Wet Palettes

Painting Hungarians Tonight!!

I'll need to make one of these after being lazy and not bothering but as the weather gets hotter and even if not, it's really worthwhile.

Wet Palette

A wet palette helps prevent your acrylic paints from drying while they are on the palette. (Very handy for summer-time painting). You can buy these but they are simple and cheap to make.

Take a small fairly flat plate and place 2-3 sheets of kitchen towel and place them flat on the plate. Next soak them in water and hold the plate up so that most if not all of the water drips off, just leaving just the soaked tissue paper on the plate.

Next take a piece of grease-proof paper (baking parchment is the same) and place it over the top of the tissue paper, pat the greaseproof paper down gently and you are done.

Make your self a cup a tea (or beverage of choice and congratulate yourself on the completion of your palette)

To use it simply put your paint onto the grease-proof paper surface, as the paint evaporates water will be drawn through the grease-proof paper keeping the paint wet and the paint stays above the paper for a reason I'm sure any decent Physicisist could tell you, but to me it's just magic.

When I made my first I left my paints out overnight came back in the morning and they were still perfectly useable!
If you want to be flash make the same palette in a lid of a "Tupperware" or equivalent plastic container and your pallet can be sealed to stay wetter for longer.

You need to replace the Kitchen roll and Greaseproof eventually, normally best done before things start growing in it.