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

[Eric]

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.



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.


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.


So how good/bad are your palettes then? What do you use - random bit of card, fingernail, desktop?

 

[Michael Stockin]

I use bits of crap and cheap blank plastic gift cards. Use them and bin them. Currently none on the go.

Your bottom pallets are giving me anxiety...

 

[Knight Girl]

I use parchment paper folded over dampened paper towel/kitchen roll as wet palettes and junk mail flyers, coated thin cardboard for drybrushing, etc. I've been doing assembly lately so no palettes in use currently.

 

[Fighelm]

Lovely. I have several ice cream lids, gravy granule tub round plastic lids and several artist palettes on the go. Some are works of art in themselves

 

[Brother Meredith]

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?

 

[Eric]

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?

Lovely. I have several ice cream lids, gravy granule tub round plastic lids and several artist palettes on the go. Some are works of art in themselves

Let's seem them then!

 

[Fighelm]

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!

In the garage, will post much much later, ie: tomorrow (in other words flat out on sofa, can't be arsed).

 

[willlucv]

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.

 

[Fighelm]

...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...

 

[Brother Meredith]

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.