 Okay, hey everybody, how are you today? Let's see. One person watching but that could be me watching myself. Maybe I'm talking to myself. Let's see. I'm gonna dig through some bags of watercolor paint here. I'm gonna need my reading glasses for this. There's three people watching so it's more than just me watching myself. Woohoo! Hi guys. So I have to do this first just because if I don't do it now it's not going to get done. And then we'll paint something. In the meantime while I'm hunting up colors maybe you guys want to ask me questions. I've got Grumbacher, Van Gogh and Winter Newton paints here. And I'm gonna fill this extra teeny tiny watercolor palette that I made out of an Altoids Smalls tin. The video for how I did this is already edited and it will be loaded soon. I made two of them. This is the one I'm gonna keep and this is the one I'm gonna fill and share. Hey Lisa, I'm trying to figure out what colors I have that I want to put in here. I am. So I'm making actually a spare one to give away. Sorry about the crinkly plastic. Let me dump these all out so that we don't have to deal with that crinkly plastic noise. There's no shortage of watercolor tubes around here. So recently my YouTube channel hit 6,000 people. And I am going to make a small mini travel kit to give away and I'll show you guys exactly what I'm gonna do. But first we got to find paint to go in here. Let's see. So I want white. I know I have white in here somewhere because I just bought white. On clearance to Hobby Lobby. I love that place because I used up all my white paint and of course I just tossed it in the bag and now it's mixed up with everything else. I don't know where it is because you know me and my brilliant ideas. I just dump stuff out on the table. Well welcome. Live is always much more fun. I just treat it kind of like you guys are visiting me in my art room while I'm doing stuff. I just had the tube of Chinese. Well here it is. Holy cow. So I'm going to try to put similar colors to the colors I put in here. And I am going to write the brand names down if I can. These are a selection of colors that work for me that I really like. A couple of blues. A red. A pink because I just hate, you know, I'm really a lazy crafter. So mixing pink in my watercolors is not my... I don't like it. I like this rose matter better. We'll put that in there. So it's not my thing. So I like to have certain colors. I don't have to mix like turquoise and pink. But I like to have a nice blue red and orange or a gold color. A yellow, micellum and a yellow, a teal, a green, a pure blue, a purple, a dark brown or a paint's gray and white. I have an addiction to travel boxes and I'll show you the ones... I'll show you a few of the ones I've gotten in recently in a minute. I have... it's a problem. I have a big addiction. Oh, Seabia. A big addiction to travel boxes. I own that. I'm going to put a purple. I like purple. It's one of those colors that if you can help it, you don't want to have to mix. Looking for like an ultramarine blue. I'm looking for... I mean, and you can buy travel boxes. Of course you can. Every paint manufacturer on the planet makes some kind of travel box. But my favorite brand is Daniel Smith. But as you can see by the selection here, I do use all the brands. Daniel Smith is my favorite. But I am by no means a paint snob. I really have a hard time finding one that I dislike. So I want to put an orange in there or a gold color. And I think I'm going to put vermilion. And then we want something that's teally. Let's see. Some of these I picked up on clearance. Watercolor paint doesn't really go bad. So if the tube dries up, just crack it open. And sorry, I need a scratch piece of paper. Hang on. Just crack it open and then maybe mix it with some gum Arabic or other binder. It's a pretty color, but that's not the color I'm looking for to add to this palette. And crunch it up and add it to some gum Arabic and mix it up good and it should be fine. Magani's blue might work. Oh, here, turquoise. All right. And my goal is to use up some of these tubes because I have a lot of paint. So all right. So the first thing, whatever you if you end up making your own travel palette, you know, of course, the first thing is to get the case together. Personally, I like at least 10 colors. I can make it work with less and I have made it work with less. But 10 colors is a good selection. If your choices are Windsor Newton or Golden Quar watercolor paints, then I would say probably Windsor Newton. There's nothing wrong with Quar, but they're more expensive. These are Windsor Newton Codman and some of these are Windsor Newton Professional and the Windsor Newton paints are very affordable. The professional ones, generally speaking, are a lot more expensive like this one. This was originally $10 a tube. And I think these other ones, which are the student grade, were like four. Daniel Smith is going to be a lot more and so will Quar. Van Gogh are usually inexpensive. They're $4.59 a tube at Hobby Lobby. Lately, they've been in clearance, so I don't know if that means they're not carrying them anymore. I have some Dick Blick, generic Dick Blick store brands, and they're actually pretty good. They're not expensive either. All of these are affordable paints. Yeah, exactly. And the nice thing about this little case is I was carrying it around in this little box, which is from some paper clips I bought at Target. And everything fit in here except for my little journal, which I kind of wanted to carry with me. But I can make this work and there's no way that doesn't fit in my handbag. You can also, though, make it work in one of these photo storage cube boxes. And you can fit a little small journal in here or a notebook, some watercolor paper, a water brush. Everything you need will fit in here. So now that I've got my case made, and again, there's going to be a video that comes out and how exactly I did this, and it's a little bit fiddly, but it does work. Okay, so the first thing we got to do is make a color key. So I got to draw some squares on this little teeny tiny piece of paper, because you can't really tell from just the paints being here in the case, really what colors they are if you don't have a little swatch of them. Now you could line the lid of this box with UPO, which is water-resistant, and doesn't absorb anything, and that would give you a mixing space. But I think that you would be better served, and I think what I'm going to do is take the lid of whatever box that you're using, whether you're using one this size or a bigger one, and line the inside of the box with the UPO paper. Why bother to do that? Because the UPO is white, and you'll be able to tell what the color is against