You can paint fun little paintings with just a few supplies.  I enjoy creating my own mini watercolor palettes of my own choice of colors.  I buy empty half pans and fill them with my paints from tubes of watercolors.  They fit conveniently in empty mint tins.  Here is a photo of a postcard that I painted from my little mini watercolor palette:

I added the word FRANCE by using the brass stencils and then filled in the letters with red paint markers.