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A lot of 12-colour watercolour sets come with at least two yellows, two reds, and two blues; a warm and cool tone of each. Depending on colours given, most times I'm not able to create vibrant beautiful purples. So I personally prefer my palettes to have the split primary as the base and add other colours if I so choose. In simple terms, the split primary system as two sets of primaries. One is from the RGB system and the other is from the CMYK system. The reason many small palettes sold don't have the CMY primaries is usually due to them having low lightfast rates. This means that the CMY colours (cyan, magenta, yellow) will fade or change hue over time when exposed to sunlight. (Note: yellow doesn't usually pose a problem. It's usually cyan and magenta that have low lightfast rates.) However, I mainly work in sketchbooks so I don't mind the lightfast rating.
I was given this set of Arteza 36 watercolour pans and thought that I could put together a couple split primary palettes. Don't get me wrong, I love this Arteza palette of 36 colours but for travelling light, I only need a few selected colours.
The first set includes Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Light Red, Magenta, Blue Violet, and Deep Ocean Blue.
The second set includes Cadmium Light Yellow, Golden Yellow, Cadmium Light Red, Amaranth, Oxford Blue, and Cerulean Blue.
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