Angela Fehr Watercolour | How to set up a palette for watercolor painting. Tips & Tricks @angelfehr | Uploaded February 2019 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
What's the best kind of palette to use? What colors do you add? Fresh paint every time, or should you pre-fill the pans? These questions are more are answered in this video!
For many years I used the very economical Reeves palette as it holds lots of colors and includes a large mixing area. Now that I do less mixing, and use even MORE colors, I have invested in a larger palette made by Robax. This round palette holds full tubes of paint with space left over, it comes with a lid, and you can add a carousel so it rotates. Ordering the inserts makes it easy to fill and arrange colors and keep track of what is what.
If you're filling a palette for the first time, don't feel like you have to fill it completely. Try out colors first and get to know what hues you love and which ones don't need a permanent place in the palette.
Plan your palette around your painting habits. If you are a sketcher who needs a compact kit for travel, you will need to carefully curate your colors to fit in a smaller palette. If you love big, loose abstract painting, you need a palette that can hold a lot of paint and bigger brushes.
The most important thing is to find a method that works for you. You get to decide how to make your painting process more comfortable and suited to your working method.
Join the free Beginner Bootcamp, February 27-March 1, 2019 by signing up here: bit.ly/2GzarYf
Supplies to Help you Paint More Freely: (I receive a small commission when you order using the links below)
Reeves plastic palette: bit.ly/2nejTbV
Robax palettes at robax.com/palettes.html
Glad Press & Seal wrap keeps my palette from messes when I travel: amzn.to/2N0iUVO
My favorite brush is the Escoda Versatil #10 rigger: bit.ly/Rigger10
I love watercolour and believe that every painter can become their own favorite artist! Cultivate your own fearless artist mindset by signing up for my free "Fearless Artist" email series: bit.ly/2NFSQ1e
What's the best kind of palette to use? What colors do you add? Fresh paint every time, or should you pre-fill the pans? These questions are more are answered in this video!
For many years I used the very economical Reeves palette as it holds lots of colors and includes a large mixing area. Now that I do less mixing, and use even MORE colors, I have invested in a larger palette made by Robax. This round palette holds full tubes of paint with space left over, it comes with a lid, and you can add a carousel so it rotates. Ordering the inserts makes it easy to fill and arrange colors and keep track of what is what.
If you're filling a palette for the first time, don't feel like you have to fill it completely. Try out colors first and get to know what hues you love and which ones don't need a permanent place in the palette.
Plan your palette around your painting habits. If you are a sketcher who needs a compact kit for travel, you will need to carefully curate your colors to fit in a smaller palette. If you love big, loose abstract painting, you need a palette that can hold a lot of paint and bigger brushes.
The most important thing is to find a method that works for you. You get to decide how to make your painting process more comfortable and suited to your working method.
Join the free Beginner Bootcamp, February 27-March 1, 2019 by signing up here: bit.ly/2GzarYf
Supplies to Help you Paint More Freely: (I receive a small commission when you order using the links below)
Reeves plastic palette: bit.ly/2nejTbV
Robax palettes at robax.com/palettes.html
Glad Press & Seal wrap keeps my palette from messes when I travel: amzn.to/2N0iUVO
My favorite brush is the Escoda Versatil #10 rigger: bit.ly/Rigger10
I love watercolour and believe that every painter can become their own favorite artist! Cultivate your own fearless artist mindset by signing up for my free "Fearless Artist" email series: bit.ly/2NFSQ1e
