I'm excited about an accidental find!

[Ellen Easton]

I was on Amazon the other day and one of the things I found was what was titled "acrylic travel palette" and I (foolish me) just jumped to the conclusion that it was for use with acrylic paints. I have several travel palettes for watercolors that are very small and I love them but on this one, my thought was "hmpfff---I don't see how that could really work very well over any length of time" but curiosity got the better of me and since my daughter uses acrylics a lot, I got it with the idea she could try it and we'd see how well it works.

This little kit is in a mesh bag that's about 4"x5" and includes a brass clip, a magnetic brush washer cup, a little water brush that's smaller than most so it fits into the little kit, a little carabiner that clips onto an outside loop to fasten it to a belt loop, purse, backpack or whatever, and a cute little acrylic palette with little paint wells that fastens with magnets.

Well duh on me---my daughter said, "Mom, this is suited to watercolors" and sure enough, it IS! So today I filled the wells with some paint, cut up some of my 4x6 cotton paper found that quite a few sheets of that fit into the kit, and by criminy, this is the sweetest little tiny watercolor travel palette kit! It's only $10 on Amazon so very, very affordable. I just had to share.

Amazon.com

 

[Donna T]

I think I found the kit you’re talking about, Ellen, and it looks really nice. I’m not so sure it would be good for acrylics unless you use the open kind that don’t dry out so fast but it seems like it would be great for watercolor or gouache. I hope you’ll have fun with it!

 

[Ellen Easton]

The paints are dry, the little palette closes just great, and today I'll try the kit out to make a tiny painting. I've been watching a couple of ladies on Youtube doing those so I'm intrigued now. I wasn't very interested in the tiny ones for awhile but this little accidental find of mine has me going. It's time to start going outside for short walks in my therapy for regaining my hip use, so what timing! I cut 20 tiny sheets of paper to carry in the kit and off I'll go. I'll report back.

 

[Ellen Easton]

I think I found the kit you’re talking about, Ellen, and it looks really nice. I’m not so sure it would be good for acrylics unless you use the open kind that don’t dry out so fast but it seems like it would be great for watercolor or gouache. I hope you’ll have fun with it!

The link is posted below that first post, Donna. It didn't show up very well, but it's there.