 Okay guys, welcome to another video. I am going to show you what I did here with this stuff and why I did it So let's get going. All right, so what you see me here doing is Taking a small mini children's watercolor palette and popping the little cake watercolors out. I Want to turn this into a small little custom mini palette. I've done a number of these videos in the past This one's for a specific reason. I've given away a lot of the mini palettes that I've made FYI I'm not giving this one away though All right, so I'm popping the little cakes out and I'm choosing Tubes of watercolor for my stash of tubes and colors I think at least initially are the ones that I want to use for this and I Take the cakes and I set them aside in a little cup and then I fill the Watercolor box up with the tube watercolors. I have a specific kind of an order. I Generally like those colors to be in And so I'm gonna work on sort of a color like that I I put the reds and the red and the red violet at the end here towards the paint gray I'm not sure why I did that. It just felt like the right thing to do. But anyway, it works All right, so now we're gonna switch back to my table and here we are All right, so once I took those little cakes out I made a small color chart little key to go with this Mini watercolor palette because no matter what I do with it I'm gonna want to know what those colors look like on paper. They always look different sometimes slightly different sometimes massively different Dry in the pan versus how they look on paper. So we have a color key We're gonna leave this open for a few days just like this so that it can all of these can dry down really well Then we can close it up and I can put it over here and I'll show you what that is in just a minute This is another one of these small these are mini children's watercolor palettes. They are It just says on the back eight mini disc set I did find the link where these are from Online and I will put it in the video description if I forget somebody let me know They come with a little mini brush and then eight colors of watercolor. So when I took these Cakes out of here. I just picked them out real carefully with an exacto knife They're just they have just like rubber cement in the bottom and some of them like this black one in this palette You actually could just pull out very easily They they're not hard to get out. I Was interested in finding out if I took the cakes and I just leave them sit in a cup of a little cup of water For a day or two What would happen to these little they're cheap inexpensive kids watercolors? But I thought they'd be interesting to play with to make sort of a kind of inky thing with and if nothing else I could make Some distressed papers with the colors I've done this before with extra inks and sprays and I've just basically taken a stack of white Dollar store drawing paper and just kind of dump or sprayed them on the paper and Literally stack them one on top of the other let them dry and then pull them apart and they make something interesting So we could do that with this and we might I'm gonna just leave these sit here in my art room For at least a couple of days and see what happens You can see there. They're taking a really long time to dissolve. You can still see the little pill that's in there a little cake So it'll be interesting to see if they dissolve how they dissolve how long it takes These little cups are ones that I've saved from yogurt or I picked them up at the dollar store These are actually the cups. I use when I'm mixing resin. So when I'm done with these all wash them out Put them back in my resin drawer All right, I have this Organizer this is from Things are falling out of it already. This is from Michaels. I actually bought this last year It's from their recollections Planner series. I do believe they're still selling a version of this I'm probably not this exact one. I've had this in my stash for a while it came with some of the inserts and some paper I bought separate this clear zipper pocket and This pocket pen pencil pouch here that I have on the outside in the inside pocket here You can see that I have these other These are the Bible high gliders I love to add color to my sketches with these and I just thought of something that might help keep them in The planner I want to put them here for a couple of different reasons one being this pouch is full So I just thought I'm going to turn them backwards put them These are credit card slots, but we're not going to use them for that So I'm going to put the pen here then I'm going to clip this part here this That part into one of the credit card slots and that should stay really well So we'll put those all here okay, and then I have there's another pocket back here. I could put Things in something. I want to stick in here. Maybe inspiration photos in this pocket out here I Have taken this one And I'll empty it so you can see what I put in here, and I'll talk about why I put it in here Okay, so number one a pencil sharpener is in here. I have a three of these aqua color peps by Maypad helix color pencils they sent me a set of these and these are I believe water soluble I may keep all of three of these in here I may keep only one in here and take the other two and substitute regular color pencils I think that would be more useful for me I just grabbed three and actually I think I'm going to do that So I think I'm going to keep the blue one in here We'll change those out. This is also water soluble. This is a Stabilo all pencil a Regular pencil and this is actually this is just one I grabbed by regular. I mean regular graphite But this is not a 2b. This is a 6h. So this is a hard pencil that won't leave a very dark line a white Stabilo Signo uniball gel pen a a favorite cast-out pit pen in a fine point which is That is not water soluble a water soluble pilot varsity pen to water brushes and of course the pencil sharpener and Then in the pen holder that's on the planner. I just put a regular big pen. It's one of my favorite pens to draw with Let's