the white paper. And because it's not absorbent, you could just wash it off. I'm not worried about these squares being even or anything, but they're really teeny tiny. Okay, so this is the time when you get at your teeny tiny print. Yes, the pigment that they use in the paint changes the price, and so especially if you're on a budget, you want to be aware of that, and if white fastness is of a deep concern for you, then as you're picking your colors, like Daniel Smith has one called Opera Pink, that I love, but it's not light fast, hardly at all. They also have, I think it's rhodonite genuine, and that one's a very similar color, but it's light fast, so you want to have all of those decisions in mind. I think I'm going to be using the inside of the lid of the box for mixing color. We're going to work on that this morning. So first we're going to pick out our colors, and when I do this, no matter what palette I'm using, whether it's a big one or a little one, I figure out what colors I want to put in it, and I line them up like this in the rows that they're going to be in before I put anything in the box. Then I make my color key and I write all the names down on the key in the order that they're in on the table. And the hardest part of doing this is writing the names down, honestly, because there's only so much space. And writing them down, because I'm going to give this one away, writing them down so that the person who gets it is going to be able to understand. Whoever gets it, if you are watching and you get this and you don't understand, just email me. I'll try to see if I can remember. I'm going to see if I can put a note in here. And I'll read you all the colors that I have. The colors are a little bit different. This one has all Daniel Smith paints in it. This one has a variety. Not for any particular reason. I was going to pull out the Daniel Smith this morning, but I have more of these tubes I need to use up and share. So that's what we're doing. Let me know if you guys have any questions. Definitely I need my reading glasses for this. Okay. Wow, that's really little. What kind of tin are you using? So this little ultra mini Altoids Smalls. It's an Altoids Smalls Tin. I'll close this one so that you can see. It's an Altoids Smalls Peppermint Tin. All right, now we are going to fill our wells. And I like doing, if you're going to do a homemade kit, I like these Altoids Smalls Tins because although they are thicker than other things you could use, that means that when you build your little wells you can kind of get a lot of paint in here. And I like that. And also one of my favorite things about the Grumbacher watercolor paints, I love the lids. They're easy to take on and off. Let's see. Yeah, the tiny writing is a pain in the neck. I have a set of this lid stuck. Hold on. I have a set of proper watercolor travel brushes. That's an actual regular brush. In this teeny tiny case I would bring a water brush. This one's really stuck. Oh, there we go. That's what I get for not wiping the threads off the lid. Let's see. So I usually use a water brush like the... I like the one that has the cap in it. So you can have it actually watering here and you can have the plug in and it doesn't leak. And then I have this little pipette in here and that's where like say you're out at the coffee shop and you can order a glass of water. Just grossing everybody out by dipping your brush in the water. You can just squeeze some water up into here and fill your water brush with it. Yeah, it's a great gift for anybody who's into art and travel art... travel art-ing and travel journaling. I based... Hey, Patricia. Artfully made for you. Hello. Limelam. Hello. Hello. Encona 3. Hello. And anybody else I missed? Hello. I based this palette on what my favorite colors were and ones that I know that I like to paint with on a regular basis and or that I like mixing to create other colors. So as you work with your paints, you will discover that there are colors that you prefer. Like for green, you know, I could have put... I have lots of colors of green watercolor paint, cascade green and Viridian. I happen to be a big sap green fan. That's my favorite green is sap green. So that's... I included that in the kits. I like to have a yellow and an orange instead of two yellows. I like to have two reds, one that's more red and one that's pink. I like to have two blues, one that's more true blue and one turquoise. I like to have a purple and then a Payne's gray or sepia tone. That's like my minimum kind of colors that I like. Oh, and including white. Here we go again with a stuck lid. And as you get, you know, more familiar with watercolor painting and the process, you'll discover along the way what you like and what you don't like. Yay, I'm going to be able to use up a tube. This is a really great color. This is a Grumbacher Academy color. This is their turquoise. Yeah, I like Grumbacher paints. There's nothing wrong with Grumbacher. That one's empty. Use what you can afford. Don't buy a fancy brand because you think you have to have the fancy brand. Buy what you can afford. And if you're brand new to watercolors, buy a student set and try them first. Don't go all crazy spending, you know, hundreds of dollars on paint for something you're not even sure you're going to like working with. This is sepia. I chose to put sepia in my palette and I'm choosing to put it in this one too. All right, put all those over there. All right, so now we're going to do some swatches on our card. I do always swatch the white, although it's kind of silly because you can't tell that the white's on there. I admit that. Yeah, the UPO paper is a great, it's not my original idea. I saw it on somebody else's YouTube channel and I can't remember who. If you all remember, let me know. She was making little watercolor palettes also and sharing her pocket palettes. She's got a kind of a pocket palette collection too. I think she was Australian. We're going to just do little swatches of colors. You don't need to have big swatches. You just want to have an idea of what the color looks like on white paper in your tin. So you're not guessing because some of these colors, especially the darker ones, they just look like black blobs in the case and you have no idea. Lift some of that. I got too much paint on there. That's what happens when you're doing your swatches of paint straight out of the tubes. So you can see that that's actually purple and sepia. So that's that. And then you have to leave it sit out for a few days to dry. This one here, let me turn my phone off. This one here has been sitting out. When did I do this? I want to say I did it on Friday. You're not cheap. You're inexpensive. Yes. So that's not