French ultramarine, Ceurlean blue, Raw sienna, Raw umber, Burnt umber, Winsor yellow, Lemon yellow, Light red, Sap green.
Recent additions are:
Buff Titanium (Daniel Smith) - a colour I find incredibly useful for buildings and stonework.
Perylene green (Daniel Smith) - a really dark green which is useful for those dark shadows you find within tree forms.
I use a few other paints as "spot colours" - for highlighting or adding small details such as items of clothing or objects in windows.
Here is a photo of my palette as I use it in a paintbox with half pans. I also have a tube version.
I've done a couple of paintings since my last post.
The first is Deutsches Eck ("German Corner") which is the name of a headland in Koblenz, Germany, where the Mosel river joins the Rhine. it became known for a monumental equestrian statue of William I, first German Emperor, erected in 1897 in appreciation of his merits in the unification of Germany: it was destroyed in World War II and only the plinth was preserved as a memorial. Following German reunification, a replica of the statue was erected on the pedestal after controversial discussions in 1993. It is today a Koblenz landmark and a popular tourist destination.
The second is a couple of houses in my local town of Lewes in East Sussex. I experimented with Lunar Black here on the dark house frontage (mixed with raw umber) to bring some granulation to the brick work.
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