You’ve asked and I have delivered! Here are the colours I use!

[@CatherineSunnysideJournals]

Please continue to record just as you do. I feel as though I am physically in your studio with you, learning at your side. Talented computer-y people or those with money who hire editors and put out KZbin videos that end up like flashy Tesla commercials are a dime a dozen. An artist, who is sharing with enthusiasm, her passion for her paints and tools in a candid way is SO refreshing. No more apologies! I wouldn't change a thing. Just my opinion. Thanks for sharing today. I don't even paint with acrylics and I am fascinated and learning. ~~Catherine

[@rosemaryclark610]

what SHE said, chuckle :) It was great fun watching you! I have found that 409 really does a super job of cleaning up acrylic paint. I use paper palettes in the pad, or foil baking trays, and just peel the paint off whichever I use when it's dry, and reuse them. If I have paint blobs left over, I use it as a cover-up layer on another canvas. I'm pretty good at squirting or spooning out the amount of paint I need, so I don't usually have a lot left over. But then I use a pretty limited palette most times I paint, and mix my own colors as I go. I really like your style of painting and learned some new color mixes today. Thanks!

[@juliaveenstraartist]

I am so happy you enjoy these! Thank you!

[@terrylasater1397]

I absolutely agree and was thinking the same!! So lovely to watch an organic, peaceful yet enthusiastic video. Not overly edited or produced. Feels like chatting with a friend about their beloved activity. One of the previous vids had background music and I was sad to have to mute it. lol. Please keep your easy-going, come along with me sort of vibe. Love it!

[@0211kjohnson]

AGREED!!

[@RaindropArtbyNikkiRainey]

Love your videos, Julia! So glad you let us into your studio! Thanks for sharing! :)

[@juliaveenstraartist]

You are so very welcome!

[@jaclyndionne9123]

I use distilled water to wet my sta-wet palette. I’ve heard that tap water is what causes the mold. Thank you for your videos. You’re refreshing!

[@karincocker3394]

Oh and when i wash my big acrylic paint brushes, i spray, and let the paint dribble down a large, stone cheetah statue, and also on a few flower pots. Xx from zambia

[@Myname2663-w2z]

Blue shop paper towels wet in your stay wet palette with tracing paper over the top. No cleaning.

[@MsConviviality]

Love how you show the color mixes on the sticks. You have great taste!

[@velvetbees]

I like the old paper as a work of art. I think because it's unintentional, and your colors are not muddy mixed together, it is very pretty. I would be tempted to touch it up with some abstract flowers, but that's just me. I might also ruin the rhythm of the colors. I'm not brave enough to try something like this. The randomness makes it very pretty to me. The mixed colors on the sticks you showed are gorgeous! PS. I am inspired to experiment and use a small framed canvas as a palette to get that unintentional randomness and see if it can be used to create a mass of flowers when I am done using it.

[@ONFireCoaching]

Awesome share! I use the wet pallets and didn’t know the paper could be washed and reused. 🎉🥰 Thank you 👍

[@aquacommelina]

My girlfriend, Barbara, lives in Hawaii. I live in Montana. We both love watching your videos. We are both artists. It is super fun to talk about you and your amazing art. We are both amazed by your Awesome skills!!! You are one of our favorite conversations. You inspire us both. Thank you for sharing with all of us!! Great job!!

[@twilacreaser4138]

Baby wipes! I hate getting my hands dirty too. You can pull pallet knife (popsicle stick) between a fold the wipe and it'll keep your fingers clean. Also, you probably know this already, 😉but, organizing the paint drawers in a rough roygbiv will help you find what you're looking for much more quickly and save you time. It might take a little more time to arrange up front, but that and the wipes will make pallet day something you enjoy. Love the realness of your videos-don't change a thing!

[@TeresaFairchild]

Surgical gloves saves me from the mess. Plus it keeps the cads from my direct skin exposure. ❤❤

[@pegki9770]

Could have listened to you for hours! Thank you so much!

[@juliaveenstraartist]

Aww! So great!

[@annmarie3520]

I like that you are personable and real in your videos! Refreshing!❤

[@amandah7836]

I love that you save the paint. I’ve also seen people use the old paper for collage. I watched someone wipe away about 50 almost perfect dabs of premixed color the other day and it just absolutely killed me.

[@juliaveenstraartist]

I try my best!

[@brennakohlhase4194]

Rubbing alcohol spritz in the water on the sponge to inhibit mold growth

[@juliaveenstraartist]

Thats a great oprion!

[@ingridbrooks7422]

😊I peeled all my pallets last night. Sometime you get amazing paint skins to reuse in a mixed media painting, I put a piece of glad wrap/ cling film over my wet paint pallet if I know I will continue painting the next day.

[@Debbiegibb]

I love paint skins!!!

[@nelart1]

​@@Debbiegibbyes me to,ore i spray a bit of water on the pallet and put a plastick plate ore cover for to close my pallet. Sometimes it stays for 1 week good wen the weather is not so hot.

