Glad to hear about the John Pike thicker plastic palette. I have purchased plastic palettes that look identical, but some become quite brittle and others have remained durable for decades. Thank you for offering this suggestion.
I also love mixing on ceramic, and my solution (taken from one of your videos) was to buy a cheap, flat, white dinner plate that I use for mixing at home, and my White Nights still live in their original plastic palette. When I travel, I make do with the plastic/metal of the original palettes.
I used to use foam dinner plates. These days, I have plastic mixing palettes and regular palettes with mixing wells. Dinner plate would drive me nuts- I need to compartments.
I found a cheap pallet that works really great. The ceramic egg holder at world market $7. I put mini felt pads under to slide easily. They stack too and are very white. It holds 12 colors and watercolors mix really nice.
I have a ceramic color wheel palette from Amazon for 30 bucks. Great, has 30 large wells and huge mixing area. Very heavy. It is permanent on my painting table. I also use an old derwent drawing box for travel. I put a sheet magnet in it and housing my plastic paint jars which also have magnetic tape in the bottom. I only take paints with me what I need. Love it.
I love the Pike palette! I have bought loads of different types of palette over the last few years but the Pike one is the most comfortable for me and the one I reach for the most.
I love catching up with you and your older videos! I am looking for M.Graham paint info. I just stumbled on this video and I have just purchased a new porcelain square palette with 30 wells. I dropped my last one 20 or so years ago. I found this one on sale! I have been using porcelain plates and serving platters as well as butcher trays. I did get the 40 well plastic palette from Cheap Joes but it is just not good! See ya next video.
I put a white ceramic wall tile in an empty pencil tin. Keeps the dust off and give the great mixing surface. Depending on the pencil tin size I either put the paint in pans in the tin, or on the edges of the tile. Blu tak keeps it all in place. Also have the empty Derwent two level tin and keep the tubes in the bottom of the tin with the mixing tile in the top level.
An year ago when i started getting serious about Watercolors, i brought a small foldable plastic pallet with 28 wells. I was always getting frustrated with small mixing area. I was gonna splurge on a good metal pallet, but then decided to use a piece of tile i had lying around. Now I'm like addicted to that😂. It's huge, paint pools on it, and it's dream to work with. I just put out the halfpant which i need on that tile and it works amazing. 😁
i saw this comment and immediately start mixing color on my bedroom floor, cause it was made of tiles, and it worked, now how do I took these off my floor.. 😅
thank you so much! I'm planning on getting a studio palette, but my desk space is soo small, so I don't really benefit from larger palettes, so I think I will get a ceramic Meeden palette that kinda have the same layout as the john pike, but it's waay smaller, like 8 by 5.5 inches. I'm excited!
that cracked one can be taped with colored tape or just duct tape to regain the seal. Mine is "like new" in function but it's a 2 man job... thank you for sharing. I never thought about the deviled egg plate = and its got a handled lid on it! I saw one at the thrift (SA) store recently as well. Yay. Be well. Bye now
Happiness is a well-worn watercolor palette. Much like Willie Nelson's guitar, your palette is a piece of art in itself. I have been using a Holtz alcohol mixing "palette," just a bunch of tiny circular wells, plus some old Correlle saucers, and am trying to decide what to get as a real palette, so this is perfect timing. Thank you! I probably should bite the bullet and get a Pike Palette, just so I'll have a nice place to store my paints. I was really picturing it as smaller than that, don't know if I have room for such a beast, and that's the small well palette? The big well one must have huge wells. I watched a video from Cheap Joe's and an interesting tip for newbies like me with plastic palettes is if the paint beads up in the mixing areas, buff them lightly with some fine sandpaper before using, to make micro scratches that prevent the beading. Of course yours is probably worn down to perfection just from use. Musings, musings. Thanks again for the help. Now we want a list of your paint colors!
You can use toothpaste to buff the smooth surface on a new plastic palette to prevent your paint from beading. Another option would be Barkeepers Friend cleanser.
A friend gave me an old John Pike palette I love it. And because I'm "frugal" i also use an old porcelain dinner plate that I like. It takes up less space on my table and the color doesn't bead up. :-)
Very cool to see how they have endured over the years. I use a clay tile from home depot for my mixing palette. I have them in a variety of sizes and it's so easy and portable to use.
I have held off on getting a large palette like this, simply for space. However, the more I work with various palettes and seeing you work with them in many of your videos, I realize that this is a very practical solution. I use a lot of plastic storage containers in my craft studio and one thing I have learned is to use Gorilla Tape on vulnerable areas before I even put them to work. A strip of the tape to wrap around corners on areas that are at the most risk of cracking...or that have actually cracked in shipping, works wonders. I've avoided returning items with this simple repair that keeps the item sturdy. The first thing I'll do is to cut strips of white Gorilla Tape for each side come up from the lip to over the curved edge...then cut down a small strip that will wrap the corners on the covers external side. If the bottom of the palette itself is flat, you can run some strips of GT underneath to support the plastic and keep it from bending and cracking. I just picked up a couple of the Stabilo Woody crayons in the 18 set to be used in a Tiny Home community center as part of an Art Therapy project. I used the GT around the corners on that flimsy insert and also under the bottom to prevent the tray from pulling apart as those little hands pull it in and out of the reinforced box. I should own stock in the Gorilla company. I've salvaged so many things with it. I decided to get this large palette...the Jones 32 well is because I picked up the set of 30 QoR watercolors and wanted a permanent palette to set them up. I've been debating on doing it with my M Graham colors too, but will try with the Golden paints first. I'm so glad that I can search your channel to find answers about any watercolor subject/supply I need to know more about. Thanks :)
@@thefrugalcrafter It also comes in a smaller roll that has a cloth feel to it and a really nice army green camouflage pattern. I keep the black and white on hand all the time.
