Bower Bird Travel Watercolor Palette,Portable Ceramic Palette 6 Well,Empty Paint Palette,Small Travel Metal Paint Boxwith Porcelain Palette (6Well)

I love the Bower bird palettes, and own a few different kinds. They are consistently beautiful, well thought out, made, and presented. This one is no exception. With its 12 wells and dedicated mixing area in a small compact size, plus the fact that it comes housed in a pretty hinged tin and thick paper box, it is a perfect ceramic travel palette for many. It is slightly heavy for a travel palette; but that is the price ceramic palette lovers must pay to travel with them. At least this one comes with some buffering material that is wedged underneath the palette within the tin to cushion shock as an added reinforcement. Speaking of what’s underneath the palette; the flip side of the 12 wells plus mixing area features four larger mixing areas, offering the traveling artist a very nice ceramic mixing area for those who want to work with a few colors and a limited palette. Btw, I think I paid under $15 for this, so the price on all the Bower bird palettes are quite reasonable. I could easily see myself buying more.

Love this small palette. The ceramic is my preferred mixing surface and this one has a nice sized mixing area for on the go painting. The cute tin is a bonus.

Perfect (petite) palette! Ideal size and case makes painting while traveling simple and convenient. I also love the name and smile a little every time I take it out (if you’re not familiar with the Bower Bird, look it up…the amazing artist of the bird world). Highly recommend.

This is a beautiful palette with a sturdy metal case. I love the pure white color! Users could fill the wells with enough paint to do several projects, as they're about the size of a half pan, or the wells can stay empty for mixing. I've had no issues with staining--even with deep blues and purples! The large mixing well is also big enough to hold some travel brushes. The Bower Bird travel set is not my favorite but it does fit perfectly. There is some wiggle room inside the metal case, so I kept the foam it was packed in to protect it during travel. I also super-glued a piece of ribbon to the porcelain to aid in removing the palette for cleaning. (That also allows me to easily switch to the four wells on the back!) It might be heavier than some would like, especially those who are flying or need something slimmer, but I've found it perfect for what I need. The price is great, too! I would just suggest swatching on actual watercolor paper, as the included swatch card is really thin and not suitable for watercolors.

How cute! This is a tiny ceramic palette that manages to hold 18 paint samples and still has a sizeable mixing well. Securely held in a nice tin box. Probably not waterproof, but that wouldn't be an issue for me. I got this to take on a trip and the caveat is that it is heavier than I thought. It will be great for taking outside to paint or to hold a palette of colors for a specific project. And it will be easy to clean.

As a painter, I prefer ceramic palettes, and this one will serve its purpose well. The palette is made very well, and it's in a very pretty tin box. My main watercolor paints are Daniel Smith 15ml tubes, and this palette will be perfect for a selection of color-shifting ganulating hues I want to keep in one place. I look forward to filling it and exploring the uniqueness of the paints by first swatching them. This will create a great reference collection if I want to include CS-G paints in another piece of work. If I decide I like how the paints respond, I'll squeeze them into half-pans and keep together but that's too much to travel with. This little palette will be perfect for traveling!

The small size is convenient and the porcelain is preferred because it cleans easily and doesn't pool water like plastic palettes.

I absolutely love this palette! I have 4 other palettes from Bower Bird and they're all great! Ceramic is my preference and I appreciate the pretty containers they're in. Please continue to make more designs!

I love the watercolour palette. It is very good quality. Highly recommended!

It's a nice idea, but as other reviewers have mentioned the palette rattles around in the tin. Using the padding it comes with would only work as long when you're actually painting you've taken it out. It's also incredibly expensive for what it is, and I have returned it primarily for that reason. I also agree with the reviewer who commented that the swatch card was not very appropriate for use with watercolours.

Perfect for a small paint palette. What I love is the porcelain...no more staining! I use the wells to store my watercolour pigments squeezed from a tube, and the large space for mixing my colours. It is wonderful to have something that is non-plastic and heavy enough that it doesn't move around on the table. For travel, it is heavier than plastic or metal palettes but even for my small hands I can hold it easily for plein air painting.

Perfect size for my Daniel Smith tube collection. Really like being able to use ceramic mixing area. Only using it inside so far. One improvement would be if the mixing area had a central partition, to allow for wetter mixes. Great if you paint small pieces, like me.

I love mixing watercolours on ceramic. This pallet is compact, lightweight (for ceramic) and easy to travel with. A pleasure to use.