Hey everyone! Today's video is a chatty messy all over the place (like life these days) first impressions of these 2 cute tiny palettes. I will try to do a proper review at some point. If you are here for an organised well explained review, search elsewhere, sorry😁
Also UPDATE: Since filming I have filled both palettes! I'll share the colors I've chosen soon. I still have one empty pan in the Portable Painter 6 pans palette. I included a primary triad, a light color, a dark. One spot left so help a gal out: Cobalt teal? Cobalt violet? Something else??
The porcelain palettes are adorable! If you can get enough paint in the etcher without taking tube paint then you might love this for your trip. Can’t wait to see the colors you choose for all of them.✊🏾💕
I love the etchr palette!! It’s a wonderful supplement for my normal 12 half pan set; I can keep some more obscure colors accessible, and it’s wonderful having the ceramic mixing wells! That panda bowl is so cute 🥰
I have both Etchr palettes and find the 19 well one more useful. I also cut 2 strips of fabric so I could place them under the top tray to make it easier to lift it out without getting paint all over my fingers. As far as small palettes go, I like the small Meeden metal palettes. I take out the insert that holds in the pans, use stick on magnets you can get, and stick them on the bottom of the pans. I can get 23 half pans in one of those tins, and even if you take along 2 of those tins with you (46 half pans) I bet it is smaller than your plastic palette.
I should also add that I got a Meeden 48 palette, took out the thing that holds in the pans, put magnets on the half pans, and got 63 half pans in that one, so I am never one to throw dirt on someone's love of colors.
Haha I'm glad you found a system that works for you! I think when it comes to palettes, the best one is the one you have with you. But sometimes it takes a lot of trial and error. I think also for me, at the end of the day, with all do respect and admiration to limited palettes and the artists who use them, I'm probably one of those that need 60 colors with me to be a happy painter on the go 😉
This is my most favorite watercolor painting pallet this is what I use all the time it is so organized I can even take is hiking with my day pack on of my favorite Art supplies and because it heavy it doesn’t more I love love love my Mini pallet
The Etchr one and I just returned from our vacation in Denmark. It is a pretty little treasure if you have the extra money to spend. But as I am used to pick up some color and put it on the palette first before going to paint I missed some real estate to do so for all the colors. So I already thinking about to fill it vice versa next time, 7 colors and 19 mixing wells. Picked up some cute mint tins during vacation and I also have a six pan set in a mint tin from London, that is a really nice and cheap (and tasty 😋) option for a travel palette. When it come to choose colors I am pretty boring and would go with 2 yellows, red and blues each to have the opportunity to mix whatever is needed. Also, I want a panda palette now. It is all your fault, Irit 😆🤣
Thanks for the video, I'm looking forward to your review of the Etchr palette as I keep going back to it because it's just so cute! I don't have social media accounts so I don't post pics online, but I do love cute stuff. I am for sure a visual person and I have all manner of cute containers, mugs, toys, and decorations at my desk so when I sit here I am happy and in a good mindset. I would use the panda pallet, and she has a mug, too, which now I wonder if it's deep enough to hold brushes ... Im probably going to get some of these 🤗goodbye fun money for the next fee months lol
@@iritlandgraf same, really lol. I have too many colors and when I try to limit how many I need to bring with me I can't. I'm currently using the Jane Davenport storage tins for her pencils and crayons to transport what I've got 🤣
I am curious about the Robax engineering palettes! I have been looking at the 15 inch 42 well palette and I am still looking for reviews. Have you ever tried any of these custom palettes? I just don’t believe that these ceramic palettes from Etcher will last in “the wild”! I have considered the larger portable painter palette but I break stuff all the time! Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us about these.
I think the Robax palettes are great and I kinda want another one that fits my current needs. The only con I have for them is that the plastic feels a bit... I don't know, not cheap because it's sturdy, but I guess less nice than metal or porcelain. Other than that I think they are awesome 👍
their is another travel pallet that I just bought and it is amazing.. it is the ArtTool kit pallet.. it is a card holder used as a pallet .. it is light weight and flat you can but it in your jeans .. and it can hold 14 or 28 colors
For the 6 colour palette I I think Nickel Azo Yellow, Ultramarine and Quin Rose are a wonderful mixing triad, to have and would be very versatile to mix both bright and more neutralised colours. You could put them with other more exciting colours like cobalt teal, naples yellow and cobalt violet. They could serve as a less traditional triad and I'm sure you could get pretty interesting secondary and tertiary blends from them. I would try playing with different mixing triads to see what effects you get. Could make an interesting series of paintings working with the same limited palette.
Totally agree about your primary triad, it would be one of my top choices too. I do like your idea of the second trio, it would make for a very interesting palette and mixes!
I love the panda palette. Thank you for sharing. I already have some panda themed items in my studio. I'd pick Nickel Azo Yellow, Quinacridone Rose, Ultramarine Blue, Phthalo Blue, Transparent Brown Oxide and Cobalt Turquoise.
Naples yellow would be great painting in italy, also yellow ochre. .. bit i would personally take a warm and a cool yellow, warm and cool red, a nice cobalt blue and paynes grey. Maybe a couple of watercolour markers or crayons or pencils to round out the gaps. An ochre, a couple of pinks, a turquoise, an ultramarine.. it is very hard to choose.
Oh, those mini-palettes😍 I keep looking at them at Gerstäcker but I am always to cheap to end up buying them. For spontaneous painting outside I have a little Lukas travel set in my bag that always comes along with me, and if I am planning to paint outside, I don't mind packing a normal sized pallette. Would still love the tiny ceramic one though, it's just too cool. As for the other one, the one that holds six pans, I would either choose : cad yellow light or something in that range like a light hansa yellow, ultramarine, quin rose, yellow ochre, burnt umber, and pthalo blue. Yes, I know this is a super generic set up, but hey, it goes a long way. Another set-up that I would appreciate would be lemon yellow, ultramarine, quin magenta, dioxazine violet, cobalt turqouise and pthalo green (blue shade) , which is a color set-up that I enjoy working with and that just so happens to be six colors. Oh and yet another 6 color set up that I think would be great, would be warm primaries, yellow ochre or raw sienna, burnt sienna, and a very dark umber.
