r/ArtSwatching

I chose 17 of my paints to colour mix and look how many different colours I can make! This is going to come in so handy.

If you haven't already, I would highly recommend doing this. Some of these really surprised me!

Enjoyed creating this spread so much 🥰

I tried this color wheel exercise with @iritlandgraf on youtube. Slide 1 is mine, slide 2 is hers, and slide 3 is the video.
The point is not to fill in every section with every color (like, it's not about filling in the blanks to match a trad color wheel), but to use four colors to see what kinds of mixes you can get. I chose untraditional colors, which I'm sure made it more difficult, but I wanted to see what some of my fav shades would do.
Anyway, I used Paul Rubens 022 as my red, HydraColour (fluorescent yellow) for my yellow, Paul Rubens 013 as my in-between-red-and-yellow color, & Prima 116 for my purpleish. I could not figure out the precise formula of what went where, so I just dipped my brush into the same color as she did each time in the video. I would consider this a quasisuccess, bc many of the mixes seem to make sense, but I'm too obtuse to have learned much of anything after trying it just one time. Also a couple shades don't fit in with the rest, so it's also a quasifail. But it was fun to do!

This is homework from my color theory class - we’re getting into advanced stuff.

Split-complimentary is three colors next to each other on the color wheel, and the complement of the middle color.

I started with the colors in the large chart, but I needed a real dark and I didn’t like the neutral I could mix.

I then did a few of the other combos and decided on the one at the lower right. The idea is to set a color theme for the painting that uses only these colors - deciding ahead of time which one you want the dominant color, the secondary etc

It’s hard to figure out but looking forward to the challenge.

My husband and kids got this set for me as an early mother's day gift and I had lots of fun swatching it!

I love this swatch sheet, though it suffered a little bit and got a little dirty. I hope you still enjoy the photograph :)

4 new watercolors currently being swatched!

A couple more pages in my sketchbook, these are the four QoR sets of six small tubes of paint. The sap green in the Earth colors set doesn’t match the sap green in the Ali Cavanaugh portrait set. 🤔 Same pigment info. The Earth colors set is a couple years older, so I assume it’s just lot variation. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sorry I didn't write the names

Made these swatches last year when I got these pencils and recently found them again.

These are some printable color swatch templates I made: labeled and unlabeled versions of a 3-ring color wheel, with normal and warm/cool split versions, and layout palettes for 2 Medeen palettes - the big color wheel pallete and the 18-well rectangular one. One version of the Medeen 32 palette template has the little shapes that mark the secondaries and tertiaries, and the other just has the pointed primary wells with normal wells for the rest.
I put them in a google photo gallery in case they don't download well from Reddit: https://photos.app.goo.gl/cVxfQ8M83wWT79wm9

This is the Sennelier 12 + 6 watercolor sets color chart. Over all I find that their color selection for this set, albeit not one I personally would’ve come up with, has a vast range of mixes. This set far surpassed my expectations. They’re nice paints. I’m not a fan of the extruded nature of them though. They always fall out of the pan!

Sometimes I like swatching more than actually painting...

I forget what the colors look like mixed together and I’m often trying to match a specific shade so I made a giant art piece to hang on my wall!

The colors on the left are the dominant color, so Permanent Rose-Lemon Yellow is much more pink while Lemon Yellow-Permanent Rose is more yellow.

I asked my husband to write the names because he has beautiful penmanship. It hangs in our bedroom above my desk and my husband said if you squint at it it kinda looks like the sunrise over the ocean.

I love it! Only downside is I tried out gouache three months after finishing this and now I paint exclusively with that haha… maybe someday I will do a big beautiful gouache chart <3

Posted are a few Gouache and Watercolor color studies I’ve done using limited palettes.

Yesterday & today I swatched a handful of my various pigment sticks & pencils on shrinky dink plastic, then I turned them into a little dangly for reference when I'm creating or when I'm buying new supplies.

They're not nearly as nice as some of the ones I see on here but they do me nicely! These are all Windsor & Newton except the shineys, those are Shimmer Dots :D