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This image shows the palette closed, sitting on credit cards for scale: Demonstrating why it’s ideal for travel. It also shows the palette fully open, loaded with pigments that have been mixed on the various mixing surfaces of the palette.

MICRO
PALETTE

Artists sometimes enjoy using a more limited range of colors as a way to better understand color mixing and to help create a more harmonious look in their finished paintings. It’s referred to as a “Limited Palette;” often six colors or less and can be very compact. However, tiny palettes typically lack usable mixing space. This is unfortunate, since a limited palette often requires pigments to be mixed frequently to create a good range of colors and shades. Despite its tiny size, the Micro finally solves this problem; It was designed to provide maximum deep mixing surfaces when it’s fully open.  The Portable Painter Micro is actually smaller than a credit card, just one-inch thick and astonishingly, only 1.5oz/43gm. Yet it transforms in seconds to a complete, professional watercolor palette; with plenty of deep mixing wells, a convertible water container and six, standard-size half-pans ready for your favorite colors. It includes a sturdy, T-shaped finger grip on the base and a handy lanyard hole. It fits effortlessly in a pocket, purse or daypack so it’s perfect for travel, urban sketching and plein air painting. Its tiny size and feather-weight, make it ideal for artists who enjoy the outdoors and who value the ultimate in compact size and uncompromising usability. It’s a perfect companion for ultra-light hiking, camping and biking; always there, whenever or wherever you find yourself. It can be securely attached to your journal or sketchpad with a simple bulldog clip. This allows both to be held comfortably in one hand, while freeing your other hand to paint or draw. Enjoy rugged, quality construction, and versatile design, for left or right hand use.

What's Included

An overhead illustration of the Portable Painter Micro Palette, open and closed and also the microfiber suede pouch that it is packaged in.  It lists all the features that make the Micro Palette perfect for travel, urban sketching and plein air painting

Features:

  • Smaller Than a Credit Card

  • Feather-weight (1.5 oz / 43gm)

  • A Pocket Size Professional Palette

  • Attaches Easily to a Journal with a Bulldog Clip

  • Six Standard Half-Pans

  • Convertible Water Container

  • Plenty of Deep Mixing Wells

  • T-Shaped Finger Grip

  • Handy Lanyard Hole

  • Microfiber Suede Drawstring Pouch

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NEW Micro Expansion Pans are Now Available

Several Portable Painter Micro Palettes are shown open with various combinations of Micro Expansion Pans installed  This image shows two rows of open Micro Palettes that are configured to hold from eight to sixteen colors, using the new Micro Expansion Pans: The top row is empty so you can see the individual pans more easily. The bottom row shows the same configuration fully loaded with liquid pigments.
A full set of eight Micro Expansion Pans  A full set of eight Micro Expansion Pans are available: There are two types of pan: Dual and Quad, that can be intermixed. The Micro can hold four of the pans to offer from eight to sixteen colors capacity with no increase in size or weight

Carry from Six to Sixteen Colors with no increase in size or weight

The Portable Painter Micro is a professional quality “limited palette,” with six standard half-pans. However if you prefer to carry a wider range of colors, our Expansion Pans can deliver! There are two types: Dual and Quad cavity that each hold a genuinely useful amount of watercolor pigments. They are available as a stand-alone accessory or as part of the new Micro Max Kit. They can be secured in the palette with reusable adhesive disks (included.)

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