Ultra Compact Watercolor Sets

James Gurney shows two pocket-size watercolor sets, the Pocket Palette and the W/N Bijou Box, along a mini sketchbook, then shares some clips of painting adventures and mishaps. This is an excerpt from "Watercolor in the Wild: BONUS FEATURES."
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[@jahews6902]

This is the kind of artist I want to be.

[@MohanKumar-jo3tc]

Gurney's color mixing is beautiful work, congrats

[@mydemon]

Same same

[@numbuh53]

omg are THE james gurney!?? dinotopia james gurney!? i didn't know you ran a youtube channel, and such a cool one!! you're a legend at my art school

[@rogerchanis6138]

GOD BLESS YOU 🤗

[@r.sahindra9193]

I thought the opening was generated digitally until i saw behind the scene at the End! Genius!

[@lorenzotosi3377]

Oh my gosh that ending button panel and the sounds of it's functioning and the water splash in the background, it's a real pleasure nnnggh!!!

[@cherrycordiaI]

Mr. Gurney, you are so cool and skilled.

[@LAvenus79]

The turkey was very pleased :D

[@5BIRDOG5]

I am absolutely in love with your work. I have been binge watching your videos for 3 days now and will be putting together my own compact kit. This has made me want to dedicate myself to being artistic everyday. Even if for only 30 min. Thank you for showing me how to fall in love with painting again!

[@moma-b]

I loved the "bloopers" part at the end... 😂👌

[@periodicmabel]

I love your intro and outro, especially how you show some of the behind-the-scenes! Just wonderful (:

[@moss6235]

Funnily enough, your palette falling onto the ground (oh man) gives me some ideas on how to secure a box watercolor set to my sketchbook. I have some rubber bands at home that could really work wonders, so I’ll try those out sometime. Thank you for the video!

[@carmsdeguzman6560]

the effort and thought in everything you do, even the video openings, is so inspiring!!

[@AngelaWeddle]

For those who like something even more compact, I have wrist palette that you wear like a watch. It is a small wooden pallet that has a ribbon/fabric that you tie around your wrist, it has 6 built in pans and the other side that opens up is a small mixing area. I got mine off Etsy. I think Cheap Joe’s or Jerry’s Artarama carry a version with a watch band. I also have the Whiskey Painter’s palette. I like the business card sized palette seen here. It appears they have increased the amount of pans available.

[@drjitters]

Love it! Reminds me of my dad.

[@lisathaviu1154]

One container that I like at this point is one or two of those weekly plastic pill boxes. You can fill them with a good squeeze of watercolors and take them anywhere. The only drawback is that there is no mixing spot. I have been taking an old open plastic palette but I might just buy some cheap Styrofoam plates or just carry some tinfoil. The advantage to the pill containers is that you can seal up your color individually. I love the idea with water-brushes! I just might try that with some Dr. PH Martin's.

[@reginafilangi]

Customized card holder with magnetic bottom and make up pallets!!!? Yes? It is a brilliant idea! Wow...

[@im_piyushekokar]

It was nice to see you get frustrated when your palate dropped. Never seen u loosing your cool. I'm a big fan of your work. Keep posting please.

[@sergeimikhailenko6788]

That maltese bus driver said "Holy Jesus, what a huge nose he made me" 😂

[@JamesGurney]

Thank you. I always wondered what he said.

[@77777aol]

This guy is insanely talented !

[@Cryptichroma]

I recently was on a flight to Gold Coast and used my Prima watercolour set, a waterbrush, the free bottle of water the airline gives us, and a pack of watercolour postcards. I could paint in the confined space of economy seats and found it much more distracting than getting in half of a movie. The postcards sets are amazing!

[@Jlbultron1836]

James Thank you for always sharing tips to work in art and how to use them! Salutes from Puerto Rico!

[@multimediahelp1]

I just love your videos, it inspires me to develop my skills and techniques! And your book about color and light is a must have for any artist!

