Using Your Palette

The other day someone sent me an email saying “Hogwash!” (meaning rubbish) to an article I’d written where I’d talked about the importance of your palette. I duly re-read the article. My point was, take as much time as you need to prepare your palette – and then the actual whatever-you’re-doing (e.g. undercoating, tracing, strengthening, flooding etc.) is relatively easy. And I will never change my mind about this. Therefore I am very glad I provoked this response above. Because this reader then terminated his subscription to the free newsletter we send out. And that is very good because we cannot help him.

Now for you. I understand I must convince you and that I cannot expect or demand that you should trust me. So I ask you to consider these articles and weigh up for yourself the importance of the palette. For me, it’s the place where you transform the paint to the density and consistency you want. If you don’t do this properly, then even the best brush in the world in the hands of the best glass painter in the world will court disaster.

And you? What do you think?

Here are several articles about the palette as such. When you want to know more, see the evidence by looking at the articles about tracing and also undercoating … that’s where you will see the palette in action.