My Watercolor Palettes

[@MegaAwesomeAnnie]

Listening to you describing your palettes (including the ones which give you a headache!) makes me feel like I am listening to a friend just chat away about their favourite subject :) Thanks for a super chill and informative video!

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

You're very welcome. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙏

[@goat8477]

I am clearly a palette hoarder... I am always looking for old eyeshadow palettes or mint tins that i can modify. Of course not all are equally practical. But cute on the shelf... The mint tins are nice because I can work with magnets in the field so they stay where I put them. Along with a small water dish that i clip on it's a great little to-go arrangement.

[@nickelazoyellow7360]

I'm a hoarder. I find them to be beautiful in their own right.

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Hi. Many hoarders here ☺️ For some people it's fun collecting stuff they enjoy. Nothing wrong with that.

[@MrSageCurtis]

I went from 48-pan palette tin with 34 colors to a 28-pan tin with 14 full pans. I also have a small tin, like the blue one you showed with 12 colors. Not so much a hoarder, but I spend way too much time looking at palettes online.

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

I'm sure you'll eventually end up with far more palettes than you need. Just like the rest of us 🤣

[@TammyNewmanArt]

Great video, Ive enjoyed seeing your palette Collection. I’m a palette hoarder to 😊

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Thank you 🙏 How many counts as hoarding? 5? 10? 15? 🤣

[@octobercat]

I do love others' palette collections. I'm stupid enough to have more than 50 palettes, but I can't find the best of best palette for me so far.

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Wow 50?! That must be a record. Haha 🤣 Do you have your eye on any new ones?

[@nadeaner.cowley513]

I dont have as many as 50 but I def have more than I can count on both hands🥺

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

@@nadeaner.cowley513 Haha anything more than 10 may as well be 50 🤣

[@ngocthaodrawing]

🤣🤣🤣

[@deeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

Me, an intellectual, having 5 palettes which are technically identical but with slightly different filling. Idk why but I had to buy them.

[@lindathaxton1994]

I’m addicted to art supplies & pallets are are the top of my wants 🥴 I have lots of them!

[@SarahBaileyArts]

"clearly it's way too many...." LOL. You're a minimalist compared to most artists I know :p Absolutely get one more!!

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Hahaha you're an enabler 🤣 I think I should get rid of a few before I get any more.

[@SarahBaileyArts]

@@JayNathanWatercolor Ah they come and go, I've gotten rid of a few myself recently.

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

@@SarahBaileyArts Did you get rid of them to make space for new ones? 🤣

[@SarahBaileyArts]

@@JayNathanWatercolor Not to make space, but to pay for the new ones! :D

[@LCLand]

I agree! I thought he was a real addict but few of the palettes have paint in them! He has a different sort of problem. Haha.

[@evolvvartstudio]

Dropping in to say that your content is fantastic. Even the music is 👩‍🍳 💋

[@nadeaner.cowley513]

Definitely a palette hoader:( i go thru stages of collecting...so for awhile I was collecting paints and then palettes and then I went to brushes, then paper, then gouache and then paints again ....etc...im def a hoarder....lol...great video. Thanks for sharing🧡💙

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

You're very welcome. Thank you for watching and commenting 🙏 Haha many hoarders here. You must have a nice collection of art materials then? Are you someone who uses them all or just like to collect and hoard?

[@andreeutza22]

I am at the gouache phase 🤣 also watercolor books

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

@@andreeutza22 Haha 🤣

[@patticake5311]

I love this tour of your palettes, and yes, my Schmincke Akademie paints (I think it's a 2019 set) came in that yellow/orange box. I love your most used box with the velcro on the palette and the drawing board. I have plenty of palettes from the 12 half-pan metal boxes to a Mission Gold palette and plenty of 24 and 48 half pan tins. I have 2 small ceramic flower palettes and a larger ceramic palette. I'm currently filling a 48 half-pan metal tin with 24 full pans of White Nights. Just ordered the last few colors, can't wait! I also have palettes that came with paint sets, some still with the original paints, including the 18 pan Sennelier set, the Lucas Studio set, Sonnet 24 full pans in a box plus my smaller travel sets (Cotman, Van Gogh, etc) and some less expensive sets. You're definitely not alone when it comes to palette collecting :D

