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Morning folks.

I recently started using a wet palette. I loved it immediately, and already feel like I've upped my mini painting game after literally decades of treading water, and more recently, even going backwards thanks to being lazy + contrasts.

Anyway, to really improve I bought the Pro Acryl 'starter set'. My Citadel paints are, barring a few older ones, horrible clumpy messes that require 5 bearings and three minutes shaking to get any near usable.

My problem is, these PA are already quite thin, and they splitting on the palette really quickly, and they seem to draw up a lot of moisture so they are getting crazy thinned out too. Do I just need to shake/mix them for longer?

I'm new to using a wet palette too, I was having some issue with paint separating to begin with.

I think I was putting to much water on the sponge part, I had just enough water for the sponge to move around side to side if you tilted it, but I have reduced this to basically enough to wet the sponge but it still sticks to the plastic tub and does not move about.

I don't have any normal pro acryl paints just a couple metallic's which tend to separate on the wet palette - but I think I'm supposed to be using them on a normal palette to avoid this so that's my fault.

Most people say not to put metallic on a wet pallet.

To the OP are you putting the paint on the pallet in a blob or spreading it out? If you spread it out then it thins, that is one of the benefits of a wet pallet.

Are you shaking the paint so it’s well mixed before putting it in the pallet?

thanks for the replies folks. got a new project starting today and have some changes in my process planned! First and foremost - shaking like a mother lover.

In my experience the PA paints aren't particularly thin, so I'd suggest shaking. After that, maybe less water in the pallet.