Junket watercolour kits
Many artists be pleased using liquid watercolours and amuse exceptional consistency and coverage with them, nevertheless travelling with this type of watercolour can be ball-buster. On an aeroplane the tubes tend to leak, and spill on clothes and accessories. The Mass of so many tubes can besides be enormous and cumbersome.The notion is to accomplish a petite H2O colour expedition apparatus that can drive anywhere with you. You can constitute this equipment from mint boxes, sweet tins, cigarette cases or any humble metal box.
Instructions
1. Set a Tinplate box conforming those that come with sweet mints or antacid tablets.
2. Save your used watercolour complete or half pans. You can and acquire empty adequate or half pans at an art supply store. These are the white plastic pans that full watercolor paints come in. If you don't have any of these pans you can make polymer clay depressions or even use contact lens cups. If you decide to use polymer clay, use white clay, make the depressions and allow the clay to fully dry before putting them into the tin box and filling them with paint. Full drying time takes two to three days.
4. Use basic primary colors if you want to keep your paint travel kit extra small. You can mix the primary colors to make the colors you need. Colors like quinacridone burnt scarlet, yellow ochre and indigo blue work just fine.
3. Fit two to three pans, polymer clay wells or contact lens cups in each row within the tin case. Use rubber cement to fix the pans. This way they will stick to the tin case but can be removed when needed.
5. Carry extra mint or other tin lids with you so you can mix your colors. If you use the same type of tin lid that you made the paint travel kit from, they will fit right on top of your miniature paint box. Just disassemble the tin boxes and place the lids right over the top lid of the paint box.
