I favour 1oz soy dipping bowls. I can use 1, or 20 on a dinner or lunch plate, I can clean, clear & colour adjust individually as I go, and stack anything not in active use for a wide open desk.
The roughness on the back is actually the real porcelain. The glossy stuff is actually the glaze put on the pottery which is essentially melted glass. You could even try mixing on a glass tile to see if it behaves similarly to the porcelain palette! Be careful not to get staining colors on the rough surface underneath as that is still permeable to water!
After reading the comments about the portability of plastic and non porcelain palettes-if anyone ever in the world has travelled more to paint than Teoh, I’d be surprised. He goes outside to paint a lot, as his videos show, and he goes to many countries to paint. I believe he intends this palette for home use. I don’t hold my palette when painting at home, I automatically keep it close to me on a surface. I have heard how these often get shipped already broken. I believe we’d all have to treat them with care, but I’m sure they are worth it. Thank you.
You make the point late, but the biggest disadvantage of porcelain is its breakability, never a good thing especially given how costly a heavy porcelain palette can be. To extend your logic, and mine of course, the cheaper metal and plastic palettes are preference for plein-aire or urban sketching for that reason, and when on location the fact that these smaller palettes are better with larger amounts of paint also lend themselves to the often-challenging restrictions of painting on-location. GREAT suggestions for sanding those pans with a magic sponge! Wow! Teo pulls another rabbit out if the hat!!!
I don't know of porcelain that super expensive, I bought a big plate that looked like a palette for less than $5 and it's great! but I guess a custom made one would be more expensive.
@@finnie2711 Yeah I've got a moderate sized one this relatively inexpensive, but it's also thin. I've priced larger ones, that have big gorgeous mixing areas, and they run pretty expensive, at least in New York. If you're in some area where they come cheaper then more power to ya.
the palette is rough on the bottom (foot) because if they put the clear glaze on that area the palette would stick ( fuse) to the kiln shelf when it is fired. The porcelain is a white clay body. These palettes are fired with a gloss clear glaze.
If your paints still bead up on porcelain/China/ceramic/glass surfaces then just give it a quick wash with a regular bar of soap or wet it and rub it with some baking soda then rinse. Both worked for me.
I got a small porcelain tray at daiso that is better for traveling but still a decent size for me. Its flat but has a lip on the edges, it also doesn't stain which is nice. I wrap in my blotting cloth towel and put it in my bag
Actually you did buy a water color mixing pan, it's just that the vendor mistakenly ordered the wrong thing and put them out on the shelf label as sushi dishes. Clever seller!
sdovas I bought it from amazon. I kept looking for a divided dish of sorts and that’s what they called it. I was using plastic egg carton portion to mix my colors
I have a porcelain palette that I use every now and then. It's pretty big and has two large mixing areas. But, it's heavy!. I like my old plastic palettes. Even if they are stained, I can still use them for watercolors. I've tried the Magic Eraser and it does not work to remove stains from my plastic palettes. I'm glad it works for you.
Yes, porcelain is the best! I found at GoodWill for $1.99 a set of 4 white porcelain coasters. They look exactly like the "nesting mixing bowls" which sell in art supply stores for $16-$22 for a set of 5. After that I watched for & got 2 more sets. So now I have 12 of them & love them dearly. I'll try to take 2 with me on an outing & see if I bring them back unscathed :D
I don't mind using plastic palettes but ceramic ones are a whole lot better because they stay put because of their weight. I want to find one like yours, with round and rectangular wells. All I have are the flower type ceramic palettes called umezara(plum blossom-shaped palette), in different sizes, with 7 wells. One is as big as a dinner plate, a saucer sized and a small one that fits in my hand.
There is nothing better than a porcelain palette, mine is round. The only "negative » point is its weight when you want to paint outdoors, as well as its fragility.
