Setting Up Your Watercolor Painting Palette, cheapjoes.com

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Cheap Joe demonstrates how he sets up his watercolor palette. He explains how he lays out his colors from warm colors to cool colors keeping everything in order.

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Hi, I'm Joe from Cheap Joe's. I'm going to show you how I set up my watercolor palette in hope that if you need help setting yours up it will help you.

This is the piggy-back palette that I use. This is the lid. This is the palette. I've put a couple of tubes of paint out already to show you how I do it. I lay the colors that I've bought around my palette from warm to cool. Then when I pick up the tube and put the paint in the palette, I write right there with a sharpie pen "RS", which for me stands for Raw Sienna. Then watch this closely, I fill this well up just like that and by doing that with each color the air only gets to the top and not to the sides or the bottom and it won't dry out quickly and it will stay really really nice. I'm going to jump over to one of the blues. This is ultra-marine blue and I'm going to do the same thing and squeeze out enough to fill up the well. Then put the cap on.

So, I go from warm, the warmest color which is bumble bee yellow, all the way around through here filling each one up to the coolest colors which are the blues. So, that's how I do my palette and on this website you will be able to see the colors that I actually use in my palette. I'm going to move and set my old palette here to show you. You can see that I've used it a lot. It's well well used and I love the way this works.

Well I hope this has been helpful. Be sure to look for our other tips that we will periodically put on the website for you. Thank you so much for your business and happy art.

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[pumkin54]

@thegreatbasher As a relative newcomer, maybe you shouldn't be giving advice, especially when it's blatantlly untrue. Go on a forum like WetCanvas and you'll find that a majority of watercolorists lay their paints out on their palettes or refill pans with them and allow them to dry. We're not all rich. Paints such as M.Graham or Blockx use honey and therefore the paints rewet easily and/or never completely dry. Or you can add glycerine or honey yourself to make rewetting easy.

[thegreatbasher]

@flaskhalss To be honest as a relative ewcomer to the hobby I would strong avoid doing this. They say it is not waste of paint but IS REALLY IS!!! Just put out as much as you need and then wash your palette for next time so you get brighter cleaner mixes. The idea of putting a LARGE amount of paint in to wells of the palette and letting them dry is a dreadful waste of quality pigment. It will dry out and go hard and gritty. You will NOT really be able successfully lift the colours away.

[TheMaineMariner]

Good start, but why did you not complete your choices ? ? ?

[Drivenbyfire1]

cool thank you

[LottieSue]

I just bought this same pallet! Lots of wells and I only have a few paints to strart out with. Can you tell me the names of all your paints around the pallet? I'm not sure how many wells to leave open between the colors I have.

Thanks!

Lindielee

[Roytheartist]

Thats great advice aboit filling the wells, thanks!

[flaskhalss]

Thank you for a great video!

I just have one question regarding the tube colours. When you've filled the well with paint, how long can you use that paint? Do you need to clean it and put new paint in between sessions or can you keep the paint?