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Thank you very much 🙏 Oh I forgot to show my ceramic plate I sometimes use for mixing. Looking at the comments here I think it's totally normal to have more palettes than you use. We are all hoarders 🤣

[@waymire01]

In my watercolor journey I basically went from high tech and extravagant to the most basic palettes ever. I shudder when I think of the money I could have saved by just starting out this way, but I guess the journey was necessary. I've settled on small limited palettes with a preference for full pans, in very compact little tins.. the largest I have is a nine pan (seven fulls and two halves) and the smallest are my old masters trios. Several are four to six pans. Most are Altoids tins (they come in three colors and I've used some nice labels for the top but you can customize them in a million ways) and recently found the cutest little tins at Cracker Barrel country store that are perfect for the trios.. they come in four colors. In the past I had huge palettes.. 20, 30, even 50 colors.. but I not only use the smaller ones more often, I feel they perform better... and I know my work improved as well as my color theory. It's so much easier to mix color and set up a complementary color scheme when your options are limited and focused on the primaries. Every color is based off the others and they automatically go along with each other. If I want a different effect I just change to the palette that will give it to me. I use magnets so if I do change my mind I can just move the pans around as needed with no waste... and I mix on a separate surface so no need to all those flaps and lids anyway. A full pan can accommodate a brush up to 1" with no issue and I really don't paint any larger than that (at least in watercolor, I've done poster size acrylics in the past).

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

I think it is pretty normal for us to try lots of different materials and buy way too much when we are in the early stages of learning to paint. I even see many painters studios, with 25+ years of experience, have hundreds of brushes in pots that they never use. It's very rare that someone starts with a limited palette right from the start. Even if it is probably the best way to learn. Wow 50 colors in a palette. I think my head would explode trying to use that many. I love using my palette with 9 colors in it. It suits almost everything Like to paint. I think I might expand to 12 eventually though.

[@waymire01]

@@JayNathanWatercolor My favorite nine pan at the moment is Winsor Newton... yellow ochre, sap green, ultramarine blue, burnt sienna, sepia, davy's grey, quin magenta, and cad yellow and red. It's a lovely, soft palette with the pops of bright color if I need it. I've considered swapping the Davy's for buff titanium, it's such a useful color, but I have this weird issue with mixing my palette brands... I know plenty who do but I feel like each brand makes it's hues to go along with each other. For example if you look at various ultramarine blues they range from soft dusty denim hues to bright royal blue just depending on who makes it.. Mijellos is almost violet. My only mixed palette at the moment is my granulating palette which I never use on it's own.. I forgot about that one, it's 20 pans.

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

@@waymire01 Sounds like a nice palette of colors. I'm never sure about mixing brands either. I don't think it's a problem and I do mix different brands quite often but something in my mind wants each palette of colors to be just one brand. Strange isn't it?

[@cazumbandoartmaddy1728]

Nope, I'm clearly a palette hoarder. XD I'm trying to clean up some of my plastic palettes with leftover paint, some have watercolors some have gouache. And I honestly paint with whatever I feel like painting, I don't stick to one palette :P

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Haha many people are confessing to being palette hoarders. Maybe it's a common problem?🤣 I want to use up my old Van Gogh paints but I always end up using the Rembrandt or Mijello that I have. Maybe I will have to challenge myself to finish one painting a day with my Van Gogh until they are all gone? Then I can get rid of that palette.

[@cheryllapham6279]

I can relate! I have several drawers full of travel palettes, but primarily use a Holbein steel palette for both studio and Plein air, and a couple of ceramic flower palettes when I want big washes. But you can never have too many palettes - or pochade boxes! 😄

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Haha! I think there must be a point when we have too many. I definitely think I'm at that point now 🤣

[@MaryPrasadArt]

Thanks for sharing your palettes! To make paints easier to rewet (and avoid cracking), just add a drop or two of humectant, like honey and/or glycerin. Mix it into paint from the tube (I use a toothpick). It will not harm the paint nor lightfastness as these ingredients can be found in professional watercolors.

