Watercolor Painting Supplies: White Dishes

Video Transcript

"Once you have your little tube of watercolor paint, you can put it on a palette like most people have seen, it has a number of different spots for different colors. What I choose to use though that works really, really well for me are these little dishes. They're actually sushi dishes, and you can buy them at any marketplace that deals in dishes like that. They come like this, they'll come smaller like this, you can also get them with a divider in it, so you can put a couple of different paints in it. The reason I use these number one, they're white, so you see exactly what your color is. Number two, they don't, if you get a big wash going it's not going to run another color in on top of it so it won't mix your colors and what it does is it allows you to keep your colors clear and clean because if your colors aren't clean, your watercolors aren't going to come out. The colors will not be vibrant and pure, so I'll use a number of these small dishes and I'll put one color in each dish. And that's why I use those, they're very effective for me, it helps me stay organized, I know exactly where my colors are, and just simply by glancing at a dish I know exactly what color it's going to be. And I basically know how it's going to look on the paper, because it's as white as the paper."