My watercolor palettes - pan paints

Here are two palettes I use with pan watercolors. The round pans are what I used on the Tomato Pitcher. The small white palette is great for travel. There are also samples of whole and half pans sitting in the id to the black palette.

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Comment by Jane Albin on February 8, 2012 at 8:12: You can try it using really inexpensive watercolors. Even a child's set is ok to practice. It also helps to start with a small format: I like 5"x7" to start. Good luck.

Comment by Xiao Li on February 7, 2012 at 17:53: That is interesting. I have seen some very beautiful watercolor paintings and yours are also quite beautiful. I may try it again sometime. Thank you for the tip.

Comment by Jane Albin on February 7, 2012 at 10:50: Thank you. I have been practicing for a long time with watercolors. But there are some tricks to fixing mistakes.

1. You can usually lift color from where you do not want it with a little water and some light scrubbing with the brush. If you tape over the neighboring area, you will get a straight line.

2. If you start out really light you can keep adding color. Each layer gives more depth of color until you reach the correct value.

Comment by Xiao Li on February 7, 2012 at 5:52: Thank you Jane for the introduction of pan watercolors. It is very interesting. I have tried watercolor before, but I found it very difficult because it was unforgiving. You can't make any mistakes. Oil, you can alway paint over but watercolors, what is down will stay. You did very good work on your watercolor paints.