Best palettes & palette cups according to redditors
We found 59 Reddit comments discussing the best palettes & palette cups. We ranked the 45 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 59 Reddit comments discussing the best palettes & palette cups. We ranked the 45 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Something like this?
I use a wet palette, piece of sponge you wet down under a palette paper. Helps keep the paints from drying out fast
https://www.amazon.com/Masterson-STA-Wet-Palette-Airtight-Boutique/dp/B07C58YPQ4/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549381136&sr=8-1-spons&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=wet+palette&psc=1
I have a little spray bottle that I keep on hand, one of these that used to have glasses cleaner in it, filled with water to spray my gouache down periodically as I'm working. And I keep big amounts of my less expensive gouache in one of these; for as inexpensive as it is it does a really good job of keeping them wet. If you've got any M. Graham gouache, though, I wouldn't recommend keeping it anywhere but in the tube, though. I'm not sure if it's because they use honey alongside gum arabic as the binder, but the black I put into there got moldy and smelled disgusting after a couple of days. I like a lot of their other art supplies but I'm definitely not going to be getting any of their gouache again.
Excellent choice.
On the painting and hobby side of things...
It kinda looks like a homemade version of a round paint pallet. Standard 12 outside circles with mixing area in the middle maybe? Ex pic for reference. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075W91CYC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_TgtYDbFS4KFAC
Yeah I think Dawnstone would be a good base to try. Maybe pair it with administratum gray?
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I personally use a wet palette but I would suggest one of those cheap paint palettes if all you're doing are these 2 colors. Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Outus-Palettes-Rectangular-Watercolor-Painting/dp/B074CX7DZC/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1542130885&sr=8-5&keywords=small+paint+palette
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Priming color really shouldn't matter that much as your base color will cover it all, but here are the pros and cons of both:
White: Takes far less layers to give good paint coverage if you're painting with lighter colors. The downside is if you have hard to reach areas it will be blatantly obvious if you missed any.
Black: Forgiving for hard to reach areas and easier to work with for dark colors.
What I do, though I don't know how much it will help here, is prime black, then prime again with white (or gray) from just the top. This gives you kind of the best of both worlds since your highlight areas (bright colors) will be white, and your shadow areas (dark colors) will be black. And it helps give you ideas of where to place your highlights and shadows. Like this WIP shot I took recently (ignoring the feathers): Dragonfly Shinto WIP
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Maybe something like this? It’s not that expensive and comes with brushes that hold water in them that might help with the smearing without water.
Watercolor Palette with Bonus Paper Pad by GenCrafts - Includes 48 Premium Colors - 2 Refillable Water Blending Brush Pens - No Mess Storage Case - 15 Sheets of Water Color Paper - Portable Painting https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QQ39F7J/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_96FVDbB0S0M5Z
One of the Vallejo starter kits would get you a good assortment of paints, something like this. Brushes, I always buy locally from a "real" artists' supply store because you can't tell if they're any good from looking at the picture on a web site. I'd say start with a #0 and #2 round, and maybe a 5/0 dotter. Get some kind of palette, a roll of paper towels to clean your brushes on, and maybe some primer in a spraycan from a local hardware store, and you're good to go.
As someone who started out with student grade paints, Holbeins were a game changer. Have you thought about setting up a palate so you're not wasting so much paint? This one works great.
Having been painting for almost a year and still getting slightly better each week, I'd strongly recommend that if you want a 'collector's set' that you get some painting practice first.
It's a great hobby, but your first models will be messy. Heck, my last models have been messy. There is ample tutorials online, some official warhammer ones to, by Warhammer TV on youtube, but it would be unlikely that you will be a perfect painting right from the get-go.
Might be worth booking some painting sessions with your local GW, as that is something they can do. But if you want one brilliant army in battle against a few others, then maybe you could practice on one of its enemies. Stormcast and Blades of Khorne have the most (i think) official tutorials online, so you could get some of them to practice on.
