The Marble Palette

It took two hours of scraping to get the old paint off my marble palette. The paint had to be two years old because I have been using a small glass palette in the studio for a couple years. The glass was too small and just not the best feel.

So I finally broke down last weekend and got out the putty knife and razors and took all that old paint off, colors left over from paintings long gone now. After a while I got down to the large marble surface. I even put it in my kitchen sink to wash it with soap and water for the final cleansing.

Yesterday morning I laid out my paints on the marble; light to dark;warm to cool across the top and began to mix the colors on the marble surface again.

What a difference.

Working oil paints and linseed oil on the marble is mixing your colors on a superior surface. There is a tooth to it. Mixing the oils actually makes a distinct sound on the smooth stone.

I will never use anything else in the studio again as my palette.