How to Stop YOUR Acrylic Paints From Drying Fast!
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- How to STOP Acrylic Paints From Drying Fast!
Jed Dorsey put together this quick and informative Acrylic painting tutorial for beginners that teaches you how to stop your Acrylic Paints from drying fast. He teaches how to use a Masterson Sta-Wet Palette and paint box to keep his paints dry forever.
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I'm going to get a wet pallet.Up till now I've used small containers with lids and stored them in the refrigerator. That also works for me, an 80 yr old gran!
I am a relative newcomer, but I love Jed's style of teaching. He is easy to understand, and he does explain things for us all. Thank you.
You're very welcome! :)
Same here He speak fluently and clearly. 😊
I’m excited to start your 2024 class. The one thing I have the most problem with would be mixing my colors to get the right color I need. Clouds trees and shading is what I’m hoping to learn.
Thank you Jed, I usually have to spray my mixed paints but they eventually end up drying on me. The process of pouring and mixing paint is a bit difficult for me being a quadriplegic. The crazy thing is I never painted before I lost my hand function. I think the paper and sponge is going to help me greatly.
Thanks for the hydrogen peroxide tip. It solves a big problem for me!!!!!
To prevent mold in the wet pallet, I put several copper pennies under the paper around the edges. The copper prevents mold from growing.
Also, I'm cheap, so I buy sponge air conditioner filters for the sponge and parchment paper for the paper. I get a pack of 200 papers already 12x16 size . Amazon.
I love this!❤ I always have an issue with my paints drying out. Glad I came across your video.
Excellent information! Thank you!
For me the Masterson stay wet palette is a God send. However I use a sheet of glass over the sponge so I can more easily clean off the paint I no longer need leaving a fresh area to mix the next color. My MSWP no longer seals a well as it use to so I also place a small sponge on top of the glass before closing it up when done painting.
Do you have the glass in-between the paper and the sponge or do you actually just use the glass as a palette? I ask because I'm switching over from using a glass pallete to the MSWP. I haven't used it yet. Just curious about your setup because it might be something I could like
I have that palette paper and love it. I can leave for a week and still have fresh paint.
Getting ready to use acrylic for the first time, have never touched them. Actually it's painting for the first time. I've drawn for years. I experimented many years ago, had all the equipment, and someone came along and stole all my art supplies. Haven't tried since, but I want a medium that can cover some area. I draw with colored ball point ink pens and it takes for ever to do anything large especially large areas with one color. I had oils but acrylic seems simpler, I don't want to start getting hung up on all the oil paints stuff, maybe later. Your videos are what I need, thanks Jed.
Thanks! I quit using mine because it would get too runny. I will try it again. :)
I'm getting interested in painting again. Thanks for sharing.
This is awesome, thank you! Going to pick one up in the morning - will be a big help.
I’m disappointed in the new sta wet palette boxes as I used to be able to place the box on top of the lid. Now, you can’t, it’s all wobbly.
How much peroxide do you put in the water to soak paper & sponge in?
this was great info as I just received this new pallet. Very excited to give it a try. I live in very hot humid dry Panama SA and its been a struggle with my paints drying out.
Been using Stay Wet for years. For me the paint stays wet for many days. Love this pallet.
Thank you ,it’s wonderful to now that we can use ,to prevent mild on the pallets a damp sponge or paper ,thank you that is very good news . 🇨🇦👍🇪🇨
Great! Thanks for the tip. I'm a newbie and trying to get as many tips and ideas before I get started as I can.
Very helpful! Thank you!
Thank you for illustrating the palette.
Wow, 👍 great
So cool to see your business growing!! Love from Canada (:
Hi Jillian! Love back to you:)
I see this is like a year old video so you probably aren’t responding to comments at this time but I would like to talk about keeping your brushes moist while painting with acrylics. I use a product that I dip my brushes into periodically while I’m painting and clean them off with it because just rinsing them in water sometimes isn’t enough. The Farrells have impacted paint and by the end of the day your brush is pretty much ruined if you’re painting outside in the heat of Florida. So this brush cleaner I take with me. Clean my brush off and work the cleanser in well and rinse it really well in the water and then go back to painting with it. I have to keep my brushes reasonably clean as I’m working with them outside. Even inside the house I will go to the sink and clean my brush periodically and then go back and use them some more. Because the acrylic paint dries out on the brush just like it does on the pallet. And you can run through a lot of brushes that way.
Thanks for the tip Jed. This will help me considerably. I struggle with mixing colors and having them dry before I was done needing them.
Thanks a lot for posting this! Just a heads up the link to the stay wet palette does not open.
I use paper plates. I use two. The top plate I cut a wash cloth the diameter of the eating surface and glue it the the top plate. I spray the cloth with water and use binder clamps to hold the plates together and put it in the fridge. The bottom plate is disposable. The top plate is not.
very informative!!! thank you
Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you, great idea.
Thank you
Very interesting , I will be able to put your suggestions practice 🍁👍🏻
Thank you for sharing!
i bought the wrong one - didn't pay attention to size - so great tip about that! i have a small one. can't get used to it but will try with these tips! thanks!
Thinking of buying one but don't know what size is best. What is your experience?
Thank you for sharing such great info
Thanks for sharing
Hi,
I have a question. I am a hobby artist & my art ideas comes from pintrest & my techniques from youtube tutorials. Now in many videos glazing medium, gloss medium & a variety of medium are used. I don't know if i should buy everything or not. & if I do buy it then how to use such mediums....
I hope you can share some of your insights on the matter.