that's fine. I have a lot of paint at this time at this point. I'm getting gifted it from companies and I don't need to do that. But and that one, believe me, I was pushing. There's there's nothing left in that tube. Anyway, I try not to be wasteful. So anyway, this has been sitting out. I think since Friday and you want to leave it open and let them really dry before you close it up so they don't get moldy. And then we can set this one aside. So then, like I said, I used to keep my travel stuff. This is this just goes in my handbag and it really goes with me wherever I go. And that way I always have something to work with because, you know, I don't do boredom well. All right. So the only thing that didn't fit in here was this little mini watercolor journal, which I had to like rubber band to the outside. So what I did was I had this. This is a little piece of eraser. And this whole thing closed up. It was a little bit of a tight squeeze. And that would go in my handbag clear my camera. I don't understand what you mean. The picture looks fine to me. I don't understand what you mean. And I would take this with me and I would put this like this. And I still like this little tiny box because this is really great. But I really would like for this little journal to be in the inside the box and or if I want to bring a small little notebook with me. I want to be able to fit that in the box. So I decided this morning, actually last night when I found this tin in my stash of stuff when I was purging yesterday, I would switch tins or switch boxes and then I would put this in here. And I always have like a piece of paper towel and a water brush. And I actually could fit another water brush in here now. I'm not going to but I could. Anybody else having problems with the picture? I don't know what Krista is talking about. I'm not in sharp focus. Okay, I'm confused. Is anybody else having problems with the picture? Because on from my end, it looks fine. I can also fit a black pet in here. I made this tiny journal and this is not my idea. There is a YouTuber here who makes a journal like this. It's made from one piece of paper. She uses a big piece of paper and makes a big journal. I did a mini one from a smaller piece of paper. And I have a previous video on how I did this. And I don't know I can't get the link right now while I'm live. Okay, anybody who's having problems with the audio or the picture, if you can maybe go out and come back in again, because it is fine on my end. I did zoom in a little bit more. And it's fine for most everybody else. So maybe it's you also can go click on the picture. And three little dots will come up in the upper right hand corner if you're on a tablet. And when you click on those, go to the gear and adjust your picture to 720p. And then try that. And it should be better. So ideally when you're making, hey, so when you're making your palette, ideally you want a good selection of warm and cool colors. I tend to go more for cool than warm, but I do try to have like in this palette, I have a Kodakarone Gold, which is warmer. I chose a Quinn Red, which is kind of, it's more of a blue red. But I also have Sap Green, which is warmer and sort of cooler and the turquoise. So I like to have a mixture. But ideally you want a warm and cool of your primary. So you want a warm and cool yellow, warm and cool red, warm and cool blue. So that sticks. And then you have four more optional colors. I would choose a purple. You're welcome. So I would choose a purple, something dark like sepia or pains gray. If you like to mix with a white, I would choose a white. And then you have one more optional fun color. Maybe you want turquoise. A color that you don't want to have to mix all the time, but that you know that's one that you use a lot, like Opera Rose or Purple Lake. Winsor New and Purple Lake is a pretty color or teal or something like that. Yeah, 720p. So always when you're watching any of these live broadcasts, adjust your picture for 720p. So because I'm switching to this bigger box, I can get a small, I have these mini paper mate ink joy gel pens. So I can get one of those in there. Yay. And there's plenty enough room in here for me to stick a little journal in. I wonder if this actually fits in here. Let's try it. Hey, look at that. Wow. I've got plenty of paper to work with now. Now, if you were worried about it keeping shut, of course you could still, you know, put a rubber band about it around it. That's just to have keep it closed so that, you know, when I've got it in my handbag, it's not going anywhere. So I was able to fit a store bought watercolor journal in here. And I actually have more room if you really wanted to stuff it more. There's room in here for, you know, like a couple more brushes or something. I really don't need any more brushes. I've got one like medium size brush and that's fine. This is a watercolor notebook. I don't remember who this is by. Is it Strathmore? Oops. Oh, it's a Moleskin. So it's a watercolor Moleskin. And it's a small, you know, it's a small one. So I can put this in here. And I could actually switch the brush out near to a bigger one. Right. Exactly. So I'm going to share a couple more things with you guys. So I really want you guys to not have to wait until you're home or something to work in your journals. You know, if you're out and about with the family, you could just take it with you. When I'm traveling and I'm going for more than, you know, just a day like we go on vacation. I take this with me. This is my bigger, bigger kit. Because, you know, I have an addiction to travel kits. This is the one I made out of a book from or a case from American Science and Surplus. And this is my well-loved watercolor kit. This is a small 12 half pan metal case. I bought it empty from Jackson's Art. This is my collection of colors. I have taken the inside insert out and I'm able to get a lot more colors in here doing that. And I just put magnets on the back of the pans so that they would fit in here. And this is the one that goes like this. This is the one I took to Alaska. So this is one of those photo storage boxes. Let me put this away. So this is what usually comes with me and it's got, you know, a good selection of pens, some washi tapes and paper brushes, all kinds of stuff. This is one of those photo storage boxes. Now, before this box, I was using this little box, which was really little and I could fit everything in here. I could fit super minimum amount of things in here, I should say. This is from a box of large paper clips from Target. But this is one of those photo storage boxes, you know, photo case, iris case for a scrapbooking to organize your photos in. Yeah, it's very similar. So this is my, these