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I use a stay-wet palette and do all my paint mixing on it .The palette gets full up and I then hsve to mix the colours on my white plastic one. I beieve some people only squeeze out their paints on the s/w palette and do their mixes on a plain palette. How do others use a stay -wet palette. ? .....Syd
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I do put the colours on there, and mix them on the palette itself (it's the large version): it does get full up though - in my case I'm using acrylics on the stay-wet palette rather than watercolour, which I squeeze out onto a plate (at the moment: I WILL get that Liz Deakin palette!). I also find that if I keep the paint on the palette too long, black mould supervenes, making the paint unusable and rotting the sponge....... not a good idea. Better to use the palette often, and clean it all up when you've finished. But that takes self-discipline....