Thinning paint on a wet pallette?

[lahatiel]

OK, so I can see putting a drop or two of paint onto the surface of my wet pallette, adding a drop or two of water (or magic wash mixture, or whatever), and then painting with it nicely thinned at a 50/50 ratio. And I have no problem imagining you can add still another drop or two of water and still be fine. But my question is, just how far can you go before you reach the saturation point?

I have to believe that there would come a point, when working on a wet pallette, that you just couldn\'t dilute your paint any further and still have it be usable on such a surface. And I know there could be times, when doing transparent layering and such, where you could want a 10/1 water/paint ratio or more, but the simple physics of it must make it impossible to mix that sort of ratio on a wet pallette, so: when will you have to abandon the wet pallette in favor of a concave, non-porous surface?

And on a sidenote, due to a few circumstances, it will be at least another week or two before I could even pick up a brush, so experimenting and seeing for myself isn\'t really an option right now; I just thought I\'d try to pick up some more knowledge in the meantime, and save myself some trouble down the road. Thanks!

 

[airhead]

I use both. you can thin on a wet pallet around 4:1 wateraint. then it starts running around the pallet and down into the sponge and at that level, it spreads out and takes over a large part of my pallet. But I normally go 2:1 wateraint with GW and 1:1 with Reaper master paints.

 

[Valander]

I\'ve gotten stuff pretty darn thin on my wet pallette and haven\'t had any problems. Probably around 7:1 ratio.

The biggest issue I have is if I let them sit for more than a couple of days. Seems that they just break down (using Vallejos and Magic Wash) after a while, and won\'t mix back together well. It could be the extra humidity that gets trapped in there when I close the lid, or something else. Dunno. Either way, I made a fairly small pallette, about 4x4 inches, so it doesn\'t hold all that much before I need to change it out anyways.