homemade Stay-Wet palette; house looks haunted

Yesterday I made my own small stay-wet palette out of an old DVR cassette box. At least I think that's what it's called. I wanted a separate stay-wet for the gouache paint so I wouldn't have to change out my acrylic stay-wets. Yes, plural. I have the usual one and now a bigger grey glass stay-wet. I'm closer to finding my media it seems.

I made the palette and put some gouache on it and then went and painted the back of my house when it was dark outside. I sort of remembered where I put the paints. By that point I knew the blues were here and the yellows here and the reds there but which blue was where? Was that cobalt or P60? They all looked like black blobs. And of course I couldn't really see where I was painting. My house is crooked a bit anyway, but it seems like every time I paint my house it looks haunted. And it's kind of hard to paint in the dark. Sort of sadly, I painted this over one of my nicer textured backgrounds that you can no longer see. I might chop this up in squares and reorganize it on top of something else. Here it is for now.

Here's my fancy stay-wet palette from a plastic video case, a Swedish sponge, and an old piece of Stay-Wet Palette paper (the real kind).

I replaced the cover insert with one of my test scrap papers. It works well. The gouache doesn't dry out as fast as when I use a small plastic palette.