Oil painting palette is made of wood, plastic, glass, metal and paper and other materials, the shape is rectangular, oval, round, folding and arms with curved curve, etc., made of wood more common;
Palette board or plywood palette to be carefully polished and smooth and should be coated with linseed oil or varnish, such as twice so that the palette will not absorb oil;
Palette color in the past for brown, is because early oil painting mostly used dark background, so easy to accurately color, such as the use of light background can be used white and gray palette;
It is better to use the white color palette to adjust the transparent color in the mask dyeing phase of the transparent painting method, so as to accurately estimate the effect after coloring;
After each work should be timely to scrape off the remaining color and turpentine and other solvents to scrub the palette clean, finally can also use linseed oil to rub the palette to make its surface smooth and smooth so as to play a certain protective role;
When necessary, the paint can be carefully scraped off and dipped into the water on a smaller glass plate for the next time for reuse. The paint with a cover should be covered in time to prevent the paint from drying.
Some painters do not often arrange the palette and let the pigment dry into weathering, although the use of dry wrinkled old pigment can show special texture, but should pay attention to the color placed on the palette for a long time because of the drying of oil and the risk of losing the bond;
Early western painters used to mix dark and light pigments in advance according to the color of the picture and then put them on the palette.
The basic arrangement of pigment on the palette has certain rules, which can be more convenient to find the pigment and not easy to make the color dirty;
Pigments are usually arranged in several ways:
One is to start by white by color hue and lightness from light color to dark color, from warm color to cool color arrangement;
The other is white as the center, the cold color warm color according to the depth of the two sides arranged;
You can also add the same light color that has been tempered with white under each of the main colors
We also have the
brushes sets ,pls visit our website www.hnarts.com,thanks~