1. Hobbies & Games

Discuss in my forum

Reader Stories: How Do You Set Out the Colors on Your Painting Palette?

By , About.com Guide

How do you set out the colors on your painting palette? Share a photo of how you do it here, and tell us why you like to do it this way and why you use the colors you do.

Show Us How You Do It!

Paint Palette of Mickeyobe

Evolution and /or irrational choices. Those I listed above I have found most suitable to my needs but I will use any others if needed or wanted. I do not consider myself an artist, merely a dauber as…More

Watercolor Palette of EJ

There are so many nuances in the range of blues and in the umber/ sienna/ sepia/ochre range that it will probably take me forever to explore the juxtapositions and possibilities. I have little or no …More

Watercolor and Oil Palettes of Anne Maurer

They give a very versatile choice when mixing. They seem to work well for me, no matter what the subject is. These colors started in art school and college. I was not taught to use the Thalo colors, …More

Glass Palette of Rghirardi

The split primary gives me the availability to mix just about any color. (The resultant colors are depended on what primaries you use.) When I started painting, I started with a range of about a doze…More

Heather Patterson's Paint Palette

I use these colors because I can mix just about anything I need from them. I never use a tube black. I always mix a chromatic black as I think it has more life to it. Sometimes I also will add in Pru…More

Cool and Warm Watercolor Palette of JR Jarvis

I tend to paint by temperature rather than specific colors. That is why I use cold, center and warm versions of each primary. Cools mix best with cools, warm with warms ands center with either. They …More

Watercolors and Oils

I also have 15 different colors of green in the "piggyback". (Why are they 'hidden' there? Because the teachers don't seem to like me to use premixed green colors -- and they can't see them there!)I …More

Plastic Microwave Plate Palette

I always do my thing. I don't think I could cope with strict rules about colour, though of course the basic rules of hot and cool apply. I have a good eye and can always exactly mix any colour I need…More

Stephen's Paint Colors

I've been painting about two and a half years. I've bought more and more and more and more oil paints... overload! Now I am trying to standardize with a mixture of warm/cool primaries and a few secon…More

My Plastic Acrylics Palette

After 30+ years of painting, I have found most colors are not necessary to do a complete painting. The simpler the palette, the easier it is to paint the picture. You can make up hundreds of combinat…More

Pastel Palette

The selected colours had to give me a range of hue and tone, since the only way to 'mix' pastel colour is on the paper. It also had to satisfy the need for both landscape and portrait painting. As me…More

Painting Guide's Palette

Prussian blue is my favorite as it's very dark when used thickly, but transparent when thin. Mixed with raw umber and white, it gives lovely grays. Raw umber works well for a lot of "rock colors", wi…More

©2012 About.com. All rights reserved.

A part of The New York Times Company.