are my fancy travel watercolor brushes and they're great. I don't always take them with me. This is my case of like extra, extra watercolor stuff, travel stuff, palette knives, you know, rags, brushes. I have this extra bag of small. Let me see. Give it a second. There we go. I don't know if that's gonna help your picture. There we go. Is that better for you guys? I turned off the autofocus. Yeah, I have a selection of travel things and when I'm packing depending on where I'm going, I take different things. So, you know, I really customize my bag for where I'm going now because I'm able to switch this to a bigger bag and I have these extra brushes that I don't necessarily take with. These are ones I don't take with me. I either take the really small case or I take this. It'll come back. Give it a second. You guys all still there? Cool. All right. So I'm able to get two more brushes in here. I love that. And this is one of my favorite brushes. It's the Windsor, from the Windsor Newton pocket. Pocket dealie. Pocket. There's no music playing here. Gail. So I'm not sure what you're hearing. So because I just did that, I found two extra of these little brushes. Oh, two. These tubes. Or these tubes. These are the base of a pocket water brush. It's a small pocket water brush. And you screw the top to the base like that. Of course, you would have water in here. And the nice thing about these, and I think these are made by Koi, is they come with these black plugs. So you can fill this with water before you leave home. Stick this plug in here and travel with it and it's not going to leak. I have two different sizes here. So I'm going to include these with this kit I made. Oops. Crap. Yeah. You want to come wash my dog, talk about dogs that don't like taking a bath. I don't really doesn't like taking a bath. I just messed up the color key. Oops. So I think I'm going to give those two brushes and this new color, this new kit we made away. Do I have another black pen? I might. Yeah, I do. I won't fit in that box. Never mind. They're perfect for travel. They do make a bigger one with a longer base that holds more water. But for traveling when you're really trying hard to keep everything really light weight and small and compact, these are perfect. I either take these or I take my regular brushes. So the I wanted to share with you. So I've got so much stuff I've acquired. I have this addiction for pocket kits, but those of you who've been watching for a while already know that. Okay. So I found this box recently and I just of course had to have it for my collection. It's empty. There's nothing in it. And I actually have there. I love pocket boxes. Can you tell? Okay. So this is one recently. I got it wet paint art and I shared the link in my Facebook group. And this is intended to be a children's watercolor kit and it holds eight colors. And these are, these are, you know, not great paints or kids paints, but you could pop the little paints out and you could fill the little holes with your own colors. And it's super cute. And not that I'm ever going to ever use it or fill it, but I had to have one for my collection. Yeah. These photo boxes are perfect. And I forgot I had an extra one. So now I'll be using that. This is a Windsor Newton pocket kit. And it's good too. I like it. I use it for watercolor and mixed media. It's student grade watercolor. It does come with this brush. My favorite part of this kit is the brush. There is one by Daylar Rowney, which I just got in and I obviously haven't really opened it. And this is their Aquafine watercolor, which again, I think is student grade. And it's a similar box to the Windsor Newton one. And it comes also with a cute little brush. I haven't used it in. I just got, I just got this. Hey, paper junkie. Hey, this one is a little harder to get here in the States. I had to order it. I think it came from the UK. But at this point I have a collection of pocket boxes that I'm just addicted to by pocket boxes. And let's see what else do I have? So I'll show you this one in a minute. This is, what is this? This is a Prima box from their paints that I took their paints out. And then I refilled it with, these are whole vine watercolor paints. But this is your basic small 12 half pan box, like the one that I carry in my travel kit. And this one here is the same Prima box. If you don't even like the Prima paints, this is a, they're only $25. Buy it for the box, to be honest with you. And then you can fill the box up with whatever paints that you want and you take that traveling. It's a good value for the box. This is PBO. I already have a PBO palette. I have their round one, which I love. But then I found out they have a pocket palette. I had to have it. I haven't even opened it yet, as you can see. The thing I like about this one versus this one, this one on the mixing pan, there's a lip all the way around. So when you're mixing, if you're mixing and you're holding it or you're mixing you're on the table at a restaurant and you get it really watery, on here there's no sides. So the paint's going to run right off the edge. On this one it's got a lip. So that paint is not going anywhere. I love that. You're right. I have an addiction. It's an addiction now. We're not even calling it me liking it. We're just being honest with it. It's an addiction. Now I've had this brand before. I had a larger palette that I actually sold. I'm not a big fan of the Pat paint particularly. But I found out they had a travel palette. Had to have it, Sennelier. And there's nothing wrong with their paints. I like their paints. All right. And this is their travel palette. This is very similar to the Prima palette. And it has the same issues with the mixing tray that the Prima one does. There's no sides. I think they're probably all made by the same company. So far my favorite is the PBO. These ones that open and have three sections. All right. So then you have these. This up here. All right. So these are whiskey painter's palettes. Now I already had this one. I do love this little box. It doesn't have tons of mixing room. You can mix in the lid. But it is a really cute small box. And it holds a lot of colors for the size of the box. And it's really thin and small. My color key is a little big for the box. So it doesn't ever want to close. There we go. But this is a cute little box that would be great if you want something a little bit bigger in your travel palette. I found out recently they have this one. This is also whiskey painter's palette. It's about the same size box, but it's twice the thickness because it has a flask, a water flask inside of it in the bottom. So you can actually have your water in here to fill into your cup or container into well