Jack Richeson420715 Porcelain Palette 12 Well Round with Plastic Cover

the palette is great but the plastic cover certainly is not what I expected. Cover is a big disappointment!

The porcelain is lovely to mix on and easily cleans. I’d mistakenly assumed the cover would be a snug-fitting lid, but it is simply a loose cover. Nevertheless it does keep the wells of paint free of dust and overall I’m very glad I found this product.

Wipes clean easily and works beautifully.

Great for mixing small amounts of color in preparation for a painting. White porcelain shows color accurately and is so easy to clean. I don't recommend porcelain for traveling as it would break fairly easily.

This fine porcelain palette is without any equivocation, one of the very best watercolor paint palette available. While there are many less expensive choices, there is nothing that approaches the quality of fine porcelain for mixing watercolor paint, particularly tube watercolors. With 12 depressions for paints, the palette allows the artist to mix multiple levels of 'wash' and multiple colors of paint so that it is possible to paint the entire painting without the need to resort to additional palettes and mixing bowls. Additionally, fine porcelain, unlike plastic and other cheaper palette substances, is NOT stained by the paint. While the plastic palettes will often stain such that the color cannot ever by fully cleaned off the mixing depressions. Serious artists, particularly watercolor artists using tube paints all find fine porcelain to be the ultimate material for mixing and laying out paints. The clean white color helps to offset the actual color that is created by the artist's mix. This palette is recommended over all other porcelain palettes available on the market. The mixing depressions are deep enough to get a good wash and the two larger center depressions allow for one with fresh water and one with water to wash the brush clean of the last color so as to make switching from one color or wash to another a trivial and easy matter. This porcelain palette comes highly recommended and while complex paintings may require two of them due to the multiple washes and multiple colors, this porcelain palette cannot be beat. Do not hesitate to make the investment in this highly useful and excellent artist's tool.

This is a fantastic product. Finally something that lets me mix watercolors without separating like liquid metal. But I have to say this - when I received the product I realized after looking at it up close and thinking of the logistics of doing on location watercolor sketches that I needed to buy another one. Here's why - I came to the conclusion that if I filled all ten wells with watercolor pigment there simply wouldn't be enough room to do any actual mixing without contaminating the paints while doing any mixing. So I placed an order to get a second one which would solve my problem which is how to mix watercolors without diluting the original colors. One tray I'll use to load up the tube watercolors and the other tray I use for the actual watercolor mixing. I could use just one tray but in that case I'd only be able to fill five wells with pigment and leave the other five wells empty for the actual mixing of the colors. But that's just my choice. This is a lot easier to carry than trying to lug a Tom Lynch palatte which is simply too heavy while walking great distances. In summary this is a great choice for open air watercolor sketching but in my view getting two of them is a wise choice - more flexibility for color loading and mixing.

The lid is a cheap, ill fitting piece of clear plastic, half inch larger then the pallet. Just falls off, no seal. Useless!!

Works well for small washes and painting. The "lid" on mine is too big to contain -- its more of a cover over. When the description states it has a lid, I assume it's a lid that actually fits the container it's matched to. Not the case here.Having said all that, I think this ceramic palette is good for detail work where you only need smaller amount of paint or wet on dry painting.