Color Chart - Winsor Red

Here is my Winsor Red color chart. This is similar to the Lukas Red I also use, but just a bit lighter. The colors on these charts don't really come across as they do in real life. The little point and shoot digital I use doesn't catch the slight differences.

Winsor Red Color Chart

Color Chart - Golden Ochre

Here's my Golden Ochre color chart. I messed this one up and skipped Indian Yellow, which should have been before the Golden Ochre. I got down to my last three blues and noticed I had four columns left. Ugh. I put the Indian Yellow mixtures at the end.

Color Chart - Indian Yellow

This is my Indian Yellow color chart. I like this one.

Color Chart - Cadmium Yellow Medium

This is the third of the color charts. This is my Cadmium Yellow Medium chart. I mixed CYM with the other colors on my palette with CYM predominating, then added white to each mixture to have 5 separate values of the color, which really are different colors, and not just values, when you look at them separately.

I'm leaving each color in their respective spots on the chart instead of moving the current color to the top left as Mr. Schmid did in his charts in the book, Alla Prima. I'll label the top of each chart with the main color in capitals to differentiate it from the others.

I also did this one on canvas to see the difference from the rigid boards. The canvas I'm using is a coarse weave, which gives the chart a different look, but I think I'll do a few more on canvas before deciding the support.

Color Chart - Cadmium Yellow Light

This is the second of the color charts. This is my Cadmium Yellow Light chart. I mixed CYL with the other colors on my palette with CYL predominating, then added white to each mixture to have 5 separate values of the color, which really are different colors, and not just values, when you look at them separately.

Each color chart will have a predominating color from my palette mixed with the others and then white.

Color Charts

I have decided to paint color charts from the colors on my palette. These charts are done for the purpose of learning to mix your colors that cannot be accomplished in any other way.

Each separate chart has a predominating color, which is then mixed with the other colors on the palette, and then broken down into different values using white.

I'm adding a few more colors than I actually use on a normal basis, 15 in all.

This is the beginning chart which has the pure colors, straight from the tube, across the top. White is then added to each to get different values, which really are different colors individually.

My colors are, from left to right:

Cadmium Yellow Light (RGH Artists Colors)
Cadmium Yellow Medium (Lukas 1862 Oil Paint)
Indian Yellow (Winsor)
Golden Ochre (RGH)
Winsor Red (Winsor)
Lukas Red (Lukas)
Smuggler's Red (My mixture)
Alizarin Crimson (Lukas)
Cadmium Orange (RGH)
Earth Green (Lukas)
Cobalt Violet (RGH)
Blue Gray (my mixture)
Cobalt Blue (Lukas)
Cerulean Blue Light (RGH)
Ultramarine Blue (RGH)