SAVE CASH! The Ultimate DIY Wet Palette with Almost NO DIY!

[@RisingApe]

Ooh behind the curtain, nice video and the sponge in particular looks great

[@TesseractMinis]

Discovering that sponge was honestly life-changing. Sounds hyperbolic, but so many hours of my life are spent painting

[@Mikey__R]

I think finding a good cellulose sponge is key. My sandwich case is quite a bit smaller than this, which is fine as I paint about once annually, I found a white sponge that more accurately renders the colour of the paint I'm mixing; and because my palette is smaller, I don't have any folds to work around.

[@chrisl4999]

Best part of this vid: covering water level. I’ve never been able to figure that part out.

[@TesseractMinis]

I think many many people are likely to be under watering their sponge. Really glad you got something useful from the video!

[@67OMC]

Found this really useful, seeing you put together your palette, thanks Stu! Happy enough with my palette but will give the paper a try as I'm not impressed with the stuff I have.

[@TesseractMinis]

Love it when someone gets something useful from one of my vids. Nice one mate!

[@watashmaru7122]

What brand name paper did you wind up using? Thank you

[@TesseractMinis]

Generally I use the Atellier papers, from Amazon

[@TylerProvick]

I'm currently using a wet palette based on the original Redgrass case, paper towel for a sponge and parchment paper for the sheet. I rinse the parchment paper after use and like to swap them between minis, so about 5 sessions on average. I only paint for an hour and I've never been able to keep my paints in the palette overnight. For one, a single session will fill my palette as I mix, and two, the paint absorbs way too much water from the palette. I wonder what yours looks like the next day - perhaps you just work with wetter paint than me.

[@TesseractMinis]

I do work with pretty wet paint, but I also make sure to give it a "breathe" before I start using it.

[@mattbridges385]

I have the redgrass palette, but nothing ever keeps over night. all the paints tend to separate.

[@TesseractMinis]

Do you breathe it like I showed in this video? I find it really helps.

[@oliverp3545]

It'll be criminal if we don't get you to 10K

[@TesseractMinis]

I'm sure it'll come by the end of the year...would be amazing to see it sooner though!

[@durzod2052]

I know you're UK based, but when you put in Amazon links could you also include North American ones? I tried searching for the Spunj, and never found it. I guess I didn't scroll thru enough pages?

[@TesseractMinis]

Amazon generally shows stuff from overseas if it'll ship to another country, so there's no need for multiple links. I just took a look at it seems like the two brands I use aren't available in the US. If you instead do a search for "cellulose sponge cloth" you should find something similar though.