These are the current colours in my travelling watercolour palette. This watercolour palette is by David Cooper of Classic Paintboxes: see my article about this box.
Here is the colour list.
- Buff Titanium – useful for concrete, pavements
- Transparent Pyrrol Orange – pillar boxes, street signs, lights
- Permanent Yellow Deep – mixing colour, highlights, foliage
- Mars Yellow – earthy yellow, brickwork, foliage, mixing colour
- Red Madder Permanent – graffiti, flowers, doors, brickwork
- Perylene Maroon – mixing colour, dark red and highly pigmented
- Burnt Umber – brickwork, wood, mix with Ultramarine Blue for black
- Fired Gold Ochre – bricks, rocks, sand, granulating colour
- Green Serpentine Genuine – natural green, single pigment, highly granulating
- Cobalt Teal Blue – sun in water
- Phthalo Blue Turquoise – northern skies, cold blue, mixing colour
- Ultramarine Blue (Horadam) – warm skies, makes black with burnt umber
All colours are Daniel Smith except the Ultramarine Blue. I use Schmincke Horadam “Ultramarine Blue Finest”, because it does not granulate quite so much as the Daniel Smith equivalent. I like my skies to be smooth not granulated.
A picture uses only about 3 or 4 colours from this palette: a red, a blue, a yellow and another.
In addition I have a few tubes which I use for occasional highlights on particular pictures. For example yellow lines on the road seem to work well if I use Ako Titanate Yellow: an opaque chalky yellow.
Jane Sketching 