[@matttdb]

Thank you for this! Really great to see how easy it is to take watercolors around with you anywhere you go. I also love that ending/button panel. Reminds me of a game series I love called Myst. Your outro specifically reminds me of Riven (the 2nd game of the series). Nostalgia is wrapped up in it so much that I can remember the feeling as a child, being in that world from your outro. Keep up both of your wonderful work. I appreciate all the hard work you do!

[@nelsonosio6615]

Thanks James for your videos as educational

[@annajordan9058]

Love your little pocket paint sets. Your paintings are beautiful ! Tank you !

[@Chellirsl]

I must say, I really love your videos! I learn so much from them. Thank u so much! Some love to you from Brazil.

[@JamesGurney]

Thank you, Michelle. I have never been to beautiful Brazil, but every chance I get I go to Brazilian restaurants here. Best food ever.

[@Chellirsl]

😀 I hope you come here soon! There are amazing places for you to draw! I would love to see that. And yes, best food ever!!! Hahaha!!

[@toqa6735]

This puts a smile on my face ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ

[@squidstickss]

I've been wanting to pick up watercolours again for ages, your channel has really inspired me to do so! Love the compact set up

[@chedoodles]

the turkey loved it hahaha

[@wolfgangflink8546]

I love your vids. Thank you for showing.

[@jennymay4720]

Big fan of yours James. Thanks.

[@garymcguire8529]

Your easel is very good, but I find that a clipboard, or any old piece of hardboard, with a few bulldog clips and rubber bands helps a lot.

[@marie-evedrolet3242]

what a brilliant and creative guy!

[@itamarmovshovits2693]

Didnt know you came to israel! If i knew i would leave everything and come see you paint!!

[@MartinPape]

Thanks for this. I really like the pre-filled brushes. I've always had a couple of then lying around here, but could not warm up to use them. Now filled with ink (sepia and olive) they got a new life!

[@dorisgarcia2163]

I FELL inlove with THIS guys art james viene y is the best😆😆😆😆😆🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓👍👍👌👌

[@rogerchanis6138]

GOD BLESS YOU James 😎 JESÚS love you ❤

[@generaldom]

Don't forget to put your annotations at the end of the vid, Gurney. I love that animated rig, by the way. Awesome stuff.

[@JamesGurney]

Thanks, Dom. I'm finally getting around to adding up-to-date annotations.

[@shawmedia229]

Thank you so much for this video, James! I ordered Maria's pocket palette and am absolutely loving it.

[@anjelynngaming2391]

Your art is amazing

[@InklanUtterfield]

3:03 Wow, that took me off guard! James Gurney was in Malta!

[@santiagonasar6511]

Greetings from PERU 🇵🇪

[@robbartlett4668]

Love your work!

[@大和音狂]

I am referring to buy a book your wrote. It is very helpful.

[@pedrokaco]

Really cool stuff:)

[@ronaldjohnknight]

Hi, never knew you came to Malta, that is awesome! :)

[@witele]

Really funny and cool video.... thank

[@alejandrogonzalezlopez5883]

OMG Subbed just for the intro! Boom! Wow @ card palette! -A

[@JamesGurney]

Thank you, Alejandro!

[@comptomatic]

thanks for tips!

[@tirthyatra5528]

Wow, thank you so much - this was really helpful! :)

[@JuanPaoloNovelli]

You rules, man!!

[@danieldias4333]

Você é muito bom!!

[@pinecorey]

Your awesome. ❤️😀

[@aneelab4803]

brilliant!

[@natalia9210]

super! thank you!

[@alexcarter8807]

I think you can even take those cheap Crayola water-based brush markers for kids, and fill them with different colors, the set is like $4 at Target.

[@mikehopkins2855]

I understand that your bijou box is the old style that has 4 mixing areas in the lid but how did you get 18 pans in it? I just purchased a bijou box but I can only fit 14 half pans in it. Is your box larger or are the pans smaller? I have several small palettes including the “pocket palette “. But my favorite is the bijou box. Any info on your palette or suggestions on where to find smaller pans would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.

