The Quicksilver Workaholic

I love to make up small traveling watercolor kits or test out the commercially available ones--I tweak my sets, alternate between them, try out other peoples' solutions...and sometimes even lose one in my studio, when things are TOO messy!  That's what happened to this cute little one.  It was hidden under a stack of catalogs for years--I've been on an organizing tear, and there it was, never been used!




This little Rowney watercolor kit is about the size of my home made Altoids tin ones...perfect for travel sketching or journaling.  It's 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" but still has six colors included.  They are:

Cadmium Yellow Pale
Cadmium Red
Crimson Alizarin
Yellow Ochre
French Ultramarine
Thalo Green (I think!  The wrapper is missing on that one...)

Rowney's been around for a long time and has a solid reputation. 

I increased the mixing area of the little box more than double--for some reason the box was black inside.  I gave it a shot of white paint so you can judge the colors when you mix up a wash--there's a bit of white near the hinge that you can tell isn't original! :-)

(If you lift out the plastic liner that holds the paints and the tiny mixing well it came with, you have 5 times as much area to mix colors in!)

Interestingly, there are more watchers on this auction, on eBay, than on any of my others--16 people are watching it, and it's had a lot of hits!  Yep, we're mad for travel sketching!  It's item #350170342584--or just check my store at stores.shop.ebay.com/Kates-Treasures .