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Masterson Sta-Wet Handy Palette, 8.5in x 7in Airtight Stay Wet Palette, Keeps Wet Paint Fresh for Days, Acrylic Painting Palette with Lid, Seal, Perfect for Miniature Painting, Made in USA

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Color: White


Features

  • The Masterson Sta-Wet Palette System was developed by Masterson over 25 years ago and is unmatched in its level of functionality. The Sta-Wet Palette System keeps acrylics and other water-based paints fresh on the open palette. When closed, the airtight container keeps paints workable for days, even weeks.
  • This Masterson Sta-Wet Handy Palette has everything you need to keep your water-based paints fresh on the open palette. Best used with acrylic, watercolor, gouache, and water-soluble oil paints. Includes an airtight palette, 5 Sta-Wet Acrylic Paper Sheets, a 1 Sta-Wet Sponge
  • Masterson Sta-Wet Handy Palette 8.5in x 7in x 1in. The first wet palette developed in 1981 and is still the number one choice for artists. Made in Pennsylvania, USA. No more wasted paint! When closed, the airtight container keeps paints workable for days, even weeks. A custom wet sponge and special permeable palette paper provides the paint with a constant source of moisture. Paints will slowly absorb moisture from the sponge through the paper. Great size for miniatures and advanced or beginner artists wanting to work with a smaller paint mixing area.
  • Masterson Sta-Wet Acrylic Paper - Wet the paper and place on top of the moist sponge. This paper is reusable, strong, and will not easily tear, therefore a palette knife can be used. Both sides of the paper can be used
  • Masterson Sta-Wet Sponge - The cellulose sponge evenly and effectively transfers moisture to the Sta-Wet Acrylic Paper, extending the life of your paints. The cellulose sponge material provides the absorption level required for the Masterson Sta-Wet Palette System and is environmentally friendly.
  • Easy to Use Wet the sponge, wet the palette paper, place in the airtight container, put paints on the palette paper and begin painting. Close the airtight lid and your paint will stay wet, fresh, and workable until your next painting session.
  • For oil paints, remove the acrylic palette paper and sponge. Insert your favorite oil paint palette into the tray. The airtight container will slow the oil paint dry time and reduce oxidation. 8.5in x 7in New Wave Artist Palettes are designed to fit within the Handy Palette (white plastic, gray acrylic, tempered glass).
  • Compatible The Masterson Sta-Wet Handy Palette is compatible with all leading water-based paint brands such as Golden, Liquitex, Windsor & Newton, Apple Barrel, Arteza, Citadel Paint and more.
  • Made in Pennsylvania, USA

Description

No more wasted paint! The Masterson Sta-Wet Handy Palette keeps acrylics and other water-based paints wet on the open palette for hours. Once the lid is closed, the paints will stay wet and in workable condition for days, even weeks. The airtight acrylic palette features a patented sponge insert and special permeable palette paper. Together, they provide acrylics and other water-miscible paints with a constant source of moisture. Moisten the sponge and lay it inside the paint palette tray, then place the palette paper on top. When the lid is open, the paints will have an extended open time. When the lid is snapped shut, the Masterson Sta-Wet palette will maintain a moist atmosphere that preserves paints. In addition to its uses with water-based paints, the Sta-Wet palette can be used as an oil paint palette. For use with oils, simply remove palette and sponge and use the covered paint palette to store oil paints (oil palette paper not included). The lid has five prongs that provide structural stability and prevent any paints stored inside from contact with the lid. The Handy Palette is the ideal size for projects in the studio or classroom, and the small size also makes it great for travel.

