What Is a Color Pallet?

The palette is a flat surface used to reconcile and set aside fresh pigments. Generally, it is a circular palette or an oval palette.

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A flat shape used to blend paint when painting

According to shape, it can be divided into circular palette, oval palette, rectangular palette, etc.

According to the material, it can be divided into wooden palette, plastic palette, and paper palette

The oil painting palette is made of wood, plastic, glass, metal, and paper. The shapes are rectangular, oval, round, foldable, and arms with curved curves. It is more common to use wood boards. ;

Color palette

Use wooden boards or plywood to make the palette carefully polished and smooth, and should be painted twice with linseed oil or varnish beforehand to make the palette no longer absorb oil;

The color of the palette was mostly brown in the past, due to the use of dark backgrounds in early oil paintings, which facilitated accurate color matching. For example, white and gray palettes can be used if light backgrounds are used;

It is best to use the white palette to adjust the transparent color in the overpainting stage of the transparent painting method, so that the effect after coloring can be estimated more accurately;

After each work, the remaining color should be scraped off in time and the palette should be wiped clean with solvents such as turpentine. Finally, the palette can be wiped with linseed oil to make the surface smooth and smooth to protect it

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Color palette

If necessary, the material can be carefully scraped off and placed on a smaller glass plate and immersed in water for the next use. Covered painting tables should be covered in time to prevent the paint from drying;

Some painters do not often arrange the palette and let the pigments dry to weathering. Although the use of dry and wrinkled waste pigments can express special texture, it should be noted that the long-lasting colors are placed on the palette due to the drying of the oil There is a danger of losing adhesion;

In the early days, western painters usually adjusted the dark and bright paints according to the colors of the pictures and put them on the palette. Modern painters chose and blended paints on the palette according to their personal habits and color needs;

The basic arrangement of the pigments on the palette has a certain regularity, so that it is easier to find the pigments and it is not easy to make the color dirty

There are several ways to arrange pigments:

One is to arrange the hue and lightness of the color from white to dark, and warm to cold in order from white;

The other is to use white as the center, and separate the cool and warm colors into two sides according to the shade;

In addition, you can add the same light color blended with white under each main color.