Organize Your Palette With The Painter's Color Diary

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I have to admit, I’m not the most organized artist. Scraps of paper, used palettes, and piles of random painting surfaces fill the corners of my small studio. It’s rare that I stick to the same set of colors on my palette for more than a few months. As I experiment with new pigments, mediums and combinations, my studio piles contain a loose record of my evolving interests in color. Over time, the context of my evolving thoughts about color has been lost, and I’m missing opportunities for my work today. This is why I need The Painter’s Color Diary

Exclusive to Jerry’s, The Painter’s Color Diary is specifically designed to help painters record color and pigment information for future reference. For oils, acrylics, watercolor, and mixed media, it’s a wonderful tool to incorporate into the studio. Here’s what you need to know to see if it’s right for you.

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Three Things to Know About it.

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Multi-Media: Artists of all media can benefit from this system:

Oil & Acrylic Color Diary: Tailored for oil and acrylic painters, this diary features 40 outlined swatch boxes on each page, printed on 136 lb. (290gsm) canvas-textured paper. The glassine interleaving ensures your colors are protected an the pages don’t stick together.

Watercolor & Multimedia Color Diary: Ideal for watercolorists, colored pencil artists, pastel enthusiasts, and more, this diary offers 35 outlined swatch boxes per page on 140 lb. (300gsm) 100% cotton cold-pressed paper, complete with a landscape page layout for watercolor gradations.

Travel Painter’s Color Diary®: Perfect for artists on the go, this compact diary features 36 swatch boxes per page on 140 lb. (300gsm) cotton paper, allowing you to document your color experiments on location.

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Flexibility: There’s no right or wrong way to organize your color sheets. Sheets can be removed, reorganized, and replaced easily. If I want to compare colors by brand, color temperature, or any other theme, it can be as simple as reorganizing the sheets.

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The Binder Box: The durable binder box is a great touch for saving and cataloging whole diaries or individual sheets. This is the key to a long-term strategy to catalog my color tests, experiments, and evolving strategies.

Painter’s Color Diary® by HG Art Concepts

The color diary features a spiral-bound design with easily detachable pages, enabling you to work on several sheets simultaneously. Each color chart includes a designated area at the top for noting the paint brand, date, or assignment title, particularly useful for classroom work. Furthermore, each swatch box includes a prominent black line, serving to indicate transparency or differentiate half-tones. It’s great for:

Swatching new color purchases
Testing color transparency and opacity
Creating color mixing formulas
Testing color palettes for an upcoming painting

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What are your strategies for organizing color samples? Share your comments below. I’d love to hear from you and see your work! Have you worked with these Painter’s Diaries? What do you think?

Meet the Artist

Scott Maier is an artist and a content contributor to artistsnetwork.com. He’s also the author of the instructional art book See, Think, Draw: An Easy Guide for Realistic Drawing and Beyond.