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I remember coming across a reference to the Zorn palette some time ago. I looked up what it was - a palette of just 4 colours used at times by Swedish artist Anders Zorn (1860 - 1920). It's an oil painting palette, but the gorgeous flesh tones many have created using this palette for figure and portrait work intrigued me. I made a note to test them out some time and finally did, using gouache. Zorn is said to have used ivory black, titanium white, cadmium red and yellow ochre. His paintings…

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Note - I try to regularly update posts with additional information but they don't normally repost. I wrote this post in 2013 and, for some ...

Jane Blundell is an artist and teacher with a passion for colour. Find information on brushes, palettes, watercolours, watercolour mixing charts, triads, online courses, a catalogue of the watercolour paints available in the world.

Colors are a big part of the art world—actually it would not be wrong to say that colors are a big part of our world on the whole. In fact, the world of food

Here is part 3 of my series on mixing with my Ultimate Mixing Palette colours, this time with Daniel Smith Buff Titanium. The granulating nature of this ecru colour adds a wonderful dimension to a number of watercolour mixes and creates pastel colours otherwise not possible. I especially like it for skin tones, and for the lovely sandy beach and sandstone rock effects it creates with Goethite. All the possible mixes with buff titanium and my other 14 ultimate mixing colours are painted out…

I have just published a book called Watercolour Triads that explores a huge range of triads using my Ultimate Mixing set, as well as other interesting pigment options. Part of the cover is...

There are literally hundreds of artist quality watercolours available from many brands. I have tested many of them and created swatches as seen on the right. The square box is painted into a damp...