I try to come up with colours that will mix to paint any subject, but if you specialise in a particular subject you can be more specific in your colour choices. It depends so much on what you are painting. Joan that sounds like a wonderful landscape to paint! It is fascinating how much each artists' limited palette varies. All the others are single pigment colours. The mixtures are marked with an asterisk. Using a single pigment green, purple or orange can help with this. Also I like to use only two or a maximum of three pigments in a mix if I can. I like to have some convenience colours so I don't spend all my time mixing while painting. They are convenience mixtures to save time or special granulating colours that add and extra dimension to your work. Next are a whole lot of other wonderful Daniel Smith colours that are available to increase the palette. I would then add Indian Red, so I can use an earth triad, and then perhaps a lovely light Buff Titanium and a dark. With this set of 12 colours I would switch from Carmine to Pyrrol Crimson as the Quinacridone Rose covers the making purples role, or leave out Quinacridone Rose and keep Carmine. These are Pyrrol crimson - a warm red, a Quinacridone Rose, an opaque Cerulean, a phthalo blue, a granulating earth yellow and a lovely deep raw Umber. The next page shows my suggested next 6 colour additions to increase the colour range. Quinacridone Gold genuine is only available from Daniel Smith but Yellow Ochre is an alternative, or use a Hansa Yellow Deep or New Gamboge. Burnt Sienna is available in most brands but I prefer the versions made with PBr7. These are all Daniel Smith colours but Da Vinci's Alizarin Crimson Quinacridone or W&N Permanent Alizarin or Carmin make alternative primary crimson reds Ultramarine in most brands is an option, Phthalo Green BS is also available in most brands (called Winsor Green by W&N) Schmincke make a Pure Yellow that is a lovely primary yellow as is Winsor Yellow.
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