Thank you Lynsay 🧡🧡🧡🧡 havent bought a plastic pallete yet, butbi was eyeing up the " lazy susan" type spinning ones as i paint at home. I was wondering why they dont use same plastic as PVC windows.? I remember decades ago, the window pvc would go yellow in the sun, but over the years , they are using better pvc , ones that dont yellow. Dyou think its possible for palletes. ? When i taught art at school and college, i had a job to keep their palletes white ....in the end i used cheap white kichen plates or ceramic tiles for various paints. Much easier to handle, or clean and stayed sparkling white .
New here, subbed, liked and commented 😊 I just recently got back into my art 🎨. I painted mainly in acrylic but decided to try out watercolour pencils and wow.. I love it. And finding channels like yours really inspires me alot, ty so much 😊 Peace and paint 🖌️ 🙏 ❤️ 🙏 🖌️
Thanks for the info! I had a small rectangle palette with 2 mixing areas, and one side for colors that was plastic. I used that all the time for many years. It finally died and got thrown out. Oh well, c' est la vie!
I am on my second Jack Richeson, has a divided well inside and four big wells in the lid. It's a mid-range priced plastic pallette. The first one would still be ok, but a stray board fell on it during a remodel. I bought a spare just in case. I tried two others before that. I like big puddles to draw paint from. Yay! Love your stuff!
Let's talk about your marker addiction!!! Lol if after 20 years your only complaints are discoloring and chipping in places I would say that's a very good product.
I have a Pike palett which I can thoroughly recommend - pricey but excellent. My favourite ceramic is the Quiller Palett - VERY expensive but really very good.
I am not a serious watercolor artist at all so I only have my watercolor in pans to begin with but I did pick up a ceramic tray at goodwill a while back and enjoy having the space... in the same trip I found an old plastic palette that I use for gouache... I did just purchase one of those flower palettes BUT I also had two ceramic dipping containers that I enjoy using as well.
Lindsay, if you want that palette to hold together until the paint is gone, you could always get some mactac and cover the lid with it. We used to be able to get it in so many wonderful colours but all I see now is clear or white. I guess clear wouldn't be too bad if you wanted to paint the lid first, then cover it. Just an idea. I love your videos and very seldom miss one. Take care! :-)
A while back I suggested you try lighter fluid to clean plastic palettes....Well, I found something that works better and is nicer to use! Toothpaste! It has to be the white pasty kind and only use a little, dilute with water and press gently so you don't over scratch the surface. PS - I have the same egg dish!!
I have some the exact same yellow...LOL! without the lids, tho, and they are a pain to store.Spent a fortune on a butcher tray years ago, couldnt get happy with it. Down-sized to metal ones, limited palettes. Love the ceramic ones. But they never have enuf spaces. I dedicated a big white dinner plate for acrylics, ... Thanks, Lindsay, for being a bright spot 😇
Oh your timing is PERFECT. those double sided plastic paletts I use for my arteza gouache, I use it on one side only though,because gouache will dropout otherwise. though for mixing I use both sides. The reason Im in doubt of a poreclain studio palette,like the Jackson's one, is bc A I would love to have a decent mixing surface; and somehow my palets start to look like it is pilling? I dont know what that is,bc I clean them properly,but those fuzzies get in my paint etc. Wich is annoying. So I am now doubting if I should invest in a bigger palette,for more conveniant cleaning and overal cleaner mixes. I dont have this issue with my metal tins, it is the plastics that give me the pilling grout.
A hot glue gun will work on a cracked palette and also as a divider. Just make sure to place the hot glue on the outside of your lid. I had to glue a few corner paint wells back in place and the hot glue has worked remarkably well.
Thanks Lindsay. I wish I had room for a big studio pallet. But if I put one on my desk along with water and brushes I would have no room to paint. Lol. Those folding plastic pallets are great , stack well, are light, easy to get into the wells with up to a 3/4 inch flat. I found them on amazon for $3.00 a piece a while back unbranded. Are you getting snow? It's snowing here on lake Erie. Had to quickly cover the lettuces and beans. Ugh.👍😁💜💜
I’ve watched you off and on for a while, I didn’t know that you were a fellow “maneiac”! I was born and raised in Bangor. It’s always fun to hear about home in a random way.
I use a tin pencil box.. and my paint(old Holland) is in old chewing gum packaging..stuck to the tin with a magnet.. it works fine and easy to travel with. I have a small ceramic dish with 4 well but I use more than one color for each well.. (came in use before I learned the color wheel so it not very handy).. I should look into a better palet.
I mean, I hope to use my palettes enough to one day have your problems. My palettes are all pretty white plastic still. An old palette I bought used is yellowed and rough but I bought it for the tubes, not the palette (side note, Grumbacher academy white doesn’t rewet well, that’s annoying).
