Fun
Who'd think filling a new palette could be so much fun? I bought a new porcelain palette (as opposed to an OLD porcelain palette?!). Because it is arranged like a color wheel, it only makes sense to fill it like a color wheel.
My friend, Cathy, bought one also, and we decided to fill them together. No, this is not the first palette I have ever owned, and hopefully not the last (it is certainly the heaviest - does that count for something?), but everything is more fun when you do it with a friend.
Somewhere, on someones blog, I read about painting small squares of watercolor paper and putting them in your palette to see how the sequence of colors works in your color wheel palette. I use a very limited range of colors, but Cathy had a lot of paint choices, which made the whole process entertaining - playing with all those colors!!! It was great.
Middle granddaughter then made a chart for me with the names of the paint colors on the little squares, and then she squeezed the paint into the wells on the palette. This one little project kept three of us entertained for a couple of hours. Who could ask for more?
Now I am off to teach Tuesday morning watercolor in friend Karen's garden. It is very overcast, but we're goin' for it. We don't want to miss this chance - it is a beautiful place to paint.