Awwwwww OK after seeing the panda how adorbssssss......I would bring them...both just to test them out......part of your review research Right .yes bring your safety blanket. Its hard to par down to just a few colors or you may be looking for paint anywhere u could find it in Italy LOL.......all we can do is watch the show Dream of Italy right now which I think is on Netflix......enjoy your trip take lots of pictures to share how fun!!!!
Hi Ema! I like the stabilo all pencils in graphite and black, don't like the white. Those are the only colors I have and they work well like other water soluble pencils I've tried. The pigment activates well with water. I don't think they have a wide color range like the Museum Aquarell...
How adorable is that panda palette! I am obsessed with pandas, koalas and llamas! :)) Would definitely look great on pictures. That round palette I have been curious about for a while, would be interesting to hear your feedback once you start using it. As for the Portable Painter mini palette, would it be possible to squeeze out a few dots of extra colours onto the lids? Or are they quite tightly fit and would touch the plastic frame beneath? Only 6 colours is tough! 😁 I’d probably go for a boring selection of warm and cold yellow, red, blue [which means there would be more time spent mixing than painting 🤣] and then I’d try hard to squeeze a gold and maybe sodalite gen for fun granulation! :)) I was also going to suggest a limited palette of fun colours, that you could just pop from you regular palette into this one, but the problem is Portable Painter only fits W&N equivalent of half pans. At least it was the case with the original palette, is it the same here? X
I think it's the same as the original Portable painter, but I have lots of extra pans from that one. I admit I haven't used the original one despite buying it over a year ago. I'm more excited about the round palette than the micro one. If someone wants a very small palette, I think the metal ones that are credit card size are much better and can fit a lot of colors for such a tiny palette. But let's be real, these kind of micro super limited palettes are really not made for the likes of me...
Irit Landgraf I have used mine at the beginning quite a bit. But not in a very long time either. Honestly for me I think it’s about the half pans are not compatible with others. And when it comes to small number of colours it makes it that more harder to use. But you just gave me an idea, having extra empty half pans of theirs, say 20 and fill them up with your top favourites would be much more user friendly, and then just swap to a certain colour palette each time, bit fiddly but at least gives you an option! 😅
I have a palette I made myself out of a small mint container. It can hold 14 half pans or about 8 full pans. It was my travel palette for a long time. I fount some small triangular dishes as I were in a store. Very useful for big washes or mixing a larger amount of color. I wish I had found something out of melamine, so it will not break if it falls off the table. (Cats are very curious creatures... even as an adult. I guess every cat owner is familiar with that..) Personally, I love melamine plates or dishes because they are mimicking porcelain. But... hard to find in stores at the moment, at least where I live. But they are really great. Maybe I should look for one if I have time for shopping again. I also was searching for one online but the measurements were weird and I decided to see what I can find local. And I'm still on the hunt for one or two of them.
Question: I could've sworn that you, in one of your recentish videos, mentioned a paint that was great for the color of oxidised copper (like on old roofs). I can't for the life of me remember which video it was, and I forgot to write down the paint. You wouldn't happen to remember/know which one it was? No idea what I'd put in a six colour palette right now... I've been buying paint and dot cards like a madman, and now I'm kind of overwhelmed 😂 when in doubt, I'd probably go for a CMYK-esque setup... I've got a lot of new White Nights paints, so maybe their cad lemon medium, cerulean, and rose, and three more... Which three, I have no idea 😂 chromium green oxide granulates very nicely. I like their silver light for mixing sparkly colors, and I guess indigo would be a decent dark. Honestly, though, I have 35 pans of White Nights in my Pretty Excellent tin, and a normal small tin can fit 14 of them - I'd rather use one of those and bring a collapsible water cup 😂
@@iritlandgraf ooh, yeah, that's the one! Not a recent video at all, I must've watched it sometime lately 😅 I misremembered that you had a paint you liked for that color, but that's not what you say in the video at all 🤦♀️ thanks for the help!
Any warm red with a cool blue mix to make good muted brick or terra-cotta colors. If you are doing a six color palettes, you could pick a warm and a cool of each primary, that will give you endless mixing options. The Jane Blundell website has a lot of good options of triads to help you choose, with info on what sorts of colors and subjects each one is good for.
I would put in the six colour palette the following colours. A transparent lemon yellow a PY3 or a PY175, a PY150 yellow ( Transparent Yellow from WN that is a warm yellow), a Phthalo blue Green Shade and a Phthalo Blue Red Shade ( or an Ultramarine) and Q. Red PR209 and a Magenta, any Magenta. And then I'll had an split primary all primaries palette. And that is the only selection of colours for such a limited number of colours. If you want an all rounder selection you have to go for a split primary and then mix everything else. I'm not sure though if that is convenient when you paint outdoors. It might be more compact but it is not more convenient because you have to mix all about everything something that is tricky even if you mix directly on your paper.
I would include a warm and cool color of yellow, red and blue. Definitively french ultramarine from Winsor & Newton my favorite blue and cobalt blue, nickel azo yellow and lemon yellow, quin magenta and cad red. But I agree with you, it would really would be difficult.
I have the Etchr palette and love it for traveling in addition to my bigger travel palette. I use it for unique colors for accents/details/pop of color in my paintings..not paints I use all the time. Maybe paints like the sparkly primaTek ones! I have a large travel palette like U do...I just cannot travel with only 6-12 colors.. That doesn't work for me. In the plastic palette, I'd suggest the warm and cool of the primaries..kinda forces U to b creative with mixing. Enjoy all your pretties!
That is actually a great idea! I kinda wish I'd thought about it myself before I filled this palette. There's no way this would be my one go to travel palette, but for accents it would work really well, I think!
I have the Etchr palette...(though in retrospect, I’d get the one with fewer wells. No one needs 37 colors). It’s much more functional than it seems. I work on the smaller size, usually no larger than 9x12,” and if you give the palette a quick few sprays of water, the small wells become very concentrated areas of color. Very easy to pick up a lot of paint from each one. Yes, it’s overpriced, but I hate buying plastic these days.
