Artists & Illustrators

The beauty of limited oil palettes

LIMITED PALETTES ARE DEFINED by the use of two to six colours, plus white, but can and often are, extended to eight or 10 pigments.

An important factor is that the hues the artist chooses, offers the creator the opportunity to mix warm and cool temperatures, a value range of colours and varieties of chromatic intensity in a practical and reliable manner.

Favoured by many artists for their economy of use and practical qualities of mixing, limited palettes in oil, acrylic and watercolour have been the hallmark of

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