Useful painting tips for new guys! (and gals)
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 11:07 am
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.
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.