What do you use as a paint pallette?

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**wyomingfox**

I currently use a Masterson Sta-Wet Premier Palette.

http://www.dickblick.com/products/masterson-sta-wet-premier-palette/

However, I replaced the sponge with one a 1/4 of the size. The end result is has been actually drawing moisture out of the paint as the ends of the sponge are exposed. So I will probably end up purchasing a much smaller set up in the future along with a normal painter's pallet with multiple indents for washes, which I have begun to use.

**the_ampersand_man**

I use the plastic lids off of yogurt containers and they work well enough, I guess. Still, I'm curious about the wet pallets and how they work (and whether or not they're worth the investment).

**haywire**

I use almost all of the above depending on what I am painting and how many colors I need.

**TheChronoTrigger**

just a blank piece of paper

**Bascilica**

A plastic party plate. Always good, holds water, even has dips so that some dont mix.

**Tethyr13**

An old piece of plasticard.....blister packaging...newspaper....i guess i've used just about everything listed except for a wet pallette....though I've used a sponge before.....

**Wolfgang**

I use a homemade wet palette, only thing is it's not working..

**Helbrecht**

I usually just mix them on my paint station, it looks strange now because it just has various shades of colour all over it from the past few months.

**Cryonicleech**

I use old Tile Samples.

**chromedog**

I use a plain white 'sample' tile (6"x6").

I used to work in a tile factory, and 'made it myself' so it cost me close to nix.

Although the wife is a painter and she has offered me her old palette.

**Lord Shag**

Whatever is within reach after I have started painting and realize I don't have a palette.

**LordBoJangles**

I use a piece of polished black granite.

**Thorgut**

I have a cheap circular pallets with a number of little wells around it. It's great for mixing and diluting paints but you do lose a lot of it drying around the edges of each well.

I have a P3 wet pallet but I haven't used it in ages and don't even have any paper left for it.

**chaos**

i use a 18 well artist pallet

**Owain**

I sprayed the bottom of a CD white.

**RaegMachine**

I use an old CD

**Hasdrubal**

i use a DIY wet palette made with a Tupperwave box.

**solkan**

Two cheap eleven dimple plastic pallets from a crafts store. I got the dimpled thing so that the paint wouldn't accidentally run together when I was watering it down, although I have to admit to doing a lot of mixing paint in the central flat area a few drops at a time.

**BishopGore**

Up until recently we've been using the inside of the blister packaging, but a few weeks back I was raiding my parents loft and found an old tool box full of paint pots with a tile in it. So now we use that. Tile ftw.

**Gorechild**

I use my desk, or get a spare base, flip it upside down and mix paint in it.

**Xca|iber**

I have a 1' x 1' tile left over from the patio outside our house that sits perfectly on my desk (on a towel for ease of movement and to prevent scratching). I've used less than a third of it and I doubt I'll be replacing it any time soon. Works great for me.

**privateer**

I use a thick sheet of glass. (with beveled edges of course...you only make that mistake once

) It's really easy to clean with a paint scraper.

**Happygrunt**

A potato salad cover. Has worked for 2 years.

**brokenfang**

small ceramic saucer (like for a tea cup)

Easy to clean, can mix washes next to colors.

**grisnag**

Straight from th pot

**caddock**

DIY wetpallete

basically made from one of these:
http://www.afreshdesign.com/01February06/2006-02-26_0022.JPG

With a wet piece of this in it:

http://www.e3living.com/files/twist%20european%20sponge%20cloth.jpg

with a sheet of that on top:
http://www.reynoldspkg.com/reynoldskitchens/en/product.asp?prod_id=1799

Can mix up anything or even just put paint out on the parchement and it doesn't dry up. Once the cover is on I've had paint sit in it for months untouched while I moved from one house to another etc and be able to pick up painting without an issue.

**Hawkins**

wife gets theses 500ml cups of yougurt, the tops are protected by a plastic circular cap. they work wonders.

**Shake Zoola**

Cardoard

**Austragalis**

I use a paper plate. I think Bob Ross even said that paper plates make great palettes.

**Fiend**

I use a traditional palette, but my friend uses an ice cube tray. Pretty clever I thought.