Palettes
The painter daubs colours on a palette then mixes them with a brush or a paint knife. A palette is often used for many years and so ends up entirely covered with paint. And painters often grow attached to their old palettes. Those that have been preserved retain some of the intimate imprint of the artists themselves. At once personal and symbolic palettes are like of a living memory of the artists who held them while creating the works we so admire today. Beyond their functionality, they are themselves abstract compositions sometimes characterized by harmonious and ordered layers of paint and sometimes by total random splashes of colour.
