I wouldn’t call myself a master painter, but I know how to have a good time with paint and a brush. My sweetheart gave me an Art Toolkit palette as a gift. I filled it with paint and took it out for a spin in the video.
Keeping painting practice fun and loose
Don’t make it an ordeal. I keep a loaded palette on my couchside table, along with other random things art supplies I love.
Do it every day, but not in an art-challenge type of way where you need to post something to Instagram. Just do it for yourself! Secretly, if that’s what you need.
Experiment! Explore! You’ll learn more from mixing colors without a plan than creating a masterpiece.
This video covers:
preventing dried-up crusty, crumbly, cracked gouache
choosing paint colors, placement, and palette size
not wasting a single drop of paint so you can use materials freely
I share my work from an outing with my newly-mixed palette
More things I painted with my tiny Art Toolkit palette
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Inside my Ugly Drawing Bag - mixing limited materials to squeeze every inch of color from them.
Short & Sweet Supply List - a perfect place to start for going out drawing or revisiting the basics.Sketching Out & About - materials to draw some fast-moving, trouble-making kittens from inside a conference room at the Humane Society.
Art Materials Mega Thread - community-wide discussion of art supplies we love, loathe, and are curious to try.
