Its been awhile since the last palette update, where I paint out the current palette setup and muse over my colour choices. I actually have two palettes now, identical in most ways, which helps to always have a clean one ready to go especially after doing a night painting which really messes it up! As usual I have a range of earth colours, yellow ochre, green umber, burnt umber and red ochre. The darks include deep scarlet, dark magenta, indo blue, phthalo green blue shade, and perylene green. To mix greens I also include phthalo green yellow shade, yellow, and orange-yellow on the top row. The bottom row has 5 warms: yellow, orange, red-orange, red, magenta, and the blue which is used just for skies and making violet when needed. Black rounds out the palette choices. I tried using PO36 for awhile as the red-orange but I found that it mixes a brownish colour when combined with indo blue. Now I have a large sized tube of Winsor and Newton's red orange which is PO73 (pyrol orange), which mixes a dark neutral violet with indo blue that is perfect for night skies. The PO73 is a more versatile mixer than PO36, and it has one of the highest chromas of any paint. The slight downside is that PO73 is little less stable in light compared to PO36 which is rated as indestructible by MacEvoy on Handprint.com. Having said that, PO73 is still pretty stable and MacEvoy had high regard for the pigment, so its good enough for me. On the top of the scan you see a portion of a test painting I did for a World Inspired Landscape painting, which is now complete. Try and guess the country just by looking at the segment!
Palette Update November 2023, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour pad November 2023
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