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Thank you for your comment 🙏 You are right I could try that. Most paints I use have been easy to rewet apart from Cotman and Mijello dark burnt sienna.

[@MaryPrasadArt]

@@JayNathanWatercolor I've had several paints that dried too hard, esp. some of the Daniel Smith Primatek (not all though). I have the 238 dot card so it really helped me determine how easy they would rewet without putting them in the pan first. I also find that W&N paints (not just Cotman) tend to crack a lot, especially the gouache. M Graham paints already have honey in them (and Sennelier but I only have dried a few) - they take a long time to "dry" (most never fully dry because there's so much humectant). You have to be careful in storing them - flat only! Otherwise they may run out of their pans. But they are a dream to work with - super highly pigmented and rewet beautifully.

[@magentaindigoart]

Nice selection, I really like the aluminum palettes. And the mijello ones look sturdy and pleasing. I like the mods you put on the last palette, thanks for sharing your ideas! I don't hoard palettes but I hoard paint..so I need to be able to switch colors easily and mess-free. Until recently I was only using the tin palettes, it allowed me to swap pans easily. I mod my pans with magnetic tape so that they stick to the palette. But...last year I got a Mijello fusion 18-well palette and I loved the fact that I could use larger brushes, it was so comfortable. Since I still had so much of my paint in pans, I had to find a way to include them. In the end I modded the mijello palette so that I can fit pans in the mixing space and it's been my favorite palette ever since. I prefer to do my mixing on a ceramic palette though.

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Thank you for watching and commenting. I have had the Mijello Fusion 18 palette in the past. That is the air tight one isn't it? I quite liked it but 18 wells was too many for me at the time so changed to my Frank Herring Palette that I still use now. Mixing on ceramic is definitely much nicer than plastic. I do have a couple of ceramic dishes that I use on occasion but I forgot to show them in this video.

[@wulfseig1864]

I have the same Mijello as well. I like it because it fits bigger brushes but it's too big for me. I agree, ceramic is awesome for mixing. 😁

[@JacquelineJax]

I do the same thing. And I literally now made my own .lol

[@fizzywyg]

LOL, completely relate to the search for the perfect palette. I started with a John Pike, just switched to a Liz Deakin, got fed up with my warm and cool washes getting into each other. Can be great, usually not though in my experience. I also have a Clover Leaf. Both serve different purposes in the studio, both have deep mixing wells for big washes and the cools and warms stay separate, sort of. For plein air sketching I have two palettes a little cheap Van Gogh 15 half pan and the Frazer Price, a birthday gift from a loving wife. The Frazer Price is a thing of beauty and I love it. But, it's a bit chunky, well it would be being brass, it's also a chunky box shape that doesn't fit snugly into my bag or pocket. My entire sketching kit fits into an A5/6-ish size pencil case including my cheap VG palette, so guess which one is always in use. The palette I truly covet is the Fletcher Watson Studio Palette from Little Brass Box, but at that price I'm going to have to stick with the Deakin and the Clover Leaf for the foreseeable future. The old steel Holbein would have been a good second choice, but sadly defunct and I'm not a fan of aluminium palettes so have steered clear of the cheaper copies available. Great channel btw, just discovered you.