I have a small white one I stole from my kids, use the clear on that is the cover for my watercolors and also plastic cups for when I paint with coffee or other materials that stain, so far never tried anything else other than plastic wrap on top of a plate or so....🤷🏻♀️
I was just thinking about a plastic pallet yesterday. I'm not crazy about the way puddles form or don't form to be more specific. I was wondering about how brittle they'd be. So your video is timely. I figured that the cheaper they are the thinner the plastic. I have to chuckle when I hear you talk about places in Maine. They are familiar to me even though I've never been there. When I started dating my ex-husband he was working with a group of guys from Maine. They were wild and crazy but not afraid to work hard. They were great guys and were anxious for the opportunity to get work outside of Maine. Masardis, Portland, Presque Isle are just a few of the towns they represented. I have to say you don't have the accent that most of them do. lol
I have several ceramic ones that size - with about 24 wells - from Jackson’s, with a plastic cover that has mixing wells in it too. About £30 so about US$40 I think. I much prefer them to the £10 plastic ones I used to use.
I don't do really big paintings, but when I want more space, I use a plate I bought in a cheaper home goods store. Works great. For larger quantities, I bought in the same place some small 'cups', I think they were made for sauces or something. It works wonderfully and they last a lot longer and they're cheap. In my country, anything art related is expensive, so this option worked for me.
I have a couple of the Mijello "Bulletproof" glass palettes. Why they call them glass, I'm not sure, because they are plastic. The bigger ones have about 50 wells, and the smaller maybe 35. The paint beads up on the mixing area until it gets a bit scratched up. I don't like that they don't stack well because they aren't completely flat. The outsides are dark blue, so they won't discolor with light exposure.
Hi! I have the big porcelain palette from Cheap Joe's, got it on a crazy sale for $25! And I love it, but it's SO big, and "only" 30 wells (LOL!) So I'm currently using it mostly as a mixing area while I decide what to formally/permanently put in it! How do you decide what to put in it? How do you decide what to put where? I understand keeping all the yellows together, etc, but if I do the loop the way I normally do my other types, then I'm basically putting my deepest darks right next to my lightest/brightest yellows, and that defeats the purpose. I've been trying to decide if I should try to incorporate the browns into the spectrum of oranges, with deep greens like Perylene between the blue and yellow, would neutral tint go in with the browns? Payne's gray basically becomes a purple I suppose? Hmm. When I have made the creative mess large enough, there's not enough room for the big porcelain palette, and that's when I bring out the smaller ones that don't open up to one big thing that is the same size as the porcelain. I have several hobbies that all share the same space, and I don't have room to set myself up with permanent stations for each thing. I wish I could, believe you me. Anyway, in that case, I like the tins that look like your cell phone would fit in them (FClub sells them with pans included on Amazon, they will hold 40 half pans or 22(?) full pans in a really small case!), plus a separate porcelain/china plate of some variety. I really like the little Meeden plates that are sort of square but have raised dividers in the design that split it up into about 6 wells. They're the same footprint as my small square Arteza sketchbook, maybe 6"? For drier/flat mixes, I've put a scrap of white flexible cutting mat inside the lid of the tin. It's stuck in there with poster putty/blue tack in case I need to pull it out to clean it. And I like the newer plastic palettes with the sloping wells in them, I've got one that has a mixing area in the middle on one side with the wells around it, and the other is just mixing area, and the other one I have has 33 sloping wells all arranged like flat stadium seating with the open mixing area on the other side. I tend to rotate the paint through those, I'll set one up for a class or series and swap things in and out as needed. I have these small ziplock baggies that were meant for jewelry or beads or something, they're about the size of a business card, and if I want to pull paint out of one of those wells, I just pop it out (the well half of the tray pops out of the palette too, making this easier) and then it goes into one of those baggies and I label it and stash it in a drawer with all of it's friends until I need it again. I just have to remember to avoid putting Sennelier paint in them, they make a HUGE mess in this style of palette, much worse than other honey-based paints like M. Graham and DaVinci. And I don't mind the smaller folding palettes, but I won't buy one with wells on both halves, because I will screw it up some day. I just will, and I'll ruin/waste a bunch of paint, and then I'll be mad at myself. So I really like the ones at Jerry's, by Creative Mark. The plastic is very well made, wells only on one side, and the thumb hole is in the middle so lefties can use it comfortably too! It's nice, and only $6.
@@thefrugalcrafter OMG. I have suddenly developed a bad case of "Wall of text" syndrome lately. The writing is literally on the wall I guess. I clearly need to get out of the house!
Here is my plastic palette problem: Is there a way to make the paint on the plastic mixing area not shrink and puddle? Thanks for all of your good advice!
Thank you for this important PSA, I had to pause this video and run to my studio to take my plastic palette out of the sun and stuff it into a shaded spot. X.x
I have a folding plastic palette for my grumbacher tubes, I keep my cotman and prima pans in the prima tropical tin I have and for my winsor and newton I keep those in a large 33 well Masters Touch palette I bought at Hobby Lobby
Thank you for this. You mentioned the enamel pallets in the beginning but didn’t address your thoughts on them. I bought a butcher tray to mix colors just curious what your thoughts are on using these to mix.
