One year at the Art of the Carolinas, I came across what was called at the time, the Homee Folding palette. It goes by a different name now..........Mijello Leakproof Folding Palette. Same thing (probably company name changed or bought out by another company).
Anyways..........this is my all-time favorite and great for traveling. I have smaller folding pan sets with the 1/2 pans but I find them cumbersome to use with the little cakes of pigment.
The one draw-back to my favorite palette is lack of mixing space or how confining the mixing areas happen to be. For some people it might be plenty large enough but I need to spread out using a larger area for mixing. I found having a nice sized rectangular piece of clear acrylic was great to mix on and used that for awhile. But through time I got lazy and started using my table. It's one of those heavy duty plastic folding tables and works great as a mixing area. A LARGE mixing area, mind you.......lol.
I often wonder how many others out there might do the same thing? Surely I'm not the only strange one who uses their work surface as a large palette mixing area :-)
(This is nothing compared to how my table looks with wet and dried pigments........I just happened to have wiped it clean before starting this painting :)
2 comments:
I do the same thing, Susan. I use the Robert E. Wood Palette, but inevitably end up using the tile board that I paint on. (A 4 x 8' sheet costs about $12. and can be cut into different sizes at the home supply store.) ☺
I'm relieved to learn I'm not the only one.....lol
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