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Was just playing with my paints and came up with this. I love the granulating you get with UM blue…especially when mixed with Quinacridone Rust (PO48). That has become my go to for shadows and background colors. It’s definitely replaced paynes grey for me. What do you think?

Side note…now that I’m thinking about it, I believe every color on this page has some level of UM blue in it. I think it’s my favorite pigment. lol.

PS - you can REALLY see the granulation in the background buildings.

Hey all! I just got a faux-dori notebook and I’m loving it. One struggle I have is that I carry two fountain pens (do I have to…no…but I like my pens!), and the clip I got to attach them to the notebook is great…when I’m carrying it places. Once I stop to open the notebook and write in it, if I’m on a page on the left side, it starts to feel awkward because of the pen holder on the front.

What solutions do you have for carrying the pen(s) without making it awkward to write on part of it?

I have three different pallets that I’ve acquired since starting my watercolor journey. My first one is the metal half pans that I bought with some student grade paints and have since upgraded to artist quality tubes. The second is a very large plastic pallet with tons of mixing space. And the third is a small 12 color porcelain pallet that I got for travel. What I find is I use the small 12 color travel pallet more than anything else because I like the way the water and paint behaves on the porcelain… I just wish that it was bigger…had more mixing wells. I like the size of the 24 color half pan pallet, but I don’t like the way the paint and water behave on the metal mixing wells. And while I’ve come to be OK with the way, the water and paint behave on the large plastic pallet. It is just way too big for my workspace. I need something that can have a lid on it and be stored vertically after everything has dried out… Because I live in a small house and don’t have tons of space. So that leads me to a couple questions for all of you.

1. Do you have numerous pallets that sometimes go unused?
2. Do you get new pallets to try to overcome the things that you don’t like about the ones you have?
3. Can you remove the paint from the existing pallets to giveaway or sell the pallet without wasting your expensive paint?

I feel like I’m in a bit of a conundrum here and I don’t know what to do. Somebody help me before my wife kills me for spending too much money and taking too much space.

Did a quick loose beach scape. Seems to emote almost a stormy feeling, though there’s no clouds. I feel pretty good about it, but I keep itching to add more. Should I just call it good and avoid overworking it or is there something more it needs?

Only used 5 pigments:
Ultramarine
New Gamboge
Lamp Black
Burnt Sienna
Quinacridone Burnt Orange

Had a lot of fun with this little cottage. I changed a few things to make it look the way I wanted, so it’s not an exact representation…but this is where it came from. I took a pencil and drew in perspective lines and then sketched the scene in pen, just accepting the imperfections as character. If you have any kind critique or advice to make it better, I’d love to receive it.