A bright colorful diy watercolor box made as a labor of luv 🎨👩🏿‍🎨

My Paul Reubens watercolors arrived sooner than I expected. I am so excited to use them. But first I need to replace the colors in the metal tin with my gouache paints. 👍🏿

I bought a wire brush and a burnisher from Amazon because I thought I would need both. 

I’ve never used a metal tin before, so I was worried taking it apart would expose sharp edges. A burnisher would soften them. 

Turns out it was super easy taking apart the extra flap. All I had to do was use a thumbtack to poke the hole and the hinge and the little Rod came out. 📌📌So now if I ever wanted to reattach it I could. But I don’t wanna.😅

Burnisher wasn’t needed, but the wire brush did come in handy. 

When you buy a paleto that isn’t porcelain or wax based, you kinda have to scuff the service. A wire brush helps because the scuffing makes it so that the paint doesn’t bead up. 

I also had to use some paint splotches and let them dry on the mixing area. Paint beads less when it attaches to more pigment. Just another reason to have a messy paleto. 🥰🎨

After I fixed the paint beading issue, I decided to decorate the pink tin. While I do like the pink tin, I just wanted it to look more me. I chose the Paul reubens over some of the other empty tins because I wanted watercolor paints, but also I read a lot of negative reviews on the empty tins I saw. 

Paul Reubens had positive reviews all around.