wet pallete is buckeling

[TKNY]

Hi all. I just started using a wet pallete a few weeks ago. It\'s pretty much the best thing since sliced bread. :bouncy: I\'ll never paint a mini again without one.

One minor issue is the buckeling that occurs around the edges.

I imagine it\'s due to the moisture shrinking the parchement paper. It gets worse over time, and paint around the outside will dry on me.

I\'m wondering if anyone has a clever solution to solve this? Thanks very much in advance!!

 

[DaN]

Weight the edges?

 

[ktooloo]

When I learned to put together a makeshift wet-pallet (thank you Mr. Olliekickflip), this was mentioned and if you wet your fingers and press the buckling sections back down onto the wet section underneath, they stayed down. The ones we were making and using were a bit smaller though, only about 4\" square of parchment. I don\'t know if a larger section would behave differently. Hope it helps

:beer:

 

[TKNY]

Originally posted by DaN
Weight the edges?

Wow, sometimes the most obvious answer is the hardest to see. :idea: I surrounded the edges with quarters and it\'s staying nice and flat!

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by TKNY
I just started using a wet pallete a few weeks ago. It\'s pretty much the best thing since sliced bread. :bouncy: I\'ll never paint a mini again without one.

There\'s great, aren\'t they? Took me more years than I care to admit to try one and there\'s just no comparison to working on a plastic palette.

Originally posted by TKNY
...paint around the outside will dry on me.

The membrane pretty much has to be in contact with the reservoir for it to work so that makes sense.

Glad the weighting the edges thing worked. It is amazing the obvious things you can miss when they\'re staring you in the face! I continued to use a Perspex palette for years to mix paint, when there were glazed ceramic tiles just lying around that were SO much easier to clean dried paint off.

BTW, a square or rectangular container with a higher lip might work better as the edges of the reservoir aren\'t open to the air so they\'ll dry out less during long painting sessions, easier to fit the paper into too.

Einion

 

[DaN]

I didn\'t want to sound TOO condescending

<Smug mode disabled>

 

[tooshy]

Well I think you hit the nail on the head when you said your paint is drying on the edges. The parchment is curling because it\'s drying - by keeping it wet, it shouldn\'t in theory curl up. I can\'t see what you have under your paper to keep it wet, but I use a sponge. It holds a nice amount of water and is easy to keep wet

 

[Duren86]

Also if you make the parchment a bit smaller than whatever wet source you are using you can keep the whole paper wet and curl free. I also lay the parchment paper down for a second on my sponge, then flip it over and smooth it out so that both sides are wet. So far that seems to work well for me.