I love to use the mixing areas of my Schmincke and W&N Cotman 12 color box. Both boxes are roughly 40 years old, OK, a couple of pans / halfpans have been replaced. I agree, twenty years of use is quite a stretch. BTW, is that your furnace in the background? Is it that cold in Maine? It's going to get cold where I live on this planet on this weekend. There is even a prediction of snowfall for Monday. However, I'm sure the snow is only going drop from the clouds, it's not going to stay. Stay safe and well. Greetings from Germany.
Great advice, I recently got a palette, I think it’ll work ok (I guess I’ve had it about a year, but haven’t used it yet, however I think it has the wells in both sides and it folds, so now not sure I’ll like it 😂🤪 Thanks Lindsay! Hugs~Chelle
Came also to check your channel in case you had the opening of the May, smart art box...i live in Canada and always get it later...just anxious to know what s inside and your interpretation tof your samples on the art items
Thankyou for the info on pallets Lindsay, this is nothing to do with them, but do you do or know anyone who’s done videos on neo colour wax crayons , the non water soluble ones and also the neo colour two water soluble ones. I can’t seem to find any on these and have both. Although I know a little bit about how to use them, I could do with a little bit more knowledge on them to get the most from them. Hope you don’t mind me asking. Take care and stay safe xx
Have you tried the spinning circle palletes Lynsay? And is there a reason you have so many palletes? Do you have a range if different watercolour paints ? .......just a note to those who cant afford palletes....use a kitchen plate ....obviously white if possible. 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
It's less about the type of plastic and how the plastic is processed. The thinner one is likely vacuum formed, and the thicker tend to be molded, which allows for thicker walls and better durability. Most manufactures use the same plastics for all their products.
What do you think of the butcher trays? Another YT artist uses nothing but that (with liquid paints). Looks like a pretty big mixing area. Curious as to your thoughts. Thanks for the informative video!
Hi fellow artist. I’ve worked on enamel I found it’s ok for studio work but ceramic and china are better in my opinion They allow the paint to glide more freely. The enamel pans Need to be broken in.
the cracking is what bugs me about plastic palettes, but duct tape works if you can put it on the bottom or resin but that is too much work sometimes to fix a cheap palette :p
Congrats for keeping your palette for so long! What a lovely thought that it has been around for over 20 years! If you want to fix the cracks of the cover of your plastic palette, rather than throw the cover away, check out white Sugru mouldable glue (www.sugru.com) to fix it. You can knead it and fill the cracks (it has the texture of a kneadable eraser). It sets by turning into a durable, waterproof and flexible rubber. It will fix the cracks and give your cover some stability while remaining flexible. #notsponsored - I just use Sugru to fix lots of stuff instead of buying new stuff or throwing them away. Thanks for sharing!
If that pallette lasted 20 years and you're still using it, it must not be too bad. I would never want anything like that because it is ridiculously Huge! I've honestly never even seen anything like it before lol.
It’s funny, I use a smaller John Pike pallet to hold beading projects. It was a pain trying to switch it back and forth, so I bought several more for that and other storage. In my opinion, we should buy stock in that company❣️🙏🏼
I have always liked your videos and also gave this one a thumb's up, you are one of my favorites, but disappointed to see 4 ads in a less than 12 min. video. Not sure why there would be this many.
I know this is not your first video of you talking face to face but its still so nice seeing you :) Thank you for these cool videos!
Glad to hear about the John Pike thicker plastic palette. I have purchased plastic palettes that look identical, but some become quite brittle and others have remained durable for decades. Thank you for offering this suggestion.
I also love mixing on ceramic, and my solution (taken from one of your videos) was to buy a cheap, flat, white dinner plate that I use for mixing at home, and my White Nights still live in their original plastic palette. When I travel, I make do with the plastic/metal of the original palettes.
I used to use foam dinner plates. These days, I have plastic mixing palettes and regular palettes with mixing wells. Dinner plate would drive me nuts- I need to compartments.
I found a cheap pallet that works really great. The ceramic egg holder at world market $7. I put mini felt pads under to slide easily. They stack too and are very white. It holds 12 colors and watercolors mix really nice.
I have a ceramic color wheel palette from Amazon for 30 bucks. Great, has 30 large wells and huge mixing area. Very heavy. It is permanent on my painting table.
I also use an old derwent drawing box for travel.
I put a sheet magnet in it and housing my plastic paint jars which also have magnetic tape in the bottom. I only take paints with me what I need.
Love it.
I love the Pike palette! I have bought loads of different types of palette over the last few years but the Pike one is the most comfortable for me and the one I reach for the most.
Thanks Lindsay. Your painting experience helps us in many areas! Have a Happy Mother’s Day!🤗
Ahhhhh. Penobscot Paints... remember that store well. Hoping you are enjoying the early Maine Spring !!
I like the idea of using a deviled egg plate for a pallet. Neat!
I love catching up with you and your older videos! I am looking for M.Graham paint info. I just stumbled on this video and I have just purchased a new porcelain square palette with 30 wells. I dropped my last one 20 or so years ago. I found this one on sale! I have been using porcelain plates and serving platters as well as butcher trays. I did get the 40 well plastic palette from Cheap Joes but it is just not good! See ya next video.
I put a white ceramic wall tile in an empty pencil tin. Keeps the dust off and give the great mixing surface. Depending on the pencil tin size I either put the paint in pans in the tin, or on the edges of the tile. Blu tak keeps it all in place. Also have the empty Derwent two level tin and keep the tubes in the bottom of the tin with the mixing tile in the top level.
