We’ve got a few artists here who paint with gouache and I’m wondering what you do for a palette. I’m specifically wondering about gouache, not acrylic gouache.
I currently squeeze a bit out onto a ceramic plate but I find that limits my wanting to use them because of the setup time and I’m not a good judge of how much paint I need and don’t want to waste the paint I don’t use.
I’m going back and forth between doing a dry gouache palette or going for a wet one. I got a palette box like this to make a wet palette a while ago but I’m worried about putting my nice gouache in it only for it to develop mold. I have distilled water in my spray bottles which I think should help keep mold away?
What do you do? Any tips or things I should consider?
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I just use a ceramic pallette as you said and reactivate the dried paint. It’s the reason I have a bajillion pallettes and still want a few more.
I do have the pallete you linked above and used it briefly for something. It’s been a while. But I didn’t like the feel of it and was having issues with paint getting on the top and a tiny bit of cross contamination between paints. So I stopped using it. It’s a perfectly fine pallette, just not for me.
For gouache, I prefer working from wet paint from the tube. Unlike watercolors where I prefer dry pans to tubes. So I don’t have a great solution to offer, unfortunately. Eager to see what others say though.
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I’m not a super experienced gouache-user, but I’m pretty much the same as @Tapestry. I prefer to use it right out of the tubes, but I will also reactivate the dry stuff, and also have different palettes with dried gouache all over!
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