The expanded palette

The split-primary palette can give an artist a great advantage in mixing a wide range of colours and provides a base to mix almost any colour you want. When you are outside painting, however, it can be useful to have a couple of additional colours to speed things up and provide other qualities in the paint you have to work with.

Keeping the split-primary palette as a base, my landscape palette includes some additional colours that help to harmonise mixes as well as providing quick starting points for colours to be modified. They also provide a variety of additional transparencies that can be useful and interesting when mixing darks.

Harmony

Having this variety of colour from warm to cool and bright to earth makes subtle changes in mixes easier to do as long as you keep colour harmony in mind. Using a limited palette is an easy way to keep