A wet palette lets you mix your paints as you’d expect from a palette but because it’s wet your paints don’t dry up when you’re using them and if you seal it up, you can possibly even use them between sessions!

You can buy wet palettes from all good hobby stores but, it’s dead simple to make one as well.

All you need is:

• Tupperware Pot
• Tissue (alternatively you can use a kitchen sponge to do the same job)
• Baking Paper – cut a sheet to fit your tupperware pot

First roll up the tissue and line the bottom of the pot with it (about a finger-width in thickness does the job) .

Then pour in some water. My recommendation is to soak the tissue for a moment and then tip out all the excess water. It needs to be wet but not like a swimming pool.

Then you just lay the baking paper on top.

Then just mix your paints on the baking paper, the paper takes up moisture from the tissue below without being soaked through and so your paints stay wet so you can use them for much longer. Makes mixing and blending etc so much easier as well as being a good way to thin down your paints a little without having to keep soaking your brush!

Some people say they can keep their paints good for days, I’ve not tried and I tend to use mine to extend a session over breaks etc. You’ll get longer out of them though if you have a lid for the pot to seal it.

One thing to keep in mind, the tissue and baking paper will go mouldy so you’ll want to get rid afterwards and redo when you next paint but you can try getting a second day out of it and see if that works.

If you’re using a kitchen sponge the process is much the same just swapping out the tissue.