Irit Landgraf yes, but it works better than you would think. The hardest part was filling it up, deciding which colors and where. And yes, I guess there are people out there who like to work with a lot of colors...but lately I’ve been reassessing all the paints I buy, especially the convenience colors, and I’ve come to the conclusion that I have too many, and that some are so similar that it’s a waste of $ to have both. Like in the DS 12 pan Inspiration palette. Moonglow and Shadow violet - they are almost the same, very subtle difference. I can do without one of them. Purples and greens, such easy colors to mix, yet I have 4 tubes of purples...with very little difference between the four. I’ve been exploring the idea of using limited palettes, or triads. (Though you can have my Undersea Green when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers...)
Still love love love the red one, which I also have. I love the cuteness of the micro but.....hmmmm for someone with more ability to make decisions. For such a tiny thing large water container.
Love these! I’ve been considering the micro as well! I would probably put potters pink, French ochre & then drawing a blank lol If you feel drawn to Naples yellow, trust it! I think it would be beautiful mixed with dusk pink & maybe verditer blue to make incredible Italian villa colors! I’d also go with fuschite, but it really depends what you want to paint, look up some of the architecture of buildings where you’re going & have a little play mixing colors that remind you of the place maybe? Thanks for this overview! 🎨✨💌
Ha Ha Ha.... disorganised is my mantra... I must 'declutter/re organise/tidy up' my craft room every few weeks... my husband keeps telling me if I was organised I wouldn't have to do this... LOL... I cant help myself... chaos reigns... but that's the way I am... if it's too tidy I can't find anything! :)
Hahaha! You the maximalist couldn’t even get your pinks & turquoise’s in the micro! I would be stumped but was wondering if 2 of the paint parts of the micro would be great (probably purchase 2 micro sets): one box for warms and the other for cools....Or could separate by bright colors and neutrals....Probably more ways to split a set of 12 colors into two boxes of 6 with hmmm one box could be useful for a quick outing scouting a few views needing some thumbnails for later paintings. I need to see if the two boxes plus one set of water/mixing trays can be hooked together & used comfortably! I’ve a couple suggestions for your travel set and loose landscape but gotta locate my notes! Tomorrow ....
Irit Landgraf : and that curiosity is what we love about you! Curiosity is very positive, a desire for the unknown! Watch Jean Lurssen utube Mixing Grays vid-the kind of loose watercolor landscape you might do but adding a touch or two of brighter color for the native flowers growing on rocky outcrops. Funny I liked the first one better than her final one (will make sense when you see it!). Also watch Michael Soloroyer vid Quinacridone Sienna. He paints an Italian street view. Fascinating look at Quin sienna harmony to get the old buildings. Anyway I think you could take these ideas & run with them! I plan to run with them in my expirementation in the high desert here in Marfa, TX-look it up-I’m surrounded by minimalists with a good sprinkling of experimenters to make it interesting and more galleries than grocery stores. Oh ps some of us see & use color differently. Mixing all colors from just 3 is over rated if you ask me!
I have the Etchr lab palette and I bought it because like you I just had to have it because it is porcelain and small. I use it occasionally but find that it’s easy to contaminate the paints next to each other because they’re so small. If you paint with a fair amount of water the little wells get flooded with water. Overall. It’s a nice porcelain palette and I have never seen another one like it. It’s ok to use but like you said, pricey. Would I buy it again? No
Oh my I don’t think I could choose 6 colours. 12 is the minimum I’d want to choose 6 warm and 6 cool. I noticed from the picture of your micro pallet that you could add 10 colours, just not a lot of paint though 🙁 but perhaps for a trip there might be enough? Sorry I’m not really answering your question lol. Good luck choosing your colours. Though one tip, you might already know, would be that ultramarine blue and burnt umber mixed makes a great black so might save a space if you don’t need to take a black. T x
I do find the micro portable painter more intruiging than the etchr lab palette, since you can attach the micro palette to your sketchbook with a clip! Though both are just very gimmicky in their set up. For the 6 colors, I would add a primary yellow (PY74) that's mid toned, Vermillion or a Pyrrol Color, Rose Madder or your Standart Quin. Rose, French Ultramarine, either Cyan/Cinereous Blue or a Turquoise and my trusted Burnt Sienna! You can fit more in the etchr lab, sure, but Id be only able to set it up on a table or anything, and I don't think it's that bristle friendly with the tiny wells!
You are so cute!!! love your chatty videos. I have many palettes, but 4 major ones that are by brand. I have the portable painter but rarely use it since I mostly paint at home. I have yet to actually create my personal palette that would include favorite colors from several brands in one palette. The day may come. LOL
i saw the etsy shop for the panda one. i want but shes on vacations i dont know how expensive they are... i do want to support her but its just a tray too. if its not that expensive i could pay but i doubt lol
They are expensive because they are handmade. Not everyone wants to spend that amount on a paint palette. Make a decision you're comfortable with and fits your budget :)
I would bring DS Hansa yellow, New gamb, Parrot Scarlet, Quinacridon Rose, phthalate Blue, French ultr.....these i got in little 5 ml they came with a chart on how many colors you could mix...
Hahaha it's a really funny video Irit. I totally can feel the urge to buy these nice stuff now and then and I really Iove the small ceramic palet. For myselve I definitely are going for your large one 😁 💟
Only six colors, that's a tough one....Nickel Azo Yellow and French UM for sure, maybe Quin Rose or even Quin Magenta, definitively Cobalt Teal or Turquoise *lol* and I'd need Green Apatite (you don't for sure *haha) and a dark (like Hematite Genuine) ...weird combo 😂
It’s a major pain in the butt to fill. Just deciding on what to put in it took me days...then trying to neatly squeeze the paint into those tiny wells. After it dries, the paint sinks in and there is never enough in there, so you have to add more. Have toothpicks handy to stir and push the pigment into the wells. I didn’t, I was using a pushpin. It was messy.
