Tips on Oil Painting – Your Basic Palette
In this article I will detail the tube colors of a starter palette for beginning artists. These are in fact the colors I personally use most often Here is the proposed 6-color palette: 1. Lemon Yellow 2. Cadmium Yellow 3. Cadmium Red 4. Permanent Rose (Alizarin Crimson) 5. French Ultramarine 6. Phthalo Blue 7. Titanium White 8. Ivory Black Note that White and Black are generally not classified as colors. A color is often known by different names depending on the manufacturer. For example, Permanent Rose is more or less the same as Alizarin Crimson. The above palette has the capacity to produce very clean secondary colors, i.e., colors that are a mixture of just two tube colors. Notice that…