I use this palette for almost all my watercolor work: painting outside, painting from observation and quick doodles. I got the travel palette and some of the watercolors from Case for Making in SF back in 2019(?). I told the person helping me I wanted to do plein air (painting outside, usually from nature) and the lady picked out some colors for me. I have since then added more colors to fill out the case (when I first got it, it was 2/3 full).
Here are the colors starting from the top left.
1. ??? from ??? - I rarely use this color, I don't know why I got it.
2. Yellow Ochre from ??? - a go to color for painting skin tones
- 3.
Turquoise from A. Gallo - very saturated, a little goes a long way when painting skies
- 4.
Indigo from Case For Making - this color is a real workhorse. I use it for shadows and for dialing down the chroma of brighter blues to make pleasing skies. I also use this color in lieu of mixing a gray.
- 5.
Primary Red from ???
- 6.
Primary Yellow from ???
- 7.
Primary Blue (probably)from ???
- 8.
Burnt Umber from Case for Making - this color is crumbly for some reason. I use this one for tree bark.
- 9.
Fluorescent Pink from Case for Making - I use this when I want to brighten up pinks and purples.
- 10.
Gold from Case for Making - fun color, easy to overuse
- 11.
Forest (?) Green from Case for Making - for leaves, stems, obviously
- 12.
Titanium White from Case for Making - I saw in an Instagram that you should never use white to make a color lighter because it will make the color chalky. You should use a lighter tint of the color that you want to lighten. I don't know, sometimes I do want a pastel-y tint! They do exist in nature!