r/ArtSwatching

A pretty unusual travel palette and some of the things I've painted with it, last picture was done plein air :)

DS are not entirely honest about the contents of this series, but the colours give some cool granulating effects.

I have a strong suspicion some of those greens contain phthalo greens.

the shimmery Sugilite sure is pretty, whether or not they added mica powder.

Man this takes so much longer than I expected. The edge of every card is the full saturation colour. The middles are the colour mixed with 50% black or white to get a better sense of undertones. About 3 full cards left before I finish the full set.

Then I plan to start making palette cards. Wish me luck.

The first two pages are Winsor & Newton, the next two pages are Schmincke, & the last five pages are Daniel Smith.
👉🏼Let me know if you want to see any of these colors up close or in a video! I'd be happy to show you them!

👉🏼Kuretake Old Mauve & Coral Pink
👉🏼Daniel Smith Shadow Violet, Moonglow, Opera Pink, & Quinacridone Pink
👉🏼Horadam Aquarell Tundra Violet & Tundra Pink
👉🏼I also purchased dot cards from Winsor & Newton, Hordadam Aquarell, & Daniel Smith.
👉🏼I still have two gift cards to spend, so I figured I'd get the dot cards & spend the cards on the colors I like.

This is one I did a couple weeks ago, and ended up with an accidental shrimp.

I finally bought a tube of Daniel Smith’s opera pink and I am in LOVE.

I’m looking for recommendations on specific paints that 1, mix well with and 2, complement opera pink? My plan is to start building a palette around these colors I’ve swatched out. I especially would like to find a good green.

I’ve only used WN watercolors but am open to suggestions from other brands, especially Daniel Smith. I’ve also wanted to try Holbein for a while, and have been looking at QoR paints as well.

Swatch sheet is mixing opera pink with:
Lemon Yellow
Cad Yellow Pale
Cad Yellow
Turquoise
Intense (Phthalo) blue
Ultramarine
Permanent Rose
Alizarian Crimson
Cad Red Deep
Cad Red Pale
Cad Orange

I'm watching this gentleman on youtube & he has only used a mixed palette of 9 pretty standard colors for like 20 years. This palette doesn't work for me bc I don't do realism & bc it has no whimsey or joy to it. I would be very interested to see your limited palettes or your most used colors in your works! Please feel free to share them below! 👇🏼

Just having fun seeing what happens with some of my fav colors. What colors should I mix together next?

Took forever to do but totally worth it.

I chose 17 of my paints to colour mix and look how many different colours I can make! This is going to come in so handy.

If you haven't already, I would highly recommend doing this. Some of these really surprised me!

I tried this color wheel exercise with @iritlandgraf on youtube. Slide 1 is mine, slide 2 is hers, and slide 3 is the video.
The point is not to fill in every section with every color (like, it's not about filling in the blanks to match a trad color wheel), but to use four colors to see what kinds of mixes you can get. I chose untraditional colors, which I'm sure made it more difficult, but I wanted to see what some of my fav shades would do.
Anyway, I used Paul Rubens 022 as my red, HydraColour (fluorescent yellow) for my yellow, Paul Rubens 013 as my in-between-red-and-yellow color, & Prima 116 for my purpleish. I could not figure out the precise formula of what went where, so I just dipped my brush into the same color as she did each time in the video. I would consider this a quasisuccess, bc many of the mixes seem to make sense, but I'm too obtuse to have learned much of anything after trying it just one time. Also a couple shades don't fit in with the rest, so it's also a quasifail. But it was fun to do!

Today I played with color mixing rando colors in a gradient.

Enjoyed creating this spread so much 🥰

Not sure but I think I'm improving with each one I'm doing...slide 1 is my second try & slide 2 is my third try.

This is a color mixing exercise I did a couple weeks ago. It is three primaries, mixed in varying strengths top to bottom, with tints going left to right. So each color pair has a 50/50 blend and then one that leans toward one or the other color in the pair, with tints of each in two stages to the right.

This has been the way I’ve been swatching the Daniel Smith dot card. It’s been giving me permission to play with paints individually and learn different pigment qualities.

This is homework from my color theory class - we’re getting into advanced stuff.

Split-complimentary is three colors next to each other on the color wheel, and the complement of the middle color.

I started with the colors in the large chart, but I needed a real dark and I didn’t like the neutral I could mix.

I then did a few of the other combos and decided on the one at the lower right. The idea is to set a color theme for the painting that uses only these colors - deciding ahead of time which one you want the dominant color, the secondary etc

It’s hard to figure out but looking forward to the challenge.