Despite having a lot of palettes I did love the Portable Painter Micro. I got mine from Indiegogo. I do have the original one. I love both. I really want the one from Etchr. Despite being a color hoarder 😂
let's see, i'd fill mine with a lemon yellow, a reddish magenta, phthalo blue, PR242 (a red orange), sennelier turquoise green, and a lilac :) can't wait to see your choices!
Haha...I'd turn back if I were you. Haha you're hysterical. Famous last words..."I guess I could always read the directions" Haha Haha I want that on my tombstone.
Hahah I have also been all about looking for palettes😁 i need something to fit I think 16 full pans in but those metal ones that seem very perfect for me (like this one in 06:19 ) are too expensive for me.. So I scanned my whole kithchen and lots of stores but the perfect box hasn't occured yet😂😂
Toni, maybe check out the White Nights empty palette in black? If memory serves it wasn't that expensive. Also, my red one I am obsessed with is about 13$ I think, hard to beat!
@@iritlandgraf I love both of those but I can't find neither of them in any local art store so I thought about ordering from Jackson's but what worryes me is the shipping cost since I live in Bosnia and Herzegovina(which is kiiinda close to Austria but is not in European Union) and also how long it could take to arrive...
Oh as for the red palette, I ordered mine from Amazon US with international shipping. It was about 20-25 dollars including shipping which I still think is a good price.
I take classes from Stephanie Mun Law on Patreon it is how I found out about this pallet I do a lot of miniature gift cards for sale so this is perfect for my needs hope you enjoy yours
I've really wanted the Etchr palette for ages, but I keep putting off buying it because of the cost. I'm notoriously annoying to buy gifts for (I never want anything 🤷♀️), though, so at least I actually have a reply when my family starts asking about birthday gifts in a few months 😂 The 19 well palette is the same size as the original, with fewer but larger wells. The Portable Painter... I like the original, but I have no interest in getting the micro. I am very, very picky and don't like that it's so thick when closed (relative to the other proportions), and I have a strong dislike of shallow water containers. It's just not my thing 🤷♀️ I like that the original has two water containers, and I really liked M.D. Campbell's hack/modification to it (a bit labor intensive, but it lets you fit another pan on each row and I am so here for that - maximum space efficiency 👍)
Oh I'm notorious too... I have so many things (I do gift myself often ;) ) and my poor husband never knows what's the latest and greatest in the art world ;)
I'm going to Turkey in 10 days time for two whole months. My travel kit is not small 😁 I also have to take all the paper I need as nowhere nearby to get any resupply. I'll have at least my big red palette like yours and maybe one other lol.
hmm.. Italian countryside.. seems like you may need some urban sketcher earthy colors.. monte amiata natural sienna popped to mind.. italian burnt sienna.. 😂.. you can sub minnessota pipestone genuine or maybe piemonte genuine.. quin burnt orange..transp. red oxide? I know liz steel likes to mix m.a. nat sienna with potter's pink.. mixes with ultramarine blue and burnt sienna (or similar) give nice neutrals.. like here :) www.parkablogs.com/picture/burnt-sienna-pbr-7-or-pr-101#:~:text=These%20are%20the%20various%20Burnt%20Sienna%20and%20Burnt%20Sienna-like%20colours
Hey everyone! Today's video is a chatty messy all over the place (like life these days) first impressions of these 2 cute tiny palettes. I will try to do a proper review at some point. If you are here for an organised well explained review, search elsewhere, sorry😁
Also UPDATE:
Since filming I have filled both palettes! I'll share the colors I've chosen soon. I still have one empty pan in the Portable Painter 6 pans palette. I included a primary triad, a light color, a dark. One spot left so help a gal out:
Cobalt teal?
Cobalt violet?
Something else??
I’m thinking that you need cobalt Violet. It’s your signature color. 💕
I know Susan, I'm so torn!
Yes come on Irit, your signature Cobalt Violet! 😉🤣, 🎨🌈Valérie xx
It is a must... But then again, so it cobalt violet perhaps 😩
The porcelain palettes are adorable! If you can get enough paint in the etcher without taking tube paint then you might love this for your trip.
Can’t wait to see the colors you choose for all of them.✊🏾💕
Thanks Susan! Coming soon!
I love the etchr palette!! It’s a wonderful supplement for my normal 12 half pan set; I can keep some more obscure colors accessible, and it’s wonderful having the ceramic mixing wells! That panda bowl is so cute 🥰
You're the second person that said that, and I think it's a great idea, to have some unique extra colors in this palette!
The ceramic is so nice and weighed I so so enjoyed filling mine it is Epic and the felt pads get like rainbows 🌈
Lol that sounds like an awesome side effect :)
I think that little panda is quite necessary. Lol great video and super cute painting with your child.
I think so too!
I have both Etchr palettes and find the 19 well one more useful. I also cut 2 strips of fabric so I could place them under the top tray to make it easier to lift it out without getting paint all over my fingers. As far as small palettes go, I like the small Meeden metal palettes. I take out the insert that holds in the pans, use stick on magnets you can get, and stick them on the bottom of the pans. I can get 23 half pans in one of those tins, and even if you take along 2 of those tins with you (46 half pans) I bet it is smaller than your plastic palette.
I should also add that I got a Meeden 48 palette, took out the thing that holds in the pans, put magnets on the half pans, and got 63 half pans in that one, so I am never one to throw dirt on someone's love of colors.
Haha I'm glad you found a system that works for you! I think when it comes to palettes, the best one is the one you have with you. But sometimes it takes a lot of trial and error. I think also for me, at the end of the day, with all do respect and admiration to limited palettes and the artists who use them, I'm probably one of those that need 60 colors with me to be a happy painter on the go 😉
This is my most favorite watercolor painting pallet this is what I use all the time it is so organized I can even take is hiking with my day pack on of my favorite Art supplies and because it heavy it doesn’t more I love love love my Mini pallet
Glad it's working for you Mary!
