My Dick Blick order arrived yesterday - on time and well packed. The order was 15 tubes of gouache and a modest, sealable palette.
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| 18 well palette opened - the lid serves as a large mixing area |
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Sealable palette with the lock (bottom) opened
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| Gouache paints stored in an inexpensive plastic box |
And heck yeah, I played with them for a few hours because it is hard to say no to new toys. I went back over some recent watercolor sketches and either corrected mistakes or made sizable changes. The colors dry in a slightly unpredictable fashion (lights tend to go darker and darker colors tend to dry lighter), but otherwise I am very happy. I just need to figure out how to keep my thumb from sinking into paint wells and it would be close to perfection.
I will post some more thoughts about the paints over the coming days. But just so you know, I did number the tubes to correspond to the wells on the palette. I suppose that is anal retentive, but paints can get muddied and this will simply remove all doubt.
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