Calling all colour lovers! Use and understand your watercolour, oil, acrylic, gouache, inks - ANY of your paints and markers - like a pro with organised colour reference cards. Swatches you will use again & again for information AND inspiration.

Hi! I’m Jen Dixon, multidisciplinary artist & educator living on the North Cornwall coast of the UK.
I'm on a mission to connect you with your art materials in ways that build foundational skills that you can count on in any style of creativity, any medium. (FUN in FUNdamentals... ;) )

Downloadable templates will give you a fast-track for making your project cards. You will also learn how to decode the basics of paint labels to help you understand the - sometimes confusing - Colour Index standards of pigments, what all those other symbols & codes mean, and choose the most helpful information for your own colour isolation reference cards.

I will share the process of two decks of colour cards - one with watercolour ink, the other with acrylic gouache - and you will learn what I would do differently with them too, because mistakes are a big part of the learning process.

 And for a little eye candy bonus, I include a look at A THIRD, GORGEOUS, colour card swatch deck made with metallic watercolour paints, inspiring you to look at your card project as a starting point for new ways to creatively organise and rediscover your paints.

I’m currently making these cards for pretty much every paint & ink I have in my studio. The project is fully customisable, a little addictive, and SO DANG PRETTY.
Oh, and possibly the most useful tool on your desk. Yup. I said it.

Stop painting colour swatches in sketchbooks that you’ll never reference again, and say HELLO! to the creative colour tool you never knew you needed but suddenly can’t do without… (I’m not even hyping here; these cards are insanely useful.)

There is so much more to this class than I can describe here, so hit that play button and let’s get swatching!

Swatch It: Paint Watercolour & Gouache Colour Reference Cards - Information + Inspiration

May 2026

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Thank you for being here.
Sending you big love from my studio in sunny Cornwall, UK. See you again soon.

Jen x

Kristin Hammond

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