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Thank you very much 🙏 I'm happy to hear that new people are still discovering my channel. I really really really really want that Frazer Price palette. Not for any good reason. Just because it's shiny 🤣

[@fizzywyg]

@@JayNathanWatercolor Oh it's very shiny, very, very shiny. I was very embarrassed once when out working with it. Up comes the obligatory onlooker to admire it, used to onlookers so no problems there. But I was doing a very fast and loose sketch in my SB. I know from looking at your SB's you know exactly what that means. So, a lovely professional looking, very shiny little jewell of a palette with a complete mess on the page. The look on the guy's face was a picture in itself. 🤣

[@maialaw4186]

Huge thanks for your video, pleased I stumble upon it - really made me chuckle! It reminded me when I started using western watercolours - so much variation on quality of paints, brands within brands, separation of "professional" vs "student grade", cheap tins vs lacquer palettes (huge price discrep), lack of standardised brush sizes/terminology...the products you show are from East Asia? Recognise a lot of them! Especially the baby blue empty tin palette, the flimsy "mia" palette - sadly, can't get those in a UK store!

[@markdonovan1540]

Palettes! Another addiction inside the watercolour rabbit hole... I have to admit, I have a few. I find I use them less often these days, as I prefer to take fresh paint out of the tube and put a blob in an old ceramic bowl or small dish or enamel oven dish if I need lots of paint. However, for plein air painting, such as urban sketching, they are very useful. Lately, I've made my own "mini-palletes" from souvenir soap containers. I have them set up like this: 1. 3x Kuretake large pans for primaries. I have two of these, using different primaries. The bigger pans enable larger brushes to be used and they help me to focus more on mixing colours and blending. 2. 6× standard half-pans for secondaries 3. 8x standard half-pans: blues & greens 5. 8x standard half-pans for reds 6. 8x standard half-pans for earths I also use the single "group colour" palettes to paint value sketches sometimes - it teaches me a lot about the different types of each colour. Depending on what I'm going to paint, I take 1 or more of these small palettes with me, which are easy to fit into a small bag with a few brushes, tissue paper, collapsible water cup and a few sketch pencils and pens - plus a pad of paper, of course.

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Yes palettes can become quite an addiction. We're always looking for that next palette that is going to be the perfect one 🤣 Interesting to hear about your set up. Thanks for sharing 🙏☺️

[@patti3d]

I have about 10 different palettes . I like my mejillo ones. I just started using a square white porcelain plate 8 inch as my palette. We will see. I just cover it with paper towels. Actually bought two plates : the other is for large washes.

[@mariram]

You have a nice collection! I like the idea of velcro. I like Roberson style paintboxes. Brass palettes are so pretty. Can't afford one though.

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Thank you. The brass palettes do look very nice but, as you say, they are very expensive.

[@vatiammatri]

Palette hoarder, lol. I like to make mini "stealth" travel palettes out of dollar store eyeshadow palettes. I sand off the writing and paint the outer top with white acrylic so that I have a white mixing surface inside. But otherwise I'm partial to the Mijello 18 palettes and the Meedon tins in any of the sizes. Thx for your channel 🙏🏼

[@marytesta3003]

I use metal tins and magnets then I can move, change etc. the pans.

[@klb430]

🙋‍♀️ palette and paint hoarder here! I have the frazer price palette box from jacksons and it is lovely! It makes it very easy to paint at the park while my kids are playing.

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Ah I want it!!! What are the mixing areas like? It says they are enameled right? Can you fit full pans in it or just half pans? Pallets and paint hoarder? While I do have quite a few paints I paint a lot so burn through them very quickly. So I wouldn't classify myself as a paint hoarder yet.

[@klb430]

@@JayNathanWatercolor The mixing areas are enameled and then there are 2 spots on the water container for mixing as well. You have 5 seperate mixing spaces which I think is great. The ones on the water container are recessed so that gives you the space for watery mixes. Full or half pans fit. Its not like the original where the pans were part of the insert, this new one just comes with a holder tray and you use your own pans. I think its wonderfully balanced when holding it and painting with a block balanced in my lap. The thing you might not like is the water pots are small so you need to use a smaller brush. I'd say size 8-10 (looking at my silver and princeton brushes) is the biggest you could fit into it. In this video John shows using one of the three pot nesting water containers which might be useful for you. kzbin.info/www/bejne/enXEZ6eiabGjrK8&ab_channel=JohnHaywood-BrusheswithWatercolour There is no doubt that this is a luxury item. I love it and am glad I have it!