Cost wise, excluding miniatures themselves, you would be looking at 3 or 4 brushes at minimum. The cost can vary greatly, Citadel (GW brand) tend to be sub-par. This isn't me GW bashing, I genuinely have tried a couple options and found them to be this way. I would highly highly recommend these though:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0013E68T4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1. I got the size 00 and size 1, and although the size 1 is big enough, it keeps a great point that you can use it as a detail brush. My 00 hasn't kept it's point, but still very good. Also, if you are doing Seraphon, you will need a drybrush. Normal brushes get wrecked after a few dry brushes. If you haven't heard, drybrushing is really good at bringing out raised detail in your models, particularly good with scales.
Wet palette is very useful, it will minimise your paint loss. Again, here is one I bought, but you can DIY one for yourself pretty easily with some kitchen towels and baking paper or something like that: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00J0CN8ZS/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1.
Pretty optional, but a good LED lamp with a flexible head would be a god send. You won't realise how yellow your lights are until you see a good LED lamp.
For working with plastics, you need some cutters, a file, a mouldline remover is pretty good too. GW does all of these, but again, premium price. You can probably get equally good versions elsewhere for less if you look around.
Also will need super glue and plastic glue. Superglue won't ruin paint, plastic glue will melt it but gives a better hold in the long run. Usually for trickier models, you might paint it first before assembling some of the more awkward bits. Bad explanation, but for example I left my shields off my models so that I can paint their arms. Then I superglue them on to not ruin the paint.
I love cheap. I really do.
Do you fully stir your paints? Make sure there is absolutely no sludge in the pot, don't just give them a shake, get a kebab stick or piece of straight sprue and give them a really good stir making sure to go over the center raised bottom of the pot, there should be absolutely no buldge of sludge on the stick, just lovely thin paint. I must admit i haven't used humbrol acrylics but doubt they're too much afar from Tamiya's.
Perhaps your simply not taking enough out of the pot, are you brush painting or airbrushing? If i brush paint i use one of those art style paint pallete and just dip my brush in the paint and then into the pallete and then drop thinner from a pippette and mix with my brush. Here is the best acrylic brush painting howto i've encountered and i link to it often.
If you're using an airbrush i generally mix in the cup and take up two inch worth lenghts of paint in a pippette and then some thinner.
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I've been thinking about this lately too. I have two of these that I got for my gouache paints (unfortunately discovering that if I don't paint for a few days, mold will form!):
https://www.amazon.com/Transon-Watercolor-Palette-Airtight-Gouache/dp/B074W5TFD7/ref=sr_1_11?keywords=paint+palette+lid&qid=1563735678&s=gateway&sr=8-11
I wonder if this would work for oils, too. There are other variations on this theme like this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Transon-Palette-Airtight-Watercolors-Paintbrush/dp/B07748B4MH/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=paint+palette+lid&qid=1563735678&s=gateway&sr=8-4
My Masterson stay-wet palette is really big. I have been covering it with plastic wrap but this kind of makes a bit of a mess and doesn't do a very good job preserving the puddles since they stick to the wrap. I think I might try using a palette knife to scrape puddles into these boxes.
I'm not sure if the oil would start to skin over after a time. I know you can put these in the freezer to slow down oxidation as well. Does anyone else have experience with this? (I'm going to test it out this week I guess...)
Frisk Acrylic Keep-Wet Palette
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It's that one there (which is essentially just crap plastic but it's the perfect size) and then I use normal baking parchment and those thin sponges you can buy for cleaning. (They work way better than the paper and absorbent stuff in the box, I just bought the thing for the plastic tub)!
The palettes I ordered are a Meeden 24 half-pan travel palette, and a Whiskey Painters 8 half-pan flask palette(which I have in my hands right now, actually.). As far as palettes go, I also have a 33-well plastic Master's Touch airtight palette that I use for my home-palette for paintings. I wanted something that I could take with me very easily, that was small, and ideally something light, but most importantly durable. I also wanted the choice between having a lot of colors(hence the Meeden) to choose from, and something that limited my colors and could fit in my pocket(the Whiskey Painters). My plan is to stock the Meeden with a full selection including convenience colors, and have the Whiskey Painter stocked with a Primaries Only palette(both CMY and RYB) so I have to mix my own intermediates and such since I need practice with color mixing.