into this. It makes it a little heavier. So it holds its own water. So you don't have to worry about carrying water with you. It holds the same number of paints as this one. But it has this container here that's your little cup to hold your paints. There we go. I mean to hold your water. So you don't have to worry about carrying a cup or something with you. You can have your water in here. I thought that was just so clever. I had to have it. I don't have that winter Newton has one, a similar one, but it's bigger. See, I like the little tiny travel palettes. I'm addicted to the smaller they are, the more I like them. And of course, I got some extra half-pans. Because you know, I'm just at this point, I'm crazy addicted to them. What else do I have up there? I haven't put any of these away yet because I haven't swatched them properly. This is the other PBO palette I have, which I like just because it's round and it has a lot of colors in it. I love this palette. And the colors aren't bad. They're kind of chalky and opaque, but they're not bad. I really like this palette. It comes with the brush too. I'm not crazy about the brush, but I love that it's round. This is the Yark of White Knight. This is their pocket palette, which is bigger than everybody else's. I just like travel boxes. I'm addicted. Some of them I'll probably never use. I'm just addicted to them. At this point, it's a collection of them. So this is the Yark of White Knight's travel box, which is bigger than the others. And it's okay. And the colors are nice and bright. They're kind of a little bit more opaque than I prefer. They're not bad. When I travel, I like a smaller box that's more this size or smaller. And you can get a lot of paints in these. The one with the flask. The one with the flask is very cool. And like I said, I just bought it. I haven't put any paints in it yet. I think I might really like it. And I will show you how you can get more. So you'll notice in this one we have 12 paints in here. And this one only has eight. That's because I haven't put any pans in the center. So you can pull these out. These hold the pans in. And then you can fit more. So then you can get 12 colors. That's good. 12 is a good number. You can do it with 12. The White Knight has a full pan. So you could get 12 colors in this one. And this is a little small one with the flask. Other than your brushes and paper, you've got your water bucket, you've got your water and your paints. I mean, that's pretty good, I think. I'm loving this little. This is a clever idea. And it's not a whole lot bigger than this one. And I really do like this box. They seem to be like some here has, I think these are Mission Gold. And I like the Mission Gold paints. Yeah, these are Mission Gold. These are nice paints, by the way. Of course, you know, I haven't really met a paint I don't like. So here's some Yuko. Yeah, I love this one. Now, I do, I will tell you, I tried to get this palette with Old Holland paints in it. There are a few companies that have the Whiskey Painters palette the Flask palette with their paints in it. And they sell them with their paints in it. But it's constantly on back order and I could not get it that way. So I ended up just giving up and ordering it empty and I'll just, it's not like an odd plenty of paint. So I'll fill it with my own colors. So I when I went to, was looking at it, I finally just relented and got Old Holland tubes this way because I couldn't get it in the palette. It was just constantly on back order. And it was a lot more expensive than just buying it empty. So I just bought it empty. Like I said it's not like I don't have a lot of paint. And I'll probably fill it with Daniel Smith paints. I just haven't done it yet. But yeah, I love this palette. So I got it on Amazon. A lot of places sell it, but I got it on Amazon. We're going to put Yuko in the lid here. So this is Yuko paper which is a synthetic paper and it's like a thin sheet of plastic and it's not, it's not absorbent. Although this says it's Yuko watercolor paper, it's, yeah and I have watercolor on it. The watercolor just sits on the top and it actually washes off really easily. This is going to be fun. The white nights are full pans and they're nice paints. They're not my favorite. But there's nothing wrong with them and they're very affordable. So, you know, that's, you know, bonus points for them. So I'm going to just trace around the box and then we'll cut inside the line. I didn't trace that very well. I guess it's a mess again. Why does it just not take very long for the desk to be totally messy? Let's see if it fits. Yeah, I love the flask palette. It's my favorite. Next to the PBO one. The PBO one is nice that having that extra blending tray with a lip on it adds a big deal. Especially if you're a messy painter like I am. So it doesn't have to be, you know, a perfect fit. But, you know, if you put this U-Po in here, look at all that mixing room that gives you. And this just wipes off and when, you know, if you get it to the point where it just won't wipe off anymore, then you can just replace it with another piece. I'm going to put some double stick tape. Things are falling. That, nice. And then, like I said, if you're worried about it opening, just grab a rubber band. This is from, I think, some asparagus. See, you can just scrounge around for what you have. You know, if you're like me, you probably have one of these photo storage boxes around in your studio somewhere. And even if you don't watercolor, if you just sketch, then you could fill this with, a couple of pencils and a pen. And you could, and then, you know, a little piece of an eraser. And, you know, you have it wherever you go. You can just take this with you. If you do nothing else, you can just take this with you. And, you know, flying, okay, say you're flying and you want something to do on the plane. This box is easy to take on the plane and there's nothing in here that TSA is going to tell you you can't take. Now, when I've gotten stopped by TSA and asked to open my art bag, it's usually because I have a larger watercolor palette with me. Like the Koi pocket box used to get me stopped every time because they didn't understand why I had this big box of stuff. They couldn't see it in the scanner. Hold on, coffee. And it was bigger than this. And that used to get me stopped all the time. So since then I try to keep my, all of my supplies I take small. And this is great. And you could just take this. You don't really need more than this. Now, if you're going to do other kinds of journaling, you might want washi tape or a stapler and things like that. So then that's when I take this one. If I'm working in my journal where I'm documenting my