I'm still in the process of swatching colors, but was amazed by this one. Daniel Smith's cobalt blue and permanent rose. Isn't the separation  beautiful! I'm working with primary colors: cobalt blue, transparent yellow and permanent rose and will post more later. I hate to admit this, but I've painted for years and never swatched my colors. I figured it Toby does it, I should too.

 

I started watercolor with a Winsor/Newton 14 color travel set. It served me for a long time and I bought Daniel Smith color in tubes to refill the set. Noticed I never used Veridian, so put neutral tint there.

Years later, I wanted to expand my pallet (knowledge of color) so I bought the large set and used tube colors according to a Skill Share class. I use it a lot, but always go back to the cobalt blue, transparent yellow and permanent rose. I just like those colors!

For the swatch sheet, I took one primary, then mixed it with the other primaries and then other colors to see what I get. Wound up with three primary sheets and I'm working on a separate sheet of miscellaneous colors and darkening colors. Just seeing the mix of cobalt blue and permanent rose alone was worth this exercise. How beautiful. I stil use my little Winsor/Newton set for simple things.  I replaced the white in it with raw sienna.

 

I was amazed to see that I had bought color that was easily mixed by using what I already had. For instance, I bought Daniel Smith green gold and it's almost the same as mixing Daniel Smith cobalt blue and transparent yellow. I bought Transparent orange and it's almost the same as mixing transparent yellow and permanent rose. I bought quin. magenta, but it's almost the same as the mixture of permanent rose and cobalt blue ... BUT -- it quin. magenta doesn't have the beautiful color separation that my permanent rose/cobalt blue mixture has! Color separation intrigues me. Permanent rose and Payne's gray has a slight bit of separation and I never knew that was such a beautiful color.  Toby, know any other colors that do that? Now, for the big confession -- I don't understand warm/cool colors very well. My primaries are considered "neutral", but I do have all the cool and warm colors. Using them for a project is beyond me. I just play. Would like to have more of a plan.