Wow! I love that Idea!
An year ago when i started getting serious about Watercolors, i brought a small foldable plastic pallet with 28 wells. I was always getting frustrated with small mixing area. I was gonna splurge on a good metal pallet, but then decided to use a piece of tile i had lying around. Now I'm like addicted to that😂. It's huge, paint pools on it, and it's dream to work with. I just put out the halfpant which i need on that tile and it works amazing. 😁
I use a tile as well, when I wanted some dedicated "Wells" I just lined them out with silicone.
I'm going to have to try that, what a clever idea!
i saw this comment and immediately start mixing color on my bedroom floor, cause it was made of tiles, and it worked, now how do I took these off my floor.. 😅
Lindsey I use a deviled egg tray for my pallet, and it has a top to cover when not in use.
Those work great! I have several that I purchased from the Dollar Store.
Really good ideas. i really liked looking at your plastic palettes thanks.
thank you so much! I'm planning on getting a studio palette, but my desk space is soo small, so I don't really benefit from larger palettes, so I think I will get a ceramic Meeden palette that kinda have the same layout as the john pike, but it's waay smaller, like 8 by 5.5 inches. I'm excited!
Love that leaf plate! One other point is colors and mixing on ceramic really lets you see the color better.
that cracked one can be taped with colored tape or just duct tape to regain the seal. Mine is "like new" in function but it's a 2 man job... thank you for sharing. I never thought about the deviled egg plate = and its got a handled lid on it! I saw one at the thrift (SA) store recently as well. Yay. Be well. Bye now
Happiness is a well-worn watercolor palette. Much like Willie Nelson's guitar, your palette is a piece of art in itself. I have been using a Holtz alcohol mixing "palette," just a bunch of tiny circular wells, plus some old Correlle saucers, and am trying to decide what to get as a real palette, so this is perfect timing. Thank you! I probably should bite the bullet and get a Pike Palette, just so I'll have a nice place to store my paints. I was really picturing it as smaller than that, don't know if I have room for such a beast, and that's the small well palette? The big well one must have huge wells. I watched a video from Cheap Joe's and an interesting tip for newbies like me with plastic palettes is if the paint beads up in the mixing areas, buff them lightly with some fine sandpaper before using, to make micro scratches that prevent the beading. Of course yours is probably worn down to perfection just from use. Musings, musings. Thanks again for the help. Now we want a list of your paint colors!
You can use toothpaste to buff the smooth surface on a new plastic palette to prevent your paint from beading. Another option would be Barkeepers Friend cleanser.
I bought the John Pike Palette
I like the idea of mixing my watercolor on ceramic instead of the plastic palette
A friend gave me an old John Pike palette I love it. And because I'm "frugal" i also use an old porcelain dinner plate that I like. It takes up less space on my table and the color doesn't bead up. :-)
Very cool to see how they have endured over the years. I use a clay tile from home depot for my mixing palette. I have them in a variety of sizes and it's so easy and portable to use.
I have held off on getting a large palette like this, simply for space. However, the more I work with various palettes and seeing you work with them in many of your videos, I realize that this is a very practical solution. I use a lot of plastic storage containers in my craft studio and one thing I have learned is to use Gorilla Tape on vulnerable areas before I even put them to work. A strip of the tape to wrap around corners on areas that are at the most risk of cracking...or that have actually cracked in shipping, works wonders. I've avoided returning items with this simple repair that keeps the item sturdy. The first thing I'll do is to cut strips of white Gorilla Tape for each side come up from the lip to over the curved edge...then cut down a small strip that will wrap the corners on the covers external side. If the bottom of the palette itself is flat, you can run some strips of GT underneath to support the plastic and keep it from bending and cracking. I just picked up a couple of the Stabilo Woody crayons in the 18 set to be used in a Tiny Home community center as part of an Art Therapy project. I used the GT around the corners on that flimsy insert and also under the bottom to prevent the tray from pulling apart as those little hands pull it in and out of the reinforced box. I should own stock in the Gorilla company. I've salvaged so many things with it. I decided to get this large palette...the Jones 32 well is because I picked up the set of 30 QoR watercolors and wanted a permanent palette to set them up. I've been debating on doing it with my M Graham colors too, but will try with the Golden paints first. I'm so glad that I can search your channel to find answers about any watercolor subject/supply I need to know more about. Thanks :)
I didn't know GT came on white!
@@thefrugalcrafter It also comes in a smaller roll that has a cloth feel to it and a really nice army green camouflage pattern. I keep the black and white on hand all the time.
Thank you Lynsay 🧡🧡🧡🧡 havent bought a plastic pallete yet, butbi was eyeing up the " lazy susan" type spinning ones as i paint at home. I was wondering why they dont use same plastic as PVC windows.?
I remember decades ago, the window pvc would go yellow in the sun, but over the years , they are using better pvc , ones that dont yellow.
Dyou think its possible for palletes. ?
When i taught art at school and college, i had a job to keep their palletes white ....in the end i used cheap white kichen plates or ceramic tiles for various paints. Much easier to handle, or clean and stayed sparkling white .
New here, subbed, liked and commented 😊
I just recently got back into my art 🎨. I painted mainly in acrylic but decided to try out watercolour pencils and wow.. I love it. And finding channels like yours really inspires me alot, ty so much 😊
Peace and paint
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Thanks for the info! I had a small rectangle palette with 2 mixing areas, and one side for colors that was plastic. I used that all the time for many years. It finally died and got thrown out. Oh well, c' est la vie!
