DIY watercolour palette ideas + watercolour collapsible pot hack!
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2016
- UPDATE: Top tips from Melanie Tong (see comments): use nail clippers instead of a drill to remove inside bit of lego, and use the base plates for lego upside down to hold pans in your container! Genius!
ADVICE from viewer Rin Adams: Speaking of tearing up brushes, if you use clippers to take out a raised piece of plastic like in the legos, be sure to file the flashing that's left down. This is less of an issue with synthetics than say, sable, but it'll still snag it and cause extra wear.
I've made quite a few travel watercolour kits over the past year so thought I'd show you them and share some of my ideas for organising them. I also put together a new kit using little bottle caps (the ones you get on hair dye conditioner bottles) and discovered an awesome hack for a collapsible water container! Enjoy!
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I'm new to watercolors but I've had a life long obsession with collecting useless containers. Not useless anymore! I love these videos so much!
The cupcake mould as a water pot is fantastic!
another idea to keep the legos in place would be to glue a piece of that thinner lego mat thing upside down in the container!
+WinsomeMisfit An excellent idea! :)
that sports band hack has saved SO many of my t-shirts Hey when your in the zone, your in the zone!
Haha yes that sounds like something I would do!
katie mcgonigle Hahaha I even clean the brush with my school uniform xD
I end up using my other hand 😂
the lego thing was such a good idea! i've been stressing over making a watercolour travelling kit since i'm going to Italy tomorrow, and i wanna paint the places i go - and this is just perfect. Thank you!
OMG! This is the best video of watercolor palettes ever!
Thanks so much Soky! Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi again! I used to use a wrist sweatband as a place to wipe my brush, but recently saw a warning not to do that if your paint is toxic, as it could be seeping into your skin. Just thought I'd pass that along.
another thing you could use is those pill organizing containers with all the little compartments for the weekdays
That is a brilliant idea! I also saw another video where someone used mini ice cube trays (silicon type). I managed to find some on Amazon.co.uk so I will definitely be trying that too!
+Beret Nice wow thats awesome, I've also used a cleaned out makeup container!
I want to try that too but I don't wear make-up and haven't yet found a good compact in the shops that would suit my purpose! You can however get empty makeup tins (those shallow ones) on eBay so I might just get some of those and try and make an ultra-slip travel set! :)
* ultra-slim
I dont wear makeup either but a cheap eye shadow palette works fine
I love to reuse things, like most of the times containers are too cute to throw away and I constantly use them for paint. also another good one is chocolate or sweets containers because they have all the sections for the sweets that are perfect to divide each color. love the video tho! as always a great job :D
Yeah it's great to use old plastic and glass containers for painting! For DIY travel kits though it's amazing what you can find to use around the house such as food tins and make-up containers!
absolutely and sometimes they work even better that the ones made just for paint XD like the cookies containers are so good you can have all the colors separated too. love your ideas so much tho, some of the containers you used were SO adorable!
Thank you. The water bottle caps with water colors are perfect for a small metal cigaret case I've had for years, don't smoke, and the silicone mini muffin molds are great for the water.
Silicone baking cup as water pot- brilliant!!! This is the best collection of hacks I’ve seen!
this video is a 100% accurate representation of what i obsess over on the weekends! i have so many containers and misc items, magnetic tape... empty cigar boxes work too & the local cigar shop may have hundreds of different sizes. you can glue a metal sheet at the bottom if you want to use the magnetic watercolor pan theme.
Fred, I like your thinking! I'm the same, and if a weekend involves searching for even MORE art-worthy tins (especially in antiques shops) then all the better! It's SO fun! Just won some vintage Rowney watercolour pans on eBay so I have an excuse to make more little kits! Hehe!
Those palettes are cute, but sadly way too small for me. I'm messy and clumsy so they wouldn't work with me, but that wristband idea is so great! I always just clean my brushes against my hand and skin, and I imagine that could be a bit unhealthy with some paints. Thanks for the video!
Glad you enjoyed it! Yes, when I found out about the wristband idea, I couldn't believe how convenient it was!
I've been looking for a small watercolor kit and they are all so expensive. Even empty half pans are quite costly. Love the idea of making my own box and using the tube paints I love. Love the Lego idea!!!