[@usetherightbrain.]

I think its ok to have multiple palettes, no one palette can do everything- small, large , mixing, materials, desktop, portable, you didn't even get into the ceramic palettes that come in so many shapes and sizes- that is a heavenly mixing surface!! I also have deep well palette for mixing up large washes. And how about the butchers pan ? Budget or expensive, how about the made to order brass palettes you have to wait a year to get ( I hear they are heavenly). Do you even need a palette, some artists are inventive, I have seen wine glasses, and deviled egg dishes as palettes. Whatever suits. Me too, I have a lot of palettes, but I love them all.

[@UTleochi]

Haha, yes, palette hoarding should probably be considered as an addiction. Love your collection, especially the folding palette you have altered to hold 9 colours. I had to laugh at your ‘It gives me a headache’ considering the amount of colours in the, was it ``Mijello? palette. Can totally relate because although I love having lots of colour choices, I end up using only a handful of hues. My own favourite palette is a little handmade palette made by The Little Brass Palette Company. I got really lucky a couple of years ago because somebody cancelled their order and I got the palette within a few weeks instead of months. It cost me a fortune, but it’s absolutely worth it. Such beautiful craftsmanship! My second favourite is the Holbein palette, and my third are all sorts of ceramic or porcelain dishes that I love to use as watercolour palettes. Somehow plastic palettes are just not for me, even if I own a few of them. Thank you for the lovely video - love channels like yours - subscribed!

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

I would love one of those brass palettes but, as you say, they are really expensive. I didn't want to get myself one in case I got bored of watercolor and stopped painting. I thought about getting myself one as a reward once I've been painting for 5 years which will be in 2024. So maybe if I order now it will be shipped to me by then? 🤣

[@markdonovan1540]

@@JayNathanWatercolor don't do it Jay, resist! They are way overpriced, very heavy and just for show offs really... With all your swatching expertise and knowledge of paint pigments you could design your own and get it made as a prototype for "field testing", then launch your own product for your 5-year watercolour journey anniversary!

[@ganarseunacre]

Hi Jay. Great video. Beautiful palette collection. John Pike palette looks like a great beautiful studio palette. I really like the last one. I have three palets, 8 pans, 14 pans and 20 pans, the last ones are Mijellos. For me it is more than enough, I use a lot of cheap porcelain to use mixing surfaces, when I paint at home. The mini wooden pallets you show are really lovely.

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Hi Jose. Thank you very much. Yes the John Pike Palette is really nice as a studio palette. Simple designs are often the best. I think three palettes is a good number. I think I will end up there eventually.

[@gautambarua8260]

.. And I thought I was weird to keep buying all kinds of palletes since decades. My search continues like that for the holy grail. 😃. Anyway loved this vedeos as I could really identify with the obsession.

[@lindyashford7744]

I just got the 12 pan narrow Schminke tin, just for the tin, of course there are dupes in it, but that is ok. It is mostly offered as a special edition with the student garde watercolours, but CASS ART has it with Horadam half pans. It has an inner flap and lots of wells, and I can just see how it would be a delight to use outdoors. I only rarely if ever do this though, the pandemic put paid to that…. It is one of three palettes that I have specifically for outdoors, the other two are also from CassArt, under their own branding, but they are a rebrand of the better known Daler Rowney 18 colour quarter pan Fome box, very nice paint selection, and sometimes a steal when on special offer. I got mine in 2018 before art material prices started to go crazy… I dream of days in the sun under a nice shady tree, painting to my hearts content. Not sure if that is going to happen so these three boxes are definitely more because I love the boxes than anything else. Ps. I also have a couple of really tiny palettes I made for myself with those little earbud boxes similar to the apple ones. They hold a LOT of pigments in tiny quarter pans I bought online. They have a transparent base and the white lid acts as a tiny mixing palette. I use this for little experimental thumbnails in a small notebook, I can do them in the paints I envision using later, so they have some rather nice paints in them in tiny quantities. Oh, and I got got that I have two of those little ‘whiskey painter’ style boxes by Fome, not the fancy ones with the whiskey container thing, the plain ones that will hold 12 half pans. I have DS primateks in one and Schmincke in another…… and yes I would love that gorgeous brass box too! And one of those handmade brass ones from India too, preferably in racing green….. one can dream….

