09 April 2018

a cleaning day


I store tubes and sticks of watercolor in a deep drawer of an antique wooden toolbox, with paints already squeezed into pans and allowed to dry stored in a shallow drawer just above the paint drawer. Over time, it gets vary messy, though I dotry to keep the paints in roughly the same order as I place them in palettes. There were several colors that I’ve stopped using or some I tried due to other sketchers’ experiences — I decided to clean these out and settle on just the ones actually used.

Some of those on the right hand side are only used once in a great while, or only in a special granulated palette. So my “core” palette is usually made up with 10 to 14 of these. I will miss the old quinacridone gold (no longer available). I still have some squeezed and dried in pans. But it has been removed from the overall stash.

2 comments:

  1. Enjoyed seeing your color list and sketch of pallettes. Inspires me to get my own in order. Hope you have a blessed week.

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    1. It’s actually quite relaxing (and fun!) to “play” with my colors!
      Blessings to you as well!

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