NMM-tutorial
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Excellent - the pallette shots are a great idea!
Hook up with chicks, obviously!
The wet pallet allows you to keep colors over time. If you\'ve ever been interrupted in a painting session and come back to find your carefully mixed colors all dried and useless, you understand. There is usually a lid for the plastic container. You close the lid and the colors stay fresh. Even with the lid open, it delays the drying process and keeps the colors workable for a longer period of time.
I have two of them: a home-made one for my mini painting that pretty much fits Calavera\'s description, and a large commercial one that I use for my watercolors where the wet pallet is surrounded by like 47 little color wells, also sealable. Oddly enough, both work nearly equally well.
[edit:] Dang! beaten again to the answer! I must be getting slow in my old age.
The wet pallet allows you to keep colors over time. If you\'ve ever been interrupted in a painting session and come back to find your carefully mixed colors all dried and useless, you understand. There is usually a lid for the plastic container. You close the lid and the colors stay fresh. Even with the lid open, it delays the drying process and keeps the colors workable for a longer period of time.
I have two of them: a home-made one for my mini painting that pretty much fits Calavera\'s description, and a large commercial one that I use for my watercolors where the wet pallet is surrounded by like 47 little color wells, also sealable. Oddly enough, both work nearly equally well.
[edit:] Dang! beaten again to the answer! I must be getting slow in my old age.
Brother Tom
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That wet pallete sounds like a great tool, I always end up mixing not enough paint and it ends up drying before I finish, that would probaly solve that problem. I might look into getting one of those.
Calavera is right, it is a wet palette. Made up pretty much the same way as he describes, but with cotton wool instead of tissue paper.
It\'s a great thing when you are doing a tutorial, because I spend a lot of time running around taking pictures, hooking up with chicks etc. - and the colours whould dry up If didn\'t use one.
And good to hear that you find the tutorial usefull.
It\'s a great thing when you are doing a tutorial, because I spend a lot of time running around taking pictures, hooking up with chicks etc. - and the colours whould dry up If didn\'t use one.
And good to hear that you find the tutorial usefull.
Chrispy
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I have two wet pallettes: one I got for less than $6 and the other I got for $2.. and they\'re both the same! Thing is, I asked my mother to buy more inserts and they only had another lock box (that\'s what this company called it) with inserts in it, so they gave me that one for the price of inserts because they were trying to get rid of it.. Only thing is, I get so lazy that I\'ve developed mold in them.. Which is silly, cause there is nothing for them to eat but water. (And I\'d think water from arond here would kill anything not used to it..)
Anyways, good basic article on NMM!
Anyways, good basic article on NMM!
Frustrated Father
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I appreciate tutorials like this, many thanks, as I\'m more of a \'visual\' person so actually seeing it in action helps out a lot more than being told about it.
Any thing more you can add along these lines would be a HUGE boon to neophites like myself.
Any thing more you can add along these lines would be a HUGE boon to neophites like myself.
wow i did as calavera described and it actually works!
very helpful indeed if you want to blend colors (worked on a terminator bust with all the new hardy tempest pictures in mind :flip: )
but im quite unsure about the chicks thing but i guess that has somehow to do with me being locked up in my room and painting all day long ... silly me, they cant even see the new wet palette :idea:
very helpful indeed if you want to blend colors (worked on a terminator bust with all the new hardy tempest pictures in mind :flip: )
but im quite unsure about the chicks thing but i guess that has somehow to do with me being locked up in my room and painting all day long ... silly me, they cant even see the new wet palette :idea:
