I am so glad that this tip will help many. It has and continues to be very practical to me. I live in an area of South Africa, where our air is very dry. I use about 4 layers of paper towel underneath the ice trays (carlton paper) and keep it WET. I actually mix my paint for my painting on a plastic or styrofoam plate, lifting the relevant colours from the paint in the ice trays. Any acrylic paint that is left over, I place into an empty space in the ice tray. It really does keep moist for months!!

Thanks Marashene. I'm getting really fed up with my stay-wet palette; if I am using it for a while then the paper dries out and crinkles up. Refreshing the absorbent paper can dilute the paint too much and you have to get the crinkly paper to lie flat again, tricky if it is covered in wet paint. The other problem is the lack of a decent air seal so the palette dries out even when closed after a couple of days. I am surprised no-one markets anything better.

Thanks for the tip on the ice cube tray's, i don't use acryilics myself but the art class i attend have people who do, so will pass on the information. P.S. Liked your paintings on the gallery.

HI Marashene...welcome back to the active blogger's...me and acrylics? tubes of every colour and a little dob of the days palette, sufficient for the area...but then I can be a wasteful sort...

Yes Marashene that helps me a lot here in Oz I had made up a wet palette but because like you I mix my colours I didn't save anything...so threw out the baking paper...the ice cube trays sound great I think they can now be bought in Oz in containers for barbecues etc so thank you for the advice