Before traveling to Brazil I squeezed out a fresh palette of 19 paints for the trip and brought a few tubes to refill including greens, yellows and blues. There are not many differences between the Brazil palette and my usual palette; this blog is mainly a collection of thoughts on which paints were useful and some things I learned painting on the trip. The surprise was raw sienna (PBr7, second from left top row) a paint I do not use much but decided to bring it on a hunch that Brazil would require a lot of warm caramel-like colours. The weather was mostly sunny with occasional clouds in the morning, and clear/hazy skies in the afternoons. Raw sienna was good for sunlit earth, warm earthy wood and plaster hues, tree bark, and other highlights. In general I used a lot of the earthy colours (first five top row), and a lot of the green colours (last four top row). Yellow (PY154), dark green (PBk31) and dark blue (PB60 were heavily used. Orange and sky-blue were also popular colours. The magentas and reds were not too useful overall but when I needed them, for example magenta crotons, it was good to have those colours handy. Painting in Brazil required a mastery of yellow, green, and warm browns with splashes of rainbow colours here and there. Getting the greens to be light and bright with the correct hue (towards olive) without becoming muddy was a challenge. There were so many different kinds of trees and each had its own colour scheme. At Park Ibirapuera towards the end of the tip I let loose on the greens and it was quite an intense result! Its hard to compare my last trips to Brazil (2014 and 2017) with this trip given the amount of time that has passed, but one clear difference was my current palette is more flexibile for the unknown scenes one encounters on exotic locations. As time passes, these Brazil paintings will be ones to look back on and remember the warmth of the city, the scenery, and the family.
Update: the image has a few errors in its labelling, the orange labelled PO32 is actually PO62, and the dark red is PR175.
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