Material: Plastic


Color: White


Brand: Masterson


Style: Modern


Product Dimensions: 8.5"L x 7"W


Material: Plastic


Color: White


Brand: Masterson


Style: Modern


Product Dimensions: 8.5"L x 7"W


Item Weight: 7.2 ounces


Is Dishwasher Safe: No


Is Oven Safe: No


Manufacturer: New Wave, LLC


UPC: 798527257785 729498071537 738998085708 777904292465


Global Trade Identification Number: 85


Item model number: 11000002


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No


Country of Origin: USA


Date First Available: December 7, 2005


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    • Best for use while actively painting.
Review Image by R. F. Parker R. F. Parker
I primarily paint with gouache, and this palette has made my life much easier. I've noticed lots of reviews talking about how long you can store your paint with this palette, but that is not what I need or use this palette for. First and foremost this palette is designed to keep your paints wet while you are painting, and to that extend it works fabulously. It also keeps my gouache active even over a few days while I'm working on a project, but long term storage really isn't what this palette is about, nor is it what I need. If you simply need a palette that will keep your paints from drying while you are actively painting, this product works great. If I need my paint to last overnight for a day or two I slip it back into the ziplock bag that it came in to increase the airtightness. I used to make my own stay wet palettes, but this has made my life much easier. If you want long term storage, while I think this palette can handle that for awhile, I don't think this is the product you should be considering for that, and honestly, you might need to change your workflow if that's a particular problem for you. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2024 by R. F. Parker R. F. Parker
    • Does what it says it does.. and more
Even though the reviews were not all favorable for this product, I decided to give it a try as I needed a way to keep pains that I mixed on the fly while painting to still be usable when I needed that color again. Both Acrylics and watercolors, the two modalities I use the most, are pretty fast drying unless you are also mixing in a retardant and that does not always work too well given that many retardants can over thin the paint hen you need a relatively heavy paint or one that will stay put and with the texture you want rather then turning it into a flowing paint that thinks gravity is more important than the artists placement of the paint. And I think we have all had a time or two where we played with basic colors for some time to get the exact color and tone or shade we wanted for a project, and we forgot retardant, or did not use it as it altered the color we were wanting or forgot to note the mixing recipe and when we came back to the dried up color it was difficult if not impossible to recreate it. For that alone i have found this product a life and work savior. When using watercolors I have yet to have a color dry up on me as long as I keep the sponge wet and rewet it if its drying out. After several months of using it with a watercolor project, that took 6 weeks to complete I did not lose one bit of pain to it drying up. I am currently working in acrylics doing a project with several objects that will all need to share some accent colors, at least, so I decided to try this with the acrylics and see what transpired. I am now 4 weeks into the project and have not has one color that was original put on the pad or any mixed colors from those original dry out.. I have found, however, that for me the instructions on how to keep the sponge wet by directly adding water to the palette to let the sponge soak up more water does not work as well as lifting off the paper layer and washing the sponge in cool water and replacing it in the palette in the same manner as the instructions had you do to set it up. I found that directly adding water to the sponge in the tray, while it will eventually travel through the entire sponge you can end up with areas near where you added the water wetter and a bit thinned while others, farther from the water addition not getting too wet or thinning out. Since the paper can be easily lifted out for cleaning it can also be lifted out for a short time so you can wash and rewet the sponge in a way that the water is the same amount across the sponge. then replacing the sponge and paper. I have seen where people have complained about growing some mold although I have not seen any. This could be because I do remove the sponge from the tray and rinse it well and then make sure its consistently wet and replace it, and I take this opportunity to also rinse the tray. I also use distilled water to rinse and wet the sponge and I microwave the paper as suggested in the instructions for hot enough water for the paper to be moistened with. Both of these will pretty much eliminate the chance that you have introduced mold into the system which will enjoy the wet surfaces. I live in an area that is consistently damp and mold is a real issue but have not had it be a problem with this palette. And given how the system works if you do find that mold crops up after a few days, there is no reason why you cannot set aside the paper, wash the sponge and the tray every few days and replace the paper without losing any paints on the paper. Tap water as well as just the air can carry mold spores and distilled water is definitely a deterrent, as it would be unlikely that there would be spores in distilled water and even if some get into the palette from the air or anything that touches the palette (fingers, tools, brushes etc) distilled water is not going to provide mold with much to thrive on. I have noticed many making suggestions of things to treat the palette with, such as Lysol and Vinegar but, unless your project calls for paints that have been altered in color or consistency by adding chemicals or altering the pH of the paint I would not suggest that as a solution. If you are going to be adding anything other than water I would not be looking at household cleaning products or vinegars or anything that will alter the pH balance. The only issue I have had, and its when using acrylics, is that if you are starting a fairly large product and star out with large amount of a color or mix a color in a large amount so your not faced with reinventing that color each time you run out, I found, at first, that I was dealing some paints drying enough to get a 'skin' across the surface. This is a common step that acrylics do as they dry so when a skin forms you know they are drying out which also can change the color. I found that using a palette wetting spray immediately after putting my colors on the palette, and using it again if I take the sponge out and clean and rewet it, or if I add some new colors to the those on the palette. The most palette wetting sprays, just from their chemistry, will retard mold development without disturbing the paint's pH level or altering the paint in any way, although it may result in thinning the paint if you overuse the spray. All in all, this palette does what it says it does and keeps paints, at least watercolors and acrylics, from drying out before they are used up and gives you the leisure of being able to mix and achieve a special color without worrying that if it dries out you may not achieve the same hue, tone or shade as you had with the first mix. Given