Thanks!
Very helpful
Excellent!!
What is that tray thing you are using to hold the wet palette?
Im new to acrylics - what are the best colors to start with (for mixing the widest range) when you have a limited budget.
Cheryl, the only colors you really ever need are the primary colors, red, yellow, and blue, and white. Every other color is made from these colors. Pure black is good to have to, but you can make many shades of "black" with blue and brown. Brown is made via equal parts of the primary colors. Making any color from primaries is very satisfying. Enjoy the process!
I agree with @mssusanmarie, but I use process colours, (CMY) and white, which allow very clean purples and pure turquoises etc.
very informative and educational. Have you tried an alternative to their sponge, such as paper towel? does it work?
Yes, I have tried paper towels, and they work great. I just fold them to be the correct size and make them 3 or 4 deep, and they work similarly to the sponge :-)
Good question!
@@JedDorsey Thank you! My Masterson's sponge is about 7 years old... I will try paper towels.
Great tips 😀😀😀
my biggest struggle is that I feel like i never have enough paint on my brush. It takes so much to make the canvas not show through. I'm using Merriy primed canvas pad. Is that not a good kind or do I just need to use more paint? I did your intro acrylic series (it was great, thank you!!) and it seems like your paint was covering your canvas more effectively than mine, as I followed.
Will parchment paper work in place of the Masterson paper? Thanks. Enjoyed the video.
It works fine but wrinkles up slightly more easily
I have two of the Masterson Stay Wet palettes. One has a blue cover and one has a red cover and they are the same size. My problem is that the tops have warped and won't close tightly. I have the medium size palette/box and also the little Handy Palette. Both of the lids of the smaller palette boxes fit nice and airtight. Any idea how to remedy this without buying another palette box? Thanks.
Hi Thanks for all the information Do you ever use Golden open Why or why not?
can I use alcohol instead of peroxide?
Great, informative video, Jed. I would like to create a stamp pad using acrylic paint, but not sure what to mix it with, or what pad to use. I was thinking using polyethylene glycol as a retardant and blank felt stamp pad. What do you think?
finding the right plein air easel! I deposited $250 with Soltek last June......still waiting.... should I ask for refund? But then what's next. french easel has too many screws and tighteners//lol . Prolific Painter wont take calls..so how do you know what to order?? Wave seems to be for a small palette area....I wanted larger. ???? EnPlein air looked alittle unstable but expensive. So I'm asking you the best of the best Plein Air guy. What would you buy?
Yes I m ready- born teady
Sometimes my paints get a bit jelly like the second day. Is my pallet too dry?
Seems like this would also work with gouache. Have you tried it with gouache?
One of my biggest struggles is how to make my acrylic landscape paintings look just as good as oil. I would like to have more blending time
Liquitex has a slow-dri blending medium. Golden acrylics has an acrylic paint retarder. There are diy recipes if you google it.
Instead of blending acrylic paints, I mix an in-between colour to soften the transition.
@@davidupton3186 thank you so much for your great recommendation David. I love it.
Masterson instructions say to soak the Palette paper for 15 minuets in very hot water.
my problem with acrylics is blending.
Please, what is a "small amount of hydrogen peroxide"? Is it a teaspoon, a tablespoon, or ... ?
So when you use either of those two things, you don’t need to store it in the fridge? How long does each of those last with paints? Thx 😊
Good questions. No, you don't need to store it in the fridge. I have a set of paints in the paint box that have been sitting around months and are still usable. Of course, in normal circumstances, you want to use them regularly, but if you do, they will last a long time. On the palette the paint will last for quite a while, too, but the problem there is that the moisture will dilute the consistency of the paint over time and also your paints can get moldy. I usually change my palette paper and paint every week.
Acrylic University by Jed Dorsey ok thx.. I had one of those pill cases n it doesn’t work that well lol I try to paint two times a week... can you send a link for those two things you suggest? Thx 😊
@@lisaromeo544 Did you ever get the link to two things-Masterson sponge, Sta-wet palette paper, but what was the paint box called?
@@SharonTatum3 no I didn’t... I think it’s just an art box or a box construction people use to put nuts n bolts in. You probably can find that at the craft store or home depot.. the masterson thing I believe you can find at Blick but I’m sure other craft stores have it. Hope that helps
@@lisaromeo544 thank you
Struggle: Remembering the ratio of colours when mixing a colour I had mixed and ran out of.
Why don´t you answer our comments ?
With a scull cap & a snotty attitude you could be Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad😉😂
No offense. Jit got a long neck 🙂
the problem many people have is that they want to paint with acrylic paint as if they had oil paint.
But that is wrong.
With acrylic paint you paint in a different way. A different technique is used. If you want to paint with acrylic paint as if you had oil paints, it is better to use oil paints straight away.
you can buy retarder to prevent to dry acrylic paint fast, but you can buy glycerine or propandiol, both mixed 50/50 is known as fogfluid for fog machines. 5% mixed to your color will retard your color for the next hours or day. the problem is that the color tacks not so good as before on your underground.
@@vikingvapor5722 Do you think I could make an ink pad from mixing acrylic paint and polyethylene glycol and putting it onto a blank felt stamp pad? I want to experiment with that, but maybe you have some advice?
@@debbiespringer7961 In my opinion,it will work for several hour,as long as the paint will build up a film maybe on day, not longer.
@@vikingvapor5722 Thanks. I'll just try and see what happens! I'm sort of treating the felt pad like a wet palette, wetting it with the water and pg before I put a layer of paint on it. We shall see...