Color Tests Before Travel

I haven't done any color swatches with my watercolors in a year, or more.

I have a book I keep and I add a swatch into it every time I get a new pigment.  But that's not quite the same as getting them all out and painting them side by side all at once.

Here are the results of some watercolor tests I did, as I prepared to go on a vacation last winter to the U.S. Virgin Islands.

I did them by color so I could see things side by side and think about which ones I wanted to take along.

I didn't think the final sheets would wind up being so darned pretty!