trip and stuff like that, then this one has place for double stick tape, washi tape, a little stapler. It's got watercolor paints, water brushes, pencils, pens, little mini scissors. And this one is perfect along with my journal. I really don't need too much more than that. Yeah, you know, I do have, okay, I drive my husband crazy too. I don't know if he's getting used to it or not, but I do. So you have to, what I do is have a set area where I store these things in. And then when that area is full, I can't keep anything else. If I have something I really want to keep, then I have to get rid of something that's already in there. I just try to keep it to a minimum. I'm going to put all these pocket boxes back. They were all sitting up here on the shelf. Because, yeah, I am a pocket box addict. I think I need a t-shirt. But isn't this one cute? Somebody's asked for a picture of all my watercolor palettes and someday I'll do that. I am selling my two big round Robax palettes because I just don't use them. And I've discovered that I really love pocket boxes. Yeah, say you're meeting the girlfriends for coffee. You know? And while you're waiting, you could have this with you. And you could do a little ATC card. You could work in one of your two... I have two little journals in here now. You have a couple of different things you can work on. And the nice thing about having multiple things to work on, as you know with watercolor, you've got a way for it to dry. And when you're away from home, you can't use a heat gun. So you could do a background on one and then set it aside and do something in the other. I'm sorry. My pocket scissors have never gotten away from me. In fact, I've been into Canada and back. It might be the type of scissors. These are I don't know what kind you had. These look like a pen but these are not their scissors. They have something like this on Amazon but I found these at the Japanese dollar store. And they fit in this little bag the zipper pouch. I do have a pencil sharpener in here and there. So this is a bigger kit and this is made from like I said from a case from American Science and Surplus. And then I put the Tim Holtz binder rings in the case. And this is a great little case. This went with me to Alaska and it was fabulous. I took this and my journal and that did great by me. I do have to clean out my travel case because I have things in there that I never take traveling. I'm not sure why they're in there for instance in here. I have taken these and I like this little brush so I would keep this in here but these other brushes don't need to be in here. I'm not sure why they're in here. I do have some watercolor pencils that I'm not again. I don't know. There's some palette knives in here. I don't know. So I need to and there's some other stuff down there. I need to do some cleaning over there. But we're going to give this away and I'll probably put paper in here and some other things. I'm not sure exactly yet and I'll post something with pictures when I get it all completed and now that I messed up the color key I have to make a new one so I'll do that off camera. But I'm going to we have to let that dry. This is the flush tone one that I did the other day. I showed it on social media. There's a video for this. I have to do a voiceover and I haven't the video is edited but I haven't done the voiceover so it'll be coming out soon and I'll talk through mixing the colors and why I did what I did and how I did it. But in the meantime I will tell you also too that when I did I've already done a couple videos with voiceovers and I didn't sort of regulate all the sound so that like the intro sound is like really really loud and then my voice is you can hear it but you have to turn the sound up. So if you're watching the video and you get past the intro and the title and you can't hear me talking turn the sound up. It's me doing screwed up editing but anyway I haven't done this one yet I'll fix it on this one but I wanted to have flush tones I didn't want to have to mix them so even when I'm traveling if I wanted to I could take this with me and again this is one of the Prima palettes because I put all my Prima paints in a bigger palette and I didn't throw these away so I saved them but if I was going say on an art trip like meeting the girls in Vegas and I knew we were going to do watercolor I could just bring and I knew I wanted to do faces I could bring this with me I could also pop one of these pans out and put it in my other kit and just bring the pan with me anyway I have premixed watercolor flesh tones and I'm not having to mix it on the fly necessarily I did have some extra of one of the flesh tone colors that I put into a full pan and it went out in one of the mystery boxes this is just a scrap piece of paper I don't think it's quite dry yet this again has been sitting out for a couple of days yeah so the flesh so if you like to watercolor and you like to watercolor girls either in watercolor or gouache yeah then why not mix up some flesh tone colors and have them premixed so you don't have to do it again and it's not like the watercolor is going to go bad when I do this with acrylic you have to keep it in an airtight container and worry about if you don't use it right away it drying up with watercolor you want it to dry up it reconstitutes so it's not a problem with watercolor you never have to worry about it drying up and I have a couple of variations of dark flesh tone a couple of lighter flesh tones some white if these aren't light enough and I am thinning them with water is not enough for me and I want to actually add white to them I have white here I have a couple of shades of red so that say I could do the cheeks of the face with red or if I want to make the flesh for the lips yellow in case I wanted so I have sort of a bluer flesh tone a red flesh tone but say I want one that's got some more yellow I've got a nice yellow as a yellow deep I've also got Payne's gray and you can use the Payne's gray to say color the eyes sketching the eyelashes do the shadows ideally you could use you could make all of these colors work and do a face with just this palette or anything else these are bugging me and if you guys want we can do a quick face this morning before we do anything else but I'm going to have to fix this color key now that I messed it up and Gail that's when I'm cleaning stuff out that's when I do a mystery box so I watch my Etsy store for the mystery boxes and let me get a piece of paper I need kind of a bigger piece of paper I can use my journal that I'm trying to fill out can I fix it fit it on the table I'll prove it to you about this palette so let's do that this morning okay we're going to have to zoom out a