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Colin Windale

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Hi guys  Does anyone remember this part works magazine that built up weekly with supplies?  I found the pallet and half pans and they are still fine to use after all these years.  I loved the magazine and how the painting supplies built up over time. But a few months in and it started doing different media and I lost interest in it.  Here's the pallet, and it's a little disappointing that there's nothing like this part works out there now. 
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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I don't remember it, no...... maybe I never encountered it; but I only took up watercolour in quite recent years in any 'serious' way, so wouldn't have been on the lookout for it.  That palette looks useful, though - big mixing wells and what looks like a good selection of pan colours.   A project in need of a re-launch, perhaps.

Alan Bickley

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No, I’m not familiar with this either, and I’ve been using watercolour (along with other medium) for many decades. The quality of the paints would be my concern, I only use good tried and tested well known artists quality brands.

Colin Windale

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I can't remember the brand of paint, but it wasn't a well known brand  I don't think? . It must have been at least fifteen years ago now since I was getting this. Iv changed two of the pans on the top right corner for hookers green and light red from veridian blue and black, as then I have all eight colours needed  in it to try the Charles evans way of painting. I won't be using that particular pallet at home as I have a nice set of cotman tubes  that iv already tried.  That pallet might be good to throw in a bag if I get round to painting outside in a small notebook type size of paper. But that won't be happening until I'm confident enough. 
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Charles Evans uses Hooker's Green - a colour I've never got on with, but we all have our preferences.  

Colin Windale

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I had a go last night following a charles Evans video on you tube and also a Mathew Palmer one. Many mistakes were made, especially the amount of water to use and colour mixing, but I enjoyed doing them.  Realising afterwards that I'm trying to copy other people's way of painting isn't the way to go. Learn the techniques yes, but find my own way in how I do it is the way it seemed to me.  So practicing the basic wash, trees and bushes, and even fields and stone walls. This gives me something that I can apply to almost any scene. Then maybe when Iv got the basics I can apply these to a scene I'm familiar with. And possibly it might even be recognisable too, but that's in time. All that aside, I really enjoyed having a go.