Transcript: Create 5 gorgeous color palettes with one set of watercolors

Hey, my name’s Jen Fletcher. I’m a mixed media artist who uses watercolor, acrylic and lots of mark-making tools to create the art that I love. I also like to create tutorials for you to help you dig into your creativity a little bit more. Today, I’m going to show you how I use very minimal supplies, one pan of watercolors to create five different beautiful color palettes. Let’s get started.

Today I want to show you how much you can get out of minimal supplies. This is helpful to know when you don’t have a lot of space, you don’t have a lot of time and you think you need all of the things to be creative. You really don’t. So today we're going to make five different color palettes out of one Art Philosophy pan. I love these because they come in a curated selection of colors, the palette is the lid, and you even have a swatch card, which comes blank when you get it and then you get to fill it out yourself.

So all I used for this is the Art Philosophy colors, water, a brush, and some watercolor paper. You can find my favorite supplies linked below if you want to follow along. Alright, so we're going to make this one, we're going to make a soft and subtle palette. This one that has a bright limey green color and some corals. This one with some deeper corals and teals and muted greens. Some bright blues and corals and a black. And this bright happy one with that bright yellow in the middle.

So for each palette I’m mixing two colors together. It does take a little practice to get the correct color that you want, but that’s part of the fun. So this color I mix together blueberry and apple. I'm going to get my colors over here, some blueberry, and put it on the palette. Here's my blueberry, it’s a very bright blue. I don't paint much with very bright colors so I do like to tone them down. So here's my apple and I mix it together, that looks about right, and there, it’s a little bit dark so I’ll add some water. There's my swatch with the blueberry apple. This color I mixed together key lime and blackberry. So here’s our blackberry, a little pile there. Now blackberry is a really beautiful color on its own. You can always use these colors on their own. I just like to mix them to get a more unique combination and then it's unique to me.

So here's our key lime and blackberry, it's a green with a little bit of teal mixed in. The yellow is a mix of pistachio cream and apple. So this palette is the Decadent Pies and I really love this one because, you probably can't tell on the screen, but the pistachio, this one is called guava, this one is Earl Grey, and this one is white mocha, these all have a shimmer in them so when you paint it you get a little bit of sparkle, which is fun. There’s our pistachio cream and a little bit of apple. I just wanted it to be a touch of orange, but still mostly yellow.

This one we have a mix of guava meringue, which is another shimmery color. Guava meringue here and apple to give it a little more of an orangey coral tint. A little bit dark but that's okay. Doesn't have to be perfect. And then finally for this color I mixed the pecan and blackberry. We’re going to get a little blackberry over here and some pecan there and it makes this deep violet, purple color.

So there's a beautiful palette. If you want to make a painting just mark down the colors you used to make the palette and then you'll be able to get those colors again. So if I wanted to use this to make a floral, then I could easily do it because I wrote down what my combinations were on my scrap papers. If you want all of the recipes for each of these palettes, you can head over to jenfletcherart.com/decadentpies.