little bit because there's no way I'm going to get all that on the screen so when I have the giveaway ready there will be a speed through video on YouTube so you guys watch for it and they'll probably be going to do a graphal copter thing to sign up for and we need to spray our paints and get them wet my water has Oxgall in it to aid in the rewetting and flow of the paint watercolor paint now of course you can sketch your face first and do a quick sketch or not I'm going to do a quick sketch maybe I'm not feeling the sketching so we're not going to I take that back I'm not feeling it so I'm going to start with one of the darker tones I'm always learning more about doing faces and figures I don't think that you can ever know everything and I like to see other people's style this is totally unplanned because you didn't get that clue there so putting a little paint down then putting water down yeah see and I really like the idea of having them premixed in a palette how much more convenient is that to have them premixed in a palette now if you're not sure about proportions on faces and you're not too used to doing faces then you probably want to do a pencil sketch first and if you're not used to watercolor and you don't like the blooming or mixing that you might get if that bugs you then you probably want to do one color and let things dry I'm okay with you know trying to make it work Faces are challenging so that's probably why we all like doing them because they're a challenge to get it looking to where it's a believable face whether you do realistic or suggestion I mixed them on a ceramic plate and then picked them up with a palette knife and that's what I show in the video you could definitely do it on UPO I use ceramic plates for mixing all of my paints oh thanks this is a Princeton Select round number 4 FYI but I have a bunch of round ceramic like dessert plates that I got from the dollar store and I use those for mixing paint so when you put your paint down then put your water where you want the paint to go put water over here that's not where you want the shadows to go and so that's one way of trying to or learning to control your watercolor paint and notice I'm just still using the one shade of flesh tone color I haven't dipped into anything else you can lighten it up by just adding water so I'm gonna take the phthalo crimson this is a grumbacher color use some of the flesh tone and then put some on and then I'm going to blend it out a little bit with water so I do have a face course and on my website there's a page called the classroom and it's a face course that includes making a template and the way to have it not look like an alien I hate to tell you Gail is to practice she has no shortcut just practice she's not too bad I have a bigger brush here this is still a round brush but this is the number 6 so it's a little bit bigger I'm really wanting to give her hair it's bugging me that she has no hair I just don't know how I want her hair to be so we'll start over here you probably have certain colors that you prefer to use something like a face so if you're going to create a palette like this keep those colors in mind and those are the colors that you want to include when you're creating your palette it is fun though to challenge yourself by maybe omitting one of those said favorite colors I like to use purple on faces but you notice there's no purple in my palette I like a loose kind of suggestive face I like to suggest the shapes and features rather than draw them in I'm not really a realist portrait person or actually a realist artist by any stretch and trying to be a realist portrait just makes me not want to do art to be honest with you it's not fun probably because I have a streak of perfectionism in me and yeah because I feel like I never could do a good enough job so then I don't like it I'm going to catch up on the comments in just a minute I see comments coming so remember when you're doing collages you don't have to just use gel medium you can use fluid matte medium you can use collage page deco page heck you can use elmer's glue you don't have to use gel medium now if your paper is really thick then you're going to have trouble getting it to stick down but that doesn't mean it won't stick down it just means it's going to be a little harder you can use pva glue okay now that we've put our hair in I can there would be some shadows up here so this is a homemade journal that I made it was part of a course that I have up on you to me it's still up on you to me and it's got 240 pound cold press watercolor paper and I believe this is Fabriano paper I could be wrong on that but I think it's Fabriano paper yeah you might have to weigh it down hold on I'm going to catch up on the comments in a minute let me get these shadows in here so she's pretty cute okay see well animals and flowers are always better to start with because they're less scary to do Gail so I would definitely there's plenty of flowers in here so definitely that's what you're feeling follow that instinct and yes you can then the lime lamb that's true so I just yeah so you have you should take at least one course that teaches you structure and you know proportion and then you can stylize your face yeah and they have realism courses for animals too and there's a lot of really great teachers here on YouTube that teach those things that you might really enjoy so you know look on YouTube and see what's here so I'm taking some of the yellow and I'm mixing it with the red I was using there's some great books out there and if you want a fabulous online teacher who teaches you a lot about composition and all of that stuff try Pauline Agnew one of these days I'm going to make it to her one of her courses she teaches in Europe someday I like those books there is a channel here on YouTube and I can't think of the name right now that does what do you call it life sketchy nudes and they have some timed lessons and that's not what you call it that's just I can't think of it the name right now so you just keep going until you know have something that you really like that you're real happy with because you're working with water color and it you know dries fairly quickly you want to be conscious of not going too far with your paint too quickly and really working light to dark you can't take it back it's not like with acrylic paint where you can kind of take it back if you put the wrong color in you can you know just layer on top of it with water color paint you can't do that you're stuck just using the new flesh tone palette that I created and I'm mixing I'm still using the one flesh tone and I'm mixing it now with the paints gray yeah exactly there's also um yeah the channel I'm thinking of and