[@drbettyschueler3235]

Because of several health problems I usually have to do my watercolor drawings in bed. I have found that this set of pans, and the plastic case they come in, works great for me. (smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M3RXDGY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1)The box can hold either 34 half pans or a smaller amount of pans and a water brush, pencil, sponge, and whatever else you can fit in the box depending on the number of pans you use. I use double-sided rug tape to hold in my pans but am thinking of changing that to magnets so I can remove pans to form a temporary palette for the current painting I'm doing.I use plastic, from a folding plastic paper storage box, to line the top of the boxes so I can mix paints. When I'm done I just rinse off the excess paint, dry the plastic and put it back in the box to protect the swatch card for the box.For painting outside, I use a cigarette case. The pans, from the other boxes fit in the cigarette case and I use the same plastic, I used in my other small palettes, to make a little mixing area in the lid. I clip off the bottom metal bar that holds in the cigarettes but leave the top bar to hold the swatch chart and mixing plastic.I use the elastic on my 4" x 4" watercolor pad to hold the box, a water brush, and paper towel together. You could also put the supplies in a zip-lock baggie to make sure no liquids escape into a pocket, purse, or travel bag.BTW, loved the video clips of the mishaps. I thought I was the only one who had problems keeping it altogether when painting lol.

[@normanmerrill1241]

Thanks…

[@claudeyaz]

6 years ago you did a 17 year cicada. Any broods close by you can do new works of?

[@sarahcheck123]

Thank you! Really informative. Do you think I could make my watercolour set even more compact just by bringing along 3 base colours? (red/blue/yellow)

[@jenny_lopez_official]

Spicy Chicken absolutely!

[@bozmundarts2614]

i dont really recommend that, when you're actually painting, you gotta design, and one of the major thing aside the message, is playing with warm and cool tones, how important? well, depends, it just gives more interest to a scene, unless you do portraits (people, animals, houses, etc) yet, i believe it has much more interest if you play with the background to show off the portrait itself, so what i might recommend it would be.... a cool yellow or a tiny bit warm (hansa yellow light or medium, cadmium yellow light, lemon yellow, etc), burnt sienna, and french ultramarine, or just ultramarine, mixing your tones around these make such a warm and cool harmony and a general colour mixes harmony that it is just wonderful to see, although, if you wanna have a backup for skin tones, add madder lake, or alizarin crimson or the permanent one, i have tried these out and its wonderful for almost any subject. but in a 3 colour tin you'll have little or none mixing space, so anyways, the burnt sienna is a godblessing there, aside from its usefulness. but 3 colours's practicality... its... little, i go for eight colours in my bijou box, a pen, a small pocket brush, and a piece of eraser, with that along a waterbrush, you're more than good to go! i liked the 8 selection so much, that i putted it in full pans to my standard tin palette! oh god, im writing quite a lot....

[@scotthdyer]

Mr Gurney could you please recommend an in studio set of watercolor/casein brushes like you did for your Plein Air set? That would be most awesome, thank you in advance!

[@JamesGurney]

The Richeson travel brush set is one that I use all the time. You get an assortment of short-handled flat and round synthetics. For the price, you get a lot of bang for the buck. Link to Amazon: amzn.to/2r0L0WI

[@dentanlim]

Am I correct in assuming you loaded the water brushes with fountain pen ink undiluted?

[@TheMissPiplup]

Do you find that the Moleskine can handle washes of colour?

[@hildebrand2252]

Shaky hands for such a talented artist. I wonder if he was more nervous about talking back at the time?

[@quenneylam5566]

what kind of watercolors are you using? some of your sketches looks like using oil colors

[@MAIfaether]

Great video Mr. Gurney, where can i find the little boxes inside card holder???

[@galvosaur]

+Nguyen Mai i found them here: www.etsy.com/shop/MargaretMackieBook

[@MAIfaether]

+Gabriel Bautista Thank you

[@HarrisonHUMAN]

1:28 ah, the endangered American Tourist species!

[@stoneliu6769]

OMG!Have youever been to china?So,what dou you think about china?

[@eggotistique]

Excuse me may I ask what sketch were you using? Thank you!

[@ExonGiandielFranco]

Sesei.

[@bubanner]

dude...u r sokule

[@zillahbugeja8973]

The comment by the Maltese guy (yellow bus in the background) was embarassingky typical bad language!