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Latest Addition To The Painting Desk

Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 4:51 pm
by vexillia
Latest blog article:
Ever since I started using talc to matt my acrylic paints I've run into a problem when using my paint palette. I place a small bottle of talc in the centre so I can dip my brush to matt paint as I go along. This means I often catch the bottle as I reach across it to the other side of the palette. I thought "wouldn't it be nice to get a rotating palette" with one of these I could just spin the palette.

Finding a commercial rotating palette proved impossible. I found lots of rotating Lazy Susans for cake decoration or plant stands but they were all to either too big, too expensive or both. Yesterday I solved my problem:

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Re: Latest Addition To The Painting Desk

Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 8:28 pm
by nigelemsen
Talc, to Matt paint? Please explain... To the uninitiated, I would have thought it just make the paint lumpy? Cheers

Re: Latest Addition To The Painting Desk

Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 12:31 pm
by vexillia
nigelemsen wrote:Talc, to Matt paint? Please explain... To the uninitiated, I would have thought it just make the paint lumpy? Cheers
Follow the link in the blog post which explains it all.