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Thirty Days of Everyday Life, Day 10: Work and Watercolors

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Today I started prepping supplies for Monday’s Pre Cow Day Story time craft, cow headbands the kids can wear for Chick-fil-A’s Cow Appreciation Day event Tuesday. (Free food!)

Pardon my strange looking kid. That’s what I get for quick sketching without a pencil. The reference photo was pretty adorable…

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I also received some more paints in the mail from Marlette Art on Etsy… Hunter Marlette makes lovely paints, bold and easy to rewet. (look how dark that dioxazine violet is?!!) I talked about these paints a week or two ago… if you like shimmery colors, I highly recommend his Mica Set,  if you can get your hands on it. They are very sparkly, much more than my others, even my finetec set. Large bits of mica in them, it seems to me. I’m having a lot of fun with them!

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Hunter is in North Carolina and makes his own paints. You have to catch them as they are available, but I don’t think you will regret the purchase. In fact, he offers quin gold made from the original pigment quinacridone gold, not available any more for purchase, and THE most gorgeous sap green I’ve seen, made with that pigment as well. His quin gold is an ‘earthier’ version of quin gold when compared to Daniel Smith’s, which is a brighter yellow, but I like it very much. I don’t know if you can really see the colors here, but I’ll try to show you what I mean.

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I have several brands of handmade watercolor paints I love, and occasionally recommend here, but I think these are my favorite. ( SO FAR. I do love them ALL, and have favorite colors in each which I can’t find elsewhere.)

Any day I open my mailbox and find a parcel of paint inside is a good day, as far as I’m concerned.

Thirty Days of Everyday Life (Day 2) MarletteArt on Etsy

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Received paint in the mail today… woohoo!!

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Check out the etsy store here, MarletteArt The owner, Hunter Marlette is “taking a short break” according to the etsy site, but this paint will be worth the wait, I think. The colors rewet immediately, and are lovely. The pans are filled to the brim, and have nice strong magnets attached (the neodyne type I use, not those wimpy self adhesive strips) He adds the store name, color name, and pigment information to the pans, and packages them nicely. The paints are milled with honey, which gives them a lovely texture, but they aren’t as sticky as M Grahams.

The paint comes nicely wrapped and labelled.

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One thing that attracted me was the quinacridone gold he offers, which is made from the original pigment, PO49, no longer available. (I think he could get more money for this paint, and told him so. 🙂 The sap green he makes from this color is GORGEOUS Oh-My-Gosh-I-love-it-gorgeous. Gorgeous. Yeah. Probably my favorite sap green ever. (and I feel like I’ve tried them all??)

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His metallics are VERY metallic. Very shimmery and pretty. And the sample dots he included are generous enough to really see if you like using the color.

I really enjoyed the fun envie it was all shipped in as well, so included that in my journal 🙂

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Hunter has the same initials I have and I remember off and on for years trying to come up with a fun logo with my initials, HM. Well, he’s done it, and puts it on his packaging. I’m a little envious of that logo.

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