Micro Watercolor Palette Review, Sketching and Giveaway
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- Is the Micro Palette by Portable Painter (the baby brother of the Portable Painter"Classic" watercolor palette) a worthy addition to your studio gear? Can a painting palette this small become a fixture in your painting "Go Bag", or should you just "let it go"? Let me show you what I've learned about the power of being small and mighty. Sorry, the giveaway for this micro palette is over. Congratulations to Bruce Osborne of Washington for winning the Micro Palette!
Buy my original sketches at my Gumroad store: sastudio.gumroad.com/
To get one of your very own, visit Portable Painter's website: www.portablepainter.com/
Portable Painters' Instagram handle is @portablepainter.
Timestamps:
00:00 Teaser
00:36 Opener
00:54 Intro
01:09 Portable Painter "Classic"
03:32 Micro Palette
04:47 Some Assembly Required
06:24 Attach to Sketchbook
08:03 Colors in Palette
09:30 Graphite and Sodalite Sketch
11:56 Color Watercolor Sketch
23:10 Review
23:58 Reward
24:48 Final Thoughts
26:00 Outro
Supplies used in this video (some links are affiliate links):
Portable Painter's Micro Palette: www.portablepainter.com/shop-...
Blackwing Pencils: amzn.to/3Crh0WC
Ebony Pencils: amzn.to/3EGFEnZ
Uniball Eye Black Waterproof Pen: amzn.to/3tYiwMW
Escoda Travel Brush, size 6: www.amazon.com/Escoda-Reserva...
Stillman and Birn Beta series sketchbook: amzn.to/3AxuMqa
Daniel Smith Hansa Yellow Medium watercolor: amzn.to/3kv0i2h
Daniel Smith Cadmium Red Medium Hue watercolor: amzn.to/3lHerJc
Daniel Smith Quinacridone Magenta watercolor: amzn.to/3hUIuw6
Daniel Smith French Ultramarine watercolor: amzn.to/3CFrHFf
Daniel Smith Transparent Brown Oxide watercolor: amzn.to/2ZmurZG
Daniel Smith Sodalite Genuine watercolor: amzn.to/3u27kPl
Music in video:
"Living" by Borrtex
"Kindness Courage" by Kolby Knickerbocker
"Something New" by Bamtone
*all music supplied by Artlist.io subscription - Jak na to + styl
*Congratulations to Bruce Osborne, for winning the Portable Painter Micro Palette! Thanks to everyone who entered the drawing. Not to worry if you didn't win, I'll have another giveaway soon!*
Well done Bruce.
I’m in bed with chronic pain a lot, and these little palettes have been lifesavers. They sit next to my bed along with my pencil case and sketchbooks, and when the whim hits, I’ll just use water from the yeti I always have next to me to drink, or my water pens.
I keep gauche in this micro palette, but with the new little quarter size pans I will be also be setting up a watercolor variety to switch to. For the original, the new paintbrush section pans were perfect to add white gauche and a couple inks to complement my watercolors.
I’m so glad I found these palettes, I’m far more likely to paint now I don’t have to spend spoons to set up for it! They’ve given me back the ability and inspiration to create again, which brings me so much joy. Such well-made clever little inventions!
Really enjoyed the demo here! These are cool- Brian sent me one- I thought about doing a demo with it but haven’t had a chance. Hope you’re doing well, Steve!
Hiya Jared! Thanks for the feedback, I'd love to see your demo with this micro palette. I'm still using it when I go out hiking and want to do a quick sketch. All is well with me, hope it is with you too. I see you just uploaded your own video. Time to grab my popcorn and sit back to enjoy it. Merry Christmas!
I'm retired and am studying botanical illustration so my favorite place is outdoors. Really enjoy watercolor and especially like watching your show.
Even tho the giveaway is over, my favorite place to paint (as an empty-nester) is my children's old bedroom that I converted to my art studio. That way I can remember the memories of being a father surrounded by the walls my children grew up in. 😊
My favorite place to paint is anywhere with my mom and sister! We go on little trips around town to paint and it's wonderful being together and seeing how each of us see the location differently and what we choose to focus on.
Forgot to mention, my favorite kit is 3 Caran d' Ache watercolor pencils (Red, Blue, Yellow), a 3x5 sketch pad, a Blackwing Pearl pencil and a Pigma brush. Goes great on my bicycle.
Most of the time I sit on the edge of my bed in my room to paint and draw from reference photos I have taken myself. Your painting is beautiful. So many colors from a limited palette.
Oh, I love Yellowstone National Park! I hope one day to be able to plein air. In the park soon! My favorite place to paint is up in our Uinta mountains in Wyoming/Utah. But I mostly end up watercoloring on my bed. I’ve set it up as a little studio for me because I’m disabled and my bed gives me the comfort my body needs. I love watercolor! Thank you for this video of this beautiful autumn scene!
Thank you for doing a full demonstration with the palette! And the tip with sodalite for graphite sketches is certainly interesting!
I love going into town to the Chinese Gardens to paint in all seasons. I love the layered vignettes you get in the smaller areas and the wide open views across the large pond. Just wonderful! And to top it all off, end with a yummy moon cake at the tea house!
Great little addition for a on the trail sketching and adding some color while in the field. it also would be a great reference to for outlining a future painting. nice job Steve, you done it again, thanks.
Looks like a dental floss box. That was a neat little painting you did of the falls at yellowstone, great use of color.
Fun to watch & like your style - vibrancy - nice to look at! Thank you for sharing 🙏
A friend of mine is a watercolor artist. I just passed this video on to him. I think he'll really appreciate this product.
This is a super neat little palette. So well thought out. My favourite place to paint is in the woods close to where I work.
My favorite place to sketch is everywhere, I enjoy small watercolor sketch books for exactly the reasons you state, to let you mind go and just relax. Its not really the subject I am after but the act of sketching. Often the most boring thing turn out to be really sketchable. Thanks for the video and review.
Thanks for the demo! Fun to see all the ways you can set the micro palette up with a sketchbook. It would be perfect for quick studies on a hike. I like to paint at my desk, but would give hike sketches a try with something as compact as that.
Thank you for the encouraging video. I appreciated being able to see you mix the paints. I took notes on your palette and pens. I am new to watercolor and like working small and quick. The portable painter seemed perfect for me.
Watercolour painting is a pleasure on long trips such as cruises, when time just flies when painting and the scenery and people are ever changing. A great way to hold on to precious memories and far better than a quick photo. The palette looks great for just popping into a day trip bag.
My favorite place to paint is in the mountains. Thanks to all the smoke this year I've been limited, but hopefully that is ending soon and I can be out once again. I've enjoyed my Uni-ball waterproof pens too for years; yes, they are the only waterproof pen I've found that's truly waterproof. Love the smoothness of the tips too, with no blotch/globs. Enjoyed the video!
I'd love to be able to go out to paint more...before this pandemic, I'd always go to cafes and parks to draw here in São Paulo, Brazil. Soon it'll be safer and maybe we can all meet people to urban sketch again.
My preference has been to paint in my little upstairs studio at home. Painting on location has seemed like a hassle to me, but the clever products you demoed has me realize there are ways to keep things simple when going out. Thanks!
I like your gentle, kind voice! I also enjoyed seeing how the painting progressed. It was very well done! Never knew about this little palette, until I got an email from Cheap Joes, and watched their product video. Yours was the next video that came up.
Thank you kindly Nancy! It's a good little palette, I'm very happy with it when I want to travel light. Paint on!
What a cute little palette. I would be really interested to see your fave wc palettes for at home too please. My favorite place to paint will always be my art room, but I love to paint in my front yard, at restaurants, the park, even if I'm sitting in the car waiting for someone lol! Thank you for the opportunity.
The nice thing to the micro palet is you get color harmony because of the limited palet.🎉
Love your videos. I am into urban sketching. I carry a small sketchbook and kit with me pretty much all the time. I love to paint at my local coffee shop. I especially loved the video you did a few years ago showing some sketches of Notre Dame in Paris.
ever hopeful, small sketches around the city and parks
I love sitting out on my little balcony and watercolour paint the view! Urban sketching from home! ☺️😁
I usually like to paint in-front of my sudo window, since i don’t like facing a white wall it feels restricting. I prefer looking into the sky from time to time while i work on my painting 🖼
Thank you. Inspiring and instructive. Great painting.
Love it!! beautiful sketchbook study!
I love the look of this palette. The sodalyte paint is interesting. I sketch mostly at my desk
I love to paint whenever I travel, either while discovering a city or hiking somewhere to a remote location. Thank you for your videos, always entertaining and educational. 👍
Very interesting concept Steve. I live in Maine, so my favorite places to paint are the streams, rivers and farmlands of Maine. The terrain is fairly ruff in some areas so this pallet would be ideal for my needs.
Thanks for the information. You are a great artist. 🙌
Great vid Steve. I like to do water colour on the front porch where I can look at the flowers.
Neat. I like to paint views from the coast paths. Watercolor is great for capturing the often moody sea and skies, and the craggy coastline.
Great review. You’re an amazing artist.
That's a great size palette. As long as I am outdoors I paint what's around me. Different perspectives and challenges are a great way to improve your skills.
Another great video, thank you. Love to paint Anytime, any weather while walking my dog around my lovely town of Keswick in the UK.
Great review and demo. Thank you. My favorite place to paint is anywhere I can sit and sketch; around the house, downtown, out in the field.
