Inexpensive Watercolor Palette Review 

Mr. Clean magic erasers work great for prepping and cleaning plastic palettes.

Majello make lovely " bulletproof" plastic palettes. Dont be tempted to scour the mixing surface, be patient and after a few paintings the beading will vanish like a headache. Then youll have a sturdy paintbox that will become your "go to" . No flaking enamel, no rust, no dings ect.

Toothpaste works great too for priming the palette. But not the gel type - the white stuff with polishing particles.

Thanks Dan for the heads up!!!👍👍👍

Try Mr Clean magic sponge for enameled or plastic palettes so paint wont bead, works wonders with just some water

Thank you very much, Dan!!! So helpful!

Thanks, Dan, for the review. And as a beginner, I had no idea about cleaning your plastic pallet. Just cleaned mine, and I can see the difference.

thanks! ordered!!! I have been looking for the metal one a long time!

what a great and helpful advice for the first cleaning, thanks for that!

I scrub mine with Bar Keeper's friend or Comet type of cleaner, using a little water and my finger. It just dulls the plastic and doesn't scratch it. It also works great to clean your palette when the plastic is stained.

Great cheap palette🎨. Wish i could find a similar metal, more durable one. Been using it in the studio for a long time. Great advice about cleaning up the oil from the plastic palette!

Nice. I'm really just starting out. Thank you for that. :)

I spray White Rust-Oleum exterior on my metal palettes.

this palettes work great with a lot of different mediums, i used to use them with oil paints some 20ish years ago daily and only ran into issues (not really the paint can be revived) when i went a few weeks without using it.

Great video, Dan! This is a great cost effective alternative.

New subscriber and fellow Front Range artist. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this palette.

This is not a portable option for a studio palette but I found square porcelain plates in a charity shop. ( thrift store) And if you wanted to have your colours all in a row you could put magnets on the pans and attach them to a metal ruler. Then your pans could be easily moved in and out of smaller travelling palettes too.

I have a stack of ramekins to mix lg areas of paint. I prefer using white plates for a pallette and using headbands to cover when wet.

I was able to get that pallet for $6 and I really like it for big brushes

I’m in Colorado Springs

The aluminum one sucks lol. I’ve been trying to just learn how to make my own palette out of brass exactly the way I want it.

Great tip. I have a few steel Holbeins. Bummed they see so hard to find.

The best plastic like palette continues to be the classic Pike Palette and they last forever.

Great demo Dan! Appreciate it. By putting that much pigment in the palette, I've always been curious if the paint is just as intense when reactivating it with water. Do you use the paint all up before adding more or do you add more on top of the dried paint? I'm a terrible stickler for wasting any paint. Thanks again for the tips!

I put mine in the dishwasher before I use them

Can you tell me what those holes in the clippy looking thing is like on those plastic watercolor palettes?

Hi, can you buy this palette in the UK?

I have cleaned and cleaned on the palette you recommended and the paint still beads up. Do you have anymore recommendations for this palette?

Just out of curiosity, how many palettes do you own?

Hi Dan, that's really novel. Couple of questions; would you need to repeat this process every so often? And secondly, when will you be doing the Karate - MashallArts? Sorry, that was a terrible joke :)

I don't think that the plastic palette is going to be a good replacement for your metal ones. But why don't you fix the palettes that you already have? It is not that difficult to restore them with better coating than the one that they had originally. Empty them, remove their paint coating, the rust and then repaint them. There are plenty of tutorials here on YT on how to remove old paint and rust from metal surfaces without damaging the metal and how to repaint them. Before repainting them you will definitely have to cover the surface with an antirust primer and then either spray them with enamel paint or if you have the budget you can give them to a specialized store to repaint professionally with powder coating. But you can do it yourself with some very affordable materials.

Plastic is a terrible surface to mix watercolors on, in my opinion.

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I HATE plastic.