get to Regular color pencils actually now that I'm thinking about it You know what? Let's take that other one out and let's use some of these These are our small miniature kids color pencils. They're great for something like this what we're going to use I'm going to use this for And they actually will fit a little better in here because they're short And we're going to just grab some colors. I can fit four of these four colors I could probably fit more than that and they'll fit in here better than these long pencils these are by craze art and There are a set of miniature color pencils and this happens to be a set I do this I pull colors from the set to put into travel kits and stuff So that's what that's about So now I have to figure out how I got all that in there. We go. So this is in this pouch that's Attached with elastic to the front cover of the planner We have this zipper pocket that we talked about a minute ago and the reason this is here We're going to use this one because that one's still drying is we can put our watercolor kit here It came with this clear plastic dashboard. I Cut some watercolor sheets to fit in here and then punch holes with them This is the hole punch I use for any of my planners that have six rings. I like this one because The spacing of the holes is adjustable to fit a lot of different planners So basically what I did is I left one in the middle and I just pushed the other one And I just played with it until I got the whole pot the holes For this punch in the right position on a scrap piece of paper So I've got some Strathmore watercolor paper another divider some of the note paper that came with the Planner in case I just want to do a quick sketch and the most important thing I thought this journal would be used for is working on my book from notebook from the sketchbook project Which is why I put those gel pens in here. This is thin paper in The notebook if you don't know what the sketchbook project is I'll put a link to it also in the video description it is a Um The way it says on the cover the world's largest library of artists books Crowdsource from every corner of the globe so you buy the sketchbook from them You pay for the book they send it to you you fill it with art and Send it back to them and it's forever in their library of sketchbooks of art books It travels the world people get to see your art and they will digitize it for you I think it's a great way to give back to the world and the art community. It's got thin It's not super thin paper, but it's thin ish paper. It's like drawing paper. Um, which is why I said I want to have the Bible High gliders in here and the BIC pen because you don't want to use anything that's going to show through too much on the paper I want I have a specific I Think I think I know what I'm gonna do with it. It's got quite a few pages. I don't remember how many Saying our little thing It might say Doesn't say I don't see anything that says it probably says somewhere on the website, but it's quite a few pages You can tell That's quite a few pages and I have a particular sketch a project sketching project I'll give you that much in mind to do with this so That's gonna live in the back here and then my what my one of the other plans I will divulge to you is I can then close this up and I can take this with me every time I want to work on One of the sheets of watercolor to do maybe some urban sketching or I want to work on my sketch work project I can just take this with me and do it and so I love this idea and this could be sort of your at-home Travel kit. I have my other one that I take with me when I'm flying or driving or traveling that way And you could use that one for this too but I had this planner to be honest with you and I could just have this out in the front room by my handbag and Just have it sitting there and grab my handbag grab my art planner and we're good to go so whether you're going to the doctors or you're going on a Road trip for the afternoon with your family or maybe you're just wandering around to the front yard or the backyard in your neighborhood you can make a little journal like this to do some art with and have some fun and Just just draw just sketch just try just practice I think it's a really good idea you can customize it to be what you need to have in it The idea is not to put too much though challenge yourself to Limited supplies a teeny tiny watercolor palette if you need to have one If I didn't have this sketchbook in here, I wouldn't have the gel high gliders. I Would only have the other stuff challenge yourself by limiting your supplies you could do this as a glue book and You could put images in this flap in this pocket and there's actually Another flap back here that you could put an envelope or a pod a little bag with images in it and then in your Zipper pocket you could make sure you have maybe fewer pens and pencils and a glue stick but put a glue stick in there so Really think about having something like this that you can just grab and go to do your art with to have some fun Don't forget to check out the video description for those links We talked about for the scratch sketchbook project and these little mini are watercolor palettes if you want to you know Get one to play with it was I think $2.71 or something. You do have to order them I haven't found any place near me that has them in stock You could of course look for something like this at your local Japanese dollar store Or your regular dollar store something really mini that's in the kids art section that you can just pop these out and put artist water Colors in all right. That's it for today. Check out the video description Think about supporting my endeavors here on YouTube to bring you free content and Lessons and things over in the Facebook groups if you would There is a tip jar link. There is my Etsy shop link my happy mail address all that stuff It's in the video description so check it out. That's it for today Don't forget the most important thing go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys