Oh, you’re so welcome! Like I said.....palette set ups are basically my life. =>.

I am happy to provide this satisfactory service for you. =^.^=

AHAHA, I could TOTALLY see never wanting to make another moveable chart like this again if you had to cut them all out by hand. Truthfully, my current Daniel Smith studio palette has 48 colors in it right now and drove me absolutely batty. I bought the punch the next day...NEVER AGAIN! =>.

I have SO MANY craft punches now because after I started making shrinky dink ornaments and stuff, I got tired of hand-cutting the holes I needed to string them with. This square punch opened up a whole door of punching opportunities for me. They take up a lot of space but save sooooo much time.

Love the Love! 😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩

I mean, it’s what I was thinking pretty loud once they were all lined up and shiny like colorful little candies....just seemed like what everyone would have been thinking, right? =>.

I’ve spent a lot of time coming up with solutions for something like this and I’m still not sure how to accomplish it. =>.

Glad you like it. =^.^=

Aw, neat! Glad this design helped you figure out how to make one that works for you!! I can definitely see that being useful, though I usually don’t hold my paper upright using it as an easel definitely seems like something a lot of people would enjoy!

:D I aim to pleeeeease. Love that you’re getting all sorts of tips and tricks from my channel-it’s why I share this stuff!!!! Nobody had these ideas when I was looking for solutions on my own, so I figured I’d be that resource for someone else in the same boat!

I know my comment is a bit late but I am fairly new to watercolour still. When do you need to hold the pallet? I find mine are always on a table because the painting needs to be kept relatively flat.

Taylor Patten Hi Taylor, I travel with my smaller palettes and sometimes don’t have a surface for my palette-sitting on a park bench with my book on my lap-so I want to make sure it’s held securely. HTH!

@@LilDivette if you are like me you hold the palette when you are on your lunch break for work and there is nowhere private and quite to sit down so you instead walk around holding the palette and small watercolor paper

Jeremy Southern Yes, I grab every opportunity I can to paint! 😂🎨👍

Would you hate it if I told you those were all brand new things I tried for the first time in this video? =>.

That’s so cool! I glued my white night watercolor labels with some glue stick. The labels are plastic coated, so I can actually remove them and try this laminating idea what the glue dots. Because I keep adding colors to the set, I do have to move my swatches around. Also depending on what I’m painting, etc. I often find myself frustrated when my paint and swatches did not match their respective positions. And yes we are needing to be more innovative right now. But that’s not a bad thing LOL thank you

Do it! I’m glad my experimental nonsense has inspired the exact right solution for your own problems! Love when things work out.

So glad you liked that trick-I had no idea these finger rings existed until I needed something like a popsocket for my phone. When I saw these, something just clicked and I was like FORGET PHONE, THIS IS MEANT FOR ART!!! =>.

It’s so useful, right?!?!?! Glad you love the idea! And I’m glad you’re getting plenty of use out of it! =^.^=

Hope it helps you if you decide to build your own! =^.^=

Glad you liked it, and I totally agree!

It’s honestly more handy being able to rearrange those than you’d think! Sure, it’s kind of a pain to do initially, but well worth it overall. I’ve seen other people use yupo as a mixing surface before! I don’t have any so I don’t use it, so I have used wax paper before because why not? It’s not really important to me personally to have a white surface because I’m so bad at “seeing” my color mixes that I always end up swatching them on scrap paper anyway. =>..

I always go for ROYGBIV order. Starting with the yellows like everyone else does just confuses my brain when I go looking for a color!

@@MeowMeowKapow mine as well

Really? Oh, I’m so honored! Thank you. And I’m so glad you like it. =^.^= palette builds are one of my favorite things to do!

Meow Meow Kapow I understand completely. I was over enthusiastic and filled a huge (HUGE) metal tine with all my watercolors, without labeling and then of course I dropped the tin and they all came tumbling out and one year later I still don’t know what’s what. But, I did learn to just appreciate the watercolor pans for what they were without judging by brand or pigment nr, a very valuable lesson for me!

Oh man, I know about myself that I’m a disaster zone and WILL knock everything over no matter how well it’s secured to a surface, so I knew from the first palette I ever made that I was always going to label my pans first.....which really came in handy when I was building a 24 color set of Qor paints and dropped the entire thing on the floor after spilling them! My carpet is still a bit purple despite a to. Of scrubbing, and there’s cat hair in most of the colors that’s just never going to come out and I have to accept that. =>.

Oh I know, aren’t their colors beautiful?!?! The compose blue, mineral violet, and cobalt green are probably my favorite pretty colors here..... although to be fair, pretty much all of them are stunners. Ooh!!! I’m so glad you found this useful!!! What was new to you? And what do you do that I didn’t?!?! I’m an absolute glutton for palette builds and seriously hunger for ideas and videos about them!

That’s just one of my tricks. I’ve got a small travel palette video, too, where I show how to make one out of a makeup thing but, more importantly, add separated mixing wells. :D though I’m testing out a couple new methods for that as well as a couple of other things that will hopefully change my palette game. Maybe. 🤞 I like to start from the perspective of “what features do I want?” And then reverse engineer a solution. Glad you like my ideas! =^.^=

Meow Meow Kapow like yes. More like love. Ugh this watercolor nonsense is so addicting. It looks like delicious candy alllllll the time!!!!

Meow Meow Kapow also I use nail polish to laminate so much stuff lol. I thought I was alone. It works great for watercolor book covers in case they get water on them.

I ALWAYS SAY FRESH POURED PAINTS LOOK LIKE DELICIOUS CANDIES HELLO SOUL MATE WE ARE BEST FRIENDS!!! And yeah, nail polish is a great cheapie laminator! Though for bigger things I usually just use clear coat spray. But I don’t do a lot of bigger things. Travel lyfe 4 eva!

I already have one! May have even used it in this video? The corners don’t matter to me much, though; I almost never make color charts like this nowadays because i mostly just make mini palettes with like 5 or 6 colors in them. The big studio palettes get the full treatment, though!

Yassss!!!!! So glad you like my silly techniques! You’d better share a pic of your palette on Instagram or Facebook with me or...or....well....or I won’t see it and that would be a darn shame. :(

@@MeowMeowKapow I will for sure! :) Have a great night!

Oh, thank you! I’m really doing my best and I appreciate your encouragement! =^.^=

It’s one of the easiest ways I’ve found to customize, and it’s a great use of what I assume is everyone’s ridiculous pile of washi. =>.

Thank you!!! Making palettes is super fun-have you made your own before, already?

Meow Meow Kapow infact i have been drawing using pencil only, but yes i did use water color long time ago. i only had sakura koi watercolor 12 colors which i brought everywhere. i loved it so much and i had never thought of making tin can palette my self. maybe someday ma'am 😊 thank you for replying my comment 😊

Thank you so much! Creating travel palettes is one of my favorite things to do, and coming up with unique solutions to the problems that go with wanting to travel with art is super exciting to me! I’m very happy you like these ideas. =^.^=

Oh, I’m so glad!!! Making palettes is one of my favorite things to do, and it’s so fun! I’m in the middle of recording three (maybe four?) more palette videos this week, actually. Don’t know when they’re go up, BUT, I’d love if you shared with me any palettes you make! If you’re on Instagram, I’m @meowmeowkapowcrafts there!

I’m so glad you find these methods useful! =^.^=

Oh neat! I’ve never heard of this-may look into it! Meanwhile, I’m over here abusing my brushes to death and letting my cat attack them when I’m not looking. =>.

Glad you like it! Palette builds are one of my favorite things in the world. ❤️ ❤️

Whaaaaaaa!!!! Ouija board tin?!?! That sounds totally rad!!!! I’d LOVE to see that palette!!!

Now that I have a direction of what to do with it, I'll send pic's when it's done, I just ordered the phone rings :)

Yaaaay!!!! =^.^= this is so exciting!!!!

This is an interesting idea, but there are a couple of things about this streamlined process that wouldn’t work with my current tools. One, the opening to insert a piece of paper into the punch is not large enough to accommodate a glue dot, so that would probably gum up the works a bit. =>..

I’m glad you did, thank you! =^.^=

Daniel smith are one of my favorites! If you haven’t already, you may want to consider trying out small sets from different brands you’re interested in. For instance, sennelier has a watercolor test pack (I reviewed it if you’re interested) that has five colors for less than $20. Daniel Smith has a split primaries set of 5ml tubes for usually about $20-30 (but that’s enough to fill a half pan 2-3 times with each of the six colors). Those are my current top two favorite brands, though in a recent video a friend gave me some M. Graham paints and those are CRAZY pigmented, too. They don’t really have a “sampler” set, but they do have mini collections of five or six colors that have been put together in one box specifically to work together for a certain type of scenery. They might interest you as well!

Awesome, happy to help! I’m sort of known for my obsession with home brewing travel palettes, so there are plenty on the channel. =>.

Yah! It’s big enough and loaded enough to use in the studio, but still only a gift card tin so it’s small enough to travel, too! Metal palettes are my favorites as well, and I’m a big fan of Prima marketing even though their colors fade reeeeeeally bad. =>.

Meow Meow Kapow they do?? I always knew they wouldnt be lightfast but if they fade that bad then im keeping my paintings more secure than i do now. I did my all time favorite piece of work with those paints so im now going to take quadruple caution storing it.

Yes, as far as can be guessed about them, they’re mostly dye based and fade pretty badly within a couple of Months. I can’t remember who did a lightfast test recently, but it was abysmal. I’d recommending scanning them while they’re still vibrant so you’ll have a digital copy!

Meow Meow Kapow good thing i scanned it right away when it was done! I have it set in a black folder in a drawer in the dark corner of my room.

That’s so depressing. At least get a print made so it can be free and you can enjoy it.

Yay, welcome! It’s nice to have you here. =^.^= And gosh, aren’t freshly poured paints just gorgeous?!?!

Meow Meow Kapow the paints looks amazing!!

If you’re interested in them, they’re the Holbein watercolors 24 color set. =^.^= I linked them in the description box if you use amazon!

Meow Meow Kapow thank you so Much!!

I’ve seen those!!! I actually was looking for a cigarette case that I liked a while ago EXACTLY to make into a Travel palette...hm. No idea why I gave up on that, actually. Also! If you want pans that are easily movable, use makeup pans! You can either buy empty ones from amazon or eBay or whatever, or you can go to the dollar store and buy makeup palettes and smash the eye shadow out of the little metal pans inside and fill those up with paint and attach thin magnet tape (I’ve found an even thinner one that what’s in this video and showed it during my mini altoids palette build, I think) so you can move them around and swap them out if you change your mind!

yeah all those options are great too. I buy my cigarette cases from amazon or even a local smoke shop.

Amazon’s exactly where I was looking for them! And amazon’s where I’ve gotten some empty makeup pans from before. =^.^=

I used to do that, but then I found it was even easier to use this little cutter-especially when you make a lot of things like this! Glad you have a way that works for you, too! =^.^=

Meow Meow Kapow oh . Waiting for your upcoming paintings>• ^ •

Sometimes when I buy half pans on amazon, they come shipped in those plastic containers. I save them because I ALSO think they’d make great palettes! =>.

Because I prefer to be able to swap out the pans easily if I want to empty them and reuse them! For me, it’s easier to just change the masking tape than try to remove the sharpie marks. 🤷‍♀️ we each do what works for us, I guess? I’m big on inpermanence, it seems! Swappable swatches, swappable color order, swappable labels....

LOL! Oh ok! That makes sense. I was just curious cause you didn’t say in the video. I tried to wash and change colors of the have pans once, I don’t know, I found it much work but that’s me. Jackson and amazon have half pans for relatively cheap, I’m so super lazy I guess. Once I use a half pan for a color imma be too lazy to chance colors. But that’s a really good tip.

I mean, so far I’ve never had to change a pan for any reason and buy them a bunch on amazon....but.....y’know........I could if I wanted to. =>.>=

It’s always better to safe than to be sorry! I really like your system of palettes and the square punch. I don’t know if I would do it for most of my palette but for my tin of 128 that might be exactly what I need. Thanks so much for that tip!

Totally! And if I’m 100% honest here, I pretty much only make swatch charts for my studio palettes. Most of the travel palettes I use on the regular are just those little mini altoids ones and I stopped making swatch charts for them long ago. I just make too many mini palettes and don’t feel like taking the extra step!

I guess that’s a decent enough idea, but then how would you know what color you were reaching for? Some of them don’t look the same in the pan as they do when painted! For small palettes like 5 or 6 colors it’s easy for me to remember, but for a palette with 24 paints, that I only use sometimes? I’d never stand a chance! 😂

Meow Meow Kapow I don't pay much attention to the names. Usually I have an idea of how these colors work. When I use a new color I experent with it first.

That’s a great question! It comes down to personal preference, really. I think it’s easier to work from dried paint, so I waited overnight right after I put the new paint in. Because it’s liquidy and I flipped the container upside down a bunch, it was also easy to build all the tape and ring holder and stuff with the paint being dry. Plus, when you see someone “pour” a large amount of paint like that (for watercolor anyway), there’s almost no way they’d be able to use it all up before it dried out on its own. That being said, some people prefer to work with fresh, wet paint so you could theoretically do all the tape and stuff first and then add the wet color as you needed it! Does that help explain what I did a little better? Thank you for asking! =^.^=

Yeah, I make so many of these and live in a place with no ventilation at all that it’s really not worth the bother for me to take the time. =>.

@@MeowMeowKapow But the smell of the nail polish... isn't that too much? I use it once and a while and when I do I have to put the thing I'm working on away before I start fainting from the fumes. By the way, at the moment I'm bingewatching all the diy-palette making video's you put up. Sooo great, instructive, creative and many adjectives I don't know in English :) Reading most of the comments too is adding to what there is to know about paints in general and making palettes etc. I already subscribe to yr channel a while ago but only now I'm really diving in into this particular item.

Welcome! It’s so nice to have you here! =^.^= As for the nail polish....well, I think our experiences are different. Fun fact about me! For about two years I was the in-house art director at a nail polish company, meaning I was surrounded by nail polish smell for over 40 hours a week for a good long while. I no longer smell nail polish at all. I do remember that I used to really hate the smell, and probably would feel like it was annoying... but it dries quickly enough and the scent doesn’t stay after so if you paint it outside that might be a good solution for you.

I honestly think they did. =>.

Pretty much all paints shrink, and if they shrink so much that they fall out of the pan you can either put s me water in the pan or just add more paint to fill it under more. The Holbein ones haven’t shrank so much that they fall out but even if they had, it’s a solvable problem.

They’re called half pans, and links to all the materials are in the doobly-doo.

Truth be told, I’ve only sprayed the inside of one palette, and it was with matte paint (and then I gave it away as a gift) so I don’t know what the effects are. I more often than not leave them unfinished like this because I don’t want to have to wait another full day or more to use my palette when I’ve already spent two or three days building it! That being said, I believe that it would stain as much as any other metal palette would because it’s more based on the paint than anything else. I’ve got “high end” and “low end” palettes and the only ones that are 100% stain-proof are the ceramic/porcelain ones, but those aren’t really convenient for Travel. =>.

Yes. =O_O=

Meow Meow Kapow phew! I thought it was just me 🤪

😘 shhhhhhh.

Hey now, take a girl out on a date first before asking her personal questions like “are you a paint hoarder” and “gimmie all your money!” Gosh.

Sometimes you gotta be extra if you want somethin’ done just right. 🤷‍♀️

Meow Meow Kapow simplistic palettes are just right

Which is why I have videos of both kinds! Sometimes you need a big, crazy studio palette and sometimes you need just a simple, unlabeled 6 color palette. Everyone’s got their own needs and styles!

Meow Meow Kapow or just one palette with all the colours??

I’m going to be making one of those eventually, but given how many colors I’ve accumulated, it wouldn’t be realistic to take for travel. A lot of my favorite tiny mini palettes are the ones I use most, since doodling out in the world is my jam!