# Watercolour mixing App

**URL:** <https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/watercolour-mixing-app/3582>\
**Category:** Art Medium Discussion and Questions\
**Created:** [January 30, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/watercolour-mixing-app/3582 "2024-01-30T00:53:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![mnjdittmann1939](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@mnjdittmann1939](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/mnjdittmann1939)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/watercolour-mixing-app/3582/1 "2024-01-30T00:53:24Z")

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Has anyone used or does anyone use regularly an App for mixing watercolours? If so, what App would you recommend or do the talented artists shun such a procedure?

Maurice

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**Author:** ![robichon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/robichon/32/4993_2.png) [@robichon](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/robichon)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/watercolour-mixing-app/3582/2 "2024-01-31T19:14:33Z")

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Hi Maurice,

Watercolor is one of my favorite media and I have never used an App for mixing. It’s not that I shun it, it just never occurred to me and I don’t use many apps as a general rule for anything.

I have a book of color charts (that I created and maintain) for all the colors / all media that I own. When I start a painting I use those color charts to figure out what will be the colors I use. Then with that decision made, I only work with those colors. I use tube watercolors, so I squirt some of those colors on my palette and just start painting, mixing as I go.

Hope that helps answer your question. I’ve attached photo of my palette from the recent Snow Dog - Live Lesson.

Terri Robichon

 ![ceramic palette for watercolor 6x10](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thevirtualinstructor/original/2X/9/9cdf5510008262ce945a712994ebb098f99e019c.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![mnjdittmann1939](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@mnjdittmann1939](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/mnjdittmann1939)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/watercolour-mixing-app/3582/3 "2024-01-31T20:35:50Z")

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Thanks Terri. I guess that was the answer I was expecting, but something I had read somewhere prompted my question originally.

Maurice