16 June 2022

my current palette

For anyone curious about other sketchers’ palettes, this is a chart that I recently made of the current watercolors in my supply drawer. I seldom carry all of them with me.

Many are convenience colors that I just happen to like; for these, I added a side swatch trying to mix that color from my other selections. Quinacridone Rose is interchangeable with Quinacridone Red — I have a tube of each and can’t decide which I prefer. When the Piemontite is used up, I’ll probably replace it with Quinacridone Burnt Scarlet (correction) Lunar Red Rock.

On the reverse side, I made notes of each paint’s pigment code and properties. All are from Daniel Smith except Potter’s Pink, Cobalt Turquoise Light, and Perylene Green — these are from Winsor & Newton.



2 comments:

  1. Vicky what a great way to keep track of your palette of colors. Thanks for sharing. Hope you have a great weekend.

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    1. Hello, Debbie! I do something similar every few years to keep track of changes in my pigment preferences over time. Somewhere, I still have a color-mix chart of the first 12 colors recommended by John Lokke, the artist-friend who introduced me to watercolor in 2005!

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