My Large Paint Set

Welcome back! I've been wanting to post about my paint set. It's based around my main palette which you can see in the picture below. I bought this box on Amazon, it came empty and is pretty flimsy but good enough for now.

The colors I'm using right now are Cadmium Yellow, Raw Sienna, Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna, Hansa Yellow, New Gamboge, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Red, Permanent Rose, Winsor Violet, Ultramarine Blue and Cerulean Blue. They are assembled from Winsor & Newton, Schmincke and Daniel Smith tubes and I don't remember which came from which so I'm not sure about pigments. Originally, I was using Phthalo Blue and Phthalo Green in place of Hansa Yellow and Gamboge but I wanted more yellow in my box. I'm still getting a feel for all the colors so I wrote the names below the pans to remember which is which.

The palette and all the other stuff that makes up my set are laid out above: a clip to hold the sketchbook open, a rag, my 21x14cm waterpaper sketchbook, another kitchen towel, brushes, a pencil, a fountain pen with Noodlers black ink, two clamps to hold everything in place, a nalgene bottle for water (this is bigger than it looks in the picture), a smaller water container that I glued some magnets to, a small clamp and some more magnets and the watercolor box. All of it fits neatly into the fanny pack at the top:

This was the biggest fanny pack I could find on Amazon and it looks... dorky (Emma's comment when I emerged from my room wearing it was: "I've never seen a fanny pack so erect). It can also be worn over the shoulder if I extend the strap all the way.

Once fully assembled, this is what the whole setup looks like:

The palette is clamped to the sketchbook. This means I can hold everything with just one hand so I don't need an easel and can paint standing without needing any additional accessories. The water cup is propped up by a stack of magnets so I can hold my sketchbook at a more natrual angle instead of having to hold it horizontally. The blue clamp is a quick release clamp which means I can really press down on it and make sure the palette doesn't move.

I find my hand does get tired after 15-20 minutes which is not a lot of time to sketch and paint. To solve this, I could either build an easel or buy a foldable chair. I can't imagine those chairs are very comfortable to sit in and even if they are, keeping the sketchbook in my lap is less comfortable than having it at an adjustable height in front of me. Eventually, I will start thinking about how to build an easel but for now this works well enough.

I also have a smaller paint set that is even more portable that I will write about in another post.