3 DIY Palettes for Acrylic Painters

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Hello, my gorgeous, beautiful, wonderful Queen Beats. It is the girl Amanda the buzzed artist. Welcome back to my channel

It's DIY time, Queen Beats. I'm going to show you how to make different types of palettes

These are all inexpensive options that you can use and make yourself at home for your acrylic paintings

Plus, I'm going to show you one type of palette that you can make that will help keep your acrylic paints wet for much, much longer

So with that being said, let's get to the video. Okay, the first type of palette is a glass palette

This is something that I actually saw on a... another YouTube video from The Creative Glow

I'm going to link to her video in the description below because I thought this was such a great tutorial

What I actually used here is an old picture frame that I got at Dollar Tree

So this probably cost me about a dollar to make in total and along with all the other paint supplies that I had on hand

So what I did was I removed the glass from the picture frame itself

placed down newspapers on my work surface, as well as grabbing some of my acrylic paints and supplies

I decided to go with a cold gray color as the background for this

palette helps with your color tones when you're mixing. So I used Arteza's cold gray, basically a

combination of acrylic white, Mars black, and a little bit of ultramarine blue. So if you just do

equal parts of those three paints, we'll get the same exact color. I took that paint and I

did one even coat using the same uniform brush stroke with a three-quarter inch flat wash brush

A few moments later. Okay, so you can already see this is coat number two

and it's already starting to become pretty opaque. So I think I'm going to wait for this part to dry

and do one more coat of the cold gray, and then we're going to turn it over and continue on

Once that was done, I turned the glass over just to make sure that I wasn able to see any streaks If I did I just went back in with a couple of strokes just to make sure that I had my surfaces covered Eventually Finally dried I was going to flip it over

and you can see how it creates this nice gray background. Obviously, you can put the paints right over here

and we don't have much of an issue. You'll notice that there are some paint excess

that kind of leaked onto this side, because you can take it like an Xacto knife or any utility knife, really

Break the paint right off. Then came time to put in the duct tape

So what I did was I took my picture frame and I turned it back over to the side

that had the paint exposed to it because I want to make sure that that gets protected

What I ended up doing was I took strips of duct tape and beginning with the first strip

I made sure the first strips such that it hung about halfway between the glass

edge and on the backing of where I painted on the surface and then I folded it over

This is just to make sure that I have optimal coverage and also that the duct tape will not fall off

So after making the first strip, we add more strips all abutting each other going down the backing of my palette here

I don't want my layers to overlap until I got to the last strip where I again made sure that the duct tape aligned almost halfway between where it landed and folded over onto the other side

of the glass palette. Once I finished laying my strips, I then removed the excess strips on the side of that

palette using an Xacto knife on a safe work surface. And from there, I went ahead and took the last

strip of duct tape, folded it onto the glass palette itself. And from there, we were ready to use it

And Queen Bees let me just say using glass pallets are really a fun and great way to start as an acrylic painter because you waste less paint It really great for color mixing and the cleanup is super easy All you got to do is take a damp cloth wipe off the excess paint If the paint is dry scrape it right off

This next palette is extremely easy to make. All you need is a sturdy work surface of some sort and some aluminum foil. In this case, I decided to use a clipboard because it's something I had on hand. It's sturdy enough and it was just a sturdy

just the right size that I needed. So I just tear out the appropriate amount of aluminum foil I

wanted to use and wrapped it ever so nicely around the clipboard surface and then proceeded to

start painting. Pretty easy, peasy lemon squeezy. And then once I was done with my painting

I simply just remove the aluminum foil itself and dumped it. Pretty fast and smooth cleanup

Now this DIY palette is a tray palette and can be perfect for keeping your acrylics wet for much, much

What you need to start with is a tray or any flat surface with surrounding walls to keep items inside and to not leak out

I used a cookie tray that I had in my kitchen, but many artists that do invest in ceramic or plastic trays for their pallets

Then using either paper towels or shop towels, create four layers inside your tray

Then pour a generous helping of water on top of your towel layers

Make sure there isn't a lot of excess water, aka water that couldn't be absorbed by your towels

You just want enough for your towels to completely soak up. Then take a roll of parchment paper or tracing paper and add it right on top of your wet layer of towels and of course cut it to size to fit your tray

This will create a safe, non-invasive surface for your paint to rest and to be readily mixed

Then you are ready to use your wet pallet. I've made my wet palette. I've put my colors in. I'm mixing them up

Now I going to do a little test I going to set them down and forget about it for a while Check back later and actually see if any of the acrylics ended up drying or if it stayed wet Once you are finished and want to take a break set your palette aside and place a large to topper onto the tray to help keep the paints wet for longer and also be sure to leave a

little bit of space between the tray opening to allow for circulation. The next day

Alright so this is a paint dollop that I put in about 24 hours ago and you can see it's

already pretty dried up. Now let's go check on the palette that also

set around this time. Oh wow, so yeah, you can already see the paint is very wet still

Yeah, you can already see like how shiny it is so it's still basically wet and it's going to touch it

Yeah, that is very wet paint. Let's just check this splotch here. Okay, so this, this kind

some parts dried up a little bit, but other parts did it. So interesting. We still have

some very viable palette paint to use, so it totally worked. That's awesome. To keep your

palette wet, all you need to do is just keep adding more water to the towels underneath

and then make sure that the parchment paper is making good contact with the wet towels underneath

so that you can continue using this wet palette. And best of all, once you are completely

done with your palette, just roll up the parchment paper and throw it away. Pretty easy

clean up. Okay, my queenbies, I hope you enjoyed this video. So what did you think of my

DIY palette ideas? Would you use it? Have you done your own palettes before? If you have

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