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Materials & Techniques
Introduction |
Easel |
Brushes |
Canvas and Ground |
Oil Paints and Bladders
Ready Made Paint and Medium |
Varnish |
Porcelain Palette |
Frame
Porcelain Palette
Millais used a porcelain palette rather than a wooden palette because it was smoother and easier to clean and he could
keep his colours pure.
He also chose an oval shaped palette rather than a rectangular one.
Oval palettes were designed to be held and rectangular palettes would have been placed on a table.
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Detail of Millais's palette by Sir Thomas Brock, 1904
© Tate, London 2003
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