Yes, I love the color of purple! Every student that has ever taken my class knows how much I love the color of purple and I call it the magic color. Any time you use the color it magically makes your painting look good.
My students also know I love the Holbein company and their wonderful products. So I got ahold of Holbein and asked them
to send me all of their violet and purple colors. The list is below along with a video I made to show you what those colors look like. I have to apologize beforehand about not having the best lighting in the video. In the near future, I will be setting up a filming area in my studio for more professional looking videos.
Here is a list of the Holbein Artists Watercolors
- Lavender- this is more of an opaque pastel looking like color
and this color I forgot to get in the video
- Lilac- is also an opaque pastel looking like color. These opaque colors have the feel of Gouache.
- Opera- is the most intense pink watercolor on the planet, great for mixing wonderful violets.
- Bright Rose- is very close to the Opera but just a little less intense.
- Quinacridone Magenta- has an alizarin crimson kind of look to
it.
- Quinacridone Violet- also kind of like Alizarin with more of a darker purple hue.
- Cobalt Violet Bright- the pigment felt like it handled a little different, not quite sure why so I will be testing that color this week to see what it was that made it handle differently. It is a nice light purple color.
- Bright Violet- this was a very vibrant violet and is one I think will become a new favorite.
- Mineral
Violet- more of a darker gray violet
- Permanent Violet- this has been my go to violet for as long as I can remember. Beautiful purple
- Mars Violet- a brown shaded violet
- Verditer- not sure how to pronounce this color but it is a blue with a light shade of violet.
- Phthalo Blue Red Shade- this color is pretty much a vibrant blue with a very slight shade of warmth. Probably very good to
use for mixing together with other violets to produce wonderful shades of violet
Those are the violets that I tested and I probably will be putting 2 new violets on my palette, which will be Bright Violet and Bright Rose
My second favorite color is orange, will have to test oranges next.
David