[@michemman]

Ah Jay, Yes I know the struggle. Here is my top tip; Gluestick on any palette mixing surface, then wipe with a wet tissue. Stops beading, staining on all palettes. Would be a great quick video too. ;) Love the additions to your plastic one. Deep wells. Never thought to do that. Love the velcro. Never thought to do that either. I am currently making a kit, testing phase, with recycled products and bits and pieces added. I will give it to some artist friends, and say, "here are some tools, let me know what you think" without giving the purpose or intention away. I am pleased so far, it uses magnets. Top secret stuff, can't say too much. In kindred spirit Eliza Australia x 23rd February 2022

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Thanks for the tip 🙏 and best of.luck with your kit ☺️

[@wulfseig1864]

Oh, the struggle is real 🤪. We need to start a group palette swap. I have a graveyard full of palettes I never use. Still haven't found my "Perfect" palette either. Currently using a ceramic 18 well with divided mixing areas. So far it's been good. Also use a ceramic stackable set for big washes. Looking for something flatter for my travel palette. TFS.

[@alexandrasartinsanity]

I'm not a palette hoarder but I'm defiantly a paint hoarder. All my pains are in individual pans which means I get to be pretty flexible with my storage.

[@Blissfulthings]

I like porcelain pallets, small and studio size .I found a Steven quiller porcelain pallet on sale for half price it's perfect for intense color mixing theory I have your large plastic pallet with all the round and square sections, I use it mainly for inks.....I've subscribed and waving hello from Canada 😊

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Thank you very much for watching, commenting and subscribing 🙏 I like porcelain palettes too. I'm tempted to get one big porcelain palette for use at home but keep putting off buying one as I have the John Pike palette.

[@markdonovan1540]

@Jay Nathan Watercolor my first ever watercolours were Van Gogh 15 colour "travel palette", which I still use today. Although, I now fill it with different paints: a mixture of Daniel Smith and W&N. I have 2 of those 24 half-pan black metal palettes - one I use 23 colours - all St. Petersburg Lazoya range. As these are larger pans, I squeeze some down the middle too! The other has a mixture of standard half-pans (with a mixture of paints from Daniel Smith, W&N and Van Gogh) and some Lazoya range to give a selection of primaries, secondaries, earths and neutrals - so far it seems to be my most balanced palette (if there is such a thing 😀). I've been tempted by the large aluminium Holbein pallete and the John Pike large mixing area one you have, but they would just take up too much space in my small art area in a spare bedroom, so I decided not to buy them. I have a selection of small (3, 6 or 8 colours) palletes made using small empty soap souvenir or throat lozenger tins. I have a few plastic palettes which I use to try out set ups. They're well used now, so the staining helps to stop beeding- although I took the shine off with light sandpaper when I first used them. I have 3 porcelain palettes which I use more when taking paint straight from the tube for a specific painting project. So basically, I am suffering from POS - pallete overload syndrome, the bane of many newbie watercolour painter...

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Buying palettes is still a problem of mine. I think it's always a lifetime search for the perfect one 😂

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

I keep buying palettes myself, telling myself I'll fill them once I finish this collection or that collection. Other times out of sheer curiosity lol. I haven't found one just yet that I really really love.

[@LCLand]

Why wait? Enjoy them all! I have a palette of my sennelier and palettes of Davinci and Daler rowney and Daniel smith and one of blues and yellow and greens only and a holbein set and some silly prima sets and two that I curated with my favorite colors with mixed brands and ………etc etc I have my eyes on a schmincke set because I only have a few tubes. I switch around frequently snd right now I have several surrounding my table and stacked snd have been using them all. I need more space.