It's so fun! Enjoy!
Using lego pieces to hold the paint is such a brilliant idea!
Thanks Emily! Hope you have fun if you give it a try!
I don't like using plastic, but I also discovered that the empty Dentyne Ice blister packs fit perfectly inside an altoids tin and work great as pallet pan trays. You can cut them if you want to use them individual pans! Great way to repurpose a bit of trash!
One word.....AWESOME!
great ideas! TFS
Thanks so much Lindsay! I totally had a fangirl moment when I saw that you had commented on one of my videos! I love yours and your travel palette videos are some of my favourites. I especially appreciated the tips on using glucose and the eyeshadow palette tins is a great idea for thin boxes - in fact I got a thin antique box recently that won't fit larger pans in it so I might just try the eyeshadow tin idea for that one! :)
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First time that I ever saw lego being used, that’s brilliant!!!!
I use magnets too, it's a great invention ;) It is fun to use empty tic tac's boxes as pans too
Great idea!
Love what you did with the Caran D’ache neo-colour tiny tin.
Yas!!! I LOVE making travel kits out of all sorts of stuff, especially things people might not expect! Actually, I recently posted a video of making a really compact but super customized and useful travel palette out of a super small, wallet-style eyeshadow container from the dollar store.
Love your sports band cleaning cloth! I've used cut up old socks for the same thing, but I have a feeling that the thickness of the sports band is probably a bit more useful!
Yes I saw your video, it's cool! I think I like making them more than I do using them haha! It's so fun!
I don't know how it never occurred to me to use a silicone cupcake thing! I have some for baking and using with bento boxes. :) Thanks!
If you're wanting something for a thinner tray, the clear plastic trays that gum come in work quite well too, once you manage to peel all of the foil off of them. I've tried using the ones for pseudephedrine, because in the US they are required to be sold in those little blister packs where you open each pill individually, but those were TOO small. I was messing up my brushes.
Speaking of tearing up brushes, if you use clippers to take out a raised piece of plastic like in the legos, be sure to file the flashing that's left down. This is less of an issue with synthetics than say, sable, but it'll still snag it and cause extra wear.
A side note, with apologies if you are already aware: Winsor Newton's Cotman Cobalt Blue Hue is just Ultramarine Blue with white added. Anything you mix with it is going to end up being more opaque than it otherwise would because of the white. If that's what you're going for, rock on! If it's not, just get the Ultramarine and then you can add a little white when you want it to be more opaque. :) They used to make a series 2 line with real Cadmium and real Cobalt, but they stopped doing so about 10 years ago.
That's a good point about the rough edges, thanks Rin! And that's s interesting to know about the paints!
I've just added your advice to the video description to let others know :)
Wow. Considering that Cobalt is radioactive, I'm surprised it was allowed in paint as recently as 10 years ago. Thanks for the tip about the Cotman Cobalt Blue Hue.
Another thing you could do is use old eye shadow pallets. That's what I use all the time.
That is actually on my list for my next palette ideas video! I don't wear makeup any more so I saved a palette for this very purpose!
Silicone cup cake hack the best best best. Thank you for a great video
What fantastic and useful ideas you have, thank you so much! I've been wanting to repurpose my expired makeups (apparently you can make watercolour by mixing Arabic gum into the powder types??) and this really solved my dilemma of wanting to experiment with that AND actually using the too many cute but useless containers I keep collecting. Love the idea of recycling little bottlecaps (instead of buying new empty palettes I might never use again)!!
this is like 4 years later but seriously these hacks i've literally never seen anywhere else, so fricking good! tysm
Reuse, reduce, recycle! Fantastic. Thank you for your creative brilliance, and being kind to the environment.
Thanks Anne!
Great ideas. You remember the boardgame called Scrabble or crossword. I use those pieces as pans !And a Hershey's Choco balls tin!
Great idea!
Love all the different cases!
These ideas are great. I've recently gotten myself back into watercolors for sake of making some personal christmas cards and i was looking for a way to take them with me in a travel set cause it was pretty nice painting again (though, I always hated it in school!). I would have never thought of the legos! I'm excited to see what I can find and come up with as a way to store them now. I neeeeeeed one of those traveling brushes! That's so cool!
