mateuszurbanowicz

Watercolor palettes update

Added 2019-11-17 08:07:17 +0000 UTC

A new watercolor set, replacing my three old ones.

It seemed that I had about three watercolor sets except for my main one and all of them were my “secondary”. I used the chance that occurred when one of them came back from being displayed at an exhibition all bent and damaged to do a small watercolor sets remodeling.

Continuing with the minimalist theme I'm interested in recently, I wanted to keep the number of watercolor sets I have to a minimum, so I actually use them.
My main 60 colors wooden box is meant to be used in the studio only, so I set up this smaller one that can be used both at my desk and (if necessary) to do some sketching outside.

This surprisingly sturdy and compact box is a 16 color Holbein palette. It can be expanded, however, to hold 24 or even 25 half-pans when you use the middle row too. It's a perfect match for my Mijello Mission Gold Pure Pigment set that consists of 25 colors if you ignore the white.

I wanted a box like this for some time now, but it's usually a bit expensive - it's sold only with Holbein watercolors already in it. A few days ago, however, I found one new and in-box, being sold on the Japanese second-hand goods website Mercari! I put away the Holbein half-pans to be used someday and filled it with the Mijello paints. Thus I replaced all three “secondary” sets with a very universal, single one!

The Mission Gold paints are all single pigments and provide excellent saturation, which is useful when painting simple sketches. Because of this, I have been using these paints more and more recently as I'm aiming for a more loose style. I quite enjoy painting with them, and I did not have any problems - except them being runnier than Schmincke or Holbein, so you have to be careful about how you store your palettes.