Features
Denise’s Earth Friendly Da Vinci Watercolor Palette is a
carefully curated non-toxic, vegan watercolor palette containing 24 Da Vinci 8mL Watercolors. Each tube will fill approximately 3 half-size pans. While watercolors tend to produce less waste than other paint mediums
in general, this palette allows artists to further reduce their impact on the
environment by intentionally avoiding the use of cadmiums, cobalts, manganese,
and nickel pigments.
Denise has carefully researched each pigment included in this set, focusing
on their environmental impact while simultaneously striving to create a
balanced mixing palette. The set includes some of her favorite primary colors,
but is also joined by some eco-friendly alternatives including a cerulean blue
hue and a brand new version of sap green (Denise's Green) that she worked together with Da Vinci
to create and that maintains a nice glow while avoiding the use of nickel azo
yellow. The color selection is rounded off with a wide array of both
transparent and opaque earth tones that she is well known for using in her
animal portraits.
This set contains the following 8mL tube colors:
1.
Arylide Yellow FGL (PY97) 2.
Hansa Yellow Deep (PY65) 3.
Da Vinci Red (PR254) 4.
Alizarin Crimson Permanent (PV19) 5.
Perylene Maroon (PR179) 6.
Red Rose Deep (PV19) 7.
Da Vinci Violet (PV23) 8.
Indanthrene Blue (PB60) 9.
Ultramarine Blue (PB29) 10. Cerulean Blue Hue
(P15/PW6) 11. Phthalo Turquoise (PB16) 12. Phthalo Green (PG7) 13. Perylene Green (PBk31) 14. Denise’s Green
(PY129/PB60) 15. Green Gold (PY129) 16. Gold Ochre (PY42/PY83) 17. Raw Sienna Deep (PY42) 18. Raw Sienna (PBr7) 19. Quinacridone Burnt
Orange (PO48) 20. Burnt Sienna (PBr7) 21. Indian Red (PR101) 22. Violet Iron Oxide
(PR101) 23. Burnt Umber (PBr7) 24. Raw Umber (PBr7)
Denise’s Green:
Denise is well-known for her love of sap green, but in curating
her new Earth Friendly Da Vinci Watercolor Pan Set, she was striving to create
a version that avoided the use of nickel azo yellow while still having a warm,
earthy glow. This new blend can be straight from the tube as a convincing
natural green, adding indanthrene blue or green gold to deepen or lighten the
mixture respectively, but it also cooperates well with other colors. It creates
a wide range of rich browns when mixed with reds, moody teals when mixed with
deep blues, and even a beautiful turquoise when mixed with cerulean blue hue.
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