I can't think of the name of it has timed lessons um and some of them are like five minutes there's a different kind of time lesson some of them are five minutes some of them are you know longer and um I wish I could think of the name of it it's here on YouTube I can't think of the name of it I don't know but yeah there's no shortcut just practice if I can think of the name of the other channel I'll let you guys know later on but um I can't think of it right now but there is another one I don't think it's anatomy for the artist I think it's a different one and they have pictures of nudes and semi-nudes and um it's fabulous practice but yeah especially you know if you like doing faces I would definitely recommend this now if you took the insert out of here you could get more colors in to your if you're going to make one of these palettes you could get more colors in there I'm not crazy about this dark blob that's up here generally speaking I would try to work with it but I do have white in here for a reason so we're going to take advantage of the fact that I've got white in there that's better I like that better so white's not always good to have for blending but I'm not opposed to using it when I get too much of the wrong color in the wrong place setting art really helps keep you loose so it's a great thing to do if you feel like you're getting too wound up and stressed about your art and drawing it as things and creating things a certain way it's fabulous so you just keep layering your colors and you know when you have watercolor they're so sheer you can really you can put the new color on but you can see all those old marks underneath I just love that now this color is very pigmented this is azo yellow deep this is a van go watercolor and one of the reasons I have this color in here is because it's a great color for suddenly warming your face and giving you all those suggestions of sunlight and warmth and remember down deep most of you watching including me are mixed media artists so what does that mean it means we have no rules we can do whatever the heck we want however we want gail you may have to come out and come back in again so yeah I love using a nice bright azo yellow deep because it's slightly orangey golden yellow and it's one of my favorite colors for doing this with and because it's you know you're using watercolor it's very sheer and you literally can just kind of run it over everything you'll still see all those other layers through the yellow but it's just gonna warm the face up so much oh good Amy I'm so glad and you know remember like I said we're all deep down we're all water we're mixed media artists most of us that you are watching right now myself included and is she a perfect face no but I like her and we're just playing and this whole book is about playing and studies and practicing with materials and colors and you know there's no rules you can always just let this dry and then you can highlight her face with pencil pen markers acrylic paint I mean there's no rules cadmium yellow is a good one these are the colors I chose for me but that doesn't mean they're gonna work for you now I have the flesh tone colors I mixed I also have white this is grumbocker phthalo crimson van go permanent red deep van go as of yellow deep and van go paints gray okay I like that better so as soon as I can get the voiceover done on the how on the video where I actually mix the watercolors if you're just joining or you've just joined a little while ago I didn't mix those on camera on the broadcast today I did them it's a recording and then I have to do a voiceover on still I used no no gail the easy answer to that is no so I used a red yellow and blue with the flesh tone colors and then I also had a burnt umber brown and then also Chinese white and that's how I got the flesh tone colors and in the video I'll walk you through that you can do it with any red yellow and blue but you're gonna get different tones of different flesh tones with different reds yellows and blues so you want to really use I'm pretty sure I used ultramarine blue um I think I used something like cadmium yellow or lemon yellow and then I think I used a quid awkward red for the three primaries to mix these and then I also had a burnt umber a brown and then I had some white not generally speaking I don't have a problem with that um but I do it pretty quickly and I don't sit and scrub over it um so that things move around too much um I also kind of try to let things dry so you'll notice like I did the hair and I let the face was drying while I was doing the hair um you could do the lips or something while the hair is drying if you want to do more on the hair yeah burnt sienna is a nice warm brown so you can use it to make a lot of colors but look and see what you have and try mixing a flesh tone with what you have you really need um a red a yellow and a blue and then you should have some white and um a brown is helpful but not necessary I still haven't finished my coffee it's almost lunchtime I did make it to the gym this morning though yay all right that's it for today that's a lot so don't you know be afraid to make yourself a travel um custom travel kit or a flesh tone kit you know or if you've gotten addiction like me too pocket kits like you know hello um but you know the most important thing is that do what you need to so that you can have some fun with your art supplies and your watercolor paints there's lots of choices out there but you don't have to spend a lot of money if you're going to um watercolor at all um this whole kit was made with more affordable student grade paints the the flesh tone kit um and this you know doesn't cost much you can make a little your own little small altoids um pocket watercolor palette out of and you find a box that you have maybe you have one like this maybe you've got the smaller one um but use what you have oh thank you she's fun all right that's it for today don't forget the most important thing go out and have some fun do something nice for yourself and maybe somebody else because you deserve it and so do they if you guys haven't um shared Shannon greens go fund me her family is going through a hard time right now um think about um if you can't help her out at all and every little bit does help then um at least share her go fund me post um Shannon green is one of our own and I would like to see us all rally around her and help they're having a very hard time it's explained in her on her web on her facebook page blog um and that's it for today I'm going to fix that color key and put together a little kit for a giveaway I've got some more cleaning to do before I can do that and I will talk to you all later thanks guys I'll see you bye