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  • <h4 class="dechead">On One Hand: It's Normal

    An artist doesn't worry too much about small amounts of dried watercolor paint left on a palette, but instead focuses on the work in progress. It is perfectly normal for leftover paint to dry on a palette. A painter simply learns to live with the little stains and spots that appear.

    On the Other: It Can Be Messy

    Using a palette caked with dried paint will cause new vibrant colors placed there to become a muddy mess. The new color mixes with the dry color and becomes contaminated, affecting the liquid paint tubes, brushes and work in progress. This can be frustrating, since a painter will no longer able to find that right color and his work can begin to look dull and muddy.

    Bottom Line

    Every painter has to find a happy medium between total chaos and total perfection. Worrying about rules will impede creativity, while ignoring mess will create havoc with paints, causing them to become contaminated and make the work look lifeless.

    Source:

    Handprint: tube, pan & liquid watercolors

    Journaling Superstitions: You Must Keep Your Watercolor Palette Clean

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