Since I just squeezed out a fresh palette last night, I had to use my backup palette today since the fresh one was still tacky. I prefer to let the paint dry firmly on the palette before using it. Some watercolour painters only use the paint while wet, but I find that to be impractical on location. The backup palette had no blue paint to speak of, there were a range of earth and warm with a small blob of blue-green (PG7) and quin purple (PV55) which could be combined to make a blueish grey. You see the tints in the road. The purple and green worked well with all the warm browns, yellow and orange of the building. Quinacridone is an important, revolutionary, class of pigment that is very stable and covers a wide range of orange-red all the way to dark purple. This PV55 version is quite recent, the one I use is from Daniel Smith, but I had one from Winsor and Newton that was even bluer. I quite like this colour even though it is not very useful on location unless I am painting in expressionist style like today. The main reason quinacridones exist is for lipstick pigments, they can also make the kind of pink you might see in a Barbie movie for example.
Somerled Purple and Green, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, July 2023 (No. 3498b)
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