Some of you lucky people who live close to the Wet Paint Art store already have your 2018 custom Schmincke palette in your hot little hands. I’m so jealous, lol. Have you made any pretty art with those luscious colors? If you have, please tag me on Instagram, @justaddwatersilly is my handle. I’d love to see…
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Learn To Make Swatch Cards
I put all my new paint onto swatch cards so I can compare colors between brands. Swatch cards also allow you to compare your stash with other colors you’re jonesing to purchase! These swatches help you to stop duplication of colors. Who wants to waste money buying paint you won’t be using for a year?…
Adding Extra Colors To Your Custom Schmincke Palette
Extra Colors Suggestions I don’t know if you’ve heard but Wet Paint has a New custom Schmincke palette that is on Pre-Order now. I have talked all about what’s in the palette and what you get HERE but I thought I’d talk about extra colors you may want to add to that palette. The tin…
How To Make A DIY Palette
The other day I wrote a couple of posts. One heralding how great Hahnemuhle Watercolor Postcards are (review here) and another Giving a tin of postcards away. I wanted to do a new post showing the savvy artist how to make their own palette using that gorgeous tin of Hahnemuhle Postcards. The tin measures 6.5″…
PRE-ORDERS Are Now Being Taken!
Add caption YES! The day is finally here, the day we’ve all been anticipating for a month! *Applause* PRE-ORDER DAY!! Wet Paint just contacted me and it’s official, you can now pre-order the NEW Schmincke square palette I blogged about here. They are anticipating a large number of orders and will be fulfilling them in…
NEW! Custom Schmincke Square Palette
Previous Wet Paint Custom Schmincke Palette Holy COW!! I heard from Kate at Wet Paint and she confirmed that indeed they ARE making a new CUSTOM SCHMINCKE PALETTE for October! Yes! THIS October. They’re not waiting until 2018 which means we don’t have to wait either. I’m thrilled. I didn’t get one of the last wonderful…
PRICE ALERT! Whiskey Painter’s Travel Palette
Whiskey Painters have been well known to make the best, most sturdy palettes. Now they have brought out a much lighter travel palette that is great for Plein Air painting. It technically the palette holds 12 half pans but in pictures, artists are showing that not only can you get an extra pan on the…
Home Made Watercolor Palettes
My Doodlewash Guest Artist post is up now! Go here to read all about my journey with watercolor. I’d love to hear your comments so please leave me a message and if you’d like to join the Doodlewash community go here and learn all about the new platform where you can get to know artist, post…
It’s Paint Porn Time Again!
Calling all artists, calling all artists! Yes, I know how much we ALL love looking at other artists’ stuff. It’s one of my very favorite guilty pleasures, drooling over someone else’s palette, paint bag, travel set or art shopping haul. So, since I just had my 47th birthday on Wednesday, I thought I’d show &…
Watercolor: My Palette
My Cotman Palette This post has been a long time coming. I’ve been working on getting all the colors I wanted for the last couple of years. I started out with Cotman Student watercolor but found them frustrating. When I was mixing paint, I found I got frustrated because what I got was muddier than I wanted…