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The Society of Botanical Artists on Palette Colors

November 20, 2008 by Tania Marien

How many colors are in your watercolor palette? Your colored pencil case?


Sandra Wall Armitage

More than I need for botanical as I often use different colours for other than botanical work. Also, I won [a] prize which included the whole range of watercolours.


Kathleen Baker

More than 40.


Susan Christopher-Coulson

I have the full set of 120 Derwent Artists’ pencils, which I mostly use (inevitably some colours more than others!) but I also have other favourite colours/pencil types which I can use when needed.


Susan Dalton

I probably have 50+ colours in my watercolour palette, although quite a large number of these are used only on rare occasions.


Brigitte Daniel

Lots!  But I tend to choose a set of colours for a particular painting.  Much depends on the harmonics within the plant and I try to match this – think of the overtones in a church bell – I look at colours in the same way.  For any particular plant, I usually choose a small number of colours that I mix in and mix out of using a large number of tints applied to the basic palette, ‘bending’ the colours to catch the colours of the plant.


Susan Hillier

Approximately 50.


Jennifer Jenkins

I work mainly with tubes of colour and have more than 50.


Kay Rees Davies

As I have specialized in using and mixing colours in different makes of watercolour paint, I have at least 200. I make very careful notes when mixing colour at the start of a new painting for future reference. In the case of finding the ‘teal’ colour I was able to refer to the notes I made when painting Puya alpestris about ten years ago. I am “addicted” to buying and trying new colours, but there are a few I hardly ever use. Warning – don’t get carried away!


Margaret Stevens

I have a complete set of Sennelier watercolours – around 80.  I also have a mix of Winsor & Newton Artists, Rowney and Schmincke.  About another 70 to 80. Some are hardly ever used and some are in constant use. However since setting up the Distance Learning Diploma Course, I get scarcely any time to paint.  It used to be about 40 paintings a year, mainly commissions and working non-stop.  I still work non-stop, but if I manage 10 pictures I am lucky which is frustrating at times.

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