How do you thin paint in combination with a wet palette?

[Daan]

Question: how do you thin paints when using a wet palette?

I just started using a wet palette, got me a refill pack of wet palette paper and a tupperware container. Sofar seems to work nicely keeping the paint like paint and helps enormously in mixing gradations using two or three shades. Now just see if I come home if the paint from last night is still useable...

Now I am wondering would you still recomend thinning my paints (GW) and if so, how?

 

[Corvus]

Of course! A wet pallet should be used to avoid the paint from drying, not to thin your paint.

Just thin your paint like you normally would and let the wet palette do its job: keep the paint wet

I hope this answers your question.

 

[Daan]

Originally posted by Corvus
Of course! A wet pallet should be used to avoid the paint from drying, not to thin your paint.

But the palette does seem to thin the paint also.
Or is in that case my wet palette too wet

 

[Corvus]

Originally posted by Daan

Originally posted by Corvus
Of course! A wet pallet should be used to avoid the paint from drying, not to thin your paint.

But the palette does seem to thin the paint also.
Or is in that case my wet palette too wet

That could be the case yes.

 

[Daan]

Thanks, will see if I need to dry my wet palette a bit tonight...

 

[Corvus]

What kind of wet palette do you use?

I use a piece of baking paper on top of a wet paper tissue, and that works fine.

 

[airhead]

Retarder

I put a glob of Liquitex retarder on my wet pallet, then mix the paint with it.

 

[SaxonAngel]

Originally posted by Daan
Now just see if I come home if the paint from last night is still useable...

Don\'t reuse last night\'s paint unless it\'s drybrushing on terrain! Use FRESH paint. :]

Old paint has dust and lint in with it and the pigment has been partially separated from the binding fluid after that long. It\'ll go on chalky and gross :|~.

GW paints act the best with the wet pallette. The vallejo\'s seem to settle out faster.

Don\'t add your paint just after preparing your pallette. Let the top of the paper surface dry for a few minutes so it looks more like paper than glossy-wet.

Everybody\'s idea of thinning the paint is different. It\'s all skill-level dependent. A novice uses the goop from the edge of the lid, and the pros use skim-milk-like thinned paints in a zillion layers.


And that\'s my 2 cents CAN$

Peace!
-Angela

:innocent:

 

[Grumbold Ironbrow]

Paint from the lid???

Originally posted by SaxonAngel

A novice uses the goop from the edge of the lid, and the pros use skim-milk-like thinned paints in a zillion layers.

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SA;

Us novices do not use the paint from the lid, we use the stuff that\'s jammed into the threads on the outside of the bottle first, then when it\'s all gone we use the stuff that\'s in the lid...

It\'s real thick en covers real goood lollollol

Grumb

 

[Daan]

Originally posted by SaxonAngel

Don\'t reuse last night\'s paint unless it\'s drybrushing on terrain! Use FRESH paint. :]

Old paint has dust and lint in with it and the pigment has been partially separated from the binding fluid after that long. It\'ll go on chalky and gross :|~.

Hmm, I thought part of the advantage of a wet palette was to use your paints for a few days. But the paint from last night does look a bit funny, a kind of whitish layer on top of it. But I think it was a bit too wet also because the paint kind of spread out like when in wet paper.

The one I prepared now doesnt do that.

Corvus: I use a sponge in a tupperware container with a piece of paper from a wet palette refill pack. But backingpaper should be just as good from what I heard sofar.

 

[Jenova]

A novice uses the goop from the edge of the lid, and the pros use skim-milk-like thinned paints in a zillion layers.

Tihihi. I use the paint from the lid

 

[barkel]

oops.

I thought you could just stick your brush back in the separated paint and mix it back up again. Does this not work? It sure has seemed to when I\'ve tried to preserve my mixes over night.

And, no offense, but \"dust in the paint?\" Please. Try keeping the dust out of anything in my house. I feel lucky when the ambient cat hair floating in my room doesn\'t suck the paint right out of the bottle. Just kidding. I\'ve never really worried about dust, though I probably should.

barkel

ps. I thought novices opened the paint, let it dry out for a week and used the hardened paint like a crayon.

