Useful painting tips for new guys! (and gals)

[me_in_japan]

This is a useful list of do's and don't for new painters. Stick with this, and you wont go far wrong.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/articles/5136

btw, personally speaking, Id replace "ceramic pallete" with "wet pallete". Nothing has changed the way I paint more than a wet pallete. Get a metal box (biscuit tin is good), and put an old rag in the bottom of it. Add water to make the rag soggy (more than damp). Put a piece of cooking sheet (that stuff you use when you make cookies) onto the rag. Mix your paint on this. The sheet allows a small amount of water to flow through it and keep the paint wet for as long as you need it. The large area makes it easy to mix intermediate colours, and when your sheet is all covered in painty blobs, chuck it out and get a new one.

[Admiral-Badruck]

Nice little article MIJ I am learned a few things and there are a few things I will just ignore but all and all I learned a lot of good stuff..
Cheers

[Admiral-Badruck]

New bloods this is Why MIJ is as good as he is.. he put in the time to read... Me za gona teik a lesson

[jus]

@MIJ: I can't for the life of me find any grease paper for wet palettes, in this forsaken land. I've been to every supermarket and have tried a few rolls, all of which do not let water through. I want to punch someone.

[Primarch]

I normally dont mix paints so much, but should I ever need to, I'll give that wet palette thing a try.

[me_in_japan]

its not a lot of water that comes through. certainly, its not a visible amount. we're talking microscopic, here. really, theres no way youd be able to tell its working at all, without blobbing some (watered down) paint onto the palette and leaving it for half an hour to see if it dries out or not.

regular baking sheet should work fine. give 'er another whirl

[Admiral-Badruck]

I am still not sure what you mean by wet pallet could you post a picture... of one so I can really wrap my ork brain around it...

[Mike the Pike]

@M_I_J: Don't do it mate. Make the lazy git google 'wet palette' by himself. He doesn't even need to type it in, he can just copy and paste.

[Admiral-Badruck]

you are are mean Pike the Mic...

[me_in_japan]

@pikey: no need - i have no idea where Id find a pic of such a thing, anyway.

@badruck: may i refer you to the detailed description in the first post in this topic.