Crash Test Palette, 2025
Fused glass, aluminum, steel, wood, watercolor pigments
18 x 27 x 5 inches

My first palette was a folding French easel board that I modified for working with watercolor. It was made of white laminate glued to masonite, and was a perfectly portable system for mixing dollops of tubed color directly on the board. Two brass hinges held the rectangular surfaces just far enough away from one another, when it was folded in half, which kept the paints from sticking together. Read more…