The Etchr one and I just returned from our vacation in Denmark. It is a pretty little treasure if you have the extra money to spend. But as I am used to pick up some color and put it on the palette first before going to paint I missed some real estate to do so for all the colors. So I already thinking about to fill it vice versa next time, 7 colors and 19 mixing wells. Picked up some cute mint tins during vacation and I also have a six pan set in a mint tin from London, that is a really nice and cheap (and tasty 😋) option for a travel palette. When it come to choose colors I am pretty boring and would go with 2 yellows, red and blues each to have the opportunity to mix whatever is needed.
Also, I want a panda palette now. It is all your fault, Irit 😆🤣
Haha yes pandas are adorable!!
True confessions. I am not into cutesy. 😎
Thanks for the video, I'm looking forward to your review of the Etchr palette as I keep going back to it because it's just so cute! I don't have social media accounts so I don't post pics online, but I do love cute stuff. I am for sure a visual person and I have all manner of cute containers, mugs, toys, and decorations at my desk so when I sit here I am happy and in a good mindset. I would use the panda pallet, and she has a mug, too, which now I wonder if it's deep enough to hold brushes ... Im probably going to get some of these 🤗goodbye fun money for the next fee months lol
It is very cute (the Etchr palette), but let's be real, I'm not the target customer for this one. I need all my colors and lots of them ;)
@@iritlandgraf same, really lol. I have too many colors and when I try to limit how many I need to bring with me I can't. I'm currently using the Jane Davenport storage tins for her pencils and crayons to transport what I've got 🤣
So loved hearing your daughter’s voice and seeing her paint!!! Page
Thanks Page! We have been painting a lot these days, makes us both very happy ;)
@@iritlandgraf aww so adorable🥺
I am curious about the Robax engineering palettes! I have been looking at the 15 inch 42 well palette and I am still looking for reviews. Have you ever tried any of these custom palettes? I just don’t believe that these ceramic palettes from Etcher will last in “the wild”! I have considered the larger portable painter palette but I break stuff all the time!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us about these.
I think the Robax palettes are great and I kinda want another one that fits my current needs. The only con I have for them is that the plastic feels a bit... I don't know, not cheap because it's sturdy, but I guess less nice than metal or porcelain. Other than that I think they are awesome 👍
their is another travel pallet that I just bought and it is amazing.. it is the ArtTool kit pallet.. it is a card holder used as a pallet .. it is light weight and flat you can but it in your jeans .. and it can hold 14 or 28 colors
Yes I have it and it is fantastic in my opinion too!
Love the Panda pallet it is so cute
For the 6 colour palette I I think Nickel Azo Yellow, Ultramarine and Quin Rose are a wonderful mixing triad, to have and would be very versatile to mix both bright and more neutralised colours. You could put them with other more exciting colours like cobalt teal, naples yellow and cobalt violet. They could serve as a less traditional triad and I'm sure you could get pretty interesting secondary and tertiary blends from them. I would try playing with different mixing triads to see what effects you get. Could make an interesting series of paintings working with the same limited palette.
Totally agree about your primary triad, it would be one of my top choices too. I do like your idea of the second trio, it would make for a very interesting palette and mixes!
I love the panda palette. Thank you for sharing. I already have some panda themed items in my studio.
I'd pick Nickel Azo Yellow, Quinacridone Rose, Ultramarine Blue, Phthalo Blue, Transparent Brown Oxide and Cobalt Turquoise.
Thanks for sharing!!
Naples yellow would be great painting in italy, also yellow ochre. .. bit i would personally take a warm and a cool yellow, warm and cool red, a nice cobalt blue and paynes grey. Maybe a couple of watercolour markers or crayons or pencils to round out the gaps. An ochre, a couple of pinks, a turquoise, an ultramarine.. it is very hard to choose.
Thanks for the tips!
Oh, those mini-palettes😍 I keep looking at them at Gerstäcker but I am always to cheap to end up buying them. For spontaneous painting outside I have a little Lukas travel set in my bag that always comes along with me, and if I am planning to paint outside, I don't mind packing a normal sized pallette. Would still love the tiny ceramic one though, it's just too cool.
As for the other one, the one that holds six pans, I would either choose : cad yellow light or something in that range like a light hansa yellow, ultramarine, quin rose, yellow ochre, burnt umber, and pthalo blue. Yes, I know this is a super generic set up, but hey, it goes a long way. Another set-up that I would appreciate would be lemon yellow, ultramarine, quin magenta, dioxazine violet, cobalt turqouise and pthalo green (blue shade) , which is a color set-up that I enjoy working with and that just so happens to be six colors. Oh and yet another 6 color set up that I think would be great, would be warm primaries, yellow ochre or raw sienna, burnt sienna, and a very dark umber.
The best palette is the one that's with you! Great color picks!
The panda palette is soooo cute! Love it! 🥰
I know, it's ridiculously cute!
I organized it with Daniel Smith colors it is so beautiful and al my colors are planned out so conveniently
Glad to hear Mary!
You did a fine job! Lovely!
Thank you! 😊
3 primaries and 3 colors that are favorites or useful to environment where you will be painting.
Thanks Wilma!
Awwwwww OK after seeing the panda how adorbssssss......I would bring them...both just to test them out......part of your review research Right .yes bring your safety blanket. Its hard to par down to just a few colors or you may be looking for paint anywhere u could find it in Italy LOL.......all we can do is watch the show Dream of Italy right now which I think is on Netflix......enjoy your trip take lots of pictures to share how fun!!!!
😊 thank you
Omg the ceramic palette's!!! There's a turtle palette, its to cute!!!!!
I know, they are all ridiculously cute...
Good morning Irit: unrelated, but have you used stabilo all pencils? Wondering how they compare to caran dache museum
Hi Ema! I like the stabilo all pencils in graphite and black, don't like the white. Those are the only colors I have and they work well like other water soluble pencils I've tried. The pigment activates well with water. I don't think they have a wide color range like the Museum Aquarell...
How adorable is that panda palette! I am obsessed with pandas, koalas and llamas! :)) Would definitely look great on pictures. That round palette I have been curious about for a while, would be interesting to hear your feedback once you start using it.
