The Problem
When painting, an artist needs to have access to the same color- which is often mixed by the artist instead of straight from the tube. There are over 10 million colors to choose from, which can result in infinite color combinations. It’s not easy to remix the same color over and over again, even if you are a professional artist, and traditional palettes don’t help either! These palettes are flat and bend to the artist’s will, or they have pre-set grooves and spaces for the paint to go, which don’t allow much room for mixing. This causes artists to waste time, money, and paint! Which is not ideal when working under a time crunch or a commissioned project.
The Solution
My idea Modern Mixing reimagines the idea of a traditional painter’s palette. I will design an insert for the most commonly used palette, the Masterson Sta-Wet Palette. My insert will have a series of various circular sized measurements. These measurements consist of circular drawings on the pallet that will allow the artist to accurately measure, mix, and record their exact process of mixing a specific color.
Modern Mixing will allow my audience of artists to keep track of their mixed colors, improving the efficiency of creating a painting by saving time, money, and frustration that is created by wasted paint in an attempt to match “just the right color.”