that I am now into my 3rd month using the palette with acrylics and they are all still wet and usable, it does what it says it will do. I can't explain way some have posted about having issues where their paint drying out quickly. This could well be user error, either in not following the exact steps for setting the palette up the first time so that the moisture transfers well from sponge to paper. Just not creating an initial temperature gradient across from a cool sponge to paper that is initially treated with hot to boiling water. The paper does nt have to always be hot, but when adding a new sheet or after cleaning a paper, using hot water again would be important to the system. The other problems, such as mold, are again most likely user error - not using hot enough water on the paper originally so spores would be killed, and not doing upkeep such as cleaning the sponge and tray on a regular basis depending on how high the mold index is where you are living or painting. I have a friend that uses this brand of palette also, but lives in a very hot area with little humidity and a very low mold index who has never had a problem with it, even though she rarely cleans the system except between projects or if she is using it during their few weeks a year when they get monsoons and mold flourishes every where, in which case during those few weeks she rinses and rewets the sponge an cleans the bottom tray every 1-2 days. As for paints that seem to start to dry and develop a skin, as I mentioned, you can use a palette spray or else spread out the pants you have placed so that a larger part of them are in contact with the damp paper. Also make sure that the paint you are using is a water based, water soluble paint. Certainly that favors acrylics and watercolors. While oil paints that are water based seem like they would work well with this palette, the reviews are a bit mixed, although many that are using water based oils are usually also emptying traditionally oils in the composition too and putting a tradition oil paint on a palette that is using water to keep the paint usable is going to create a bit of a mess as the oil and water do not mix well or at all on a water wet palette. So if using oils, and using both oil and water based oil paints, it would be better to stick to a traditional dry palette. Of course with oil based paints you have a good log drying time, nothing as short as acrylics or water colors so there would not be a real reason for a palette that stays water wet all the time. However, if you are using ONLY water based oils, which tend to dry very quickly when compared to oil based paints, and is one of the attractive features of water based oils, this palette does seem to really extend the drying time factor of water based oils, however water based oils seem to end up getting thinned a bit more with them in constant contact with a wet paper then acrylics and watercolors do. This is definitely a product I recommend to other artists and to my students, if for no other reason than it certainly saves money on paint and for students that are just getting the hang of mixing paint and color management, requiring them to have this palette as one of the tools for the class has ended the frustration for them of finally getting the right mix for the hue or tone or shade they need, at one class, and coming back a day or two later and finding it all dry and unusable and they are faced with having to remix and recreate their color. One tip that a student came up with and I have started to employ , is that if you have a range of color on a palette and don't want to clean the paper or use a new paper because there is not room on the current one to even add any more paint, let alone mix anything, the student found that he could buy a flat sponge that was close to the size of his Sty-wet paper, get it wet and slide it into a ziplock bag taht can close air tight and then place his palette paper on the sponge with another piece of palette paper, also moist, on top and seal the bag while making sure he removes as much air as possible and then stored the bag flat on a shelf.. He did that, to see if he could preserve a palette paper and after 6 months he opened it back up to find the paints and his mixed paints totally usable. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2020 by Pam
    • Works great
Good wet palette for miniature painting! Paper it comes with is too heavy for acrylic paints meant for minis tho. parchment paper works well
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2024 by Sterling Decal
    • Works but differently from what others experienced
So far I've been using this for about a month now and been pretty happy with it, however there are a few issues. 1) the middle of mine is 'bowed' upwards so it's not flat. Unsure if this is on purpose or not. This caused one of my more watered down paints to run to the side and stain my sponge. 2) The Sta-Wet paper started to absorb my paints. I'm using this for D&D Miniature painting, using Reaper and Citadel paints. The Reaper paints seemed to work fairly ok though they did seem to dry out (not harden just get super thick) pretty fast and need to be watered. Watering down the paints I noticed that the paper was absorbing it like ink. Before anyone get's uptight, I followed the directions to a T for the paper. Properly heating it up and everything. I read all the reviews and took notes from other painters on how they handled the paper. It still acted pretty weird, almost like water color paper. 3) When I tossed my Sta-Wet paper I noticed that it had absorbed the paints so much they had stained the sponge underneath where the paints were, confirming my suspicion that this had indeed been the case. After talking to a fellow mini-painter I decided to toss the current sheet I was using and picked up some Reynolds Parchment Paper, cut some sheets out, then SUPER soak my sponge rather than keep it kinda dryer like many other users have suggested. The difference is night and day. I'm using 100% of my paint and there is absolutely no thickening/drying going on unless it's been sitting there for a week. The Reaper paints are already pretty watered down and usable straight from the bottle. The Citadel paints need to be watered down a bit for my use. While the Sta-Wet paper was absorbing my paints, the parchment paper is working well to keep my paints at the perfect consistency, though sometimes the Reaper paints get a bit watered down so I have to be careful not to soak the sponge too much. It's also not being absorbed at all. I think the difference comes down to the paints. If you are using artist paints for actual painting and not paints specific for miniature painting the Sta-Wet paper will probably be perfect for your needs. If you are doing miniature painting with any of the major miniature specific paints (Reaper, Citadel, Valajo, etc) then I think the paper just sucks it up like a sponge. Maybe the mini-paints are more watered down? Not sure. It still works, just grab a roll of parchment paper and you'll be golden. ((Though be careful of what paper you get. The Reynolds I linked above works great but I've had other parchment paper not work at all. Dragon Con had some pre-cut circles they had ordered that worked great for them but not sure what brand. Some parchment papers have a coating on them that stops the water transfer.)) ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2018 by Lethann

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