The color palette is the springboard for painters to create. It is difficult to determine the time when the color palette is produced, but as an essential tool for oil painting, it can represent the personality and work spirit of painters. Some painters use color palettes to make color drafts before coloring, to explore the structural relationship of large colors, and then transfer these colors to the screen in sufficient quantity.

The color of the palette used to be brown, because most of the early oil paintings used dark background, so it is easy to mix colors accurately. For example, white and gray palettes can be used if light background is used;

In the mask dyeing stage of transparent painting, it is better to use a white palette to adjust the transparent color, so that the effect after painting can be accurately estimated;