[@hjisagirl]

I feel your pain….I also hate that job,,but starting with a fresh palette is sooooo nice!!

[@juliaveenstraartist]

It's the great reward for this messy task!

[@Ava-cu9uu]

Thank you for sharing you, your info, your enthusiasm, your quirkiness, all of you. Love it.

[@juliaveenstraartist]

You are so welcome!

[@braggswagg3448]

I love it when you chat to yourself. Love your rambling, please don’t edit that, it gives us authenticity. 😊

[@daphnebenjamins]

Awesome information & thanks for sharing your colours!! I just received my Master Pallet & was waiting for your video on how to set up. Love the combo colour mix's you showed. Very inspiring to play with this week. :)

[@juliaveenstraartist]

I hope this helped!

[@susangunter1028]

I try to dump the water from cleaning and cleaning brushes out side so as not to pollute the water system with all the micro plastics.. I use my dried paint(I I use shelf paper) on the stay wet for collage.:)

[@juliaveenstraartist]

Great ideas!

[@kitty4tify]

I dump it out in summer. I will do the same from now on all season. Thanks for the reminder.

[@jackiemcallister7330]

Thank you for doing that. I rinse my brushes and my reusable paint palette through a coffee filter first. Then filter the water by itself through a filter. I keep my old laundry soap and fabric softener containers and pour the used water into those containers. I then take it out once a month to the local hazardous waster collection area for them to dispose of. Rinsing and pouring acrylic paint products down your sink is not only hazardous to the environment, think of what it does to your drainage pipes.

[@maggiemant3409]

Especially anything that has cadmium in it, very dangerous to us and environmentally, have to be really careful with that.

[@TeresaFairchild]

Yesss! Reuse your paint. If some is too mixed, I use it for my abstracts. 😀

[@ReineDujardin]

J'adore votre simplicité et les économies que vous essayez de faire sur une peinture qui nous coûte si cher.....mais n'est il pas mieux d'en verser un peu moins au fur et à mesure puisque vous achetez des couleurs prêtes à l'emploi....moi qui prépare mes couleurs à partir des 3 primaires je peux me permettre d'en préparer d'avance un peu plus pour m'assurer d'avoir toujours les mêmes tons.....merci pour votre jovialité et merci à votre si gentil mari qui vous donne un coup de main pour vous soulager....de paris....encore merci de vous dévoiler si simplement.

[@SkyLightinTime]

I just use my leftover palette paints in my journals for future backgrounds. It's a nice way to avoid the blank paper syndrome. Love your videos, they are fun and inspiring ❤

[@Debbiegibb]

Thank you for this video. Love the peeling at the end!!!

[@colleent9246]

I buy disposable latex gloves from either London Drugs or Sally's Beauty supplies, Sally's is open to the public. I wear them when I am cleaning my brushes and pallets as well as priming my canvas. I can reuse them several time and they come 100 to a box. Cheap & cheerful way to saves my hands and nails from all that paint.

[@nelart1]

Very true 👍

[@TeresaFairchild]

A hairdryer on the opposite side will dry the paints much faster and over to the front. ❤

[@dennakadavy9415]

I use the disposable paper pallet. If I want to save my pallet I have tried to place in a kind of plastic container. So when I am finished with my pallet. I just tear it off of the pad of pallet paper and through it away. And I scrap of piles of paint and transfer to a new sheet of pallet paper if I have left over. So it saves the washing out and getting paint all over my hands.

[@dianelifton1846]

Hi from White Rock, BC! I really appreciate this video and I will Save it for reference! Could you please tell me the name of the light blue that you love for skies. It was at the 16:54 minute mark. I really value your videos and your art is beautiful.

[@anuschcka1]

Jeah she is saving some Paint 😊! Greetings from Germany

[@kitty4tify]

Do you use liquitex basic? I like the fluidity of Amsterdam as well. You have a great sense of colour.

[@BrennaLivingJoyfully]

Thank you so much for this video. I am a new artist and I am working on my colour palette. I absolutely love your colours!

[@ritamailheau771]

Waste not, want not!! Thanks for sharing the moment.

[@juliaveenstraartist]

You bet!

[@janetmeunier5975]

Hi ,new to your videos. Love watching you paint. A suggestion , maybe use what's left on your paper pallet as the start of a new background for a new painting by pressing it on a canvas so as to not waste any of your paint. Or on watercolor paper to make cards. Just a suggestion. Anyway that's what I do as to not waste my leftovers.

[@karincocker3394]

Love love, love your chanel. Only use smaller, or any size canvasses as your palette from now on!! I have 10 canvas palettes all ready for abstract flowers designs, those i sell always for a charity

[@conniemcconnell8347]

I use a dollar store dish brush to scrub, a plastic putty knife for scooping off the pallette and for peeling off skins. And because I don't paint as often, I'll spray the sponge and underside of the paper with peroxide. That stops the growth of stuff without the smell of bleach. I do have to be neat since my cleanup is in my kitchen sink.

