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I’ve always been guilty of not cleaning my palette, letting the remains of a painting session dry rock hard.
I’ve thrown numerous decent quality palettes away over the years!
I’ve been using disposable tear off palettes for a while now but I’ve just bought a couple of the New Wave ones in grey, a much better toned surface to mix on than white… for reasons we all know, so I’m not going into detail.
To be honest, they aren’t particularly cheap at around £20, give or take, but there are a fair number of sheets inside, and I’ve gone for the bigger size, much more room for mixing.
I’ve bought the oblong one which fits nicely on my art trolley, as you can see in my photo, but I’ve also bought the shaped version with thumb hole, so obviously I can hold that while working standing up if I so wish… or sitting down which I have to do in the main these days due to arthritis and so on…
I thought I’d share this not particularly interesting information with you, as the forum is very quiet at the moment…
Ready for the off: palette all laid out with my standard colour range - stick to the same layout, it makes colour mixing a lot easier. I believe these are similar to the late Ken Howard’s suggestions, but of course you don’t necessarily need all of these colours!
And the shaped palette:
And the shaped palette:
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I have the large rectangle one, but I'm struggling to find somewhere to stand it it on, perhaps Santa will send me a side table. Definitely the extra mixing space is great. I tried the shaped one in the shop but found it too heavy. Now looking for a 9 x 12 that I can use for carrying to our art group.
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Is that a Light Naples Yellow you have there next to the White, Alan. I do need to invest in tear off palettes, especially for my new group in the New Year. Ive had palettes but have let the paint dry as sometimes I might have mixed a colour that I like and want to recall how I arrived at it. Don't laugh, alright, you can laugh but I have a big roll baking paper. I tear a length off, stick it to a board, it has a nice surface for mixing. Obviously I'll want to look a bit more professional going to my group with proper tear off palettes under my arm, rather than carting a big roll of baking paper over my shoulder, can you imagine the looks.
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I’m currently using Michael Harding brand, but I’ve used the DR Georgian 225ml tube also and found it perfectly good, nice consistency and cheaper by far.
I use a lot of it, much prefer it to titanium white in most mixing situations, which is why you’ll notice that I only squeeze out a small amount of the white on my palette…
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I like those tear off palettes but I feel bad using them so now I use a grey glass new wave palette and it doesn't matter if you let the paint dry out because you can just scrape it off with a cooker/glass scraper and a quick wipe with some oil and all good as new (apart from the few scratches that the scraper has made)
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I like those tear off palettes but I feel bad using them so now I use a grey glass new wave palette and it doesn't matter if you let the paint dry out because you can just scrape it off with a cooker/glass scraper and a quick wipe with some oil and all good as new (apart from the few scratches that the scraper has made)
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I have three oil palettes, all with dried paint on them, and a small one without - I do scrape the excess off now and then, and what's left is OK to add paint to, particularly if you normally use the same colours. I've got very lazy about this; but even so, I don't like tear-off palettes much, because all the ones I've seen are too small - i.e. I hadn't encountered the one shown above.. but I don't see myself laying out £20 quid on a palette that's basically card and paper, unless it has features not mentioned.
A possible alternative to Buff/Unbleached Titanium, by the way, is Wallace Seymour's non-toxic Flake White: though while it works well on the brush when you've fought your way through the large quantity of oil in which it has to be bound, it is a form of modified Titanium.
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Hmm… unless it has features not mentioned! Not really, it still doesn’t help you paint any better of course, but I find them convenient, and I’m particularly pleased with the grey toned ones as in my pic, and the larger size.
I’ve stopped worrying about the cost of stuff, if I want it, I’ll buy it. It wasn’t always like that…
Actually, I see that there are 50 sheets in a pad, so that could equate to 50 paintings… I can live with that!
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Like most on here I feel a bit guilty using disposable palettes…but I make use of one sheet usually for the time it takes to complete a painting. I’ve taped down large pieces of glass on to a desk top and it’s great to have a large surface sometimes but space is at a premium. ( I put that freezer tray somewhere safe and can’t find it! No it’s not back in the freezer together with my specs!) . Re Buff Titanium, I’ve used it for years, in oil and acrylic, and it’s good in a mix, one of those neutrals which is subtle and can just tweak a colour rather well.