Altoids Tin Watercolor set

This will show you how to turn a mini Altoids tin into a portable paint set.

For this project you will need:

1 mini Altoids tin
1 brick of polymer clay (Sculpey, Fimo, etc)
6 liquid watercolor paints in colors of your choice
1 watercolor brush pen

Step 1 Make inner dividers

Grab a ball of Sculpey about the size of a large marble. Make it into a rectangle that's a little smaller than the size of your Altoids tin.

Using the end of a pencil or paint brush, make six indentations in your brick of clay. Then widen each of the indentations until the clay is slightly larger than the tin and the indentations are large enough to hold paint.

Gently fit the clay inside of the tin. Smooth the sides of the clay to the sides of the tin. Even out the dividers. The pencil will help a lot with this.

Comments

[legomaster92]

Love it

[kitchentablescraps]

Clever! I love how simple the design is. I suspect that it might even work to fill the compartments with watercolor paint and then let them dry out.

[mikeasaurus]

neat idea.

[RaisedByRobots]

clever use of polymer clay! love it