More about the daily paintings

I am on number 47 now and find it to be an interesting exercise, I usually do the painting first thing in the morning. they have all been gouache with one watercolour, ( I wanted to try out the Daniel Smith Watercolor ground on my panel). I think that I am learning a lot about gouache and that is a good thing.

I have switched to M Graham gouache for the time being, I find it to be a little more fluid than the Winsor and Newton that I was using. I am also keeping the paint in a sealed plastic pallete box so it is always moist and ready to go when I am ready to paint. (Transon watercolor pallete box, I highly recommend it. I tried to make one of these for myself on a couple of occasions with little success)  Since all the paintings will be 8×6 I also invested in a Guerilla 6×8  thumb box. Being able to pick up the box and go, with everything I need inside it makes life easier as well.

I did put the tripod mount on the box so that I can paint outside. The only extra I need to carry is my water,

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