MaliMan2809 Posted July 6, 2015 Report Share Posted July 6, 2015 Hi All, Recently just got myself a wet palette after finding I was becoming sick of the thick looking paint jobs that weren't smooth especially on things like faces and fine detail areas - used it to paint a Hollow Waif and really pleased with how smooth the skin looks so there's no turning back now. Now starting on Leveticus himself and he's looking nice so far. My question is: how wet should my sponge be? at the moment im adding water so that it is damp but not completely saturated and dripping. I can tell my paint is thinner and it applies really easily and I'm able to drag it without it running into recesses where I don't want it to. I'd say on a two inch high model with a correctly loaded brush I can drag the paint up about an inch and three quarters before it becomes too thin to be visible. Does anyone have any tips or tricks to using a wet palette to get the best results? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sholto Posted July 7, 2015 Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 The difficulty I am having with your question is that you appear to be using a tool (a wet palette) to address an unrelated problem (thick paint). If your issue is that your paint is too thick, then the solution is to thin your paints. Water will do just fine (you can get into additives later). A wet palette might thin your paint a little, but that is not its function. A wet palette is meant to stop your paint drying out - as the water evaporates from your paint it draws up replacement water from the sponge below to keep the paint wet (hence 'wet palette'). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengt Posted July 7, 2015 Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 I keep my foam completely saturated. Sometimes so much that the baking paper floats a little above it. When I paint I put a drop of paint on the paper, add some water with pipette and mix it with a toothpick. How much water varies from paint to paint, you have to experiment. I think a useful exercise would be to gradually diluting some paint until it's unusable, just to get a feel for it. Then step it back a notch for the actual painting. Too thick paint can make you have to strip a mini, too thin paint will waste some paint but wont do much at all to a mini. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgraz Posted July 7, 2015 Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 I keep my foam completely saturated. Sometimes so much that the baking paper floats a little above it. Me too. Also agree that you still need to dilute your paint as above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaliMan2809 Posted July 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 Okay thanks for the replies. I get now the primary purpose for a wet palette but I have actually found it's helped to thin my paints slightly aswell as keeping them wet. I will definately try using a pipette and see how that works. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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