How wet do you make your wet palette?

[Ovidius Incertus]

Thoughts?

 

I always feel I err too much on the side of paint preservation and end up with my paint too watery.  What's your metric for amount of water? 

 

FYI, my palette is just a homemade one out of a CD case sealed with some greenstuff, using paper towels as the base and parchment paper for the palette itself.

[JeffTibbetts]

I never feel like I have much control over it. I use a kitchen sponge with some actual wet palette paper I have leftover from an old one. It seems like it goes straight from too-little to too-much water, but I like very thin paints so I'm basically okay with it. I know that's not terribly helpful, but I'm looking for tips on how to regulate it. 

[Father Mehman]

I have the same problem as well. I think Tabletop Minions (or Minion - not sure about plurality) did a pretty good video on this on Youtube.
 
++EDIT++
 
Here is the link to the video.

[Guiltysparc]

I use a square tupperware tub, paper towels, and then a sheet of parchment paper over top of the paper towels and thats what i put my paint on.  I've never needed less thinning than that provides and if i need more i just wet the brush on the paper towel part a little bit.