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Tomorrow, I'll paint out my lid map. :) Much heavier than my little travel one. Hoping this one is (Original Post) GreenPartyVoter Mar 2020 OP
What do you use for a palette? lunatica Mar 2020 #1
I don't want to even imagine a paper plate for watercolors. LOL I need GreenPartyVoter Mar 2020 #2
I'm curious as to what you use when you go outside lunatica Mar 2020 #3
I still paint from photos, but want to try sketching outside so i GreenPartyVoter Mar 2020 #4

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
1. What do you use for a palette?
Sat Mar 28, 2020, 03:10 PM
Mar 2020

I’ve recently been using paper plates which are working pretty well. It’s very easy to hold them in one hand while painting with the other, and after I’m finished painting, the left over colors dry and I can re-use the plates again because the dry paint on them strengthens the plate. So each plate can be used multiple times. And, of course they’re super cheap!

I like your box. It’ll work well since you paint outdoors.

GreenPartyVoter

(73,035 posts)
2. I don't want to even imagine a paper plate for watercolors. LOL I need
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 07:28 PM
Mar 2020

to clean up my table, so I'll lay out my piles of palettes.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
3. I'm curious as to what you use when you go outside
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 08:20 PM
Mar 2020

For me, because of my tendonitis I can’t move much equipment. Anything I might want to paint in the outdoors I just take a bunch of photos to get the details and then make up my own version.

GreenPartyVoter

(73,035 posts)
4. I still paint from photos, but want to try sketching outside so i
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 10:24 AM
Mar 2020

put together this little kit. I have that new palette, a collapsible bucket, another brush case, and a few other items if I want to do a larger piece. No outside easel yet, but I've almost always held my work anyway.

More palette pics to come later.

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