Anyway. I have 3 new palettes on their way to my stash, err, home.
I saw someone using this fabu traveling palette when I was at ReaperCon. He ordered it from Amazon and then I ordered all that were in stock. No, I'm not going to hoard them. They were simply too cool not to share and already I have 3 of the 4 "extras" sold to fellow club members. And the last one will go quickly to someone who doesn't follow our forum.
Note the very nifty lid which can double as a quick wet palette if you carry a few pieces of baking parchment. Handy, isn't it? It measures about 3 x 4 inches so it's quite portable. With the addition of a rubber band, I think.
Next on the block is the big one for when I'm working with lots of colors. I don't know if this one will travel or not. I do need something that stays on my paint table more regularly.
This sucker has, count them, 28 wells and a large area for washes or a teeny wet palette if you're into that kind of thing. It's more of a beast at 7 1/2" by 6" so I think it's going to become my at-home palette.
Then, because I saw them and couldn't resist (addition, remember?) I got these nifty little suckers.
I honestly don't know how useful they will be. They're 3 3/4" in diameter and stack up to about 4 1/2" including the lid. The height of the stack makes them a little iffy to transport but again they might turn out to be very useful for army painting or other things that need a lot of paint in few colors. Rubber band for these as well.
To round out the order I picked up some more brushes. I've been meaning to order another Size 1 and kept forgetting so I got that and a few different brands of Size 2, just to see what I like. I did that with Size 0 only to find they're too small to really compare. So I splurged. Then added another brush to get a discount. I think it ended up as a wash cost-wise but if you think about it I got a free brush. Makes my head hurt too.
The big palettes are on back order so I don't know when that order will show up. The covered palettes should be here sometime soon and I'm looking forward to trying it out. It may end up as a permanent part of my travel kit. Right now I have a regular 12 well palette that I take with me but occasionally pull out for my paint table. And to clean.
Oh, um. I forgot that I got one of these too.
It's a bit large at 9" but I can see using it for some of the minis I paint with lots of dabs of color and for terrain when I need more paint on the palette. Yes, those are complete justifications for buying yet another palette.
So now you know. I'm a palette junkie. If you know of any other cool palettes please put the links in the comments so I can spend more of my hard earned money on them.
FYI - everything except that first covered palette is from Cheap Joe's Art Stuff if you're interested in what else they have to offer.
