Art Advice: Making an Everlasting Paint Palette

One of the most commonly-heard complaints about working with acrylics is that they dry out, and dry out fast. You could be working on a painting, really getting into it when… whoops! That color you put on your palette thirty minutes ago has already solidified. And with the price of paint and the stress of re-mixing the same colors, you might be looking for a longer-lasting solution.

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Shrink Plastic Fun!

shrinkydink1 What’s that??! you ask. That’s a 2.5″x2.5″ sheet of shrink plastic (with an alien painted on) being shrunken to 1″x1″ (roughly) via heat gun. As a kid, I used an oven and could wait some 15-25 minutes to wait for my “shrinky-dinks” to transform to their shrunken size, but it takes only about half a minute under a heat gun. Good deal!

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