I am on my second Jack Richeson, has a divided well inside and four big wells in the lid. It's a mid-range priced plastic pallette. The first one would still be ok, but a stray board fell on it during a remodel. I bought a spare just in case. I tried two others before that. I like big puddles to draw paint from. Yay! Love your stuff!
Let's talk about your marker addiction!!! Lol if after 20 years your only complaints are discoloring and chipping in places I would say that's a very good product.
I have a Pike palett which I can thoroughly recommend - pricey but excellent. My favourite ceramic is the Quiller Palett - VERY expensive but really very good.
I like the looks of that palette!
I am not a serious watercolor artist at all so I only have my watercolor in pans to begin with but I did pick up a ceramic tray at goodwill a while back and enjoy having the space... in the same trip I found an old plastic palette that I use for gouache... I did just purchase one of those flower palettes BUT I also had two ceramic dipping containers that I enjoy using as well.
Lindsay, if you want that palette to hold together until the paint is gone, you could always get some mactac and cover the lid with it. We used to be able to get it in so many wonderful colours but all I see now is clear or white. I guess clear wouldn't be too bad if you wanted to paint the lid first, then cover it. Just an idea. I love your videos and very seldom miss one. Take care! :-)
A while back I suggested you try lighter fluid to clean plastic palettes....Well, I found something that works better and is nicer to use! Toothpaste! It has to be the white pasty kind and only use a little, dilute with water and press gently so you don't over scratch the surface.
PS - I have the same egg dish!!
Yes! The grit from the toothpaste is very fine. I've been using a Eraser Magic (I think that's what it's called) I cut it into smaller pieces.
Oh, a good idea. I already use cheap whitening toothpaste on,my white inside, ceramic coffee cups.
I have some the exact same yellow...LOL! without the lids, tho, and they are a pain to store.Spent a fortune on a butcher tray years ago, couldnt get happy with it.
Down-sized to metal ones, limited palettes. Love the ceramic ones. But they never have enuf spaces.
I dedicated a big white dinner plate for acrylics, ...
Thanks, Lindsay, for being a bright spot 😇
Tfs, Lindsay! Be well!
Oh your timing is PERFECT. those double sided plastic paletts I use for my arteza gouache, I use it on one side only though,because gouache will dropout otherwise. though for mixing I use both sides. The reason Im in doubt of a poreclain studio palette,like the Jackson's one, is bc A I would love to have a decent mixing surface; and somehow my palets start to look like it is pilling? I dont know what that is,bc I clean them properly,but those fuzzies get in my paint etc. Wich is annoying. So I am now doubting if I should invest in a bigger palette,for more conveniant cleaning and overal cleaner mixes. I dont have this issue with my metal tins, it is the plastics that give me the pilling grout.
A hot glue gun will work on a cracked palette and also as a divider. Just make sure to place the hot glue on the outside of your lid. I had to glue a few corner paint wells back in place and the hot glue has worked remarkably well.
Thanks Lindsay. I wish I had room for a big studio pallet. But if I put one on my desk along with water and brushes I would have no room to paint. Lol. Those folding plastic pallets are great , stack well, are light, easy to get into the wells with up to a 3/4 inch flat. I found them on amazon for $3.00 a piece a while back unbranded. Are you getting snow? It's snowing here on lake Erie. Had to quickly cover the lettuces and beans. Ugh.👍😁💜💜
I’ve watched you off and on for a while, I didn’t know that you were a fellow “maneiac”! I was born and raised in Bangor. It’s always fun to hear about home in a random way.
Howdy neighbor!
I use a tin pencil box.. and my paint(old Holland) is in old chewing gum packaging..stuck to the tin with a magnet.. it works fine and easy to travel with. I have a small ceramic dish with 4 well but I use more than one color for each well.. (came in use before I learned the color wheel so it not very handy).. I should look into a better palet.
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
(Simonide)
Love it,always the best in watercolors,thanks lindsay for sharing.👍👍👍👍
I mean, I hope to use my palettes enough to one day have your problems. My palettes are all pretty white plastic still. An old palette I bought used is yellowed and rough but I bought it for the tubes, not the palette (side note, Grumbacher academy white doesn’t rewet well, that’s annoying).
Thanks, this was great!
I have a small white one I stole from my kids, use the clear on that is the cover for my watercolors and also plastic cups for when I paint with coffee or other materials that stain, so far never tried anything else other than plastic wrap on top of a plate or so....🤷🏻♀️
Thanks for this interessting video 🌻
I was just thinking about a plastic pallet yesterday. I'm not crazy about the way puddles form or don't form to be more specific. I was wondering about how brittle they'd be. So your video is timely. I figured that the cheaper they are the thinner the plastic.
I have to chuckle when I hear you talk about places in Maine. They are familiar to me even though I've never been there. When I started dating my ex-husband he was working with a group of guys from Maine. They were wild and crazy but not afraid to work hard. They were great guys and were anxious for the opportunity to get work outside of Maine. Masardis, Portland, Presque Isle are just a few of the towns they represented. I have to say you don't have the accent that most of them do. lol
This was super helpful! Thank you!!
