3 Tips For Refilling Your Watercolor Palettes!

[christinetrappenfortes]

For those that are extra FRUGAL-You can then CUT THEM OPEN (carefully with scissors) Down the side and is the paint that is still inside and caught in the neck of the tube. Usually there is still quite a bit stuck in there 🤩

[BerlieStrass]

Great tip about the caps as spares! For a second I thought you'd recommend using the caps as a mini-pan...as you had a few lying around. They would fit just a tiny bit of paint, but the flat side can be secured with poster putty (blue tack in some countries) to an Altoids tin, for example. They'll fit the equivalent to a 1/4 pan in terms of content. I am so keen to have those extra thin pans for the portable painter. Sadly, the company is not sending them to Europe yet.😢

[melissaaldosari]

I never thought of saving the caps. Such a fantastic tip!

[mjpete]

Yep this is why your the Best Frugal Crafter, period!

[Toasty_Art]

The cap saving tip is such a life saver!

[morrisonwatercolors-ye]

Good tip about saving the caps from empty tubes. I just had a cap break for the first time a couple of days ago.

[OrganizeCreateDecorate]

Great tips. Thank you, Lindsay! I would love to hear more about making our own watercolor and also gouache paint kits and what to do to keep them usable over time. I'm wanting to learn all I can before I set up kits for each. I figured I should learn this before I learn to paint with both.

[SarahGuy-Levar]

I also used a needle nose pliers to crimp on each side of the opening, frugality for the win!! Good idea about the caps!

[jessicaneumann]

You're so right I broke a old cap just today prying it off I do keep extras and knew this but great tips. I swear I think you've said that before cause I do remember keeping caps for this. Lol 😆

[stephenjohnson]

Great ‘frugal’ tip … thank you for sharing

[Peekagroove]

I cut the tops off and you be amazed at how much more paint is left over.

[firstart-joy]

Great tips❤
I take the caps off, cut the threaded tops off the tube part, let them dry… then take a skewer/pin/tweezers/needle nose pliers or some such tool to pull off the remaining tube pieces and pull out the pieces of dried paint. Then I put the paint pieces in my ‘sketchbook palette’ … I’m amazed at how those little bits of paint go a long way 😲❤

[cathyquilts]

Great tip about the caps! I screwed down tops of acrylic paints from Arteza “securely” and nearly half of the 72-count set split letting air into the tubes and causing all the paint to harden. So sad, but I wasn’t using them anyway having fallen in love with NovaColor paint, so there you go!!

[Soapartisan]

The very tip of a watercolor tube has enough paint to make a sample for a dot card . I was amazed at how much is left in the neck portion of a tube . I usually take a long nose plier and squeeze the neck part of a tube for best results .

[sunnyday]

Yup, I could sure use one of those caps now....

[GinaBadeaux]

im so frugal i cut the tubes and clean all my paints out,

[lorraynecruz]

Where did you buy the really big palette? It seems to hold a ton of colors and has space for mixing. I love it.

[maurasmith-mitsky]

I never heard of tube squeezers before. Yup. Amazon has many. Who knew.

[YuseiLover]

Where can you buy a tube crimper in person?

[pantalonious]

I’d LOVE to know what colors you use in your portable painter. I can’t decide what to put into mine for the most versir mixing variety alreart