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Hello,

One of the reasons I went for a wet pallet was unlike the idea of being able to chuck the paper in the bin and put on a new one instead of having to clean a dry pallet, scrubbing it in the sink and cleaning up the paint flakes etc.

Yesterday I just wanted a quick paint session and couldn’t be bothered to wet the sponge and put on a new bit of paper etc so I just turned the lid upside down and put a bit of paper in there and used it as a dry pallet adding drops of water to thin the paint as required. Worked fine except that the paint dried quite quickly which I assume is because that kind of paper is absorbent.

Is there a kind of paper that I could cut into sheets that is not absorbent but allows me to keep throwing away my pallet.

Sorry if this makes me sound lazy but I have a small child so I have to be as efficient as possible to get any painting in.

Like this?

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Citadel-Palette-Pad

I just use plastic milk bottle lids...

I would think plain waxed paper from the grocery store would work for that purpose. Haven't tried it myself, so can't say for certain. Not sure if parchment paper (which can be used in a wet palette) would work dry.

Just search "palette paper" or "acrylic painting pad" with any art supplier or similar store and you'll get loads of options of waxed paper pads for this exact purpose

Juxtimon wrote:
Like this?

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Citadel-Palette-Pad

Wow no idea it already existed. It’s no surprise you can get the same thing at much better value of amazon

Just use basically anything that isn't absorbent.

If you have square plastic milk bottles where you live, just hack a few sheets out of them.

I've also used cardboard, specifically the variety used for packaging which has a gloss painted surface so that it doesn't absorb the paint. I literally just use an old cereal box or a box of muesli bars or whatever. You can use the unpainted side for drybrushing and the painted side for regular paints. Random plastic containers that were once used for food, give them a rinse out and they're good to go.

For oil paints I started using the wide shallow plastic containers that dips come packaged in, because I can put the lid on it and come back to it the next day and the paint is still good.

Just wanted to say that I bought the Windsor newton paper pallets and it’s great. Really easy to use and thin paints etc. before I used the little plastic dry pallets that look like the thing you put eggs in in the fridge.

This has a lot of the same advantages as a wet pallet in terms of mixing and blending paints and i think it’s better for metallics and inks etc. which is probably obvious.

The best but is once I’m don’t it just goes in the bin!

Thanks for your help