Here is a small painting I made from the River looking over the bank and across the farmer’s field where the Harvest has turned orange and yellow and the clouds looked like giant balls of cotton.
I am trying to paint with only the 3 primary colours here plus White and Black.
The idea is to travel with as few paints and brushes as possible.
5 Tubes of paint and one brush.
- Red
- Yellow
- Blue
- White
- Black
You can create many shades of blue mixing in white, yellow and red.
... shades of orange mixing various quantities of red, yellow .... blue, white and black..
This is a pretty good Travel Kit of water mixable oil paints for $33
Link : https://amzn.to/35uHFUY
Well theoretically you should be able to make all the colours from that tiny stash right XD I know nothing about painting, does having the more specialised colours make the mixing part quicker?
Looks to me like you did alright with the minimal set, how do you feel?
I’m pretty happy. I have to take more time mixing so it might be better to have a few extra colours.... orange, green, purple, brown ..... the secondary, complimentary colours.
It makes sense to carry as little as possible if you are going to paint on the go. I have never done that and only paint at home, inside, so I keep many colors. I don't think I would be crazy about doing all the mixing, although I so adjust shades by mixing even in what I already have sometimes, it is not nearly for every color though.
Sometimes I mix right on the painting... adding colours from the tube to my brush. It can get messy.
Messy is fun