That is a brilliant idea! I also saw another video where someone used mini ice cube trays (silicon type). I managed to find some on Amazon.co.uk so I will definitely be trying that too!
I want to try that too but I don't wear make-up and haven't yet found a good compact in the shops that would suit my purpose! You can however get empty makeup tins (those shallow ones) on eBay so I might just get some of those and try and make an ultra-slip travel set! :)
the lego thing was such a good idea! i've been stressing over making a watercolour travelling kit since i'm going to Italy tomorrow, and i wanna paint the places i go - and this is just perfect. Thank you!
Hi again! I used to use a wrist sweatband as a place to wipe my brush, but recently saw a warning not to do that if your paint is toxic, as it could be seeping into your skin. Just thought I'd pass that along.
What fantastic and useful ideas you have, thank you so much! I've been wanting to repurpose my expired makeups (apparently you can make watercolour by mixing Arabic gum into the powder types??) and this really solved my dilemma of wanting to experiment with that AND actually using the too many cute but useless containers I keep collecting. Love the idea of recycling little bottlecaps (instead of buying new empty palettes I might never use again)!!
this video is a 100% accurate representation of what i obsess over on the weekends! i have so many containers and misc items, magnetic tape... empty cigar boxes work too & the local cigar shop may have hundreds of different sizes. you can glue a metal sheet at the bottom if you want to use the magnetic watercolor pan theme.
Fred, I like your thinking! I'm the same, and if a weekend involves searching for even MORE art-worthy tins (especially in antiques shops) then all the better! It's SO fun! Just won some vintage Rowney watercolour pans on eBay so I have an excuse to make more little kits! Hehe!
I don't like using plastic, but I also discovered that the empty Dentyne Ice blister packs fit perfectly inside an altoids tin and work great as pallet pan trays. You can cut them if you want to use them individual pans! Great way to repurpose a bit of trash!
Thank you. The water bottle caps with water colors are perfect for a small metal cigaret case I've had for years, don't smoke, and the silicone mini muffin molds are great for the water.
I love to reuse things, like most of the times containers are too cute to throw away and I constantly use them for paint. also another good one is chocolate or sweets containers because they have all the sections for the sweets that are perfect to divide each color. love the video tho! as always a great job :D
Yeah it's great to use old plastic and glass containers for painting! For DIY travel kits though it's amazing what you can find to use around the house such as food tins and make-up containers!
absolutely and sometimes they work even better that the ones made just for paint XD like the cookies containers are so good you can have all the colors separated too. love your ideas so much tho, some of the containers you used were SO adorable!
I've been looking for a small watercolor kit and they are all so expensive. Even empty half pans are quite costly. Love the idea of making my own box and using the tube paints I love. Love the Lego idea!!!
Those palettes are cute, but sadly way too small for me. I'm messy and clumsy so they wouldn't work with me, but that wristband idea is so great! I always just clean my brushes against my hand and skin, and I imagine that could be a bit unhealthy with some paints. Thanks for the video!
Yas!!! I LOVE making travel kits out of all sorts of stuff, especially things people might not expect! Actually, I recently posted a video of making a really compact but super customized and useful travel palette out of a super small, wallet-style eyeshadow container from the dollar store. Love your sports band cleaning cloth! I've used cut up old socks for the same thing, but I have a feeling that the thickness of the sports band is probably a bit more useful!
I don't know how it never occurred to me to use a silicone cupcake thing! I have some for baking and using with bento boxes. :) Thanks! If you're wanting something for a thinner tray, the clear plastic trays that gum come in work quite well too, once you manage to peel all of the foil off of them. I've tried using the ones for pseudephedrine, because in the US they are required to be sold in those little blister packs where you open each pill individually, but those were TOO small. I was messing up my brushes. Speaking of tearing up brushes, if you use clippers to take out a raised piece of plastic like in the legos, be sure to file the flashing that's left down. This is less of an issue with synthetics than say, sable, but it'll still snag it and cause extra wear. A side note, with apologies if you are already aware: Winsor Newton's Cotman Cobalt Blue Hue is just Ultramarine Blue with white added. Anything you mix with it is going to end up being more opaque than it otherwise would because of the white. If that's what you're going for, rock on! If it's not, just get the Ultramarine and then you can add a little white when you want it to be more opaque. :) They used to make a series 2 line with real Cadmium and real Cobalt, but they stopped doing so about 10 years ago.
Wow. Considering that Cobalt is radioactive, I'm surprised it was allowed in paint as recently as 10 years ago. Thanks for the tip about the Cotman Cobalt Blue Hue.
You’ve inspired me to make one and take it with me everywhere:) instead of taking photos of plants and animals and things that inspire me; I’d like to make a quick paint!
Thanks so much Lindsay! I totally had a fangirl moment when I saw that you had commented on one of my videos! I love yours and your travel palette videos are some of my favourites. I especially appreciated the tips on using glucose and the eyeshadow palette tins is a great idea for thin boxes - in fact I got a thin antique box recently that won't fit larger pans in it so I might just try the eyeshadow tin idea for that one! :)
I love these ideas so much!! Especially the wrist band one, so if one of my family members has an old one they dont want, hopefully they can loan it to me😆 and another idea besides the lego pieces as paint containers: water bottle caps. They’re larger so you could maybe fit only five but this way you most likely wont have to spend any money at all if u already have water bottles lying around. Plus i only have the primary colors right now so thats just three bottle caps, but once i gain a wider paint collection im definitely using my brother’s old legos as containers next time!! Thank you for this video❤️
These ideas are great. I've recently gotten myself back into watercolors for sake of making some personal christmas cards and i was looking for a way to take them with me in a travel set cause it was pretty nice painting again (though, I always hated it in school!). I would have never thought of the legos! I'm excited to see what I can find and come up with as a way to store them now. I neeeeeeed one of those traveling brushes! That's so cool!
