My palette setup has not changed much since last year, just a few adjustments and equivalent paints swapped in. During 2020 I bought a lot of new paints some of which were excellent but didn't suit my style or were redundant with the other paints. After significant trial and error I settled on these 19 paints for landscape painting. The top row starts with four earth colours ranging from yellow to brown to brick colour. The next four are cool dark colours good for shadows, violets and blue-greens. The last four on the top row are meant for creating a variety of greens. On the bottom row I have six very bright paints for highlights and for the sky. Last but not least is carbon black, which I keep in a separate compartment because it can get very messy. I put the colour category above the paint (D = Dark, and the letters are colour names), and the pigment code below the paint. So D-R is dark red, with pigment code PR101. I put an asterix on that one since it is actually a blend of two identical paints I have.
This is a quick palette cleanser I made in the sketch book before doing the palette painting above. After a bunch of night paintings my palette was a mess, encrusted with salt and carbon black all over the place. Night painting is indeed messy. I actually have the exact same palette with the same paints on them, one is for winter painting, the other for good weather painting. The only reason for doing this was because the winter palette is physically disintegrating, the hinge broke and the plastic is slowly cracking under the cold weather. But I will still use it to the bitter end.
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