The palette colours are also useful alone. With this set, generally two, but at most three colours may be needed to create any hue you want. Many people find that if they mix too many pigments, they end up creating 'mud'. My goal was to find single pigment colours that would mix together efficiently so that most colours could be produced by mixing just two pigments. Too many colours in a painting leads to a lack of colour harmony. It is rather a Goldilocks palette - not so few colours that you have to spend the whole time mixing everything together, nor so many that you lose track of what you have and how to mix them. It is also suitable for anyone from a beginner to an experienced artist. It is intended as a universal palette, suitable for any subject. I have often been asked what colours I recommend for people to buy to get started in watercolour or to upgrade to artist quality watercolours so I created this palette to address that question.
