Mixing a dreamy paint palette

This is my friend’s dog, Pebbles.

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.

I love a fast and loose swatch page!

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

Painted from the zoo, comfort of my couch, and inlaws' house

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