Spring palette update!

Tomorrow is the first day of spring here in the northern hemisphere so I gave my palettes a good cleaning and I added 2 colors for spring: phthalo blue (green shade) and quinacridone coral!

Just look at all these glorious colors that you can mix with those two:

Check out that gorgeous black that you can get in the lower righthand corner!

I also split my phthalo blue double pan into 2 standard pans, one with phthalo blue green shade and one with the red shade! I’m having a little showdown to see which one I use the most. Will report back with what I find!

Here’s the full list of colors — WN = Winsor & Newton and DS = Daniel Smith:

Folio Palette

I mostly use this palette at home in the studio, but I’ve started taking it on adventures as well. It’s great for BIG brushes. I try to leave space so that I can work the paint in the pan but sometimes too much paint comes out of the tube!

• DS Hansa yellow light (PY3)
• DS Hansa yellow medium (PY97)
• WN Cadmium yellow pale (PY35)
• DS Quinacridone gold (PO48, PY150)
• DS Raw Sienna (PBr7)
• DS Transparent red oxide (PR101)
• DS Phthalo green (PG7)
• DS Phatho blue (green shade, PB15:3)
• DS Phthalo blue (red shade, PB15:6)
• WN Cobalt turquoise light (DS Cobalt teal blue PG50)
• WN Cerulean blue (PB35)
• DS Cobalt blue (PB28)
• WN French ultramarine (PB29)
• DS Quinacridone rose (PV19)
• DS Quinacridone coral (PR209)
• DS Organic vermillion (WN scarlet lake PR188)
• DS Venetian red (PR101)
• DS Indanthrone blue (PB60

Pocket Palette

This one is my “work horse” palette — I keep it in my backpack and it’s been on so many adventures with me. It has a pretty similar setup to the Folio, just smaller pans. Cobalt blue, raw sienna and transparent red oxide are in larger pans because I go through those colors more quickly. The 3 empty pans are for mixing.

• WN Cadmium yellow pale (PY35)
• DS Quinacridone gold (PO48, PY150)
• DS Raw Sienna (PBr7)
• DS Quinacridone rose (PV19)
• DS Quinacridone coral (PR209)
• DS Organic vermillion (WN scarlet lake PR188)
• DS Venetian red (PR101)
• DV Cobalt turquoise (PB36)
• DS Phthalo green (blue shade, PG7)
• DS Cobalt blue (PB28)
• DS Phthalo blue (red shade, PB15:6)
• DS Indanthrone blue (PB60)

Let me know if you have any questions, and happy spring!