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  • mattjabbar

    Temple park in Nara (Starbucks mints watercolors set)

    I made this picture in part for the purpose of testing a new, small watercolors set I made recently.

    I wanted to make a really portable watercolors set that would fit in a small pocket of my bag for some time now. I didn’t need so many colors - just few should be fine for coloring simple sketches outside. I tried putting Schmincke watercolor half-pans into an empty Starbuck after-coffee mints tin can and voila! Six of them were a perfect fit!

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    To prevent the half-pans from moving around (even though they fit really snugly) and falling out from the box I used magnets and strong double-sided tape to stick them to the underside of each plastic pan.

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