Great idea with using thrift store plates, I'd never thought of that 👍🏻
I have several ceramic ones that size - with about 24 wells - from Jackson’s, with a plastic cover that has mixing wells in it too. About £30 so about US$40 I think. I much prefer them to the £10 plastic ones I used to use.
Oh my! It's nice to see you are still on UA-cam!
@@chiarac358 Agreed!
I don't do really big paintings, but when I want more space, I use a plate I bought in a cheaper home goods store. Works great. For larger quantities, I bought in the same place some small 'cups', I think they were made for sauces or something. It works wonderfully and they last a lot longer and they're cheap. In my country, anything art related is expensive, so this option worked for me.
That's a great idea!
Thanks for video and + on magic eraser if you use pthalo colors (which “stain” plastic)
I have a couple of the Mijello "Bulletproof" glass palettes. Why they call them glass, I'm not sure, because they are plastic. The bigger ones have about 50 wells, and the smaller maybe 35. The paint beads up on the mixing area until it gets a bit scratched up. I don't like that they don't stack well because they aren't completely flat. The outsides are dark blue, so they won't discolor with light exposure.
Hi! I have the big porcelain palette from Cheap Joe's, got it on a crazy sale for $25! And I love it, but it's SO big, and "only" 30 wells (LOL!) So I'm currently using it mostly as a mixing area while I decide what to formally/permanently put in it! How do you decide what to put in it? How do you decide what to put where? I understand keeping all the yellows together, etc, but if I do the loop the way I normally do my other types, then I'm basically putting my deepest darks right next to my lightest/brightest yellows, and that defeats the purpose. I've been trying to decide if I should try to incorporate the browns into the spectrum of oranges, with deep greens like Perylene between the blue and yellow, would neutral tint go in with the browns? Payne's gray basically becomes a purple I suppose? Hmm.
When I have made the creative mess large enough, there's not enough room for the big porcelain palette, and that's when I bring out the smaller ones that don't open up to one big thing that is the same size as the porcelain. I have several hobbies that all share the same space, and I don't have room to set myself up with permanent stations for each thing. I wish I could, believe you me. Anyway, in that case, I like the tins that look like your cell phone would fit in them (FClub sells them with pans included on Amazon, they will hold 40 half pans or 22(?) full pans in a really small case!), plus a separate porcelain/china plate of some variety. I really like the little Meeden plates that are sort of square but have raised dividers in the design that split it up into about 6 wells. They're the same footprint as my small square Arteza sketchbook, maybe 6"? For drier/flat mixes, I've put a scrap of white flexible cutting mat inside the lid of the tin. It's stuck in there with poster putty/blue tack in case I need to pull it out to clean it.
And I like the newer plastic palettes with the sloping wells in them, I've got one that has a mixing area in the middle on one side with the wells around it, and the other is just mixing area, and the other one I have has 33 sloping wells all arranged like flat stadium seating with the open mixing area on the other side. I tend to rotate the paint through those, I'll set one up for a class or series and swap things in and out as needed. I have these small ziplock baggies that were meant for jewelry or beads or something, they're about the size of a business card, and if I want to pull paint out of one of those wells, I just pop it out (the well half of the tray pops out of the palette too, making this easier) and then it goes into one of those baggies and I label it and stash it in a drawer with all of it's friends until I need it again. I just have to remember to avoid putting Sennelier paint in them, they make a HUGE mess in this style of palette, much worse than other honey-based paints like M. Graham and DaVinci.
And I don't mind the smaller folding palettes, but I won't buy one with wells on both halves, because I will screw it up some day. I just will, and I'll ruin/waste a bunch of paint, and then I'll be mad at myself. So I really like the ones at Jerry's, by Creative Mark. The plastic is very well made, wells only on one side, and the thumb hole is in the middle so lefties can use it comfortably too! It's nice, and only $6.
Wow, that's quite a lot of info. I did a video on how I set up my m Graham palette that might help you as the wells go all the way around.
@@thefrugalcrafter OMG. I have suddenly developed a bad case of "Wall of text" syndrome lately. The writing is literally on the wall I guess. I clearly need to get out of the house!
Here is my plastic palette problem: Is there a way to make the paint on the plastic mixing area not shrink and puddle? Thanks for all of your good advice!
Oh I ᒪOᐯᗴ that big leaf ceramic plate, and Dollarama is the best dollar store here in Canada:)🌿
It's pretty nice!
@@thefrugalcrafter I'm on the hunt now😆
Twenty years is a pretty good lifespan for a palette!
Thank you for this important PSA, I had to pause this video and run to my studio to take my plastic palette out of the sun and stuff it into a shaded spot. X.x
I you have a gel cleaner with peroxide in it, if you cover the lid with that and leave it in the sun, it will be as good as new.
Thanks for the tip!
I have a folding plastic palette for my grumbacher tubes, I keep my cotman and prima pans in the prima tropical tin I have and for my winsor and newton I keep those in a large 33 well Masters Touch palette I bought at Hobby Lobby
Thank you for this. You mentioned the enamel pallets in the beginning but didn’t address your thoughts on them. I bought a butcher tray to mix colors just curious what your thoughts are on using these to mix.
they are fine, I like to have wells myself but that is just a preference. They are lighter than ceramic but the same performance.
I love to use the mixing areas of my Schmincke and W&N Cotman 12 color box. Both boxes are roughly 40 years old, OK, a couple of pans / halfpans have been replaced.
