Let's set up an art toolkit palette with gouache!

I've been eyeing up the Art Toolkit palettes for a while, and finally got my hands on one... so OF COURSE I had to set it up with some gouache!
Here's another one of my 'thinking aloud about color options' videos with some swatching included - because why would we NOT swatch the gouache colors before filling the palette? 🤣
Hope you enjoy this video - thanks for watching and see you next week!
Big hugs,
Eve
#artpalette #gouache #paletteswatches

[@ChantelleArts]

what a gorgeous palette 😊😊

[@brittneystadtfeld6030]

Had me cracking up! “ hang on, lemme put on my muscles” 😂

[@creativesolutionsandart]

I always carry my white in a separate tube, that way it leaves me extra space for another color :-) and it’s the only one I use a lot of so it makes sense to carry it in the tube separately. I actually use those little round plastic paint pot strips… I discovered when I had to go back-and-forth to a painting class I was taking that it was very convenient and kept each color and it never dried. Small enough that they were easy to transport but large enough carried enough paint for an entire semester. Roughly 6 weeks. Meaning one long Saturday class each week. :-) Only downside is overtime they tend to wear out the little hinges and connections between them. I never found any really good paint pallets that either didn’t. Mold or dry out the paint.

[@FaithAnnNB]

Based on the number of colours you had, I was waiting to see when the mixing tray would go, so you could put more colours in 😂. I’ve done the same in my art tool kit palettes, I try to get as many colours as possible in the smaller palettes. I take the little mixing tray(s) separately in my pencil case and position them on a magnet clip or magnet strip (if I’m using a sketch board). I like having them with me for wetter mixes.

[@JoJoTarz]

I bought the Folio size about a month ago, and I love it-I also filled it with gouache. So far the only issue is that you go through the paint very quickly since the pans are so small. I need to rearrange so I have a bigger pan for white too. I haven't had any major cracking or extreme drying out either. They rewet beautifully! I used Holbein and Winsor Newton for reference.....I actually was thinking of getting a second one for my watercolors because they are so transportable.

[@jackielubeck]

Hi Evie - I also have that palette but slightly bigger, very flat, have't filled it yet as I bought a load of Daniel Smith and made a total mess filling a plastic palette and didn't use a tooth pick so I have lumps, several didn't dry because I didn't know what I was doing... I have to use that up and wash the whole thing. But it's all so much fun....!

[@KilbyDelaney-jt1kw]

I always love listening to you swatch colours, Eve. I had poured my gouache into an air tight palette similar to your first one but they have all dried and crumbled. On one of the many videos I’ve watched, someone suggested mixing the gouache with watercolour blending medium when you are preparing your palette. I just got the medium yesterday but think I will have to start over with the gouache palette in order to get the medium mixed in so unsure if it will work at this point. In other news, I’ve spent the last week or so expanding my Daniel Smith watercolour palette from 39 colours to 52. Do I need all that? No. Do I want a choice of 52. Yes indeed. Just looking at the swatch card brings me joy. And I blame the art store I generally order from because last weekend they had 15% off everything. And then yesterday they sent another email with $20 off a purchase of $100.

[@catherinefreese9310]

Oh no! That is so crummy. I’m going to put a thin sheet of foam on the top of mine and keep the lid closed with an elastic. The vegetable glycerin helps a bit, but there is nothing stopping the Prussian Blue from drying all cracked 😂.

[@eviedivadoodles]

That all sounds like a great plan. I've removed the Prussian - far too broken - and have replaced with with an Indigo watercolor, which I love. 🤞

[@phillipstroll7385]

Gouache isn't made to be panned. By doing so you invalidate all lightfast ratings, longevity and opacity. My god it's no more difficult to carry a flat price of plastic and 3 tubes of gouache. Actually, none of you youtubers are actually plein air painting and if by chance you once upon a time do you carry a the minimum pockets on your jeans. This is all nonsense. Absolute nonsense. If you must carry dried pans of opaque paint there is opaque watercolor and perfectly good egg tempera pan paints. These channels are so monkey see, monkey do.

[@jessicapp2545]

I have te largest art tool kit. Couldn’t make a choice between all the beautiful colors

[@eviedivadoodles]

oh my, the largest is a dream... perhaps I should put it on my wish list for Christmas... but then I have so many palettes already... 🤣

[@fauzana.creates]

I had fun listening to your discussion when you swatched the paints. Sounds like what I had going on in my mind when I swatched. Funny when we actually own those colours but then we sort of forgot about them but during the swatching it’s all kinda new to us again.

[@oficinacaracolinho]

Why is always so difficult to decide which colours putting in our palettes 😅🙈 I have that tiny palette too, but mine is full with watercolours that I actually don't use 😬 i am considering taking off the watercolours to replace with guache!

[@catherinefreese9310]

Oh my goodness! I just set up my gouache pallet for a trip I’m going to take. I used the folio pallet. Please let me know if your paints dried okay. Some of mine dried in flaky layers. I used some vegetable glycerin but I’m not too hopeful about them making the trip. One tip I will pass on is to bring a little tube of white with you. You use it so much and a pan gets super contaminated. Thank you so much for the video.

[@eviedivadoodles]

Hey Catherine! Well... about 10 minutes after the video posted, I thought to myself, let me take 10 minutes to do a quick thing with the palette in my sketchbook... I caught it wrong, the whole palette fell on the floor and several pans of paint broke. I cannot find the burnt sienna, just the empty pan with its residue. Sigh. Prior to the drop, the WN Prussian blue was in bits from drying and flaking, along with the marigold, leaf green, ice blue and alizarin crimson Holbeins, which had deep cracks and are now in pieces. My hope was that if the palette is closed, there will be little cross mixing as the paints dried mostly with cracks rather than flakiness... but.. who knows after this mornings accident. I'll report back, and would love to know how you get on with yours! And thank you - that's a great tip re the white - I'll see if I can pick up a small rube, my WN one is too big for all the travel / flight restrictions this time.