![]() Wooden palettes aren’t recommended for watercolor paints–they are designed specifically for use with oil paint. If you have to look away and move to a table to fetch your color, you break the focus that you just had and your next stroke won’t be as accurate.ĭifferent Types Of Palettes For Watercolor Paints Imagine you’re staring intensely at a still life and you know exactly where you need to put the next color. It’s not that these artists didn’t have access to tables to set their palettes down on, but when you’re painting from life and concentrating on your subject, you break your concentration less when your paint is close to your body. Why did the artists hold the palette instead of setting it down on a table? Remember colors appear to change based on their surroundings, so if you mix your paint colors on a brown palette then apply them to a white canvas, they’re going to look different than you intended. For centuries, artists have toned (lay a thin wash of paint down) their canvas with warm brown colors, making the shift in color perception from the palette to the canvas very slight. ![]() Another reason for using wood was its nice, warm brown color. The wood is thin and therefore lightweight, making it easy to hold for hours at a time. With the thumb holding the palette, the fingers are free to hold brushes and a mahlstick (a wooden rod with a soft, fabric knob on the end used to steady the hand of the painter). The reason is that it’s designed to rest on the forearm of your left hand (although if you’re left handed, you would flip it over and use it on your right arm!). ![]() This is the most typical type of palette. Frans van Mieris, Pictura (An Allegory of Painting), 1661, oil on copper
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