final tweak . . . I think

I couldn’t help it. My previous color chart just wasn’t quite right.

So I switched out the perylene scarlet for pyrrol scarlet — it seems to behave better in mixes. And then went ahead and purchased a brighter turquoise than the cobalt turquoise light that I already had — I chose phthalo turquoise because it’s two components both mix well.

I replaced the blue apatite with indigo. Actually, I mixed my own indigo — Daniel Smith’s indigo is made of indanthrone blue and lamp black; I mixed a bit of indanthrone blue with the lunar black I already had, stirring them right in the pan with a toothpick. I think next time I will use a bit more blue and less of the black.

When I did this chart yesterday, I was fighting to keep my brush and the paints wet enough — it’s been very hot and dry here lately. So the mixing swatches aren’t as smooth as I hoped for but they give me an idea of what colors I’ll get.