 Hey guys, how are you today? Okay, so I'm going to work on creating a couple of new I should say one new watercolor palette making some adjustments to another one to Accommodate some new paints. I got for Christmas in my collection of stuff So the first little palette I'm going to make is this is a whiskey painters palette And this is their palette. They have a number of different palettes, and I'll try to remember to post Links in the description below, but The whiskey painters palette and the pans are from Amazon So if you go to Amazon and you type in at whiskey painters palette, it's going to pop up They have a number of different ones This is the one that literally is like an Altoid tin and it's all metal and then you can get these little half pans that have a magnet already on the bottom and then They just stick to the palette So we're going to and these are fabulous, so you don't have to like put magnets on them or anything This one's going to be a liquid pencil and graphite Palette and I've arranged it so that I can fit my watercolor graphite little tin In the palette, which I'm going to love having that and I just have it all in one place I got some liquid pencil paints for Christmas, and it's a set of 12 that includes the rewetable and the permanent And for this palette, we're going to put the rewetable in here I already did a sample painting with them if you haven't seen my cat face painting Go back a few videos in my in my on my channel on the videos List and it's in there for my year 2017 And I used this little disposable plastic palette to put the paints in to do that painting now But I did notice is it because of the I guess the nature of these paints They're not really a true watercolor. They're water soluble graphic And they probably don't have lots of gum Arabic or binders or anything in them And literally when they dried in here like you can just pick the whole like piece of paint up and That's you know fine for just general purposes and leaving it here in the studio But if I want to travel with it, I might get to where I'm going and have you know all the paints like flake out And be cakey and be weird. So that's going to be a little bit of a problem It does make putting this in here real easy though So the first thing we're going to do is this is gum Arabic, which is frequently used as a binder in watercolor paint so we're going to take some gum Arabic and some a Pipet and I'm going to put a little bit in the bottom This should also help like the paint blob stick to The pan Sometimes with the more inexpensive watercolors. I have to add gum Arabic to them because they When they dry in the pans they crack like it like this liquid pencil paint is doing And then I'm going to need something to stir with To use this old like knitting needle, I don't obviously use it for knitting anymore because you can see how junked up is okay So let's see. This is gray nine. Do I want to put this in here? I think I do want to Be super frugal and this is gray three I'm going to put them like in the same order. I have them here in in this palette This is sepia And these are graphite paints that have You know, I have two shades of gray and then I have one the sepia one Obviously, if you know what sepia is is a brown tone. There's a yellow or red and a blue And then that could be washed and then we're going to take the tubes and here's the gray three Nope missed missed a piece. So you said but I don't know what piece it is It goes in there Hopefully it goes in there So that's gray three I didn't I have noticed some of these paints are like really watery And I don't know if they're just not well mixed in the tube or I don't know Sepia the blue is really pretty. I'll show you guys the cat face that I did in a minute See there's another watery one. See if I can mix it up in the tube just a little bit too much And then Okay, then we're gonna take our little stick and we're gonna just mix them with the gum arabic at the bottom As best we can and then you just have to let it sit out for a few days and dry up completely or as completely as it's going to I'll tell you what I mean by that when we do the other other one. There we go I do want to put a little piece of watercolor paper in there little square. It's too big Here's a little one this will work. This is better and a pen and Then we're gonna just really quickly divide it into six sections Just eyeball it You always want a little sample of what the paint looks like on actual paper, right? So we have gray three gray nine sepia yellow red and blue Yep, and then a little paint. Hey guys So my SD card on my camera got really full and I looked up and I wasn't recording All right, so I think when the camera shut off. I was getting ready to make The little color key for these graphite paints and I was talking about how some of the paints come out of the tube really watery And I think what I'm going to just do is keep like mixing them up in the tube by pushing on the tube And these do dry down a lot And they will sink down a lot. So I will probably add a little bit more gum arabic and a little bit more paint I don't like them to be completely full, but I do want them to be kind of full So I'll keep working on this and I'll let you all update you in the future on what how it works out But here's my color key Here are all the different colors of the rewetable graph liquid pencil paint. Aren't they pretty? So this is going to be a lot of fun to play with and I should be able to You know take this with me if I if I go on a trip and you know I've got my regular travel palette with me or I have this Muted palette with me. I can take some of these graphite colors, too Which would be a lot of fun to play with so we're going to set this aside. It's got to dry completely now this is my Daniel Smith muted palette and I Got some of these m gram colors To try you guys have been asking me to try and review them on camera for kind of for a while I know Lindsay the frugal crafter really likes these paints and I can see why If you go back again to my cat face video, you will see where I actually use these along with the graphite The liquid pencil paints to create the cat face. These are really great colors I do think they would lend themselves very well to the muted palette And I'm going to show you why