Can you tell what this is?
Looks pretty cool, huh?
To scale:
If you guessed it's paint then you're right. I paint with acrylic paint, which basically turns to plastic when it's dry. I never clean my pallet when I'm done painting, I just cut away the layers when they build up too high. Every few months I put a new blade in my Xacto and start hacking away, and peeling back pretty cool-looking-if-you-ask-me layers of paint. I try and get big chunks.
But most of the pieces end up small.
Like-a dis:
I don't know what do do with my pallet layer chunks. But the're so cool looking I don't throw them away. I'm not a pack-rat I swear. I tried putting them in a little bowl for decoration:
4 comments:
That's really pretty! But how do you know which paint is wet and usable and which is dry old??
It all dries so fast...I'll usually paint for an hour at a time, and go off and do something else while paint dries (30 min at least.) Then I come back and it's dry on the canvas--and dry enough on my pallet to just squirt more paint on top and continue painting. After about 24 hours it's dry enough to cut away if I want to.
Very cool! The pieces look great in a bowl, too--definitely worth saving! I never let that much paint get built up on my palette because I was too addicted to the pleasure of peeling those lovely plasticky layers off!
I like the bowl idea. Fun!
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