Recommended Watercolor Palette

You may already have your own preference for watercolors, if you don’t, or if you are feeling adventurous, you may want to give the following palette of colors a try. The following colors are considered to be wonderful in terms of purity and pigment strength. They also work quite nicely when mixing together.

Cadmium Red

Cadmium Red has good permanence. You won’t need to use a lot of this color. Just a little of this pigment can go a long way.

Permanent Rose

Permanent Rose is a more modern color and is sometimes used to replace the less permanent Rose Madder.

Cadmium Yellow

Cadmium Yellow is a bright color with a high tinting strength.

Cadmium Lemon

Cadmium lemon is a bit paler than Cadmium Yellow but is equal in
permanence.

Winsor Green

Winsor Green has good permanence and mixes quite well with Burnt
Sienna.

Winsor Blue

Winsor Blue has very good permanence and has become more popular widely replacing Prussian Blue.

French Ultramarine

French Ultramarine also has good permanence and gives your washes a very rich deep tone.

Burnt Sienna

Burnt Sienna is a very nice earthy tone with good transparency.

Raw Umber

Raw Umber is also a great earthy color with good permanence.

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