[@LCLand]

Thank you! I have 7 palettes surrounding my painting table right now and I was feeling weird about it. Like something is wrong with me. Maybe not. 😀 I do need to keep it down though. I need to get to know my paints but I’m always playing with everything. Mine are all filled with paint though. I would say I have too many paints but no I won’t say that.

[@Lexouchan]

Definitely not a palette hoarder but a paint hoarder. I have only one palette that store my paints (like all my paints in a single system ). But I have over 60 colours I think ? And the palette doesn't have a mixing space. It's a paint only palette. I use ceramic mixing palettes ok the side I have a lot of ceramic mixing palettes though X) Some with wells, some completely flat...

[@NanaBeth1]

I love the little Mijello palette. But I sure don't need the paints & can't bring myself to spend that much money just for the palette itself. Yes I think I might be a palette hoarder.

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

I was the same about the little Mijello palette. I have always liked the look of it but would never have paid full price. I was lucky that I got it for about 70% off in a defect sale. I couldn't find anything defective about it though.

[@B1ackDahlia767]

If anyone is unaware, because I wasn't for the longest time, you can try some things to help keep your from beading-up on your palette, in the mixing areas: 1. wipe a layer of ox gall over your surface, 2. buff with fine-grain sandpaper, or I've heard, 3. buffing with white toothpaste should also work. Honestly, the toothpaste method didn't seem to do so much when I tried it. I may not have scrubbed it enough. Personally, I've had the most success with the ox gall! *You can also try a "Mr. Clean" magic eraser, (in the United States & Canada,) to clean up palette stains. I haven't gotten a new palette in quite a long time. I think I'm happy with the 11 that I have, which is still too many. 😆

[@sandjune2753]

Hi Jay, you use a drawing board, thats a great idea, I was thinking of getting Franks travel palette , thank you for showing this. Can you advise on the board please, is this a plastic white board and if so what is it called and what size do you use ? Many thanks Ruth

[@thefervourofmysoul]

Very nice😊👍

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Thank you 😊

[@brunarodrigues5489]

I'm a palette hoarder, but i'm trying my best to settle with one (the white nights lavender one that holds 21 full pans)

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Is that the metal White Nights palette? Like the black one that I have my Van Gogh pans in but a much nice color?

[@brunarodrigues5489]

@@JayNathanWatercolor yes, it's the metal one in a nice color 🤣 But my version is smaller, it's like a regular 24 halfpan tin, but the tray has 3 rows

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Oh that sounds great. A more compact palette but you can fit the same amount of pans in.

[@francesnorton65]

Wouldn't it be amazing if someone could design a palette to hold watercolour TUBES?? I think Schmincke have one, but of course it only fits their tubes. I prefer tubes and just cannot find anything to keep them tidy and sorted, so I modified an old w&n palette by removing the bit that holds the pans.

[@lindyashford7744]

You can get palettes for tubes, I see vintage ones as well…. I am sure a lot were made for the European market in the 80s and still can be found on eBay…

[@MarcFonda]

I bought a square plastic plate at a dollar store. Works better than their 'art' palates.

[@jerripaniagua8424]

Great video! I enjoyed seeing your collection of palettes. I've been trying to find the flip mixing well you had as it would be a perfect addition to my Plein Air painting supplies. Could you share a link or store where I could purchase one?

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Hi. Thank you for watching. Which palette do you mean? Could you tell me what time in the video I show it?

[@jerripaniagua8424]

@@JayNathanWatercolor the flip palette was at the 1:27 mark

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Oh I see. I got that one at a local art shop here in Thailand. The brand is Sekai and it's called a 'Fan Shaped Palette'

[@jerripaniagua8424]

thank you so much! Appreciate your quick response and I look forward to watching your upcoming videos 😊

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

@@jerripaniagua8424 You're very welcome 🙏 ☺️

[@PaintinHiding]

that 3 layer spin out palette! i almost got that one 55 omg the holbein one, it’s by hung-il? can i ask where you got it? the new frasier one does look nice XD hmm i think i’ve been pretty good at not collecting palettes although there was a point a couple years ago i had my “recycle used cosmetics palettes” phase so i still have those even though unused 😅 i was wondering how you covered the thumb hole on that palette, now we know~

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

I got the Heung-il palette on eBay last year. It was much cheaper than buying it anywhere else. It's nowhere near as solid as the Holbein one though as it's made from aluminium. I think Holbein sell their own aluminium palettes these days too.

