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Posted: April 28, 2016 Filed under: Materials | Tags: paint, schmincke, watercolor, watercolour, winsor and newton 2 CommentsThe watercolours I use are a mixture of Winsor and Newton and Schminke. Mostly it’s by accident, rather than design. There’s only the screamingly pink Opera Rose by Winsor and Newton that I am faithful to.
Aureolin
A lovely transparent yellow/green – great for light glazes
Raw Sienna
Yellow Ochre
My two go-to colours for painting browns in food
Translucent Orange – Schminke
I love this vibrant orange/red
Opera Rose – Winsor and Newton
Another one of my must-have’s – purely because it’s so eye-popping – great for the full range of pinks and purples.
May Green – Schminke
Permanent Sap Green – Winsor and newton
– My stand-by green’s for salads
(You’d think that my portable set and the home/studio set would be the same, wouldn’t you!)
Portable set
Some full pans, but mostly half-pans
Palette – Portable
208 Aureolin Schminke
215 Lemon Yellow Schminke
225 Cadmium Yellow Middle Schminke
218 Translucent Orange Schminke
363 Scarlet Red Schminke
Opera Rose winsor & newton
Cobalt Blue winsor & newton
Cerulean Blue winsor & newton
660 Raw Sienna Schminke
Naples Yellow Deep winsor & newton
Venetian Red winsor & newton
Paynes Grey winsor & newton
783 Payne’s Grey Schminke
509 Cobalt Turquoise Schminke
Permanent Sap Green winsor & newton
524 May Green Schminke
534 Permanent Green Olive Schminke
512 Chromium Oxide Green Schminke
648 Translucent Brown Schminke
668 Burnt Umber Schminke
661 Burnt Sienna Schminke
669 Vandyke Brown Schminke
Palette – Home
This is made up wholly of full pans
Aureolin winsor & newton
215 Lemon Yellow Schminke
New Gamboge winsor & newton
Cadmium Orange winsor & newton
670 Madder Brown Schminke
Cadmium Red Deep winsor & newton
Opera Rose winsor & newton
Winsor Green winsor & newton
Permanent Sap Green winsor & newton
Hookers Green winsor & newton
524 May Green Schminke
487 Cobalt Blue Light Schminke
Cerulean Blue winsor & newton
783 Payne’s Grey Schminke
Naples Yellow Deep winsor & newton
660 Raw Sienna Schminke
655 Yellow Ochre Schminke
Burnt Sienna winsor & newton
Burnt Umber winsor & newton
669 Vandyke Brown Schminke
Cafe Roxanne – Painting Breakfast
Posted: August 20, 2014 Filed under: Food, Tools | Tags: breakfast, daley rowney, materials, paint, watercolor, watercolour, winsor and newton Leave a commentWatercolour Paints
Generally I use Winsor and Newton paints.
I have a little metal palette which can hold about eighteen half-pans.But some of the colours I have in there are full pans (because they get used more than the others). Food painting seems to use more yellow ochre and I also have a full pan of neutral grey)
Some of the colours are from an old Daler Rowney set, most are Winsor and Newton. I tend to pick from these two companies (just because they’re the most available in the UK)
As far as actual colours go I’ve just gone with what I like.
I’ve got three different yellows (one of which is Aureoline – a fab transparent), an orange, a red (I’m still trying to find a transparent or translucent red!), Opera Rose (which I find essential to produce dazzling purples and pinks), a couple of blues, three greens (one of which is a really light green – for salad leaves), then a range of browns from Naples Yellow to Van Dyke Brown.
I don’t use black at all. Instead I used to mainly use Winsor and Newton’s Payne’s Grey, but have recently started to use the Neutral Grey colour instead, as it is more translucent.
I tend to prefer translucent over opaque.
I sometimes use Koh-I-Noor‘s stackable pure pigments (the colours of which really op out!); these are what I used for this breakfast sketch.
Just recently I’ve been hearing good things about Schmincke; so might have to try some of theirs out 
Matthew Midgley Illustration 