What you’ll need:
1. Altoid Mints tin
Or any other box of your choosing! I like to keep my breath minty fresh and am too much of a nostalgic person to throw away my Altoids boxes, so it’s great to reuse them this way. Another option is to use pill boxes.
2. Watercolor half pans
There are half pans and full pans, but I like half pans because I’m not a marathon painter and don’t need much paint at one time. Also because I can fit more colors in my travel palette. I bought mine on Amazon. They’re quite pricey, so substitutes I’d recommend are water bottle caps or beer caps.
3. Watercolor tube paints
I’ve only ever had the pre-filled pans in my Sakura Koi and Prima Confections kits, so this was my first time using tube paints. I got this Royal & Langnickel Medium Tin Watercolor Set for really cheap on Amazon. I was going to get Reeves, but as you can tell, I love tin sooo my mind was made.
4. Other things you may need are:
– Double sided tape
– Watercolor paper
– Scissors
– Acetate paper
– Paintbrush
– Water
HOW To make watercolor travel palette:
2. Gather watercolor tubes. Arrange and plan colors.
3. Carefully fill half pans with paint from the tube.
4. Use double-sided tape or other adhesive and adhere to bottom of tin.
5. Affix pans over the tape/adhesive.
6. Measure tin cover and cut watercolor paper and acetate into slightly smaller dimensions, so that it will fit inside of the tin.
7. Paint each color in the order that the watercolor pans are arranged.
8. Use the water to control the opacity of the swatch, going from opaque to transparent. This will help you in the future to know what the color looks like both opaque and transparent.
9. Insert color chart in the top half of the tin, and the acetate paper layered over it. The acetate paper will block the paint from touching the color chart.
10. And you’re done!
Just a fun little painting of sabrina’s aura I made during a girls’ wine and paint night.
And that’s it!
So simple, right?
I’m still a total noob, but it’s fun to paint with watercolors, especially from this cute little travel palette.
Thanks. I’ll make one when I have time. I’m hoping that it works for me so that I can start painting with wet paints again.
Now if I can just find my paints!