon Yellow or Hansa or Cadmium Yellow Light) plus a warm and a cool blue (warm = ultramarine is good, cool = something more turquoise leaning), then you'll be able to mix loads and loads of wonderful greens and blues. Then you could pick a cool and warm red (a pinky one like Quin Rose and an orangey one like Pyrrol Scarlet) then you can mix all the browns you need.
I did a couple of videos on choosing colours for a palette, if that helps:
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ruclips.net/video/p6Mx6C7T4cw/видео.html
You are so organized! Have you ever thought of doing a tour of your art space? I think it would be so interesting to see
I had to chuckle when I read this! It wouldn't be much of a 'tour'! It's just a bunch of art supplies rammed in a couple of cupboards in my tiny dining room!
@@helencryer oh now I’m picturing a Mary Poppins magic bag type situation! Haha! I can’t be the only one who would find this enjoyable to watch!
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I'm so with you on the watercolour palettes - I spent so long trying to find one that fit my purposes, tried looking into DIY ones, and finally found a solution that worked for me. I did buy the portable painter mini and while it is a fantastic feat of engineering I find that I just don't like it. It's too small to use as a main palette but a bit too big for me to feel comfortable working with it plein air 😐 Not that I regret buying it as it does have a use, just not a use I wanted it for.
My solution was realising I had a metal tin thanks to buying the old version of Daler Rowney's aquafine watercolours (set of 10 in a metal tin, not the 12 in a long plastic case). I tore out the plastic insert and used some double sided tape to secure the new half pans in. It's not quite as thin as the Nomadic Artist one I believe but I have been able to fit in 27(!) different colours in, 24 in standard half pans and 3 in standard whole pans. If I replaced the whole pans I could have something that held 30 different colours.
All for something that's a little bigger than the palm of my hand, weight 180g even with almost all the pans at full capacity, and is still slim and portable for my work 😁
Oh that sounds great! I'll go and see if I can see the version of palette you're talking about so I can visualise it!
(I may or may not have just bought one for £5 on eBay 😁)
@@helencryer 😂I really need to get the energy to detail and post up my version of it (not least because it also shows the colours I use) but for me it fits perfectly in my requirements of a travel palette while also being swappable and usable at home
I hope you're able to do it - let me know!
I am also an art supply collector, Mini palette creator and mad swatcher! I hope I can get to the point where I am also a painter!
Haha! First things first though!!
The most convenient travel palettes are the generic rectangular plastic folding ones. And that because they can hold 20 to 28 colours and have plenty of mixing space while they are completely flat. It is not the size of the palette, I mean the dimensions that occupy a lot of space in a bag because you ain't going to use after all something smaller than A5 if you want to sketch something while you are travelling, but how bulky your sketch kit is. What is the point to try to squeeze your paints into a super small box when you are going to have an otherwise bulky sketchbook with hard cover that will add weight on top of that into your bag?
So for me the best setup is a plastic folding palette, a number or loose paper sheets of the paper of my choice into a plastic paper sleeve, a lightweight clip board also placed into the paper sleeve, a retractable silicone water container, ( one of those that are completely flat) into a plastic pouch along with my pencils, my brushes and some paper towels. This setup occupies less space than the thickness of a regular sketchbook into a hand or sketching or travel bag simply because it is flat.
The palette boxes that have movable parts that you have to attach somehow are problematic, because you can easily lose some parts of them not to mention that you have to re assemble them after finishing your sketching session. It is more complicated than just fold the palette and throw it into your bag.
As for the bags the most convenient are the cross body ones because you can access them instantly and if they are in the right size you can hold a load of other things in there.
Interesting to hear your set-up, thanks!
It just comes down to personal preference. I want a Sketchbook, because I think they're aesthetically pleasing, and I want my pictures together like that, and like the protection of two covers. I was happy with the weight and shape of my set-up - it worked fine for me, and I didn't want to use my cross body bag, because it would get in the way of my other hiking stuff - I wanted something to stash away in my rucksack.
@@helencryer Of course it is a matter of personal preferences. I've just thought to add my two cents into the discussion.
Sketchbooks are definitely more aesthetically pleasing but if one intends to fill a sketchbook only with sketches that are made on spot and from life, it will end up with a very worn out , battered abused sketchbook along with its contents.
And I've learned this in practice, during my own travels, urban sketching etc.
The loose paper sheets for sketching stay longer in good condition because you don't have them always with you. You make your sketches and then you store them instantly there is no way to spoil them because you throw f.e accidentally a glass of water or your coffee. If something like this happens on your sketchbook that's it. It is done along with the sketches.
Anyway.. your channel is very interesting and I'm glad that I've joined it.
That's a good point! I'm still quite new to watercolouring really, and have yet to finish a whole sketchbook, so I'll have to see what state it's in by the end!! Thanks!
Helen, is the Derwent color quality decent? I’m going to get my first set. Thanks, Greg
It's pretty good! In the Line and Wash set that I showed, it's got a mixture of Graphitints, which seem to be watercolour mixed with graphite, so they behave a bit differently to watercolours, and it also has Inktense pans, which are dye based, and don't lift like watercolours. They are very vivid! It also has a couple of pastels, with white pigment in, so partly opaque. I actually think it's a quite an interesting little palette and have no regrets getting it, but it just has different qualities from top brand watercolours.
You're so cute, love your voice 😊
Haha!! Why, thank you!
First comment!
😂 I expect nothing less now!
@@helencryer 🤣🤣
Do u think there will be enough in the tiny granulating pans? I could be wrong but I thought you’d use quite a bit of pigment when going for granulation? Thx. :)
I guess it just depends how long you're going away for, and obviously on what you're painting, but I'd have thought it would last a good few paintings. I just like plenty of water for granulating paints, not necessarily loads of pigment, and if I'm doing my tiny paintings, it would last for ages!
I've just had a look and think a full one of the little pans I used for the granulating paints is about a third of a normal half pan.
What brand was the palette with the gouache?
It is an unbranded one from Amazon, like this:
amzn.eu/d/gZa3yKC
From where you buy it please send the link if you buy it online
Sorry I don't fully understand - there are links to lots of the things in this video in the description box below though.
Could you post a link to your generic plastic mixing palette?
Hi, yes sorry, it's this one:
amzn.to/3zadvEo
@@helencryer Thank you!
The very thin palette you got You can make your own for a fraction of the price by buying a card holder business card holder for an empty magnetic make up case and buying in the bank up pants. They come in all shapes and sizes, including the ones in it. You can buy them individually and they’re a lot cheaper
This is a good idea, though I'm interested whether you have managed to find the same sized pans as here? I did try looking for the things individually, but for a tin and smaller pans like this, it actually worked out more expensive, without magnetic sheeting even, or making the lid white. I'd be grateful if you can let me know where you get your pans from, please!
@@helencryer You could always try looking at empty makeup pans/upcycling a makeup pan for a mini palette. You'll have far more empty pans than you'll need buying them separately for one single business card holder - or you could look at making a mini palette from a pillbox. Less flexibility for the latter but you'l come across some cute designs and interesting layouts
Thank you! I'm probably not looking to get any more palettes at the moment, but I was curious where the small empty pans were from for the sake of anyone wanting to make a business card one for cheaper.
Having all the extra Amazon half pans though, I'll definitely be on the look out for super cute tins to put them in!
If I were going to try to find pans for the Nomadic Painter, or here in the states the Art Toolkit palette, I would go to the dollar store and search for cheap makeup, particularly eyeshadows, in metal pans……or else I would clean out my makeup drawer and repurpose old eyeshadow metal containers that way.
I'm actually pretty happy with the long pans that came in the Nomadic painter!