Glad you liked it Robert. I use this palette anytime I go out painting watercolor on location. Heck, like you, even around the house. Paint on!
Seems like a really handy little palette for it’s size. I am primarily a studio painter but I like doing the quick watercolor sketching while traveling,
Nice review! Thanks!
Late to see this but I loved watching and learning. I use a tiny altoid tin and it holds 5 half pans, primary plus sepia and green. Loved the waterfall scene, its vibrancy and the pen markings just made it pop. Thank you.
Fantastic tips for my future outdoor sketching. I’m new to this medium which I love but still struggle to work by layering ( I’m used to acrylic/oil) 🥵 but each time I get a decent painting I am so proud. I love your Escoda #6 it works so good. I’ll probably get one. My best travel brush is a Raphael but a size too small.
I would definitely have a good use with that small travel palette.
Cheers!
Just amazing painting
Hi Steve, great channel. I've done a bit of W/C sketching using the Winsor & Newton sketchers pocket box, but it doesn't come with a water cup, so this looks like a good one for outdoors stuff. I am living part-time down in S.E. Arizona, it's just barely getting cool enough to get out there, those pesky flies haven't properly died off yet.
I love going to our local beach here in Australia to do some paintings and the palette looks great
I use to paint watercolor at my little studio, and sometimes outdoors. Love this little cute portable palette. Wish I could win it. Thank you for your videos 🙏
Hi Steve I am predominantly a studio painter but this micro pallette might tempt me to get out! Thank you for your videos, and your tips and tricks!
My favorite place to paint is on my back porch when the weather is nice. Or in the little studio at any time. After watching this video, I'm going to order a tune of Sodalite Genuine for sketching. Currently, I use DS Graphite Gray which also has a pencil-like quality to it.
Hey! New subscriber here! It's so weird because I just found a water color set in my shed a few days ago. It was my dad's. I just started oil painting in August 2021 - so very much a rookie. Just got to keep practicing. Any who- I started playing with the water colors. It's so different but like you said in this video - it's so much fun and like no pressure. Just totally different. I'm going to practice both. I know I'm late to the party here but currently my favorite place to paint is in a spare room at home which I call my studio. Makes me feel like a artist! Ha! Hopefully someday! The micro watercolor looks like the perfect motivator to get me outside or at least in my car ( it's cold) to paint. So thanks for the review and I'll look to see where I can buy one of those. Thanks!
My favorite place to paint is my studio. Watercolor is my favorite for fast tonal studies. Acrylics if I have some time. My current piece is a fantasy battle scape.
My place to paint has been my apartment since covid. But I'm moving to a farm this weekend and I'm looking forward to painting every inch of it.
those were great sketches 😀
hmm favourite place to sketch would be any place with water really. so much to usually paint near the lochs and beaches
believe it or not, my favorite place to paint is Lewis Falls inYellowstone! I live in Jackson Hole so it is a natural for me. Thanks for seeing how you do it!
Thou roly enjoyed this video. Thankyou.
I enjoyed both demo paintings. I'm just started my art adventure and small is important to me . Currently paint in my room at home but want to start urban sketching.
My favorite place to paint if the beach area in South Alabama. Lots of activity on the beach and at the marinas and other fishing villages areas. Thanks for your video. Jim
Hi Steve, it was a pleasure to watch this video, thank you for sharing.
Regarding the giveaway :) I love to paint on the go. Plain air is my favourite place. It may be my garden, park, or the beach but always outside! Good luck everybody!
Awww, that's nice Kasiaboron, for you to wish everyone good luck... good luck to you too!
I love to use watercolour for sketches when I go out camping in beautiful Province of Quebec !
Beautiful painting
I enjoy painting our local lake area. It is a beautiful lake and park that is right in the middle of our town.
Whoops, I’m 1 year too late for the giveaway. 😆I want to get this palette. As of March 2023, there is a 16 well version! What I don’t like about this palette is the shallow, uncovered water container. I can totally see myself spilling the water all over my painting when I’m on-the-go. When I’m outside, I use a covered dipper (for oil painters?) because I can cover the water before detaching it from my sketchbook. You had yours on a flat table so it was easy not to spill the water (but I did hold my breath each time you moved it!) Nice, colorful painting, btw!
Amazing
Awww, thank you! Paint on!
My favorite place to paint is in my dining room. I do enjoy plein aire painting but have not done a lot of it.
I love painting at the river. I just get lost in the beauty of the woods
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I am a bit late to the party. Somehow missed the vid when it came out 🤔.
Thanks for the demo. It is a neat product. I have the Classic Portable Painter. It is my M Graham palette. I haven’t done much watercolor lately. I have been using colored pencil and now I am participating in Inktober so that is keeping me busy.
I love to paint every moment❤❤
I love to paint while camping in my little '59 Shasta camper!
very nice!
