Painting Tip #28 - Inexpensive Palette Ideas

For an inexpensive, disposable palette for oils or acrylics, tape wax paper to a square piece of wood (tape goes on the back side) or masonite (hardboard).

Another inexpensive palette idea is to sit a piece of glass on a grey piece of paper or paint the back of the glass with mid-grey paint. Dried on oil or acrylic paint is easily scraped off the glass palette with a straight edge razor from the hardware store.

Painting Tip #21 - Stick to A System for Your Palette Layout

Always lay out your palette in the same order so you can automatically reach for the correct color. I like to lay my paints out from light to dark, warm to cool, right to left starting with white. Obviously, the more colors you use, the bigger the palette size!