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Perylene Black is my black of choice because of it's unique transparency and tinting strength characteristcs. As a bonus, it dries glossy, contrary to most carbon blacks, so your darks will still look glossy while waiting for the varnish. The green undertone of PBk31 is surprisingly useful, but...

Hahaha, exactly. To darken yellow properlly, a bunch of red / magenta is needed. I was surprised to see that a lot of landscape artists made "green" grass with a hue very close to yellow (a lot more desaturated), so, yeah, yellow and black makes green and its very useful

Oh give it a go, yes. It was intresting for me to be limited in color range, and i've come to appreciate the handling characteristics of earth colors, mainly its tinting strengh. Thanks a lot Laika, glad to share both !! I think I only have 3 tubes that are mixtures: WN Olive Green...

Can you see it new Sandra?

Hi CS, Here's my latest experiment with palette study and it's potential, now with only white and 4 desaturated colors: Titanium White, Yellow Ocre, Terra Rosa, WN Purple Lake (PBr25+PV23) and WN Perylene Black. With this palette, I've painted this landscape bellow, and the only part I had to...

My pleasure guys! Glad to help! An update regarding drying time: -Super fast dryer: Trans. Oxide Brown (1~2 day touch dry) -Fast drier: Scarlet Red / Winsor Blue (red shade) (2~3 day touch dry) -Regular drier: All the others (3+ days and not touch dry yet) JSparrow, since i've tested those...

My pleasure Artyczar! Right, Hermes, PV23 is super useful and is one of the few ways to darken yellows properly!!! My guess is that for a more semi-opaque (or transparent) yellow it should work best, and for a super opaque yellow, like some Yellow Ochres, you would have to add so much PV23 to...

Hello my fellow painters! I've wanted to make this experiment for a while, and I finally could today. This experiment was to see what would be the result of using 3 near black and low chrome colors in place of traditional carbon/iron blacks. The reasoning behind this is convenience and slow...

Hello my friends, I just received some new paints and, as I always like to do, I tried them all out doing some swatches. I find it dificult sometimes to get real life photos of swatches on the internet, so this is why I'm sharing them here, so maybe it can be helpful for you guys that are...

Hello, thank you Kay!

Got it, Maybenartist and Bethany, nice set of colors from both! I also like to get new colors and experiment with them.. I just got intrested in finding new blacks since trying Perylene Black PBk 31, because of its handling properties, so I've bought 2 premixed tubes from W&N to see what they...

Hermes2020, maybe you should give PV23 a chance, then. I've had i on acrylics and found it very good for mixing, because of its unique set of handling properties, being transparent, dark and strong tinting. P. Barrie, got it. I'll sure give PV23 a try on the future. I just need to paint 50...

Dioxazine Violet, nice Barrie! Thats a color I debate with myself constantly to see if I want it or not, hehe. You prefer PV23 as a standard and use PR 122 or PV 19 when needed, did I get it right? And if so, why?

Hahahaha, my english is American~Latin english, i'm afraid :LOL: So, practice some portuguese there and then come back here for us to do a portuguese chat! (y)(y)(y)

Cool Ayin, a lot of variaty there. You said now you do more mixing, does that mean that before you used the paints as they came out of the tube? If so, that's impressive, must be a challenge. At least mixing with white, right? Intresting aproach