I paint in a very limited small area of my home when I can I like to take it outdoors.
Great video as always I’ll put the micro palette on my Christmas list I use a winsor newton primarily stay warm and be safe
Thanks Rodrigo, you do the same!
woooowwww really amazing artwork
Thanks for the video. My favorite place to draw and paint is when i go to bicycle trip. Training and painting 😀🚴🏻♂️👨🎨
Great video like painting on my kitchen table
My favorite place to paint is just my room, I light candles and incense and put on some music and that's all I need.
My favorite so far is Miño in Galicia Spain
I love painting along the east coast shoreline.
I love painting at my childrens sports ground, at the foot of the Darling Ranges here in Western Australia, Perth
Hi Lyndal Seaton, Steve Atkinson here, Congratulations, you entered my give away and I randomly selected your name as the WINNER of the Portable Painter Micro Palette!!! Let me know you got this message and I'll give you my email address so you can send me your shipping address and I'll pop it in the mail for you to paint at your children's sports ground. If I don't hear from you in one week, I'll have to select another name, so I hope to hear from you soon! Thanks for entering, and I hope you make lots of wonderful watercolor paintings with it!!
@@SteveAtkinsonFineArt thanks Steve, I've got your message.. look forward hearing from you.. I'm very excited
@@lyndalseaton9777 please email at _________ with your shipping info. It'll be my first time sending a package to Australia! 🤞☺
My favorite place to paint is Pine Point, Scarborough, Maine.
Got to try one of these at my Local Beer Garden! Thanks Steve!
Hi Bruce, the woman who originally won this palette lives in Australia. The shipping costs are out of this world, so she has graciously asked me to draw another winner. If you live in the United States, and you're still interested in the palette, you're the winner! Just email me your shipping address to me at ______________ Congratulations!!!
@@SteveAtkinsonFineArt Address sent! Thanks!
Hello, Steve here! I want to thank all of you who have supported me on my "Buy Me a Tube of Paint" page, you're simply awesome and I'm incredibly grateful to you!! If you wish to support this channel, you can make a donation, any amount is appreciated.Thanks for your generosity: www.buymeacoffee.com/steveatkinson IF YOU'D LIKE TO OWN ONE OF MY ORIGINAL SKETCHES! You can get one here: www.buymeacoffee.com/steveatkinson/e/39257 When I reach my goal, I'll be buying another camera to record my painting palette so you can watch me mix colors as well.
My favourite place is sketching around manchester 👍
Palo Duro Canyon, Tx- 'Nuff said!
Whoops, I just wrote a comment, but it's disappeared. Anyway, I skimmed through the video and I was looking at the large palette (which is brilliant and I have three). I though I was looking at the old Winsor Newton palette which I also love - mine have held up for a long time. I still love it. Back to the micro. It's perfect for the Daniel Smith six essential colors set. I hope this ends up on the right video. 😂
My favorite place to drow is university stadium stairs 😁
first to comment, amazing painting...thank you for sharing
in my kitchen on my day off when wife and kids are at school.
thank you so very much for this video --- such wonderful instruction, advice AND .... what a lovely piece you have worked up ...... .... I LOVE THE MUSIC you have chosen for your time-lapse painting @ 9:32 ... would you be able to post the artist and title of this musical piece .... music is VERY INSPIRATIONAL ... thanks again so very much --
my favorite places to paint (there are so many that I cannot choose only one) ... I am fortunate enough to live in a coastal New England region right on a beautiful bay that faces east ... all along this bay there are parks set aside for natural reserves and recreational enjoyment .... I often go to to these locations to paint on the banks of these coastal reagions it is such a blessing to be able to live an a place with so much beauty all around ... as a matter of fact, I just came in from one of these very painting sessions at a beautiful coastal park - the sound of wavelets, birds, and the slight whispering wind as the afternoon faded toward sun-down.
Thanks so much for this vid and for the opportunity to WIN that portable little painter paletter/box ..... sure hope I could be eligible cheers
You're welcome, I'm glad you found it helpful and enjoyed it. The song is called "Living" by Borrtex. I get all of my music through Artlist. 👋
my fave place to paint is my study desk
also is this international?
How can I enter the give away please. I really want to win
It is a little GAL!!!
Geese’s I just saw the price of that brush 😢
I’ll pass, cause I don’t want to sell my dog to get it. 😂
Way too late to the party.😂 However, I enjoyed the demonstration 😊
Steve has more less stopped posting utube video over the past 3 to 6 months. Is there a reason ????
Hi again. No idea when you will be drawing for the Micro but please do not put my name in the draw. Thanks.
Thanks for letting me know Bob!
Amazing watercolors! I love to paint southern Utah.
Me too! I'm in a gallery in St George, so I get to visit there often. Happy painting!!