I agree, twenty years of use is quite a stretch.
BTW, is that your furnace in the background? Is it that cold in Maine? It's going to get cold where I live on this planet on this weekend. There is even a prediction of snowfall for Monday. However, I'm sure the snow is only going drop from the clouds, it's not going to stay.
Stay safe and well. Greetings from Germany.
So helpful thank you 😊
Woahh! All those markers displayed! - Suddenly I only have a few it would seem! :-D
Great advice, I recently got a palette, I think it’ll work ok (I guess I’ve had it about a year, but haven’t used it yet, however I think it has the wells in both sides and it folds, so now not sure I’ll like it 😂🤪 Thanks Lindsay! Hugs~Chelle
Came also to check your channel in case you had the opening of the May, smart art box...i live in Canada and always get it later...just anxious to know what s inside and your interpretation tof your samples on the art items
I think I would be starting to crack and get brittle after 0 years too! 🤣🤣
Good advice! Thanks!!
Thankyou for the info on pallets Lindsay, this is nothing to do with them, but do you do or know anyone who’s done videos on neo colour wax crayons , the non water soluble ones and also the neo colour two water soluble ones. I can’t seem to find any on these and have both. Although I know a little bit about how to use them, I could do with a little bit more knowledge on them to get the most from them. Hope you don’t mind me asking. Take care and stay safe xx
not that I know of
@@thefrugalcrafter ok, thankyou any way x
Meeden has affordable dupes for the John pike and Tom lynch style porcelain palettes
Have you tried the spinning circle palletes Lynsay? And is there a reason you have so many palletes? Do you have a range if different watercolour paints ? .......just a note to those who cant afford palletes....use a kitchen plate ....obviously white if possible. 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
I haven't, I like my palette stationary to get my bearings quickly. I have too many palettes, I have a palette problem lol!
Lol 🧡🧡🧡🧡😄
It's less about the type of plastic and how the plastic is processed. The thinner one is likely vacuum formed, and the thicker tend to be molded, which allows for thicker walls and better durability. Most manufactures use the same plastics for all their products.
What do you think of the butcher trays? Another YT artist uses nothing but that (with liquid paints). Looks like a pretty big mixing area. Curious as to your thoughts. Thanks for the informative video!
Hi fellow artist. I’ve worked on enamel I found it’s ok for studio work but ceramic and china are better in my opinion They allow the paint to glide more freely. The enamel pans Need to be broken in.
I have a cheap plastic one to keep my watercolour in and a ceramic mixing pallet. I also love using cheap ceramic plates for mixing.
Great tips!
the cracking is what bugs me about plastic palettes, but duct tape works if you can put it on the bottom or resin but that is too much work sometimes to fix a cheap palette :p
Thank you for the tips!! 💜 May I ask a question related to watercolors?? Please 🥺
Congrats for keeping your palette for so long! What a lovely thought that it has been around for over 20 years! If you want to fix the cracks of the cover of your plastic palette, rather than throw the cover away, check out white Sugru mouldable glue (www.sugru.com) to fix it. You can knead it and fill the cracks (it has the texture of a kneadable eraser). It sets by turning into a durable, waterproof and flexible rubber. It will fix the cracks and give your cover some stability while remaining flexible. #notsponsored - I just use Sugru to fix lots of stuff instead of buying new stuff or throwing them away. Thanks for sharing!
Lindsay-what do you do with tubes of watercolor that the paint has dried completely or drying difficult to get pigment out? Are they save able? Thanks
Ceramic palettes look so professional and better than plastic but I can only afford plastic 😁
(Edited because I spelt “than as then “
Spelt? You mean "spelled".....
S Ward “Spelt” is correct if the poster is in UK (or even Australia) - it means exactly the same as the US “spelled”
Is it still cold in Maine? Noticing your lovely sweater. 92 here today.
yes, so cold, snowing now!
I like my Mijello
Helpful; thanks
If that pallette lasted 20 years and you're still using it, it must not be too bad. I would never want anything like that because it is ridiculously Huge! I've honestly never even seen anything like it before lol.
May I ask what paint was drying in the tube that you put into the Zabo palette?
I use a dinner plate from dollar general lol it was 1$
Holbein metal pallette (Japan brand)...
Put some clear packing tape on it.
Couldn’t get blog post going. I have commented on it before so not sure what happened.
If you have never commented there before your comment won't show up til I approve it, it should be up now:)
thefrugalcrafter Lindsay Weirich I did finally get it to work. Sorry!
The brittleess of your pallet is called cross-linking. plastics do that, I think rubber too
Thank you! Having a word to search to learn more is really helpful
It’s funny, I use a smaller John Pike pallet to hold beading projects. It was a pain trying to switch it back and forth, so I bought several more for that and other storage. In my opinion, we should buy stock in that company❣️🙏🏼
Welll, it is twenty years old!
Pretty good ?? Lmbo. 20+ yrs is phenomenal!!! 😳😂😂😂
I'm from Maine, we always get a little more use than intended from a product:)
I have always liked your videos and also gave this one a thumb's up, you are one of my favorites, but disappointed to see 4 ads in a less than 12 min. video. Not sure why there would be this many.
@loststamper
One shouldn`t look gift horses in the mouth.
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This was really helpful. Thank you!