Since I first began playing with watercolor in 2005, I have arranged my chosen colors in “rainbow order”. Pigments have come and gone, but the order always ran from cool reds to warm blues or violets, followed by neutrals running from lights to darks. (Maybe because my mother’s family is related to Sir Isaac Newton who explored the colors of the rainbow?)
A few years ago I saw one of Jane Blundell’s palettes arranged in four rows of primaries plus greens and neutrals. The image stuck with me — so I finally switched my studio palette to a similar pattern. Those three pans on the far right are just extra colors for fun.
This large metal Schminke paint box came with dividers to hold the pans of paint; I removed them, freeing the space up for whatever configurations I choose. At first I attached pans with rubber cement, then I switched to blu-tac. Now I have attached flat magnets to each pan bottom. (I gave away most of the Schminke paints; I prefer Daniel Smith.)
The lines of the ink sketch are very wonky but that made it more fun to draw. There’s actually plenty of room — I may move the pans close together to make room for my most used brushes.
My choice of colors from top to bottom of each column:
REDS: quinacridone rose, pyrrol scarlet, quin. burnt scarlet, lunar red rock
YELLOWS: Hansa yellow medium, quin. gold, monte amiata natural sienna, raw umber
GREENS: Prussian green, serpentine, green apatite, perylene green
BLUES: phthalo blue GS, ultramarine, cerulean blue, indigo
NEUTRALS: grey of grey, buff titanium, burnt sienna, Jane’s grey
EXTRAS: cobalt turquoise light, phthalo turquoise, carbazole violet
I may add potter’s pink to these “just for fun” colors.
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