Monday, June 2, 2025

Dry-brush texture palette

I made this quick dry-brush texture palette for a friend who's starting their painting journey with the Slap-Chop method. I made myself a similar one about a year ago but I forgot to post it here. It's a simple affair on an MDF base with leftover bits from my spares box and some junk from my 3-D printing 'broken bits' drawer. 

My first one had more 'stuff' and less brick and rock texture. I found the latter more useful in general so this one has about a 50/50 mix which I think will be ideal.

Before black-priming the whole thing, so you can better see the various 'junk' tossed onto the palette. These are surprisingly helpful to keep your dry-brushing from looking 'chalky'.
 

2 comments:

Prufrock said...

Hmm, that is interesting. I assume you use it to do a sort of 'test drybrush' before applying it to the actual figure or model. Would that be right?

Cheers,
Aaron

AJ (Allan) Wright said...

Exactly. also to 'dry out' the brush, which reduces the chalkiness of the dry brushing.