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Palette Swatches

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Since I've had a few questions asked about the colours that I use in my palette, I decided to explain it visually. My palette has 24 colours (up from 18), selected for various reasons. Even though some of the colours look similar, they handle differently when painting and produce different effects. I won't get into individual colour choices right now, but I'll outline a few things to consider when selecting colours.


High Staining Colours
PR179, PR171, PR122, PO49, PBr41, PB60, PY119, PBk31

These colours stain heavily, meaning they are difficult to lift from the paper after they have been painted down. This property is useful when you want to glaze colours over one another, as the second layer won't wash out a layer of staining pigments as much as a layer of non-staining ones.


Granulating Colours
PV16, PB29, PB35, PY43, PG17, PG18, PBr7, PY119, PR101

These colours have texture to them that is visible in washes and thinner applications. Grains of pigment lie on the surface of the paper rather than being soaked into it, creating the visible texture. For that reason, granulating colours tend to lift more easily from the paper.


Opacity vs. Transparency

The solid black lines are there to demonstrate colours' relative transparency and opacity in mass tone (painted straight from the tube with minimal water added). As a general rule, opaque colours tend to lift more easily than transparent ones, though there are a few exceptions.
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thatreevesgirl's avatar
Thank you for putting this together. It is so wonderfully helpful.

It is nice to be able to see the textures of some brands that I haven't used before. I'm always a little leery of switching over to a new brand because I'm already familiar with my palette and how grainy the colors I'm using are. I've been wanting to upgrade a few colors to a better brand for awhile, so I think I might next time I'm in the art store.