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Hi Ngaire
What colour ground do you paint on?
It's a pretty good rule of thumb to make your palette the same colour as the ground you're working on to - that way you're making it easier for yourself to judge mixing the colours and values you want as accurately as possible...
Traditional dark wood palettes are great if you favour a traditional reddish bole ground, obviously grey palettes work for grey grounds ans so on... personally I stick with a white palette as I paint onto white gessoed boards and canvasses... (I find a piece of white silicon baking parchment wrapped around an off cut of white card makes a fantastic surface to mix onto, especially for glazes as they move around beautifully on it - and no messy cleaning up too - just throw it away and grab the next clean sheet!)
Will be interesting to hear what you find works for you.
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