Palette 2006
This is my artists' palette from 2006 till 2010. The palette still follows a split primary theory, after Wilcox's book. With practice, however, I have deviated from Wilcox's recommended basic and extended palettes, and have constituted my own by interchanging paints between those two.
By the end of 2010, I came across the "hexachrome" palette, and my "faith" in the split primary theory has finally broken down.
| Basic palette | Name | Brand | Lightfastness/Permanence | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PB15:1 - Phtalo blue red shade | Finity | Winsor & Newton | Excellent (I) | My violet blue primary. |
| PV19 - Permanent rose | Finity | Winsor & Newton | Excellent (I) | My violet red primary. |
| PR108 - Cadmium red light | Finity | Winsor & Newton | Excellent (I) | My orange red primary. |
| PY35 - Cadmium yellow light | Finity | Winsor & Newton | Excellent (I) | My orange yellow primary. In practice, more of a process yellow. |
| PW6 - Titanium white | Finity | Winsor & Newton | Excellent (I) | |
| PG7 - Phtalo gree blue shade | Finity | Winsor & Newton | Excellent (I) | An essential paint for making darks. |
| PBr7 - Burnt umber | Finity | Winsor & Newton | Excellent (I) | My first-step hue for painting flesh, and another good paint for making darks. |
| Extended palette | Name | Brand | Lightfastness/Permanence | Notes |
| PB35 - Cerulean blue | Finity | Winsor & Newton | Excellent (I) | My green blue primary, which, somehow, has played a lesser and lesser role in my artwork, probably because of its opacity. I still use it for making greens, when necessary. |
| PB29 - Ultramarine blue | Finity | Winsor & Newton | Excellent (I) | My initial violet blue primary. Somehow, however, its role has being taken over by Phtalo blue. |
| PY3 - Lemon yellow | Finity | Winsor & Newton | Very good (II) | My green yellow primary. In practice, however, it doesn't have a key role in this palette, except for mixing greens, probably because its colour is quite close to that of Cadmium yellow light. |
| PY43 - Yellow ochre | Finity | Winsor & Newton | Excellent (I) | A rather "waste" of money, as I have hardly used it. |
| PY42 PR101 - Raw sienna | Finity | Winsor & Newton | Excellent (I) | A rather "waste" of money, as I have hardly used it. |
| PBr7 - Raw umber | Finity | Winsor & Newton | Excellent (I) | A rather "waste" of money, as I have hardly used it. |
| Transition paints1 | Name | Brand | Lightfastness/Permanence | Notes |
| PB29 PBk9 - Payne's grey | Finity | Winsor & Newton | Excellent (I) | A ready-mixed hue which I needed for a particular black project. |
| PBk31 - Perylene green | Finity | Winsor & Newton | n/a (very good) | A green black paint I started experimenting with by the end of 2010. |
| PO73 - Pyrrole orange | Finity | Winsor & Newton | n/a (very good) | An orange paint I started experimenting with by the end of 2010. |
