Mixing and Visual Complements

I did these over a month ago. Daniel Smith had a sale on their Try-It Color Sheets for watercolor. :)

Learn - Study of Color 7

Page shows many hundreds of possible mixes using watercolour

Ultramarine Blue In the large Moleskine watercolour sketchbook I did a comparison of every Daniel Smith watercolour, with pigment notes, reviews from other sources, mixing charts, colour wheels and so on. I also added comparisons with other brands of the same colour or the same pigment. Here's my page on Ultramarine blue - my favourite blue. There is more information on my website here. You can also see a huge range of different blues painted out here. Watercolour Notebook page on…

Anne Abgott shares her favorite recipes for mingling a variety of yellows, greens, reds, violets and blues on the paper instead of mixing them on the palette to keep the colors fresh and vibrant.

Greens by Johan Ramberg.

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Anatomy of Green Color - science of colour

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Mid Yellows I have added all the yellows to my website here. It is common to have a few yellows in a palette. Traditionally, a cool and a warm yellow, an earth yellow and perhaps a reduced yellow such as Raw Umber. Some artists also add staining or non-staining options, or add an opaque range. I keep a cadmium deep and light in my studio for specific purposes but generally prefer transparent or at least semi-transparent watercolours. I find I rarely need to use a cool, or green-biased yellow…

This is a new colour introduced by Daniel Smith in early 2011, who claim exclusivity, at least for the present. It is a transparent non-granulating, medium staining, pigment described by the pigment website www.artiscreation.com/violet.html as a `Bluish Violet to Violet Blue'. Note there is no such thing as a `true' purple pigment which would be `PP' so we are in fact seeing a variation of violet. As a Quinacridone there won't be any of the possible lightfastness (fading) problems with dark…

I have been exploring limited palette options again and came up with this set. This is an unusual palette of watercolours for me as it doesn't contain Ultramarine, my favourite blue, or Burnt Sienna, my favourite earth orange, and it does contain Quinacridone Magenta though that is not a favourite! Note this is called Purple Magenta in Schmincke or Quinacridone Lilac in Daniel Smith - who added this pigment to their range in 2017. I find it a difficult 'real world' colour and would generally…