🎨 Won't you look at the state of that!

Eric

Eric

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Thought we could have a different challenge ... let's see the state of your palette(s)! Maybe I'll think up a prize or a badge or something...

So I have a few that are on the go at any one time. My wet palette that of course does get swapped out, although the foam is growing a new life form slowly so that might need changing soon. Colours are from painting my Van Saar gang.

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Then we have my ceramic palette that I use for washes and so forth, this poor thing sits for months between cleaning, in fact cleaning it tonight was the inspiration for the thread.

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Finally this random bit of acrylic. I use one side for metallics and the other side for when I'm doing dry brushing and need something to wipe paint off on.
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So how good/bad are your palettes then? What do you use - random bit of card, fingernail, desktop?
 
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Ha! If you think @Eric’s is gross…

I don’t really use the dry palette or clean it! The rock is for… can you guess?
 

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Eric said:
The rock palette rocks, I assume you use it for dry brushing to "wipe off" excess paint and check you've got the right load on the brush?


Let's seem them then!
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In the garage, will post much much later, ie: tomorrow (in other words flat out on sofa, can't be arsed).
 
At least you lot use a palette. I often use the lids of paint pots to mix paints (not sure why I do this), my right thumb to check the paint consistency and shape of the brush tip and either side of my right hand to wipe excess paint off on when dry brushing. I paint left handed btw.

I do really need a wet palette, I've been painting in my shed which gets very warm in this weather.
 
...Opened the briefcase the right way up, & actually tidy, for once. I've primed stuff and covered the older psychedelic ice cream tub lids that once existed. That's probably a crime against the multiverse and all my paints will now dry up...
 

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I sometimes check the drybrush on the side of my thumb if it is too subtle a colour for the rock. 😉

Wet palettes are handy when it cool enough, but mine was struggling in the recent heatwave. They can also get a little fungal… I should really put a copper strip in mine.
 
Brother Meredith said:
Ok, perhaps I should just stop being a lazy gobbo and replace & clean my palette more often!!
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nahhh, I'm too lazy to "clean", got too many other things to clean around the house and it's not my favorite activity. I don't service my WP until the wax-paper is rubbed thru and has holes in it. Usually lasts about 2 to 3 months
not sure about the UK, but here a gallon (4 liter jug) of distilled water is about $1.50 , and that's well worth not having fuzzy growth in WP or even smelling that moldy smell.
Our average humidity here is about 5% though, so maybe different results in a humid place?
 
Michael Stockin said:
Zoinks. About 75% seems average for the UK.
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yeah it's tough to keep the wet pallette wet. I have a squirt bottle for adding water directly to the edges and a spray bottle to mist the whole thing down. This has to be done pretty much constantly while your painting, every 15 minutes.
Brother Meredith said:
Wow that’s alot of paint! I am really restrained with the amount I decant…
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so your a cheap-ass, ............like me :) high five!
I admire people who are carefree and dance like no one's watching, or dispense paint in this case. Sadly my obsessive-compulsive nature prevents this, so when one of my Reaper paints "glugs" out a lot of liquid (the metallic are especially bad for this), it's very upsetting
chrisgoodone said:
Here's mine...
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i like how perfectly flat yours is. I use a Tupperware lid and it's convex (the bottom is my lid), and its starting to get under my skin. When fully dilluted the paints sometimes flow together
 
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