I have brought some acrylic paints but i didn't buy a mixing pallet, is their anything in the home i could use

Answer 1

There are plenty of things around the house you can use. TThere are plastic lids, egg cartons, etc...

Make sure if it's plastic that it's something where the paint can be scrapped off later. I use bottle caps on the extremes since they are so disposable.

Answer 2

A white Styrofoam plate works great. I use them all the time. Simply throw away when finished or cover with another plate and place a weight - jar of paint - on top to keep it air tight....works well. I have tried all types of pallets but they never come clean enough with stains and a fresh white surface is what you want. Hope this helps. Have fun!

Answer 3

My brother in law once made me an excellent palette out of a piece of thick plexiglass but you can use anything that won't absorb the paint.

I recently bought this inexpensive yet terrific item at a Michael's craft store:
http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayProductPage?productNum=cp0168
It's palette that holds disposable styrofoam plates and is manufactured by the Folk Art company. You just toss the plates when you're done with them, beats cleaning a palette.

Answer 4

a piece of glass will work really well, because you can get it completely clean and it should be fairly portable. Just be careful not to cut yourself on the glass edge if it's a pane. There are glass palettes that have rounded edges that also work. I generally put a plastic bag over cardboard, that also works short-term, but it can be runny with acrylics because of the water. an egg crate also works to keep the running/bleeding down.

Answer 5

I cover an old spare kitchen cutting board in aluminum foil whenever I use acrylics. I've never bought a palette, as the foil-plan has been working just fine. You'll never have to clean it or scrape off paint like you would on glass, just rip off the tin foil and you're done!

Answer 6

Any plastic lid from a disposable container will do. The bigger the better. Maybe one that you can cut a thumb hole in. or even on of those plastic cutting board they are about 4" by 6". You can get them from the dollar store for $1. I would not recommend using it for anything else. Then use the handle cut out for placing your thumb.

Answer 7

i think of liquitex it the suited for the fee. dont choose for fundamentals by using fact they are too watered down and skinny, there or some that are approximately 5-7$ a that have a white tube. somewhat you go with for cobalt blue, yellow, cadmium crimson, titanium white, burnt umber and black in case you somewhat want it ( its suited to make a shade darkish with the cobalt blue). additionally a stable ingredient to get w/ acryllics is a matt or gloss medium, so which you will skinny the colours down and perform a little layering, and you may coat your artwork besides.

Answer 8

A bit of chipboard, an old plate, a piece of plastic or stiff cardboard. You can use anything really. Cover it in foil or cling film if you want to reuse it. You dont need to fork out for a pallette if you dont want to, I've never bothered.

Answer 9

wax paper is a great surface to work with because it's so flat.
any smooth surface is fine to work on. even newpaper, if you don't have anything else.

my mom paints and she prefers to use a plate. the same ones we eat off of, the paint comes right off with dish-soap.

Answer 10

You can use platic egg cartons, paper plates or even regular plates. You can use almost anything flat and smooth that is not too porous. Almost anything plastic would suit your needs and you'd be recycling as well.