HOW TO Fix ALL Your ACRYLIC WET PALETTE issues!

RE: Metallics I think it depends on your paper? I'm not saying metallics will seep through MORE than regular paint, but on my cheapy wet pallet from some chinese shop ALL paints actually seep through the paper into the sponge. My sponge was littered with paint splotches over time. I recently got a Red Grass Games pallete (like literally it arrived yesterday) so it will be interesting to see if this one acts different.

Ah, nice! The wonder material that is copper! I just bought an Army Painter branded wet palette, and I have some nice 3- core electrical wire that fits the bill. Nice tip!

I am curious as to whether I still need to thin my paints down like I would with my old plastic well style palettes?

Just came upon your channel recently. Fantastic content. Keep it up!

Re: mold - lightly spray hydrogen peroxide (the type used for first aid) on both sides of the sponge. This comes from an actual chemist; from Mrs. Masterson of Masterson Art; from years of using hydrogen peroxide on a wet palette and having no mold issues (had them prior to).

I had a wet pallet that came with a copper disk that was supposed to help prevent mould but I had mould anyway after just a day or two. It was quite annoying.

If you have a dehumidifier in your house use the water from that in your wet pallette, its perfect.

Now I want to paint with concentrated acidic xenomorph blood...

I have an army painter wet pallet and I think the sponge is more like a synthetic car chamios?

I want to apologize because I only subscribed today. The value of this channel is high. In my defense…. I’m old and washed up.😂

LOL so I'm not the only one who uses a Ferrero Rocher container as a wet pallette.

just found your channel love it and sharing with my discord groups

I have two wet palettes, the everlasting and one cheap chinese brand thing. I like the latter more. For one, the sponge is thicker and thus doesn't dry out as fast. Also it has 2 different kinds of paper: hydrophilic and hydrophobic. For colors you can properly use directly from the bottle the everlasting is really fine, but if you want to mix the hydrophobic paper of the cheap chinese palette is way better.
In long sessions I will use both, so I can have two color palettes without worrying about contamination.

I always use distilled water, mostly because my tap water is really hard and influences the paints and cleanliness of the brushes. If you buy it at a hardware store it's not that expensive and if you own a car you most likely will have some standing around anyway.

i have 3 of those ferrero rocher wet palettes on the go at all times 😆. i would modify that slightly tho, i think its better if you use 3 of those sponges, cut the 4th one up and layer it around the edges so the sponge surface takes up the entire box space, then put about 5 sheets of kitchen roll on top of the sponges making a complete coating. then put the baking paper on top of the kitchen roll surface. it holds wayyyyyy more water with 3 sponges so it will stay consistently wet far better than any of those brand made wet palettes and the kitchen roll will help slow/regulate the flow of water between the soaking sponges and the paper so you can have a small lake under there and it wont get too wet on the actual surface.

i genuinely think a ferrero rocher wet palette like that is far better than any branded one ive tried. my ex had 3 different ones that were all pretty much the same but the sponge is too thin they dry out too quickly and when theyre wet theyre way too wet because the sponge is just floating on water, i thought they were all really sub par.

Quick tip. If you have a local aquarium shop ask if they rodi water and ask for a litre. Chances are they'll give you it for free and it has everything removed from it so takes ages to go bad.

A few drops of Hydrogen peroxide keeps the mold away as well

ASDA baking paper FTW. I use those flat sponges to wipe off my brushes rather than kitchen towel

So funny!
The moment you said 'metallicsv I wanted to yell at the screen 'Noooo! Metallics don't move magically through the paper into the sponge and then the next session back through the paper into the fresh paint'. 😂
Thanks for clarifying that this is a myth!

Great video! One thing that you can add that I learned from Lyla Mev about wet pallets- get 4 old pennies from 1982 or earlier (not sure if you chaps across the pond have copper coins readily available. Old pennies are copper...new ones are mostly nickle, I think) and assuming that you already put 4 under your sponge in the corners or copper wire like you said- and then put the 4 in the corners on TOP of your pallet paper. They weigh the paper down enough to keep the edges from rolling up over time and provide another layer of antimicrobial protection. Works great at keeping your pallet flatter!

Hahaha about the Ferrero box, not only delicious, I bought a box earlier this year to make a wet pallet. Not only delicious I even got a second one because I wanted a dry brush and paint mixing container. :P

😂 Need to update the outro now that Twitter has the new, descriptive and catchy name "X" (like a technical version of the artist formerly know as Prince/Symbol/Little Tw*t). Love the merging of quantum mechanics and miniature painting! 😂 I agree that the "Everlasting palette" may have an issue under trades descriptions legislation as it is highly unlikely to outlast the heat death of the universe 🤔

I’m so happy I found this channel! Just brilliant!

Glad you made a vid about this, I grew tired of arguing to people who paint with the same sheet for weeks

Thank you so much for the mould tips, I have been looking for this for ages but keep getting directed to Reddit which usually ends up in some long diatribe about why you shouldn't mix colours or how Trump wasn't that bad. Keep it up.

I would say I prefer Tesco's baking paper to Redgrass wet pallete paper. Awesome channel, it was a insta subscribe on the first video!

One thing you didn't mention with regards to mold: put your wet palette in the fridge when not using it.

Although that does make the condensation issue worse.

