I usually use travel palettes containing a lot fewer colors, though I do have a black Pocket Palette that holds mini pans of my new palette arrangement of 4 rows, each a different type of “primaries + green + neutral”. An earlier blog post on my studio set can be found HERE. I also made a color card of this basic set for the back of my clear phone case:
But I recently began following Barbara Luel’s art online — another fabulous sketcher! She carries 26 colors in 2 Pocket Pallets, one palette with warm colors plus neutrals and the other with greens, blues, and violets. I keep to my basic 20 colors plus a handful of “extra just-for-fun” colors (turquoise and several with extra granulation). I own 2 other Pocket Palettes and thought how cool would it be to have them hold every color I own. I checked my supply drawer . . . and had exactly 8 more colors! So I filled them in roughly the same manner as Barbara does, fitting a few in wherever I could.
And the best reason I can think of for carrying every color I own with me? A wonderful book I bought years ago, Daring Color by Anne Abgott! Instead of mixing colors on the palette, she allows similar colors to “mingle” into each other when placed side by side, creating gorgeous glowing results. She uses a huge number of paint colors — much more than my 28. But I can really play around at this color-mingling with all my colors set up like this.
I love sketching but I also love playing with my sketching toys! Don’t you?
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