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 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;