*Official "What's on your palette?" Thread*

[acheng]

I tried to find if there was any threads on what color paint was on people's palettes, but I couldn't find any. So, I made this thread to see what people where plopping onto their palettes and what brushes they're using.

Paint:
brand (s)
Colors

Brushes:
Brand (s)
type
size

[Velo]

I'm using the Sebastian Capella color pallete for landscape and high key stuff:
Cad Yellow pale
Cad Yellow orange
Cad Red light
Red Rose Deep
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine
Cerulean
Viridian
White (& sometimes black)

It's a bit more than what's necessary for portrait though, I use this for portraits (Zorn Pallete):
Yellow Ochre
Vermillion Red Deep
Blue Black
White

I've been told DaVinci oil paints are the best quality for a reasonable (cheap to mid-range) price. They are supposed to have some of the highest saturation to their colors. I haven't tried many other brands in the same price range, but DaVinci are definitely better than Winton. (More chromatic, more fluid, they mix more cleanly.) For the Zorn pallete, your red is very important because it has to mix nice flesh tones, warm browns and also cool purples. I've been told the best vermillion for Zorn is the Schminke Mussini Vermillion Red Deep... but I've been trying to find a cheaper alternative (so far without success).

I am very curious what paint brands other people like, especially cheap ones. I can't afford to buy my pallete (or even a few colors) In each brand to test for myself what I like best, so I am doing it slowly but at this rate it'll take years!

[imglue]

my pallette is what i like to call my "all purpose" use pallette, im trying to get fewer colors so i f anybody has any input, it would be real cool.

i usually arrange it like an L shape, so far its very tonal, with not so many colors for high key paitnings but after seeing some high key painters like sorolla i am very curious to start experimenting on other pallettes:
Most are winsor newton(Winton student brand) or rembrant, i cant afford old holland, but after trying one or two colors, i didnt notice the difference. i just got introduced to Da Vinci , which is another brnad from the makers of rembrant and i really like the colors and how they are really vibrant!

*Titanium White = Usually rembrant and alot of it.
*Nickel Titanium Yellow = i dont usually use this color, but when i do i like the results, it rather transparent cool very light yellow. Rembrant makes the best brand for this color.
*Cad Yellow Pale or Cad Lemon = winton
*Cad Yellow Deep= Winton. I mix this usually for my oranges, im gonna try cad orange instead of this one to see, maybe itll make the cut! ;)
*Cad Red Light= One of my favs
*Cad Red Med
*Rose Red Deep =it looks like alizarin crimson, but when u mix it its a whole other story. great for purples!
*Alizarin Crimson = One of my favs
*Transparent Oxide Red = Rembrant. My only brown, it replaced my old vandyke brown not too long ago, which after better knowledge of color its not such a good color choice. I usually mix it with sap green to grey it out or for lay-ins
*Naples Yellow = you can mix this color but its such a valuable item for my palette, im lazy and i just dont bother, so i just buy it. winton since im cheap
*Yellow Ochre = again like the naples yellow, you can easily mix this, burnt sienna, and burnt umber if you have to right colors and i do, again im just lazy.
*Sap Green = a very warm green, its the same as hooker's green. i like it alot but im not sure i should get rid of it for the sake of a more limited palette.
*Viridian = a wonderful green
*Cerulean= i good true blue, i use this or cobalt blue and before i used thalo blue, but its so infectious and hard to mix.
*Ultramarine Blue = one of my favs
*Ivory Black = best black i own. its a good transparent and cool black.

any tips on colors i might need, dont need or change is most welcomed. the point of this palette is to help me get all the colors ill ever need and then some without being limiting the chromatic harmony to the painting.

[DragonGX]

I have a ton of different colors, so im not going to list them all.. 99% of them are Grumbacher and W&N paints...

Brushes, I used #5590 long handle langnickel sable flats.. best brushes ever.

[imglue]

i forgot to post my brushes, i know velo and i use similarly the same types.

bristles and synthetics.
flats and filberts usually the smallest is like a 2 and the biggest a 12.

i use escoda brand so they sizes are skwed cuz they use the metric system.

so an 8 in escoda would be a 4 here using regular brush size system. i mostly use escoda or winsor newtonfor my bristles. grumbacher for my synthetics and i have a couple mongoose hair brushes from the monarch series from winsor newton. the trekell sable onesare really good too.

[acheng]

Paints:

Winton, W/N, rembrandt
PortraitureColors
Cad red light
cad red
mars brown
Vermillion
viridian
cad yellow
ultramarine
ivory black
yellow orche
burnt sienna
chromium oxide green
cad orange
burnt umber
titanium white
mars red
cerulean blue
madder
Permalba white
red light

Brushes:
Winton
Filbert sizes 6 and 8 Hog
Flat size 6 hog
sable size 4 synthetic
Signet
Filbert size 10 hog
fan

[Patrick]

For both Oil (W&N Artisan)
and Acrylic (Liquitex Heavy):

Ultramarine Blue
Cad Yellow Medium
Napthol Crimson
Hooker's Green Hue
Cad Orange Medium
Dioxazine Purple
Burnt Umber
Burnt Sienna
Payne's Gray


Brushes:
Sizes 0 2 4 6 8 12
Winton Hog Bristle Filbert Series 5976
Winsor & Newton Cotman Round Series 111
WINSOR & NEWTON Cirrus Round Series 110

[Prehistoric]

my pallette varies with different paintings.

i used to work at an art supply store, so fortunately i have really good stuff.

i either use Utrecht brand, Gamblin, or Old Holland (the best stuff in the world).

titanium white, cad yellow med/light/lemon, cad red medium/deep, alizarin crimson, transparent red oxide, golden baroque red, yellow ochre, raw umber, burnt sienna, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue. . . .

brushes are mostly Utrecht brand, pretty good mix of hog's hair bristle, kolinsky sable, and synthetic nylon.

oil painting medium is Gamblin brand Galkyd Lite, or a self mixed medium of linseed, damar, and turp.

[Mad Giraffe]

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Ultramarine Blue
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Hah, Citadel colours? You also play Warhammer? :P

I usually prefer to use acrylics made by Citadel and then their whole range, it's quick(, cheap) and easy. Not really to be used for big scaled paintings, but I hate to do paintings bigger than A4. Too much work..:rolleyes:

Other than that, my palette really depends on what I'm going to paint...