Wow, wet palettes really work

[Tenorikuma]

Since a lot of good painters online recommend a wet palette, I made one two weeks ago using a little plastic food container, a sponge, and some wax paper, all purchased for a few hundred yen from the drug store next door. I used it to paint some brown on a miniature, then closed the lid. Today, two weeks later, I opened the lid, and the paint is still wet.

[me_in_japan]

Yup. Be careful tho - if you're gonna keep it that long, best put it in the fridge. I left mine alone for too long once and came back to something that not only had stuff growing on it, but said stuff had started climbing the walls and was making a break for freedom...

[Tenorikuma]

Heh, I didn't think of that.

[Colonel Voss]

Yup. Be careful tho - if you're gonna keep it that long, best put it in the fridge. I left mine alone for too long once and came back to something that not only had stuff growing on it, but said stuff had started climbing the walls and was making a break for freedom...

never should've painted orks

[Konrad]

Yup. Be careful tho - if you're gonna keep it that long, best put it in the fridge. I left mine alone for too long once and came back to something that not only had stuff growing on it, but said stuff had started climbing the walls and was making a break for freedom...

never should've painted orks

HA! I just had this image of MIJ's fridge, echoing with a tiny, high-pitched waaaaaaaaahg

And I started experimenting with a wet palette. Just a miniature case from my Enigma Vlad, the foam it came with and some waxed paper. It seems to be working. I've had parts of the palette stay wet for a couple days. But the case hardly ideal. It has a rounded front (now bottom) and while it's re-sealable, I doubt it's tupperware tight. It does help with blending for sure. You don't have to worry about your paint drying on your pallete as you work.

[me_in_japan]

Clam shell blisters work pretty well, I find. Didn't know you had an enigma Vlad. Tall lad, ain't he

[Admiral-Badruck]

I used a WP for a year and I liked it because the paint did not dry out but i really did not help me as much ast oil paints did.

[Tenorikuma]

What oils do you use? How's the drying time?

[Primarch]

I used a WP for a year and I liked it because the paint did not dry out but i really did not help me as much ast oil paints did.

Aren't they completely different things though? I thought the palette was just to keep your paints from drying out, whereas the oils help with certain techniques like weathering?

[Admiral-Badruck]

The oils I have been using are mostly high end fine art oil paints I love the way they blend. There are heaps of great techniques both for texture and blending there is also a lot one can do with layering. And they paint on over acrylics well.

Two things I hate about oils

Dry time can be up to a week. And the colors change once they are dry. They normally become a bit more dull.
There are ways. To cut down the dry time.