The oil painting palette is made of wood, plastic, glass, metal, paper and other materials. Its shapes include rectangle, ellipse, circle, folding and arm shape with arc curve. Wood is more common; The color palette made of wood or plywood shall be carefully polished and leveled, and shall be coated twice with linseed oil or varnish in advance to make the color palette no longer absorb oil;

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;