Setting Up Your Watercolor Painting Palette, cheapjoes.com

[TheMaineMariner]

Good start, but why did you not complete your choices ? ? ?

[Drivenbyfire1]

cool thank you

[LottieSue]

I just bought this same pallet! Lots of wells and I only have a few paints to strart out with. Can you tell me the names of all your paints around the pallet? I'm not sure how many wells to leave open between the colors I have.

Thanks!

Lindielee

[Roytheartist]

Thats great advice aboit filling the wells, thanks!

[flaskhalss]

Thank you for a great video!

I just have one question regarding the tube colours. When you've filled the well with paint, how long can you use that paint? Do you need to clean it and put new paint in between sessions or can you keep the paint?

[thegreatbasher]

@flaskhalss To be honest as a relative ewcomer to the hobby I would strong avoid doing this. They say it is not waste of paint but IS REALLY IS!!! Just put out as much as you need and then wash your palette for next time so you get brighter cleaner mixes. The idea of putting a LARGE amount of paint in to wells of the palette and letting them dry is a dreadful waste of quality pigment. It will dry out and go hard and gritty. You will NOT really be able successfully lift the colours away.

[pumkin54]

@thegreatbasher As a relative newcomer, maybe you shouldn't be giving advice, especially when it's blatantlly untrue. Go on a forum like WetCanvas and you'll find that a majority of watercolorists lay their paints out on their palettes or refill pans with them and allow them to dry. We're not all rich. Paints such as M.Graham or Blockx use honey and therefore the paints rewet easily and/or never completely dry. Or you can add glycerine or honey yourself to make rewetting easy.