Today we're going to be answering that age-old question is the bob ross mixing palette
really worth it we're going to go over what's good what's bad
and is it worth your money to buy a bob ross mixing palette well let's find out
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for you so what makes me an expert on the bob ross mixing palette well i own three of them which lets
me know everything good and bad about these mixing palettes that i want to share with you before
you dive into buying one the bob ross mixing palette is 24 inches long and 16 inches wide at
the handle and 12.5 inches wide at the tail it is made of clear acrylic plastic and ranges in price
from about $30 usd to $40 usd and that's it that's all the information you need to know about the
specs so what is good about this mixing palette the number one thing you're gonna notice about
this mixing palette here is how wide it is it's one of the widest mixing palettes that i've found
on any painting website or amazon you get this huge wide space which is perfect if you're a
landscape painter because you're gonna be going through a multitude of colors even better if
you're a wet wet painter because you're gonna be doing a lot of mixing and blending yeah still on
your mixing palette which is why i really like it now if you're wondering why mine is different when
it doesn't look like the clear one right here it's because i customized mine if you're interested on
how i did that i'm going to put you a card in the top corner there that'll take you through
it which i recommend doing if you buy this i really love the handle on this mixing palette
it gives you a few extra inches and as ladies will tell you every inch counts on most mixing pallets
you're going to see how the handle is kind of cut off and that's fine a lot of people like
that because they like the extra space for your hand for me i love the rail for one strong reason
if you're working on your painting and you're tapping things in or feathering it in or kind
of taking out a little bit of detail to add depth to your painting and you get excess paint on your
paintbrush very easy just to tap it out right here and go back to your painting and go back
and forth makes it very smooth and very seamless when it comes to the handle in general it's very
comfortable for the thumb and fingers your palm in general and as it rests across your forearm there
feels very comfortable for left-handed and right-handed painters the bob ross mixing
palette is an easy to clean up mixing palette due to the fact that it's made out of that clear
acrylic which means it's non-porous easy to wipe up and clean up if you want to know the best way
to clean any mixing palette did a video on that gonna put it in the top right corner make sure
you check that video out especially if you plan on buying this right here last good point i have to
say about this mixing palette is since it's made out of that clear acrylic it's very lightweight so
anybody can hold it and they won't feel fatigued for hours of painting on end well that's all i
have to say about the good sides what are the bad sides about this mixing palette well there's one
big one and i've seen this on tons of reviews of people that do this mixing palette here and
it's kind of prone to crack and i have one that is actually cracked right here at the thumb not
sure if you guys can see that i'll do a close-up there for you and uh i've been seeing a lot of
reviews of this recently about how the bob ross mixing palette isn't a good mixing palette because
it's prone to crack so allow me to address why this is probably happening to you yeah i think
it can crack mine has cracked but to be fair i dropped mine on a rock while i was doing some
outside painting but i've had this one for close to five years now and i've never had a problem so
if you don't want yours to crack there's a proper way to hold your bob ross mixing pellet first make
sure you don't have a death grip on the handle if you're gonna add more tension that's more
attention on the plastic which means it's gonna be more rigid which means when you push on it
more prone to break number two is make sure your bob ross mixing pallet is laying across the entire
section of your forearm that's gonna give it more area for it to rest on for when you're pushing
which means when you do that and you push with your paints and your paintbrush you're not putting
as much torque on the handle which is where things are prone to break so make sure you do those two
steps also you don't need to push the heck out of this thing get some nice movements in there
and lightly tap in if you have anything tougher you have to do hey this guardrail like i said is
closer to the hand you can go a lot harder here as opposed up here which is going to put more torque
on that handle so that's the correct way you want to use this mixing pellet which i feel like a lot
of people don't do they just go in there they go at the far end and they start hitting really
really hard and it puts too much tension down here no good so i address the cracking issue but
there is one big problem in addition to the cracking issue now i can't find any
information except what's on amazon it claims that this mixing palette of clear acrylic is
a quarter inch thick it is not not even close at closest it's an eighth of an inch thick
which means yeah it can crack and i will admit that it will crack if you don't treat this thing
with love and care and i feel like the bob ross company out there whoever owns them the weber
i'm not sure who owns it should technically make it a quarter inch which means take two of these
mixing pallets and it's gonna be so rigid that you can't damage it at all wouldn't it cost much more
in plastic just to create something this thick and it would be awesome if they could do this
this would be the best mixing palette on the market i mean i can't even hurt this thing
it's so awesome because it's got that quarter inch of thickness so what are my final thoughts on the
bob ross mixing palette do i think it's worth it yeah you know i actually do think it's worth it
even with all the issues if you use it the way i just explained this thing will last years and
years like i said i've had this for like four to five years and i've never had a problem with
it granted mine's customized which i recommend doing but if you can buy this for on a sale price
below like 30 dollars i think it's way worth it when it's around 35 to 40 it's a little bit of a
toss-up it really depends on what kind of painter you are if you're a wet on wet landscape painter
you want to paint like bob ross you are going to need all this space trust me you're going to
love mixing colors and having fun if you're just a traditional acrylic or oil painter out there
hey by the way yeah you can use this with acrylic paint just make sure you clean it up right away
i would say probably go with a smaller mixing palette if you're worried about cracking
yours because you're not gonna be able to put as much pressure or torque on it and you'll have a
little bit more control of that mixing palette but i have not found a mixing palette that is better
than the bob ross one because i love how wide it is but if you guys want to help me out and this
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