I have one of these in a Daler Rowney box and have never trusted myself to use it, in fact the paints are now in a metal palette, I have added a few more, it is one of the ordinary small ones and I got 21 colours in by shifting one of pan holder bars. I prefer metal tins, they seem to do a good job especially after you have used them a while. I don't worry about a little staining, I think the brain can and does compensate for any minor colour shifts, then you dilute and mix often you are looking as much for pigment density as actual hue. A test strip of paper is more useful. it only needs to be a sliver. These porcelain dishes are more useful for gouache, three primaries and black/neutral and a white.
I don't mind mixing on plastic and metal. I recently made my own porcelain palette in a workshop and I love mixing on it. It is even better a surface than store bought porcelain plate.
I bought two 6x9” Rectangular white porcelain display trays with bump like edge for $4.99 each from TJMaxx. I love using porcelain for watercolor. But honestly they are not travel friendly😂
I have a mijello "bulletproof" palette. It's a plastic palette with a clear layer made with some ingredient used in bulletproof glass. It's got a good mixing surface and is pretty strong. It's supposed to be non-staining, but phthalo blue and green do stain it slightly. It's a really good palette overall as far as plastic palettes go, though.
Porcelain is the best, once you start using, other options become way less attractive. I have the Stephen Quiller porcelain palette for my main one at home, but I also have a few smaller porcelain dishes and plates for when I need. Having said all that, the metal palettes from Windsor & Newton or Meeden have been quite good, perhaps because of the paint they use to coat the surface. You can buy a porcelain paint, so that may be an option for what is otherwise a great plastic palette. Something to try, I suppose. :)
Being an artist in my free time (hence broke 😅) I found a cheap porcelain serving plate which is amazing for watercolors. I also use a porcelain sauce plate with three small sauce bowls to mix colors if I need them. The price for a porcelain mixing palette is 5 times more expensive than my serving plate, so I'm not gonna invest in one at the moment.
Same thing here! Sometimes when you want buy a something and it's dedicated to a specific purpose the price will hit the ceiling. I brought my new "porcelain palette" (sauce plate) in a pottery store, where they are selling "the end of series" stuff. And i could choose different sizes and shapes for a price of about 3-5 dollars ;)
I found a stack of porcelain flower palettes in my closet that I used to use for beading. I love repurposing art tools. Thanks for another informative video.
And here I always thought the idea was to paint something, not grade how the pigment/water act in a palette. I coulda' swore that, as long as the artist could get the amount of water and the amount of pigment they want in their brush and deliver it to the paper was how the quality of a palette was graded. Boy, do I feel silly. (NOT!) 🤦♂️
I wanted to comment again because I wanted to mention that my current favorite palette is actually a large, square, porcelain plate. Actually, I updated our dish set based on how I could use some of the dishes as watercolor palette. lol priorities, right?
I have the flower petals porcelain pallette. And I love it! I hate the beading up on the other! It drives me nuts!!! I always wondered why I never saw you using a porcelain one!! Took you a long time!!🤩 Lol ❤️❤️❤️
personally I like my palette to have a little bit of grip to it, I use a paper plate with wax coating... It should be noted I paint miniatures and models, so I need control over how much paint is on my brush and the shape of my brush
Teoh, thanks for this review of palettes. I’ve used all of these, and must say each has a place in watercolor painting. I have my favorite palette, which is porcelain, but I leave it in my studio. When traveling metal and plastic are my choices, for weight, and portability. Claudia
I would love if someone made a travel pallet with very thin porcelain mixing area. I would pay a pretty for penny for that. At home i use a porcelain egg tray with 12 deep wells that i got for $3, love it
I’ve been drooling over the same thought 😄. Some Japanese gansai and teppachi colours come in large porcelain pans. They are rather thin and wide; perhaps they can be attached to the inside of a tin palette with magnets.
I never been this early omggg Edit: I have a plain ceramic plate that I use as a palette but I usually use a plastic palette because it's lighter and easy to carry when travelling...
Exciting, because I’ve wanted one for a long time too. I did just switch from plastic to a ceramic plate this week. But I’d prefer to have what you found. Are you going to give us a link to that palette? Thank you!!