As for the Portable Painter mini palette, would it be possible to squeeze out a few dots of extra colours onto the lids? Or are they quite tightly fit and would touch the plastic frame beneath? Only 6 colours is tough! 😁 I’d probably go for a boring selection of warm and cold yellow, red, blue [which means there would be more time spent mixing than painting 🤣] and then I’d try hard to squeeze a gold and maybe sodalite gen for fun granulation! :))
I was also going to suggest a limited palette of fun colours, that you could just pop from you regular palette into this one, but the problem is Portable Painter only fits W&N equivalent of half pans. At least it was the case with the original palette, is it the same here? X
I think it's the same as the original Portable painter, but I have lots of extra pans from that one. I admit I haven't used the original one despite buying it over a year ago. I'm more excited about the round palette than the micro one. If someone wants a very small palette, I think the metal ones that are credit card size are much better and can fit a lot of colors for such a tiny palette. But let's be real, these kind of micro super limited palettes are really not made for the likes of me...
Irit Landgraf I have used mine at the beginning quite a bit. But not in a very long time either. Honestly for me I think it’s about the half pans are not compatible with others. And when it comes to small number of colours it makes it that more harder to use. But you just gave me an idea, having extra empty half pans of theirs, say 20 and fill them up with your top favourites would be much more user friendly, and then just swap to a certain colour palette each time, bit fiddly but at least gives you an option! 😅
I have a palette I made myself out of a small mint container. It can hold 14 half pans or about 8 full pans. It was my travel palette for a long time. I fount some small triangular dishes as I were in a store. Very useful for big washes or mixing a larger amount of color. I wish I had found something out of melamine, so it will not break if it falls off the table. (Cats are very curious creatures... even as an adult. I guess every cat owner is familiar with that..)
Personally, I love melamine plates or dishes because they are mimicking porcelain. But... hard to find in stores at the moment, at least where I live. But they are really great. Maybe I should look for one if I have time for shopping again. I also was searching for one online but the measurements were weird and I decided to see what I can find local. And I'm still on the hunt for one or two of them.
Lol love me some curious cats! Good luck shopping, hope you find what you want!
Question: I could've sworn that you, in one of your recentish videos, mentioned a paint that was great for the color of oxidised copper (like on old roofs). I can't for the life of me remember which video it was, and I forgot to write down the paint. You wouldn't happen to remember/know which one it was?
No idea what I'd put in a six colour palette right now... I've been buying paint and dot cards like a madman, and now I'm kind of overwhelmed 😂 when in doubt, I'd probably go for a CMYK-esque setup... I've got a lot of new White Nights paints, so maybe their cad lemon medium, cerulean, and rose, and three more... Which three, I have no idea 😂 chromium green oxide granulates very nicely. I like their silver light for mixing sparkly colors, and I guess indigo would be a decent dark.
Honestly, though, I have 35 pans of White Nights in my Pretty Excellent tin, and a normal small tin can fit 14 of them - I'd rather use one of those and bring a collapsible water cup 😂
I think it was my trying urban sketching video?
@@iritlandgraf ooh, yeah, that's the one! Not a recent video at all, I must've watched it sometime lately 😅 I misremembered that you had a paint you liked for that color, but that's not what you say in the video at all 🤦♀️ thanks for the help!
Any warm red with a cool blue mix to make good muted brick or terra-cotta colors. If you are doing a six color palettes, you could pick a warm and a cool of each primary, that will give you endless mixing options. The Jane Blundell website has a lot of good options of triads to help you choose, with info on what sorts of colors and subjects each one is good for.
I would put in the six colour palette the following colours. A transparent lemon yellow a PY3 or a PY175, a PY150 yellow ( Transparent Yellow from WN that is a warm yellow), a Phthalo blue Green Shade and a Phthalo Blue Red Shade ( or an Ultramarine) and Q. Red PR209 and a Magenta, any Magenta. And then I'll had an split primary all primaries palette.
And that is the only selection of colours for such a limited number of colours. If you want an all rounder selection you have to go for a split primary and then mix everything else.
I'm not sure though if that is convenient when you paint outdoors. It might be more compact but it is not more convenient because you have to mix all about everything something that is tricky even if you mix directly on your paper.
Thanks for sharing!
I would include a warm and cool color of yellow, red and blue. Definitively french ultramarine from Winsor & Newton my favorite blue and cobalt blue, nickel azo yellow and lemon yellow, quin magenta and cad red. But I agree with you, it would really would be difficult.
Very difficult, you got some good picks!
I have the Etchr palette and love it for traveling in addition to my bigger travel palette. I use it for unique colors for accents/details/pop of color in my paintings..not paints I use all the time. Maybe paints like the sparkly primaTek ones! I have a large travel palette like U do...I just cannot travel with only 6-12 colors.. That doesn't work for me. In the plastic palette, I'd suggest the warm and cool of the primaries..kinda forces U to b creative with mixing. Enjoy all your pretties!
That is actually a great idea! I kinda wish I'd thought about it myself before I filled this palette. There's no way this would be my one go to travel palette, but for accents it would work really well, I think!
I have the Etchr palette...(though in retrospect, I’d get the one with fewer wells. No one needs 37 colors). It’s much more functional than it seems. I work on the smaller size, usually no larger than 9x12,” and if you give the palette a quick few sprays of water, the small wells become very concentrated areas of color. Very easy to pick up a lot of paint from each one. Yes, it’s overpriced, but I hate buying plastic these days.
One! One! I need at least 37 colors ;) But yeah, I thought they were too tiny, even the 19 are pretty tiny.
