The Triad Palette
Explore watercolor through the seasons.
$92.00
Details
- Teal blue Pocket Palette engraved with triad linework.
- 12 Mini Pans filled with paint, organized in four rows of three.
- 4 Small Mixing Pans, useful for mixing secondary colors (orange, purple, green), plus one for neutrals.
- Cotton logo bag with teal blue drawstring.
- Includes our 3" Triad Template. Not sold separately, yet 😉.
The Triad Palette
Explore watercolor through the seasons with this limited-edition palette curated by artist Lisa Spangler, with professional-grade paints handmade by paintmaker Kelly Hollstrom of Letter Sparrow.
For this project, we designed a special Pocket Palette in a beautiful teal blue with a custom pan arrangement of Mini Pans and Small Mixing Pans. The custom lid design features the clean, geometric linework of an overlapping triad.
Color Exploration All Year Long
I designed the palette around my go-to colors for painting quick watercolor sketches during the four seasons—above all, mixing greens! Green used to be one of the hardest colors for me to mix until I dove into color theory, especially desert greens like agaves, cacti, and yuccas.
Lisa Spangler
- Spring
Create glorious spring greens, lovely granulating purples, and a subtle grey. Tone down unreal greens with a touch of rose.
Primrose Yellow (PY3)
Quinacridone Rose (PV19)
Cerulean Blue (PB36)
- Summer
Mix rich summer greens, bruised plum purples, and bright red tomatoes!
Hansa Yellow (PY97)
Quinacridone Magenta (PR122)
Phthalo Blue (PB15)
- Fall
Discover olive greens, moody purples, glorious oranges, and reds for fall leaves. Mix a near-black neutral.
Sunflower Yellow (PY65)
Coral (PR255)
Ultramarine Blue (PB29)
- Winter
Create the dark greens of evergreen trees, atmospheric purples, and lovely browns and yellows for winter grasses. These colors can mix a velvety dark neutral.
Gamboge Yellow (PY150)
Black Currant (PR101)
Indanthrone Blue (PB60)
All art by Lisa Spangler
The Triad Template
Each Triad Palette is accompanied by the Triad Template, a black 3-inch circular aluminum protractor with six sections for plotting watercolor triads. We designed the Triad Template with Lisa Spangler to create an easy tool for exploring color mixes. Triads can push your mixing skills and create unity in your paintings as colors relate throughout a composition.
Studying triads also helps you to recognize subtle differences in color and develop a framework for exploring fundamental color mixing. Being thoughtful and deliberate in your studio can lead to more free and intuitive mixing in the field! Build your color intuition by playing with triads!
Triad Template Tips
Join us online on Wednesday, June 19th at noon Pacific for Triad Template Tips with Lisa Spangler to celebrate the launch of our new product, the Triad Template, co-designed by Lisa herself!
Collaborators
Lisa Spangler
A former software engineer, CTO, and current website designer, Lisa carves out time between working to get out and paint the natural world around her in her home state of Texas, from leaves to cacti to mushrooms. Through her art and travels, she aims to capture that feeling of awe and wonder on paper and spread that joy to others.
Over the past few years, Lisa has shared her enthusiasm for watercolor and design with the Art Toolkit community through demos, a workshop, and as an Art Toolkit Ambassador.
Letter Sparrow
Letter Sparrow began in 2016 to help artists enjoy their creative experience even more by offering high-quality handmade watercolor paints and gouache. Their paints are non-toxic, highly pigmented, vegan, and professional grade. Kelly Hollstrom, the founder of Letter Sparrow, lives in Texas with her husband, son, and two dogs.
Learn more about Letter Sparrow on their website.
