homemade staywet palette

[enrigo]

Because of the ridiculous price of commercial stay wet palette I want to try to make one myself. I had a bit of success with baking paper on top of moist paper towels, but baking paper isn't very good for a palette.
Did anyone try this out before ? what materials and setup would you recommend for acrylic and gouache palette.

[OldJake666]

Here's a tutorial about it. I used to make these all the time. http://www.coolminiornot.com/article...le-wet-palette

You may want to make yours larger, though.

[Chris Bennett]

Find yourself a long plastic tray, say; 4" x 20".
Then go to the glass shop and get them to cut a piece of glass (4.5" x 20.5") for you to lay over it as a cover.
Buy a large sheet of blotting paper (this is much better than paper towels) and cut to the size of the plastic tray.
Cut a size of grease-proof paper to lay on this.

Now, what you have here is a 'keeper' for your colours squeezed out of the tube.

The mixing you do on anything available.
I used to use a piece of MDF that got thicker and thicker with dried paint.
Now I use a large tear off-palette.

If you really want to have the whole palette 'stay wet', then find a bigger plastic tray and repeat the stages I outlined above.
The only difference is that you replace the grease-proof paper with 'draughting' tracing paper. This is good quality, heavier tracing paper and will not shed like the grease-proof when rubbed by the brush.

[Zephyrion]

My art teacher taught me the uber-complex method of Taking a round pallete with a dip in the middle, putting some water and a wet sponge in it and covering it with plastic.
Worked like a charm.

[OldJake666]

Find yourself a long plastic tray, say; 4" x 20".
Then go to the glass shop and get them to cut a piece of glass (4.5" x 20.5") for you to lay over it as a cover.
Buy a large sheet of blotting paper (this is much better than paper towels) and cut to the size of the plastic tray.
Cut a size of grease-proof paper to lay on this.

Now, what you have here is a 'keeper' for your colours squeezed out of the tube.

The mixing you do on anything available.
I used to use a piece of MDF that got thicker and thicker with dried paint.
Now I use a large tear off-palette.

If you really want to have the whole palette 'stay wet', then find a bigger plastic tray and repeat the stages I outlined above.
The only difference is that you replace the grease-proof paper with 'draughting' tracing paper. This is good quality, heavier tracing paper and will not shed like the grease-proof when rubbed by the brush.

The blotting paper will absorb the paint. It's comparable to watercolor paper.

[Chris Bennett]

Jacob; My 4th line stated you lay a sheet of grease proof paper over this...