Irit Landgraf yes, but it works better than you would think. The hardest part was filling it up, deciding which colors and where. And yes, I guess there are people out there who like to work with a lot of colors...but lately I’ve been reassessing all the paints I buy, especially the convenience colors, and I’ve come to the conclusion that I have too many, and that some are so similar that it’s a waste of $ to have both. Like in the DS 12 pan Inspiration palette. Moonglow and Shadow violet - they are almost the same, very subtle difference. I can do without one of them. Purples and greens, such easy colors to mix, yet I have 4 tubes of purples...with very little difference between the four. I’ve been exploring the idea of using limited palettes, or triads. (Though you can have my Undersea Green when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers...)
i always wonder what those single paint things are called since i always wanted to make my own but i keep forgetting what they are called
Still love love love the red one, which I also have. I love the cuteness of the micro but.....hmmmm for someone with more ability to make decisions. For such a tiny thing large water container.
The red one is my ride or die. That one is going with me FOR SURE!
Love these! I’ve been considering the micro as well! I would probably put potters pink, French ochre & then drawing a blank lol
If you feel drawn to Naples yellow, trust it! I think it would be beautiful mixed with dusk pink & maybe verditer blue to make incredible Italian villa colors! I’d also go with fuschite, but it really depends what you want to paint, look up some of the architecture of buildings where you’re going & have a little play mixing colors that remind you of the place maybe?
Thanks for this overview! 🎨✨💌
Hi! I recently found your channel after a viewer recommended, your videos and artwork are great! Thanks for the tips!
☺️ Thanks! It’s a struggle! 💌
I fell for the cuteness and bought these palettes but i must say i dont reach for them often😋
Yeah I get why...
Ha Ha Ha.... disorganised is my mantra... I must 'declutter/re organise/tidy up' my craft room every few weeks... my husband keeps telling me if I was organised I wouldn't have to do this... LOL... I cant help myself... chaos reigns... but that's the way I am... if it's too tidy I can't find anything! :)
I know, I'm guilty of that too... I wish I could be more organised, but my brain has other plans it seems....
I have the first Etchr one, so cute, love it!
I think my wells are smaller. 💜
Glad you like it Marisa! Yes, seems like both palettes are the same size, so the 19 wells are just a little bigger.
@@iritlandgraf I think so, by what I can see... 😘
Hahaha! You the maximalist couldn’t even get your pinks & turquoise’s in the micro! I would be stumped but was wondering if 2 of the paint parts of the micro would be great (probably purchase 2 micro sets): one box for warms and the other for cools....Or could separate by bright colors and neutrals....Probably more ways to split a set of 12 colors into two boxes of 6 with hmmm one box could be useful for a quick outing scouting a few views needing some thumbnails for later paintings. I need to see if the two boxes plus one set of water/mixing trays can be hooked together & used comfortably!
I’ve a couple suggestions for your travel set and loose landscape but gotta locate my notes! Tomorrow ....
I know Rebecaa, it's ridiculous. I can't think of anyone more unsuitable for these tiny palettes... What can I say, I just love to try everything!
Irit Landgraf : and that curiosity is what we love about you! Curiosity is very positive, a desire for the unknown! Watch Jean Lurssen utube Mixing Grays vid-the kind of loose watercolor landscape you might do but adding a touch or two of brighter color for the native flowers growing on rocky outcrops. Funny I liked the first one better than her final one (will make sense when you see it!). Also watch Michael Soloroyer vid Quinacridone Sienna. He paints an Italian street view. Fascinating look at Quin sienna harmony to get the old buildings. Anyway I think you could take these ideas & run with them! I plan to run with them in my expirementation in the high desert here in Marfa, TX-look it up-I’m surrounded by minimalists with a good sprinkling of experimenters to make it interesting and more galleries than grocery stores. Oh ps some of us see & use color differently. Mixing all colors from just 3 is over rated if you ask me!
I have the Etchr lab palette and I bought it because like you I just had to have it because it is porcelain and small. I use it occasionally but find that it’s easy to contaminate the paints next to each other because they’re so small. If you paint with a fair amount of water the little wells get flooded with water. Overall. It’s a nice porcelain palette and I have never seen another one like it. It’s ok to use but like you said, pricey. Would I buy it again? No
I can understand your issues Paula. I really can't say if it will work for me, but I'm excited to try!
Oh my I don’t think I could choose 6 colours. 12 is the minimum I’d want to choose 6 warm and 6 cool. I noticed from the picture of your micro pallet that you could add 10 colours, just not a lot of paint though 🙁 but perhaps for a trip there might be enough? Sorry I’m not really answering your question lol. Good luck choosing your colours. Though one tip, you might already know, would be that ultramarine blue and burnt umber mixed makes a great black so might save a space if you don’t need to take a black. T x
Thanks for the tips!
I adore the panda set ! Where did you get the set you normally use with the red lid ?
Check out any of my daily sketching videos from this and past month Erica, the description section has all the details and links :)
I do find the micro portable painter more intruiging than the etchr lab palette, since you can attach the micro palette to your sketchbook with a clip! Though both are just very gimmicky in their set up. For the 6 colors, I would add a primary yellow (PY74) that's mid toned, Vermillion or a Pyrrol Color, Rose Madder or your Standart Quin. Rose, French Ultramarine, either Cyan/Cinereous Blue or a Turquoise and my trusted Burnt Sienna! You can fit more in the etchr lab, sure, but Id be only able to set it up on a table or anything, and I don't think it's that bristle friendly with the tiny wells!
Thanks for sharing!
Ohhh my gosh that palette from Italy my daughter would love that
It's such a lovely gift. I had the hardest time picking a design, she has many cute ones!
You are so cute!!! love your chatty videos. I have many palettes, but 4 major ones that are by brand. I have the portable painter but rarely use it since I mostly paint at home. I have yet to actually create my personal palette that would include favorite colors from several brands in one palette. The day may come. LOL
You can do it Renee!! I can't even imagine now using just one brand...
Omg loool 6 colours is too hard to choose. I am troubled with any palette that has less than 24 colours lol
Same!!
I was puzzled by the finger grip on this one too-haha.
Lol it's a tricky one ;)
i saw the etsy shop for the panda one. i want but shes on vacations i dont know how expensive they are... i do want to support her but its just a tray too. if its not that expensive i could pay but i doubt lol
They are expensive because they are handmade. Not everyone wants to spend that amount on a paint palette. Make a decision you're comfortable with and fits your budget :)
Irit, what were the paints your daughter was using??
