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Den

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I thought it might be interesting to find out what palette other dabblers out there use for painting/sketching birds. I keep off most staining colours and mix my own greens. I use 12 -Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Pale, Crimson Alazirin, Cadmium Red, Cerulean Blue, Ultramarine, Light Red, Burnt Umber, Raw Umber, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna and Payne's Gray. I prefer Winsor & Newton Artist tubes. How about you lot?
 
Erm.........
I use a Windsor & Newton 'Cotman' watercolour carry kit: it's about 5" X 4" and has 14 small blocks of pigment,a brush and palette. I LOVE it! It goes EVERYWHERE with me! It's been to the Hebs, Belgium, France, Devon..... Thoroughly recommended!
 
I use the same as David...Cotman watercolour kit (got it cheaper than in the shops from my art club). Colours are Cadmium yellow/cadmium red/alizarin crimson/ultramarine/cerulean blue/prussian blue/viridian hue green/yellow ochre/burnt sienna/burnt umber/ivory black and chinese white.
Only just started using it in the past couple of weeks. Before that I used a tin of twelve watercolour pencils to make quick drawings with in the field and worked on finished drawings at home with either pastels/pastel pencil or acrylics. Still a bit iffy with using watercolour...just need more practice!

GILL
 
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