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I recently got into the world of using a wet palette for painting. Specifically I have the Everlasting Wet Palette from Redgrass. Redgrass claims that: "The foam is naturally mold resistant. You don’t need to add any agent or cleaning product to avoid mildew, mold or bad smell."

I'm going to be traveling over the holidays and probably won't be painting for a few weeks to a month. Should I just leave the palette in the state that it is in (wet)? Or should I let it dry out and then re-hydrate it when I'm ready to paint again? I want to make sure the thing lasts a long time so I want to take care of it properly.

Thanks!

There's no harm in drying it and re-hydrating, later. Even if the foam is resistant to mold formation, resistant =/= immune.
By drying, you'd be completely avoiding any risk for next to no hassle. Seems pretty straightforward, to me.

Yeah I figured that, but thanks for the assurance!

For mold control, I put pennies underneath the sponge. I read online somewhere that copper kills mold. It works for me, so if you've got any pennies try throwin em in there.

I've also found that if you leave lots of water it thins down the paints a lot over time. Draining the excess water out of it is usually fine though.

SuperCow wrote:
I recently got into the world of using a wet palette for painting. Specifically I have the Everlasting Wet Palette from Redgrass. Redgrass claims that: "The foam is naturally mold resistant. You don’t need to add any agent or cleaning product to avoid mildew, mold or bad smell."

I'm going to be traveling over the holidays and probably won't be painting for a few weeks to a month. Should I just leave the palette in the state that it is in (wet)? Or should I let it dry out and then re-hydrate it when I'm ready to paint again? I want to make sure the thing lasts a long time so I want to take care of it properly.

Thanks!

There's no harm in doing it.

Despite their shpiel I found a bit of mucky moldy smell with my first sponge so I trashed it and now I dry my sponge when I know I wont be using it.
have not tried pennies. Its not the first time I have heard this so maybe something to it.

The pennies help. But when I'm going to take a break or after a week of heavy painting I like to wash the whole thing with soap and water then soak the sponge with alcohol. After that I put the whole thing in the freezer over night at the least.

Probably a bit of overkill but my wet pallet got funky once. Once.

Found some mould on my wet pallette last week. Was fine the day before so hadn't been there long.

After a quick Google the consensus was to microwave the sponge for one minute.

Seems to have worked so far...