Thanks for the comment, and hope you had fun doing watercolours for Christmas! Check out my cheap travel watercolour brushes videos for some top tips on cheap alternatives :) Lip brushes work well too and are usually small.
OMG never thought of using legos as pans, that's such a great ideaaaaa!
You’ve inspired me to make one and take it with me everywhere:) instead of taking photos of plants and animals and things that inspire me; I’d like to make a quick paint!
Sounds like a great plan! I should do that too :)
I love these ideas so much!! Especially the wrist band one, so if one of my family members has an old one they dont want, hopefully they can loan it to me😆 and another idea besides the lego pieces as paint containers: water bottle caps. They’re larger so you could maybe fit only five but this way you most likely wont have to spend any money at all if u already have water bottles lying around. Plus i only have the primary colors right now so thats just three bottle caps, but once i gain a wider paint collection im definitely using my brother’s old legos as containers next time!! Thank you for this video❤️
Good idea! I like to use the tiny lids on hair dye conditioner bottles (Garnier ones) they are ideal and smaller!
The sports band is such a good idea!
+Kim Truong It sure is! Great that you can just wash them clean too :)
This is such a great video! I love the mint tin idea 💗
This was such an informative video!! I love how you use so many muji products, i absolutely love muji haha. This video was quite calming to watch, I love it!
This is super useful! I'm gonna have to try some of these ideas!
Water pot hack! Brilliant!!
You're so creative ! I love art DIYS :) definitely trying these thanks so much
Have fun! :)
I love this video. These ideas are amazing!
Me encantó, tengo algunas cajitas y no sabía qué hacer con ellas. Gracias por las ideas!
the sweatband thing is the most revolutionary thing i've ever seen
Wow what a great ideas for paint pallete😍.... Thankuu for this.
The lego idea is bloody brilliant!
It's fun :)
omg!!! i love all these hacks!! i wanna try making my own so ill suely implement your ideas!! especially the water pot hack. super smart!! and i love how everythings so small and compact and minature omgg
Miniature stuff is sooo cuuuuute isn't it!
woooooow amazing DIY❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is brilliant
Videos like this relax me so much am i the only one?😂🤔
Just brilliant!!!! Thank you!
I love these travel art kits. These are the best I've seen. How do you decide which to use? I use the tops of old socks as wrist brush rags, even cheaper. Never thought of Legos as paint pans, great idea. Thanks
+Amy McLaughlin Thanks so much! I have a thing for cute tins so I have loads (can't resist them in charity and antiques stores)! I like to make different kits for fun, but it also depends on what bag I am taking out with me. Got a small bag a tiny kit works well. I am also starting to theme them with different supplies - one has snubs of neocolor crayons in it and a larger tin can fit cut-down watercolour pencils in it. Colour themes can be good too - florals versus landscapes for example. I can't take the credit for the excellent arm band idea as I saw it in a different brilliant travel palette video but using sock bands is a fantastic idea! Old sleeve cuffs would be good too I should imagine!
OMG YES LEGOS , YOU'RE A GENIUS
This is so good. Keep on doing it! 💜💜💜
I appreciate this video so much! So innovative!
+alyokin I apreciate the nice comment, thanks! Have fun!
Wow! Really smart!
Glad you liked the vid! :)
love the Lego hack. I'm sure my son will not miss a few. Also the one with the wrist band, pure genius.
Good luck stealing the lego! Another commenter mentioned how you don't need a drill to get rid of the middle bit - use nail clippers! Have fun!
I love this idea
Thanks Cher, hope you have fun making your own! :)
So many good ideas! Thank you!
You're very welcome, would love to hear how you get on if you make your own! :)
So many brilliant ideas! Thanks!!💕💜💕
You're welcome!
love the Leggo idea! Im going to have to find some!
Yay! Good luck!
Love the idea
Tfs those wonderful ideas.
You're welcome!
This was the video ive been looking for throught all youtube omg thank you
What a clever cookie you are! Thank you!
Thank you for watching! :)
Wow awesome idea!!! So doing this!!!
Go for it! Have fun!
wow, very creative and fun little palettes. TFS!!! :D
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Brilliant!
Thank you for the great ideas, this is so cool and inspiring.
