Colour Charts

With four new colours joining my palette this week (or five if you count cadmium red, now promoted from associate to full member), I thought I should do myself some colour charts. It would be generous to describe this as an update to my existing, half-hearted charts.

I’m not one of those that goes for all-play-all charts.  I’m not interested in what happens when I mix two blues together.  Instead, I have three charts: the blue+yellow=green chart, the yellow+red=orange chart and the red+blue=purple chart. I put burnt umber with the reds to start with but after it started producing some vaguely greeny shades when mixed with blue, I also included it with the yellows.  And there are some pen lines on the charts separating the transparent-only mixes from those that include opaque or semi colours.

Initial thoughts:

– most of the colours on the purple chart are greys and browns.  I have to make sure I’m using the right red if I want purple tones

– Indian yellow and transparent yellow are already showing a lot of promise.

Now to laminate them & stash them away with my gear.