At the beginning of every school year, like my schoolmates, I used to look forward to receiving a pristine new paintbox. After a few weeks use, I had the paintbox of a great artist, complete with messy dabs of color overlapping everywhere, but not the results. 
The artists and their works here are Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) , Edgar Degas (1834-1917) , Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), and Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1915). You can click on the palettes for expanded views.
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Thanks for this treat!
The artist's palette is one of those things that hasn't changed much with passing decades or centuries - the current exhibition on The Artist's Studio at Compton Verney has palettes from Hogarth to Tom Phillips that look almost identical - and also photos of Lucien Freud's studio that show him using the wall as a kind of uber-palette.
The paint boxes are nearly as nice as the paintings! Yes, what a treat.
Beautiful! the "mess" of some great painters.
Hi Jane - Just to say Global Village is me - I've been trying to set up a new blog, and it has sent all my settings haywire!
I'm delighted that other people find these palettes as fascinating as I do. I used to think my paintbox was a mess because of my meagre talent - now I see that it's the only thing I had in common with real artists. As for drawing on the wall, the rug that inspired ny "Stuffed Animals" article had inspired me to draw on the wall when I was two years old. I still remember how puzzled I was when my mother began to cry when she saw what I had done. A good thing for both of us that I soon disoovered the piano.
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