As I reordered some supplies the other day, I thought it would make interesting blog posts to show you some of my favorite tools and paint-making hacks as I run across them. This one is tiny jars. I love these little jars for holding paint in the refrigerator or to store dry pigments.

When I make a batch of paint I pour them into tiny ice cube trays. When the paint evaporates and dries out some, I’ll add more. I keep doing this until I can’t add anymore. Then I let it finish drying all the way through. While waiting to make the successive pours, I keep my paint in these tiny jars in the refrigerator.

Some of the tiny jars have hexagonal sides. That makes it harder to label them if you’re using a marker, but really doesn’t matter if you’re using a sticker instead. Usually I do use stickers. But I prefer these with the smooth sides, so it’s easy to label them with a marker. Then it’s easy to wash off the marks so I can use them again for a new color later. If the paint color is dark, though, you’ll have to use a sticker or write on the lid instead.

Tiny Jars Size and Cost

They’re about 2″ tall and a little less than 2″ diameter. The volume is 1.5 oz. For a pack of 24 it was about $24.00. I wash and re-use these time and time again, unless I’m using them to package dry pigments for sale.

Anyway, that’s today’s little plug for tiny jars. I get mine from Amazon but I’m sure you can find them other places online. I’ve never seen them locally, although there are small jars at stores like Hobby Lobby sometimes.

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More Tools

You can see the list of other tools I use in my paint-making process by going to my Tools of the Paint-Making Trade post.