Travel watercolor palette

Hiking is one of my greatest passions. Combine that with painting and I’m a happy girl. The biggest lesson I’ve learned after hiking hundreds of miles

Of all the types of watercolour that are available portable watercolour sheets are the most compact and easy to carry. This post dives into what portable watercolour sheets are and how best to use them. I’ll even take you inside my sketchbook and show you one of my projects using my set of Peerless Watercolour Sheets.

My travel watercolor setup.

Pros and cons of using liquid vs. dried gouache, and comparing different brands.

I recently purchased a set of Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolors on Amazon. I’ve heard a lot of great things about them from various artists that I follow on social media and YouTube, and I wa…

I’ve always liked to take things apart (disassemble). When I was a kid when I got something I really liked I took it apart. Why? I wanted to know how it was made. And yes I always put things back toge

Just in time for fall - an updated paint palette!

I am often asked about palettes and paints that I use. Here is my current setup. For outdoor sketching i mostly use my Mijello palette. It is light and airtight, which is very convenient for carrying it around in a small purse. It has 18 wells, which I filled with the following pigments (

This is a photo of my first ever watercolor palette: I found this in a tiny art store in my home town of Coventry. It was thanks to this that I first discovered watercolor painting. (The art shop doesn’t exist anymore… It was in a street called “Spon Street” full of medieval buildings that survived

Need a smaller, portable, even disposable watercolor palette for sketching in your Nature Journal? Here's an easy way to create a custom one of your own.