[@EdwardMartin-t8l]

Julia Ty so much for your channel. You should consider wearing rubber gloves while doing this task. Get a pair of orange grouting gloves from home depot for like 5 bucks and it will keep ur hands free from paint stains.

[@RohiniRaju-v3w]

Loved that you saved so much of paints

[@bmac5242]

Hi, just beginning video and spotted that paint tube squeezer - is it plastic or metal? Please share what brand and if you're happy with it. Thank you for sharing your talent!

[@roxyjohnson5112]

I love your messy palette. I paint like that as well.

[@dinaenoch8176]

I really enjoy watching your videos. I would really appreciate it if you could tell me which brushes you use. Thanks

[@jessicaveganjessica2208]

I hate stuff on my hands, too, so I wear gloves! Why don't you wear some rubber dish gloves when you wash your old palette stuff? Would that help?

[@lindatobey4051]

Love love your videos, they make my day! I have a question about washing acrylic paints down the drain. I've been so careful to not do that because of plumbing issues? Do you see any issues with that?

[@debbietaylor1338]

I get excited seeing the mixture of colours. Hot mess or no. I love pottery FYI. lol

[@shayeshephard7487]

This was great information thank you so very much.😊

[@juliaveenstraartist]

Glad it was helpful!

[@SusanMacEwen]

I enjoyed this, so thanks for sharing! Which palette is it that you wear peeling at the end?

[@sdc9572]

The old pallet you should smear on a new canvas for future abstract before washing it out

[@dianejansonius1318]

What is your small pallet system? Great videos BTW😊

[@juliaveenstraartist]

It's a Majello Palette!

[@sigrunasa]

Enjoyed the hot mess of a pallette day!

[@juliaveenstraartist]

Thank you!

[@atelierelsemarie]

I enjoy watching you work. By the way- What kind of paper do you use ? - I can’ t seem to figure out that😅

[@jazw4649]

Good idea using popsicle sticks to transfer the paint to new palette! I hate to see paint going down the drain, all the talk of micro plastics in the ocean these days. I usually just fold over the old palette and throw it in the trash... but I mean its still litter though right? 6 of one and half dozen of the other. 👍

[@juliaveenstraartist]

You are so right!

[@wickerman5577]

Better than in your water, awesome that you care!

[@0211kjohnson]

So are you saying those paints will stay wet and usable for a couple days? I don’t understand this concept but I’m fascinated!

[@lindacompton2339]

I think it’s very smart to save paint.

[@TeresaFairchild]

I use gloves latex, and use hydrogen peroxide instead of bleach and it want mold. ❤❤

[@dianejansonius1318]

What is the smaller pallet system that you use?

[@kitkat9341]

You need some “Tub o’ Towels”!

[@colleent9246]

Sorry I forgot to say that I also purchased a hair dressing trolly from Sally's. It is on wheels and has 5 drawers plus 2 shelves on each side that are open. Great if someone is lacking in space. I can move it to where ever I want it and my stay wet pallet sits perfectly on the top.

[@mid-floridaguardianservice1642]

Love your work!! Teach a class

[@maximumcolour]

Honestly I think we are twins. I get as grubby as you I love peeling my pallet, bright colours float my boat!!! 😂

[@juliaveenstraartist]

I hate dirty hands!

[@susanfraser3872]

What a beautiful mess!

[@susanfraser3872]

you need to have a wet cloth on hand to wipe your fingers.

[@TheLisbethK]

What was the lighter blue Amsterdam one called?

[@juliaveenstraartist]

Sky Blue light

[@barbarakeyes8551]

Don't you worry about clogging your pipes with the acrylic paint? I heard it turns to hard plastic.

[@loramay21]

I worked in a school and at the end of term there was always a fight as to who got to sit and peel the glue sticks ready for next term

[@gaildevaney6074]

I thought the whole purpose of using paper was that you could put it in the garbage instead of flushing the paint down the drain. wondering where you take your skins, etc recycling?

[@Maliika-Art1979]

😍🎨🥰👍🏻✨💖

[@suzannematthews5798]

No cringing. I save too

[@berlinbeachkat4878]

Unfortunately you do not list the company and the colors or show them really long enough in your video so I can pause the video to write it down. I am a beginner. I love your painting style and the colors. Surprisingly. But I do!

[@wickerman5577]

Golden, Windsor and Newton, Amsterdam, Liquitex, I think

[@berlinbeachkat4878]

@@wickerman5577 Thank you for taking the time to reply. I really appreciate it. Love your work. I binged a few videos already😀

[@sdc9572]

I think you need to sort your drawers 😅

[@tammyhernandez3179]

Gloves

[@NancyTipton-u8e]

Instead of using your nails or popsicle sticks, use a palette knife. I think you may be amazed.😊

[@rosiepisatcky7877]

Don’t edit it. I love your thoughts