Excellent. Just excellent. Muchas gracias.

i use a well palette for my metallics for the reason you stated, but ive also modified the center of it to also have a wet palette and then i use a g-fuel canister lid to cover it up and help prevent evaporation :D i use old pennies that are actually copper and not an alloy to prevent mould growth :D

You really need to stop being so sensible it might annoy all the companies who depend on my stupidity. 😊

Great tips here. I was one of the fools who bought into both the "anti-fungal" and "everlasting" marketing spiels on the Redgrass palette. I left my palette sealed up with paint inside for a good few weeks, expecting it to at least be workable when I came back to it, but instead found it rife with mold. Now, when I know I'm finished with a session, I just leave the lid off and let it dry up. Reconstitute the sponge with fresh water and fresh paper next time.

put a a piece of glass (smaller then your wetpallet! mixing!) , dry pallet or the empty cubes (sold seperatly) from solid watercolor (aquarelle) in the wetpallet for metallics, inks, thick acrylic artist paint, contrast or variants.
against fungi and Klickers: copper never worked for me, distilled water did (got a big barrel of 5l under the desk) no more mold even if I forget to clean my wet pallet (dish) after a week or two.
distilled water has no nutrients, no minerals or much less contaminants, the first pioneer fungi/bacteria suck all this water in and explode :p

Also, interestingly you seem to have way more water in your palettes than I do. Maybe I need to add more. 🤔

My wet palette normally ends up with mould in it. 😅😬😞

For high fluid paints like contrast and also for my metallics I use beer bottle tops placed inside the wet palette down one edge. They stay perfectly reusable just like the paint on the paper and allows you to make washes and thinned down contrast paints with mediums so easily.

Paints consist of ink - thing carrying a colour, pigment - giving paint opacity (sometimes also a color), medium - keeping pigment evenly distributed , and solvent (water for acrylics) which keeps everything liquid. Wet palette can only resupply paint with solvent. If medium evaporates or goes to wet palet via osmosis and is replaced by solvent, pigment will separate from the mix and you will get chalky and grainy paint. So wet palet is excellent tool making painting session much more enjoyable but they are not holy grail which will make your paint stay perfect indefinitely.

Most stuff is fine on a wet palette, just change your paper more often and change your sponge every so often. Also remember to hydrate your wet palette for the task you are doing currently. More moisture is better for glazing, less for base coating.

Awesome vid because of the use of intelligence, experience and common sense
Stole my son's tear off tracing paper pad from "the works" and now I don't have to peer at baking paper in supermarkets, only to find they don't have any unwaxed. If I'm leaving the palette overnight it goes in the fridge, tipped about 20 degrees so the condensation runs down the lid and can't lurk waiting to drip. I use copper or brass wire/rod to stop mould and hit it with boiling water whenever I clean it. (Mine's microwavable tupperware so it has a lid vent)
I don't mix washes on the palette, I get the hue right on the palette and then lift the mixed paint with a plastic palette knife and wash it into a small well palette for dilution. If I'm still using them then the well palette gets plastic wrapped and goes in the fridge too. (I always cover my well palettes with foil before I start so there's no cleaning up - I use a lot of oils too)

I've switched back to Dr Faust's 'cold palette' after a long wait for my Redgrass KS. The RG doesn't do anything different than a homemade one does and the cold one beats them both in my xp.

How do I stop my paint leaking into the sponge below? I have an armypainter palette but my sponge is stained with the colours I used.

Just found your channel and I am steadily chewing through your backlog - great stuff! Really love the no nonsense approach and your presenting style. Also, hot damn does the production look slick AND your content is full of great tips. Keep up tje great work!

Great stuff, thanks. I use destilled water from my clothes dryer instead of pouring it down the sink. It's free, effortless and works just fine.

Nice summary

Awesome pernickoty wet palette - saving plans and pointers to progress - kudos 👍

Your mini wet pallets are adorable.

I'll have you know my metallics borrow through the paper and into the sponge to form nests.

Palettes, what the heck! Purists like myself use the same plastic lid that they have been using for years.
If there's not ten years worth of paint layered on there then I ain't using it!

Great video as usual, nice to see you mentioning the mould issue. It's always been a problem I have with them.

I don't even use acrylics and I watched. I think you have a bright future here.

A wet palette isn't revolutionary, it's a tool designed to make acrylic paint act like oil paint. Just cut out the middle man and go to oil paints. You'll save massive amounts of money since they are cheaper and better quality, and require less space since you can mix any color that you'd want because they are all one to two pigment paints. Plus, you can always make your own with pigments and linseed oil. Ask any professional painter which is better to paint with, acrylic or oil, and every single one of them will say oil. Acrylic paint was only chosen by hobby stores because they could sell acrylic paint to kids.

Really the only thing I can adhere is that After experiencing the same thing, going through a few different brands of wet palette and types of paper I came to the same conclusion that unwaxed parchment paper really is the best cheap solution

That being said, redgrassgames made a very specific unique two-sided membrane for their wet palette and now I use that paper on every single palette I own regardless of brand

It's reusable... MANY times

The only man brave enough to post about the negatives, fair play mate & as always a very useful video 🙂

Remember us when you get to 100K and beyond. Another great video, definitely one of favourite hobby Channels already. Can’t wait for the next one