I decided to make a quick wet palette

    Wet palletes are awsome, be sure to use bottled water or distilled water to prevent mold and mildew. I also noted that if you plan on leaving paint on the parchment only do so for a day or so. I had mine seperate and bleed thru to my barrier and sponge. That said it worked great for a day of use. Hope this info helps and HAPPY MODELING.

We keep 1 gal bottles bottled water here and also filter our own drinking water. Good tip !

For whatever reason distilled water has been hard to find around here lately, hit or miss kind of thing.

For models I mostly airbrush and my brush painting on them I doubt time wise really needs the palette, though I do use acrylics for brushing and also mix my own colors quite a bit. But mostly the wet palette is targeting the art work that goes on around here.

If your paints last a day or more, that's a plus. But the big plus of a wet pallet to me is the paint maintaining it's proper level of 'wetness' once you have it right for a whole session rather than having to constantly add water to adjust for evaporation.

Hope you enjoy your new pallet.

Greg

If your paints last a day or more, that's a plus. But the big plus of a wet pallet to me is the paint maintaining it's proper level of 'wetness' once you have it right for a whole session rather than having to constantly add water to adjust for evaporation.

Hope you enjoy your new pallet.

 

Ok Greg, thanks for that. I'll just say that with acrylics it helps to keep the brush itself damp, in art work that can be with a medium ( mat, gloss, retarding etc) or water or both, most often water. If the paint tends to stop flowing out nice or feels draggy or sticky on the canvas we re dampen the brush. Makes a huge difference. But the palette is important too, as you say..

By the way, on models I'm now more brush painting engines, interiors and details all with acrylic, more than spraying ecxept maybe for a base color and priming. If the paint can last a full day on the wet palette, even that's a gain because I may paint in the morning with good intentions, then not get back to it till late afternoon. Course I understand that my version of wet palette is crude at best. I don't know, it's damp, I dropped a drop of black on there and will see how it holds up.