You're welcome and glad you feel inspired! Would love to see what you make if you have a go :)
That's so clever!!!!
Some excellent ideas! VERY creative. Good job! I'll be sure to try some of these :)
So glad you found it inspiring - would love to see what you come up with :D
Super cute ideas
Thanks!
Cool idea.... Using Lego as containers
Thanks!
I use a pill box. Not as vintage looking but it serves its purpose
Omg, I love this 😭❤
That is awesome! !!!
For a water pot, I use a breastmilk storage pot from Avent. It never, ever leaks and is the perfect shape and size. Also the recessed lid could be used to mix paint if you need.
amazing!! TFS!
I LOVE THIS!!!
Thank you hapimonsta I am glad you enjoyed it! :)
Really cool idea! I really want to try the mint tin idea out, but I don't have those kind of tins where I live at. Guess I'll keep looking haha
I found mint tins in my local supermarket, the Altoid ones are popular in many countries. Good luck!
Jakcdaw you can get a lot of metal tins off sites like ebay and Amazon
so cute!
This is really helpful, thank you so much for making this :)
You're welcome Sarah! Glad you enjoyed it. I keep coming up with even more ideas, so maybe I will have to do a round two sometime! :)
I love the Leggo idea.
This was simply amazing loved it thank you so much for sharing this video with us all it is really helpful and a thoughtful idea of storing paints I was been searching such kind of video thank you. Lots of love from India Mumbai 🥰😘❤️
This was great. I'm going on holiday soon so this was great for getting some storage ideas instead of lugging around my art box
Brilliant! How did you get on?
Beret Nice amazingly I went on a load of walks around Cornwall and in a forest near where I was staying so it was great for bringing just the necessities
Molly Brown Fantastic! Hope you caught some nice weather, it's been pretty rainy in the shires!
Another tip: you can use small oilers for oil painting with magnets to attach it to your metal tin with paints. It also comes with a cap, so if you are painting with toxic paints or just don't have an opportunity to het rid of dirty water, you can just cap it.
Gracias!!! Era lo que estaba buscando
What clever ideas!
Thank you!
OMG THANK YOU!! This video helped me a lot!!😄❤
Yay! Have fun making your own :)
this is amazing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
OMG - Legos!? Best idea ever!
The fact that u have cotman n still have this great ideas for people that cant afford it :)
Using the silicone cupcake mold as a water container is a great idea! I may just have to get my hands on some now.. :)
+Astrid Emyle It cane to me as a bit if a brainwave! It isn't super sturdy for holding water when out and about but is such a cute and easy extra addition to a travel palette for when you want a bit of water for freshening up your travel brush :) I found cheap ones in pound shops but the mini ones I found in Hobby craft :) Hope that helps! I also use the mini ones as molds for clay etc :)
I usually use a plastic collapsible cup when I'm out and about, but these molds are even smaller and would work great with some of my tinier sets! I live in the US, but it looks like I'll be able to get some of the mini ones online (yay!). Thanks for the tips!
im definitely making this for my sister this christmas!
Yay! I would love to see how it turns out! :)
great ideas!
Thanks Celeste!
you are a genius! Thanks for the ideas
You're welcome! Hoping to do another video soon with more ideas :)
Hi, very nice video. I love DIY watercolour sets, I have several tins in different sizes, the one I currently use the most is cheap steel cigarette box, I don't smoke, but saw that one in the shop and it's great. I also use magnets, it's super easy to use and rearrange. I didn't think of sport wrist bands, great idea, I will use that. So, thank you. :)
+Ruchie Thanks! I too like those tins - see lots of awesome vintage ones in antique shops! I just love tins for travel palettes - they give it an extra special feeling. I can't take the credit for the wrist band idea as I saw it in a different travel palette video (sadly can't remember which it was as it was quite a while ago I saw it) but it's fantastic and can help keep the palette secure and padded for travel too. Love it!
Nice video!
this is BRILLANT!!thank you so much!
You're very welcome, glad you enjoyed it! Part two coming soon hopefully!
This saved my life. I'm about to go on a cross country road trip and I want to be able to paint
Brilliant!
this is GREAT for ppl who cant afford expensive painting pans
Glad to have helped! :)