 

[SaxonAngel]

Originally posted by barkel
I thought you could just stick your brush back in the separated paint and mix it back up again. Does this not work? It sure has seemed to when I\'ve tried to preserve my mixes over night.

Well yes it does. But the best results are achieved with fresh paints. Sure you can reuse your mixes all you want. It\'s not like it\'s a sin or anything. It\'s just not as good.

Think about all the times you\'ve washed or peeled off the dried paint off of your old pallette (a tile, plastic mix tray, whatever). Consider how much paint you are already saving with the wet pallette too. It really isn\'t that much of a big deal to throw on some fresh paint. Is it? ???

As for using the paint out of the lid. It has a lot of pigment and I am guilty of scooping it out and using it as my paint glob on the wet pallette. The comment was meant in good humor because I think EVERYONE is guilty of it (at some point or another).


Hey I\'m still learning here too.

Back to slapping on some paint!


:innocent:

 

[finn17]

God, how true is that?

Originally posted by Grumbold Ironbrow
SA;
Us novices do not use the paint from the lid, we use the stuff that\'s jammed into the threads on the outside of the bottle first, then when it\'s all gone we use the stuff that\'s in the lid...

It\'s real thick en covers real goood lollollol

Grumb

Then six months later you throw what was the good stuff cos it\'s dried up. How any times have I been there..lollol

I think one of the many things that separates great painters from the multitudes is the willingness to use up resources rather than hoard/polish them...

 

[supervike]

that is IT!!

Originally posted by finn17

I think one of the many things that separates great painters from the multitudes is the willingness to use up resources rather than hoard/polish them...

I think thar\'s truth in dem dare wurds....

I am a world class hoarder when it comes to all things miniature.

I am not concerned with what I have, just what I will have/need a year from now....lollollol

 

[finn17]

Super, or is it Mr Vike now?????

Big congrats on your promotion:bouncy::bouncy:

(We agree on so many things I wonder if we are related?)

I have a huge collectiuon of all sorts of art stuff that is absolutely virginal. I was the kid who didn\'t want to use his water colour set \'cos it would make it look dirty.

I was also the kid who wanted a new exercise book if he ever made a spelling mistake.

There is a medical name for that condition now, and surprise surprise it was whilst working with a group of kids with that diagnosis that I re-caught the mini bug. Ho hum...

 

[supervike]

Right off the boat....

Originally posted by finn17
Big congrats on your promotion:bouncy::bouncy:

(We agree on so many things I wonder if we are related?)

I traced my surname back once, and it goes back to England, Wales, and Ireland(scotland too if I recall)

In a family tree I saw, my \'family\' came over on a boat in the 1700\'s from England.

So, what do you think? Long lost cousins, once or twice removed?

I know we both have gotten the mini gene!!!

Oh, and thanks for the congrats.

I actually prefer the title \"his right honorable Seniorship member Sir Supervike esq.\" if you please....
lollol

 

[supervike]

oh yeah...

Just out of curiosity, what is the medical name of the condition?

 

[finn17]

Well, it\'s a bit of a hot topic right now..

Originally posted by supervike
Just out of curiosity, what is the medical name of the condition?

I get to work with lots of pupils with various disorders, but more and more kids in the UK are being diagnosed with what is called variously, Aspergers syndrome, ASD (autistic spectrum disorder) and semantic pragmatic disorder. All are versions of high functioning autism.

Absolutely nothing to worry about, but almost all the kids I come across with these conditions are all Warhammer fans....Lots to be said for life in a rule book....

Autism is now regarded as being on a spectrum, say a scale of 1 to 10. \'Normal\' might be 3. believe me, you need some autistic traits to survive. As you move up the scale say to 4, 5 and 6. Traits such as mild obsessions, the need to customise, the ability to focus for hours on end all become part of the diagnostic criteria. All the things mini painters/collectors and men in general exhibit to a very great extent.

I don\'t know whether there is any comfort to the notion that there might be a biological basis to our interest?