because we are going to swatch them in the meantime I have some of the again some of these little Half-pans from whiskey painters and they already have the magnet on the back and because this is a little tray inside has I can't get it out Okay, this little tray has this space in the middle between the two rows of paint These actually fit in there very well and because they're magnetized. They aren't going to go anywhere Now the m gram paints on do you have a honey binder? Which means that what does that mean? That means that they never really dry out completely They always stay sticky these are and you won't be able to really tell on camera But maybe you can just kind of see how that's kind of sticking to my finger They never really dry completely like the Daniel Smith straight paints dry completely the m-gram ones don't I? So we're gonna add these to the palette. I do want to add them in the same order. I think that they're here in the box I think I want to do that Yeah, I think so All right, so I do want to put these in here this this part that's in here and because they're Not dry completely. They're gooey and they stay gooey That should be not a problem to scrape most of the paint out And then get it in there see nope worked great So I'm gonna wipe off my palette knife. So that's a quinoa quinoa rust Which is not in this Palette which I call my muted palette. They're kind of like desert II muted earthy colors And this is a really fun palette to paint from And and it's a limited color palette, which is a challenge, which I enjoy so it's a fun palette to pay with All right That one was what was that yellow ochre this one is Indian yellow and these are all happen to be colors That are not in this palette So I thought they would be a nice addition Again to this palette This one is mineral violet and the last one is turquoise Now these m. Grand paints do come in five tube sets like this and this is the desert Southwest set They have a bunch of different ones. You can get the tubes individually too, but these little sets are fun okay, so now We're gonna go back to the beginning and we are going to start with The quinoa quinoa rust and we're gonna finish adding to our palette yellow ochre and then I'll show you how I think we're going to Add to the color key that goes in here because I like to have a sample a Swatch of the colors on a piece of paper So that I can just have it out while I'm painting and I know by looking at the at the swatches What my paint is gonna look like on paper? I I feel for me as a water colorist. That's really important for me Especially because a lot of the colors you can see here They look they all look at this like the same color some of them in the pan And you can't really tell until you put them to the paper what they actually are So there we go. So you put that away. I'm gonna set this aside over here. I Need to keep the gum air pick out because we might I might need that later for the other Palette so here is the color key from this set So I think what I'm gonna do is actually split this down the middle. I'm gonna zoom in Okay, so I'm gonna take a black pen and I'm going to write on each one of the existing swatches in the corner DM oh in a finer point pen because I was a little too Too fat too fat. Let's get that sharpie Sharpie pen, okay. Oh, yeah, that's better. Oh DM why am I putting DM should be DS? You guys why don't you stop me? Yeah, yeah, I know it's gonna be on there forever. So hold on It's a good thing. Nobody sees these little swatches, but me well and you guys This is just your basic office supply store Wet now Whiteout tape so DS for Daniel Smith. Holy cow. I need to dry that Daniel Smith DS Okay, then we're gonna cut this scrap piece of paper to the same length as these other strips Okay It's literally just a scrap. I did something else on those test pen testing or something Then we're gonna divide it into five sections Okay, and we're gonna put a MG for M gram at the bottom and then the color name at the top And you know what? Put the paint away. It's okay So quinoa quinoa rust yellow ochre Indian yellow mineral violet intercoys Then we're gonna take some tape Rip off a piece of longer than what you need and I'm gonna put what's going to be the new middle Never end. Then we'll cut off the extra tape and I'm actually gonna stick it down here Just to make sure everything is good and stuck It's like a German word good and stuck Probably is it probably means something nasty Don't mind me my brains all over the place today. All right So then when I put it in the palette, I can just do this to when I'm closing things up, but when I'm painting I have all my colors. I Think that's very clever. Okay, so now we're gonna Swatch these new colors that go in here and when you're swatching these fresh straight out of the tube Paint straight out of the tube. You just need it the teeniest tiniest bit of paint Especially when you're using an artist color like these that are super well pigmented. I mean look at that rust color This is yellow ochre And these colors I think are gonna complement the Daniel Smith colors in here very very well This is the Indian yellow Nice and bright bright warm yellow Here is the mineral violet. I should get some on my brush. There we go. I'm trying not to pick too much But maybe I'm taking too much care So it's a beautiful purple color and then the turquoise a violet on there Being too cautious So there you go So they're beautiful colors and again I can just leave this out and let it dry out as much as it's going to For a couple of days. Like I said, they will stay sticky but This closes first and then the top closes and I will always make sure my color key is between this layer and that layer so that they don't get the color key all goopy and And You know, you can always stick a piece of plastic in there or something if you're super worried about it I'm not I never fill my pans up all the way to the top So I don't really worry about them overflowing or anything like that or getting stuck to the lid Alright, and that's it for right now I hope that gave you some ideas of what you can do with some of your paints to make up some interesting palettes Gave you some idea of some interesting new products that are out there. 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