When Art Toolkit recently offered an emerald green Folio palette for Sketcher Fest Edmonds, I ordered one. No, I was not attending the event. No, I decidedly Did Not need another palette. But isn’t it a lovely shade of green? 🙄
The quote is from a favorite movie we re-watched recently, “The Magic of Belle Isle”. A funny quote, considering I only draw what I am looking at. Perhaps for me it refers to the undefinable “something” that makes an ordinary object something special.
My black Folio stays on my art table containing 15 large double pans of my most often used pigments. Inside a living room side table drawer is a Travel & Sketch Folio that holds paints especially chosen for Texas gulf coast, prairies, and piney woods — and space to hold colored pencil leads that fit in a clutch pencil.
This Folio holds a combination of watercolors plus a limited gouache palette. It will be in my art toolkit, ready to grab when we travel or go camping and I don’t know what I might use. Of course, that depends on our actually traveling or camping . . . something we don’t see at the moment but we are looking forward to.
The tiny Demi Palette in the sketch holds a limited set of watercolors I recently put together just to play, including Schmincke’s Shire Blue, a lovely granulating greenish, grayish blue. Today Bill and I saw a car of the same color — an intriguing shade that wasn’t really any of the three colors but all three at once.
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