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Is the Schmincke ultramarine non-granulating? I haven't heard anything about their paints... I heard that Holbein has a really nice non-granulating Ultramarine I've been looking into.
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Also, by 'technical' I didn't really mean stuff like architectural or really mathematically technical illustrations. I don't really know the word for the kind of illustration I do, but I like to try and put as much depth and texture in my illustrations as I can, but I prefer to use contrast and light values to create it, rather than relying on the paint to do it for me. Most of what I learned about how to handle watercolors I've learned through trial and error, practicing Sumi-e, a single book on Fantasy painting, and watching every single Bob Ross "Joy Of Painting" video and trying to translate what that video had over to watercolor from oil.
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Edited to add a few details that I skipped out on. Still new to Reddit.
I think that I found it!
https://www.amazon.com/MEEDEN-Heavy-Duty-Watercolor-Palette-Friendly/dp/B07NR8WR26
https://www.amazon.com/Whiskey-Painters-Watercolor-Folding-Complete/dp/B07KG26C5G?ref_=bl_dp_s_mw_15053495011 This is exactly the same palette! Just comes with paint. (Doesn’t look like it’s great quality so it’d be worth to toss it and keep the halfpans).
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I know there’s premade watercolor sets she can buy on amazon. They also sell these tin cases by Meeden where she can squeeze her own watercolor colors in mini pans. They have small sizes that are convenient for travel.
MEEDEN Empty Watercolor Tins Box Palette Paint Case, Small Pink Tin with 12 Pcs Half Pans https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079KPQTWY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_MN2YCbPJ2F2S0
Maybe check that out, there’s also blue, black and white if she doesn’t fancy pink. I only own the larger size with it, so not sure if you’d be able to fit a brush in these.
I bought two and one inch brushes from Home Depot, and they seem to work just fine. I bought this set of oil paints ($17) which had all the important colors. I buy these canvases from walmart ($3 a piece). Other supplies you need are odorless turpenoid, a fan brush, liquid white, palette, and you probably want an easel. I bought pretty much the cheapest things I could find, and so far they are working just fine! I do not recommend getting the Bob Ross master set thing - it seems way overpriced.
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You may want to consider the Portable Painter
Or get a Cotman’s Pocket Box and put whatever half pans you want in that
Otherwise as far as I know that Whiskey Painters palette linked in a comment earlier is the only one with the set up you like.
Edit: after looking a little on Etsy under “vintage watercolor tin” I found this and I’m so sure you could clean it up and fill it with your favorites!
Order them in bulk from amazon
Plastic Empty Watercolor Paint Pans, 100Pcs Half Pans https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075393752/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_0j1RCbEZWGQQH
Oh absolutely. I know it's an expensive hobby, and we often buy cool/great tools that are just wayyy more expensive than they should be. Side note, you can definitely use a plastic ice cube tray as a palette. The challenge you'll run into is that the paint dries quickly (when not using a wet palette) and acrylic paint is super tedious to remove off of plastic when it dries! BUT - if you can find it cheaply, then it's definitely a good way to do it.
Another option are to use something like THESE
They're super cheap, and I still have some I haven't even used leftover from almost 2 years ago. not bad for a couple of bucks!
You can buy lighter fluid and mix it with your paint or you can buy your paint's brand of thinner and mix it.
I use one of these for holding my paints during painting/washing
Or something like this. $7 for 12 6-well pallettes.
Nice job messing up her wooden palette. Nobody uses that for painting, it's intended to hold the materials in the drawer in the portable easel. You're not supposed to put paint right on the palette, you're supposed to put a sheet of palette paper on top of it.