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Tutorial on making a Wet Palette for around $4.00... give or take a couple of cents.

Good tutorial!

I too use a wet palette, save me a lot of paint.

In mine however I use that foam that gw used to have with their metal blisters.

Yeah that used to be a good source of those. I considered showing it in the vid as I have a bunch of bigger ones that come with the Infinity models.
But with the foam in the container it is more like the P3 wet palette... I'm not a fan of the squishiness of it.

Mmmmmmm.... bacon container....

I might suggest some refinements:

Container to be airtight to prevent drying out (and mold spore access no "fuzzy pallet"): "snapware" whatever is handy.

Use a "spongecloth" less squishy and more uniform and not quite as cheap as paper towel but close enough. Easy to get.

The parchment is bang-on, would love to know what the wet pallet paper is made of in the art stores (bet money it IS parchment): they require you hit it with boiling hot water first to "activate it". Saw on some forums that people had problems with the parchment being dry and the boiling water fixes it.(May be some wax content or glue and it melts it?)

Saw Masterson Sta-Wet Premier Palette for $15.
P3 one for $20.
Masterson Handy Palette: $9

 Talizvar wrote:
Mmmmmmm.... bacon container....

I might suggest some refinements:

Container to be airtight to prevent drying out (and mold spore access no "fuzzy pallet"): "snapware" whatever is handy.

Use a "spongecloth" less squishy and more uniform and not quite as cheap as paper towel but close enough. Easy to get.

The parchment is bang-on, would love to know what the wet pallet paper is made of in the art stores (bet money it IS parchment): they require you hit it with boiling hot water first to "activate it". Saw on some forums that people had problems with the parchment being dry and the boiling water fixes it.(May be some wax content or glue and it melts it?)

Saw Masterson Sta-Wet Premier Palette for $15.
P3 one for $20.
Masterson Handy Palette: $9

I actually use the Masterson Sta-Wet Palette, got it at Michael's for $15 and some extra sponges and paper for around $10 after hunting around, not a bad investment IMO. The sponge on it is pretty quality, it lasts and holds quite a bit of water. The paper, I'm not really sure what it is - it kind of feels waxy, but not really? I'm not sure, but the instructions say to soak it in HOT water for 15 minutes or boiling water for 10 minutes (I put mine in a Pyrex dish filled with water and stick it in the microwave for 20 minutes). It becomes relatively porous, but cool to the touch even after boiling, so it might be a form of parchment paper. Either way, it keeps paints wet, and the lid is air-tight (you have to squeeze out some of the water from the sponge when you store it to reduce the risk of mold and smell).

My only complaint about it is that the paint will seep into the paper and become almost unusable. Has anyone had this happen to them before using another type of wet palette? Other than that, I'm pretty satisfied with it.

Just picked up on this after google searching! Thanks for the video man, I'll be putting one of these together tonight!

TOP NOTCH VIDEO!!

Where on earth did you get a bacon container? I didnt think it was even a real thing, lol