Set Up a Wet Palette and MIX COLORS

[Pages:4]Level: Beginner Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 6.8 Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: 66.9 Drawspace Curriculum 8.2.A1 - 4 Pages and 13 Illustrations

Set Up a Wet Palette

and MIX COLORS

Prepare your wet palette for acrylic paints and use the scoop and spread technique to mix colors

Resource: 8.2.R1 Painting Supplies for Beginners

Supplies: wet palette with papers/sponges, mixing knife, container of water, large soft brush, tear-off paper palette, paint (raw umber and titanium white)

This activity has two sections: ? Prepare a Wet Palette ? Mix Paint ? Scoop and Spread!

Tip!

Always set up your wet palette before you start mixing paint.

Remember: mixing the colors you want takes lots of time and practice.

Caution!

Remember to immediately wash each brush you use.

Dried acrylic paint can permanently ruin brushes in only a few minutes!

Prepare a Wet Palette

A wet palette (Figure 1) is a must-have for artists who paint with acrylics.

Different types of wet palettes are available in fine art stores and online. Each comes with a snugly-fitting cover, special papers and/or sponge liners, and detailed instructions on its preparation and use.

Figure 1

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8.2.A1: Set Up a Wet Palette and Mix Colors

The following instructions can be modified to set up most types of wet palettes:

1. Place a sheet of thick, absorbent paper or a thin sheet of sponge into the tray. Use only the special papers and/or flat sponge designed for your wet palette.

2. Add a small amount of water to make the paper or sponge wet.

3. Gently place a piece of the thin paper on top of the thick paper or sponge (Figure 2).

You may have to fight with the paper to prevent its edges from curling. If this happens, just brush on a little more water until the paper lies reasonably flat.

Figure 2

4. Use the following three-step process to brush the wrinkles out of the paper (Figure 3):

Step 1: Pick up a side of the paper and lift it slightly.

Step 2: Dip a large brush into clean water and begin brushing the wrinkles toward the side you are holding. Be gentle ? you don't want to tear the paper!

Step 3: If other sides of the paper are also wrinkled, repeat the process until the entire sheet is smooth. If the wrinkles don't move easily, add a little more water with the brush.

Figure 3

5. Tip the palette on an angle so the excess water pools into a corner.

6. Pour off the extra water, or use a sheet of paper towel to soak it up.

7. Place the cover on the palette to keep the papers damp until you mix your paints.

Mix Paint Scoop and Spread!

In this section, you mix two colors together to create black, and then you add a little white to turn the black into a dark gray.

8. Squeeze out small dollops of raw umber, ultramarine blue, and white onto a fresh sheet of your disposable palette paper.

Don't tear off the sheet of palette paper until after your paints are mixed and added to the wet palette.

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9. Turn your palette knife on its side and scoop up a little raw umber (Figure 4).

10. Gently ease the paint off the bottom of the palette knife and onto a clean section of the paper palette. The movement is similar to spreading butter onto a slice of bread (Figure 5).

Figure 5

13. Add the scoop of ultramarine blue to the raw umber (Figure 7).

Figure 7

8.2.A1: Set Up a Wet Palette and Mix Colors

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Figure 4

11. Wipe the paint off both sides of your knife with a sheet of paper towel.

12. Scoop up a little ultramarine blue ? a smaller dollop than the raw umber (Figure 6).

Figure 6

15. Spread the paint back onto the same place on the palette.

16. Continue to scoop and spread until the paint becomes a solid black (Figure 9).

If your black looks too blue, mix in a little more raw umber.

14. Use your palette knife to scoop up both colors together (Figure 8).

Figure 8

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8.2.A1: Set Up a Wet Palette and Mix Colors

Figure 9

Conversely, if the black looks too brown, add a little more blue.

17. Add half of the black paint to your wet palette and replace the cover.

Figure 10

18. Add a tiny dollop of white to the remaining black, and then scoop and spread until you end up with a dark gray (Figures 10 and 11).

Challenge!

1. Mix other colors by adding tiny amounts of a base color to a dollop of white. For example, a little Alizarin Crimson added to white (Figure 12) creates a gorgeous pink (Figure 13).

2. Add each new color you mix to your wet palette.

3. Use your new paint colors to practice painting on a canvas board. Don't try to paint anything realistic ? just play with your paints and brushes.

Figure 12

19. Add the dark gray paint to your wet palette and replace the cover.

Figure 11

Figure 13

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