Paul Rubens shimmery paints, I have a video for them on my channel I think...
I can not WAIT to see what 6 COLORS you choose for that micro palette!!!
Coming soon!
I would bring DS Hansa yellow, New gamb, Parrot Scarlet, Quinacridon Rose, phthalate Blue, French ultr.....these i got in little 5 ml they came with a chart on how many colors you could mix...
Great picks, very versatile!
Hahaha it's a really funny video Irit. I totally can feel the urge to buy these nice stuff now and then and I really Iove the small ceramic palet. For myselve I definitely are going for your large one 😁 💟
Glad you liked it!!
Only six colors, that's a tough one....Nickel Azo Yellow and French UM for sure, maybe Quin Rose or even Quin Magenta, definitively Cobalt Teal or Turquoise *lol* and I'd need Green Apatite (you don't for sure *haha) and a dark (like Hematite Genuine) ...weird combo 😂
Janina your picks are very similar to what I went with :)
are you going to fill these tiny palettes on camera? i'd love to see!
Absolutely!
It’s a major pain in the butt to fill. Just deciding on what to put in it took me days...then trying to neatly squeeze the paint into those tiny wells. After it dries, the paint sinks in and there is never enough in there, so you have to add more. Have toothpicks handy to stir and push the pigment into the wells. I didn’t, I was using a pushpin. It was messy.
Thanks for the tips! It went better than I expected, but obviously it's easier to fill larger wells...
Despite having a lot of palettes I did love the Portable Painter Micro. I got mine from Indiegogo. I do have the original one. I love both. I really want the one from Etchr. Despite being a color hoarder 😂
Yup they are too cute to resist!!
It si very important to mix colors so it is a challenge to have only 6 in this micro pallet. In my opinion it is a good pallet
let's see, i'd fill mine with a lemon yellow, a reddish magenta, phthalo blue, PR242 (a red orange), sennelier turquoise green, and a lilac :) can't wait to see your choices!
Sounds great!
The panda is just REALLY PRETTY. But I’d be really afraid of damaging it if I had it...
No risk no fun ;)
Haha...I'd turn back if I were you. Haha you're hysterical. Famous last words..."I guess I could always read the directions" Haha Haha I want that on my tombstone.
Yup reading instructions is so 2019...
Hahah I have also been all about looking for palettes😁 i need something to fit I think 16 full pans in but those metal ones that seem very perfect for me (like this one in 06:19 ) are too expensive for me.. So I scanned my whole kithchen and lots of stores but the perfect box hasn't occured yet😂😂
Toni, maybe check out the White Nights empty palette in black? If memory serves it wasn't that expensive. Also, my red one I am obsessed with is about 13$ I think, hard to beat!
@@iritlandgraf I love both of those but I can't find neither of them in any local art store so I thought about ordering from Jackson's but what worryes me is the shipping cost since I live in Bosnia and Herzegovina(which is kiiinda close to Austria but is not in European Union) and also how long it could take to arrive...
You can fill a cart and see how much shipping is. I usually don't pay shipping at all when I reach around 50 euros.
Oh as for the red palette, I ordered mine from Amazon US with international shipping. It was about 20-25 dollars including shipping which I still think is a good price.
O thanks for all the info Irit! Really helfpful🙏💕💕💕😊
I take classes from Stephanie Mun Law on Patreon it is how I found out about this pallet I do a lot of miniature gift cards for sale so this is perfect for my needs hope you enjoy yours
Thanks for sharing!!
You can't go to Italy and not take Naples yellow!! Lol. And I'd also take buff titanium. :-)
Absolutely!
6:10 best part ever!
Thanks Laura!
I've really wanted the Etchr palette for ages, but I keep putting off buying it because of the cost. I'm notoriously annoying to buy gifts for (I never want anything 🤷♀️), though, so at least I actually have a reply when my family starts asking about birthday gifts in a few months 😂
The 19 well palette is the same size as the original, with fewer but larger wells.
The Portable Painter... I like the original, but I have no interest in getting the micro. I am very, very picky and don't like that it's so thick when closed (relative to the other proportions), and I have a strong dislike of shallow water containers. It's just not my thing 🤷♀️ I like that the original has two water containers, and I really liked M.D. Campbell's hack/modification to it (a bit labor intensive, but it lets you fit another pan on each row and I am so here for that - maximum space efficiency 👍)
Oh I'm notorious too... I have so many things (I do gift myself often ;) ) and my poor husband never knows what's the latest and greatest in the art world ;)
I watch a small channel "her billowing heart" she actually painted a building with similar colors to yours and some new ones . Might be worth a peak.
She has such a lovely color sense, I recently found her, lovely videos!
I'm going to Turkey in 10 days time for two whole months. My travel kit is not small 😁 I also have to take all the paper I need as nowhere nearby to get any resupply. I'll have at least my big red palette like yours and maybe one other lol.
Wow Christine have fun! I was supposed to go in June, but Covid happened... I hope you'll get lots of painting done, and use up all that paper!!
@@iritlandgraf Thanks. I never do as much as I hope but you never know 😁
Blessings xoxo 💋
Thanks! Take care!
hmm.. Italian countryside.. seems like you may need some urban sketcher earthy colors.. monte amiata natural sienna popped to mind.. italian burnt sienna.. 😂.. you can sub minnessota pipestone genuine or maybe piemonte genuine.. quin burnt orange..transp. red oxide? I know liz steel likes to mix m.a. nat sienna with potter's pink.. mixes with ultramarine blue and burnt sienna (or similar) give nice neutrals.. like here :) www.parkablogs.com/picture/burnt-sienna-pbr-7-or-pr-101#:~:text=These%20are%20the%20various%20Burnt%20Sienna%20and%20Burnt%20Sienna-like%20colours
Thanks Kate! Great suggestions!
Damn your funny... love it
Thanks!
I saw the palette being advertised. I can’t look at it. It triggers me, trypophobia. Makes me feel squeamish
Oh no, don't look!
Irit Landgraf Lolol