A Watercolor Sketch of My Palette

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A Watercolor Sketch of My Palette

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SusieG Studio

September 27, 2022

I thought it would be a fun project to create a sketch of my watercolor palette that I’m currently using.

I did a blog post a little over a year ago on how I filled my half pans. You can find my post here.

The mixing areas of my palette still looks fairly new. That’s because I enjoy using my porcelain tray to mix my colors in. When I’m at my studio desk, I have a bit more room to accommodate this larger palette and my porcelain mixing tray. I can also create larger pieces of artwork and my mixing tray can hold a bit more paint.

I’ve decided to stick with this one palette for the next week or two and get reacquainted with the paint colors and get my palette a bit dirty. This will help me figure out what colors I want to keep for a scaled down palette of colors for urban sketching.

Palette: Meeden Empty Watercolor Tin Box Palette Paint Case with 24 piece half pans

Paints: Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors (15ml tubes)

Brush: Cheap Joe’s Golden Fleece Synthetic Travel Brush in size 6

Paper: Master’s Touch Fine Art Studio Watercolor 140lb cold press paper in size 6″x8″

4 responses to “A Watercolor Sketch of My Palette”

artsyoubliette

October 8, 2022

Hello! Sorry for just barging into your blog, but I have a question regarding a swatch you did – for Diamine Garland ink… I just bought it yesterday and I just get a singular turquoise colour. It’s super pretty, sure, but just blue. I have no idea what I am doing wrong, but there isn’t even a hint of that spectacular granulation that everyone is promoting… Did I buy a wrong ink or something?

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1. SusieG Studio
  
  October 9, 2022
  
  For shimmering inks, I give my bottle of ink a good shake. I turn it upside down to see if I can get the shimmers sitting at the bottom to move around a bit. Afterwards, I will let the bottle sit for a few minutes to let the inky bubbles die down. I give the bottle one more shake to get the shimmers to move around and then fill my pen.
  
  With Garland, I had a ton a sheen appear on my swatch with a bit of shimmer. My small Inkvent bottle had a small amount of shimmer.
  
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Margaret Albrizio

February 12, 2026

When I looked at this Meeden palette, it seemed like the individual tin trays wiggled in the tray a lot. Do they fall out? is the wiggling a bother?

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1. SusieG Studio
  
  February 25, 2026
  
  Hi Margaret…thank you for your questions. In general metal palettes/containers with a metal tray (holds the individual pans) will move around a bit within the container. The metal tray has two rows with metal tracks where I place my pans into. The metal tray that’s in mine has a metal lip on the short end that helps to keep the tray in the container. The metal lip is also used to lift the tray out.
  
  Will they fall out? No. When I close my palette, I flip the flat metal panel over my palette. This sits somewhat flush over the container. Once I flip the cover over the palette everything is contained.
  
  When my palette is full of paint pans, I hardly notice any noise. When my palette is half full, the pans will move around the metal track and make some noise. Let me know if you have any additional questions.
  
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