Thanks for the comment, and hope you had fun doing watercolours for Christmas! Check out my cheap travel watercolour brushes videos for some top tips on cheap alternatives :) Lip brushes work well too and are usually small.
I love these travel art kits. These are the best I've seen. How do you decide which to use? I use the tops of old socks as wrist brush rags, even cheaper. Never thought of Legos as paint pans, great idea. Thanks
+Amy McLaughlin Thanks so much! I have a thing for cute tins so I have loads (can't resist them in charity and antiques stores)! I like to make different kits for fun, but it also depends on what bag I am taking out with me. Got a small bag a tiny kit works well. I am also starting to theme them with different supplies - one has snubs of neocolor crayons in it and a larger tin can fit cut-down watercolour pencils in it. Colour themes can be good too - florals versus landscapes for example. I can't take the credit for the excellent arm band idea as I saw it in a different brilliant travel palette video but using sock bands is a fantastic idea! Old sleeve cuffs would be good too I should imagine!
+Astrid Emyle It cane to me as a bit if a brainwave! It isn't super sturdy for holding water when out and about but is such a cute and easy extra addition to a travel palette for when you want a bit of water for freshening up your travel brush :) I found cheap ones in pound shops but the mini ones I found in Hobby craft :) Hope that helps! I also use the mini ones as molds for clay etc :)
I usually use a plastic collapsible cup when I'm out and about, but these molds are even smaller and would work great with some of my tinier sets! I live in the US, but it looks like I'll be able to get some of the mini ones online (yay!). Thanks for the tips!
Beret Nice amazingly I went on a load of walks around Cornwall and in a forest near where I was staying so it was great for bringing just the necessities
This was such an informative video!! I love how you use so many muji products, i absolutely love muji haha. This video was quite calming to watch, I love it!
Hi, very nice video. I love DIY watercolour sets, I have several tins in different sizes, the one I currently use the most is cheap steel cigarette box, I don't smoke, but saw that one in the shop and it's great. I also use magnets, it's super easy to use and rearrange. I didn't think of sport wrist bands, great idea, I will use that. So, thank you. :)
+Ruchie Thanks! I too like those tins - see lots of awesome vintage ones in antique shops! I just love tins for travel palettes - they give it an extra special feeling. I can't take the credit for the wrist band idea as I saw it in a different travel palette video (sadly can't remember which it was as it was quite a while ago I saw it) but it's fantastic and can help keep the palette secure and padded for travel too. Love it!
omg!!! i love all these hacks!! i wanna try making my own so ill suely implement your ideas!! especially the water pot hack. super smart!! and i love how everythings so small and compact and minature omgg
Another tip: you can use small oilers for oil painting with magnets to attach it to your metal tin with paints. It also comes with a cap, so if you are painting with toxic paints or just don't have an opportunity to het rid of dirty water, you can just cap it.
This was simply amazing loved it thank you so much for sharing this video with us all it is really helpful and a thoughtful idea of storing paints I was been searching such kind of video thank you. Lots of love from India Mumbai 🥰😘❤️
For a water pot, I use a breastmilk storage pot from Avent. It never, ever leaks and is the perfect shape and size. Also the recessed lid could be used to mix paint if you need.
I was in art class and thought that the ice cube trays we were using were too big, and i felt bad about wasting so much paint, so when i was looking for a good brush in the back of the class i found an empty trident gum thing. (Its like a pill sheet but instead theres gum inside) That sheet thing slides into the sheet and boom instant mini watercolor/gouache pallette. I carry it around everywhere
What kind of container can we use...? For example: containers from what kind of things?? Pls do reply i’m looking forward on making this as its sooo cute and easy to carry around?!! I actually have a round metal container which I got from my aero plane trip from the flight indigo airlines when I ordered cookies 🍪 is that container good to use for this mini travel paint palette?? Or should it be a rectangular container??? One more doubt sorry.... is a small jar okay to store the water?? Expecting ur reply as I really need ur help thank u ☺️
Wow omg i love this idea for water colour. I have my grandfather old sigar tin box. I never knew him he died young. I want to make a watercolour pallet out of that can i use it? And will it keep my watercolour paints fresh?
The Lego Half pans is such an AMAZING Idea! And if you want to keep your pans from sliding around you can use one of those thinner base lego plates and turn it upside down!
Melanie, wow what an amazing idea that is about the lego bases! I never thought of that! My main tip with making lego pans is, if drilling the plastic hole down, be very careful. It is tricky so it must be clamped, and it is easy to slip and ruin the brick so a steady, firm approach is a must. With help from my other half, I managed to get quite a lot of good ones versus bad ones. Must look out for cheap second-hand bases now so I can try your idea for keeping them in place! It would be so cool, because you could also use it to clip to your sketchbook when out and about so you can "attach" just the colours you want for that painting to it. No need for a tin/container then! Although you would need to store them in an airtight bag! :)
I actually got my husband to drill the bits in the middle out. It's very tricky to do... Someone said that they succeeded using nail clippers though, so you could try that :)