[@jessieadair]

Sigh, hold my beer, lol! I really must stop purchasing so many art supplies just to satisfy my curiosity and indulge my fantasy that I'm one product away from the perfect set-up. I must be getting some nice dopamine rushes when I make the purchases, when I receive the items and again when I first try them out. 12 Step Program: "Hi . . . my name is Jessie and I'm a palette addict". LOL!

[@gillinacook1477]

When I started watercolour, I didn’t know why people have so many pallets. Isn’t one enough? Welllll I did start off with just one, now I have 9. I better stop buying them now. Now I do understand why people have lots of pallets 😁 all have their different reasons.

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Haha I was exactly the same. I thought I'd just have one (two at most) but the collection quickly started building up. Yes people do have different reasons for having different palettes. I have one I use for painting at home, one as a more portable limited landscape palette and one small one for painting in my sketchbook when out and about. I can't explain the other 10+ I have though 🤣

[@katriannanonduality]

what are the first three colours in the mission gold 36 palette?

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Shinhan grey, jaune brilliant 1 & 2. I think 🤔

[@CLOUDSINTHEKITCHEN]

I saw a wooden box that closes with magnets at B2S and i am scamping on getting it. would hold about 24 half pans , brushes and maybe i will just go and get it. It is gorgeous. 380 bht lol. Do you mind telling me how much u payed for the wooden ones you got here and where , please? Maybe we should do a bit of half pan swapping? :)

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Is it just a plain wooden box or is it made for watercolors? The wooden palettes were made by instagram.com/kao_shop99? I can't remember how much but was something like 100-130 baht.

[@CLOUDSINTHEKITCHEN]

@@JayNathanWatercolor just a plain box, but i have been sticking my pans with a double sided silicon sticky tape and it is amazing

[@softandcosy]

@@JayNathanWatercolor the link seems to be broken, did you buy the wood palette from their insta or was there a website? i hope they haven’t gone bust :(

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

@@softandcosy Hi. It was just one guy making them himself and selling them over Instagram here in Thailand. I think he just decided to stop and do something else.

[@softandcosy]

@@JayNathanWatercolor aw that's a shame :( thanks

[@ohbli_oh]

Have 100 palettes and they haunt me in my dreammmms 😩😫😭

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Haha! A nightmare of being found crushed under your palette collection? 🤣

[@naidookrelin]

WHY ARE PALETTES SO LIKABLE?!!

[@LCLand]

Lol. Nothing wrong with one more…

[@watercolorsbyling5104]

That intro cut too deep. 😅

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Haha! 🤣

[@alexandrag89]

I'd love it if you didn't play this loud music. I have bad hearing and can barely hear what you say.

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Aw I'm very sorry. I turned the music down to about 30% and thought it would be quiet in the background. I'll remember for the next video 😊🙏

[@phillipstroll7385]

Noooooooo do not waste your money on the redue of the Frazer price palette. It is NOT A BRASS PALETTE. it's brass plated. Which means it shouldn't cost anymore than any other empty palette. Maybe around $20.00 usd. I mean if you want to pay more for less just because others have be my guest. But if you want it because you are expecting quality, you won't get it.

[@emai0625]

I feel that with the search of the perfect palette, 🥸 I created my own van gogh mini palette a few month ago, did some changes, but however I really would like to build another🙈. I have 3, a big van gogh, a mini van gogh, and a neclected cotmans palette

[@JayNathanWatercolor]

Customising you own palette is so much fun ☺️