Intentionally letting watercolor paints dry before using them?

i have a butcher tray that i put gouache on to use like watercolor pans after it dries onto it from whatever i was using the paint for originally for practicing washes and stuff to conserve and make use of all the paint left over ( when you use it fresh out of the tube i know its better ) and i always keep my koi watercolor box paint dry so that i can limit the moisture by using water brushes and it makes dry brushing easier. so maybe thats what she means . she can control the consistency of the paint from watery to nearly completely dry.

People usually do that when they want to paint outdoors/while travelling to not make a mess.
I find it makes it hard to get a good range of values like that though, painting from dry paint tends to look dulled out.

Yeah that's how a lot of the pros do it. it makes your paint last longer, but it makes it easy to adulterate some colors, esp. yellow

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some pallets are designed for you to do this.

>>3062503
Yeah, that's how a lot of painters like to do it. My childhood art teacher, now a famous watercolorist, does this.

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>My wife

Depends on what effect you want to achieve
I use paint from tube on sky/water while other things(especially leaves) are better to do with dried paint

>>3062503
I've always preferred half pan watercolours to tubes. My paintings always end up looking better with them.