Swatches

About painting and scanning

Paper

All the swatches with watercolor technique are painted on a 300g/m² Hahnemühle Aquarell-Karton. It's a natural white, mould made, cold pressed watercolor board.

All gouache swatches are painted on a Fabriano Bristol paper. It's a 250g/m², 100% Alpha-Cellulose, acid-free, affordable paper.

Acrylic swatches are painted on a Daler Rowney System3 Acrylic paper. It's a 230g/m² acid-free paper with irregular linen texture with some tooth.

Scanning

For swatches uploaded after 2022.12.01 I use the following setup:

  1. I scan the images with an Epson V600 scanner in Silverfast SE Studio 9, the only software I've found which can save files in ProPhoto RGB color space (Epson's own MacOS software - Epson Scan 2 - can only create 8-bit files in Adobe RGB color space at best).
  2. For slicing the images I use Adobe Lightroom Classic / Photoshop, and keep the color space as ProPhoto RGB throughout the process.
  3. I export the images to sRGB JPEGs and Display P3 PNGs. Depending on your monitor, operating system, and your browser, you may get different images. You can read about how browsers support colors.

Watercolor swatches

Number of
paints
Small
watercolor
swatches
Watercolor
swatches
A. Gallo Honey-Based Watercolor Watercolor 89 86 0
Artemiranda Pure Powdered Pigments Pigment, dry or paste 3 3 3
Blockx Aquarelles Watercolor 72 72 71
Blockx Pigment Pigment, dry or paste 70 4 0
C. Roberson & Co Pigments Pigment, dry or paste 75 1 0
Caran d'Ache Luminance 6901 Colored Pencil 100 99 0
Caran d'Ache Pablo Colored Pencil 121 1 0
Cheap Joe's American Journey Artists' Watercolor Watercolor 102 12 0
Couleurs Leroux Pigments Purs Leroux Pigment, dry or paste 59 31 16
Da Vinci Permanent Artists' Gouache Gouache 28 20 0
Da Vinci Watercolors Watercolor 120 110 0
Daler Rowney Aquafine Watercolour Watercolor 48 1 0
Daler Rowney FW Acrylic Ink Acrylic Ink 45 15 0
Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors Watercolor 183 164 0
Daniel Smith Primatek Watercolors Watercolor 36 30 0
Derwent Chromaflow Pencils Colored Pencil 72 72 0
Derwent Coloursoft Pencils Colored Pencil 72 5 0
Derwent Drawing Pencils Colored Pencil 24 22 0
Derwent Lightfast Pencils Colored Pencil 100 100 0
Derwent Procolour Pencils Colored Pencil 72 72 0
Dr. Ph. Martin's Hydrus Fine Art Liquid Watercolors Liquid Watercolor 36 12 0
Faber-Castell Goldfaber Colored Pencil 48 2 0
Faber-Castell Polychromos 9201 Colored Pencil 120 120 0
Gamblin Artist's Grade Pigment Pigment, dry or paste 22 1 0
Golden Fluid Acrylic 83 2 0
Golden Heavy Body Acrylic 153 1 0
Golden OPEN Acrylic 78 9 0
Golden QOR Watercolor Watercolor 87 11 1
Guerra Pigment Dispersions Pigment, dry or paste 195 4 0
Guerra Pigments Pigment, dry or paste 87 4 0
Holbein Artists' Colored Pencil Colored Pencil 150 1 0
Holbein Artists' Gouache Gouache 147 54 2
Holbein Artists' Pigment Pigment, dry or paste 80 2 0
Holbein Artists' Watercolor (HWC) Watercolor 125 109 0
Honsell JAXON Aquarell Watercolor 48 45 0
Jackson's Artist Pigment Pigment, dry or paste 100 94 0
Koh-I-Noor Polycolor 3800 Colored Pencil 175 153 0
Kremer Pigmente Watercolor Watercolor 136 1 0
Kremer Pigmente [Dry] Pigments Pigment, dry or paste 230 218 65
Kusakabe Artist's Pigment Pigment, dry or paste 100 2 0
Kusakabe Artists' Water Colours Watercolor 90 2 0
L. Cornelissen & Son Pigments Pigment, dry or paste 114 2 1
Lascaux Gouache Acrylic Gouache 34 2 0
Lefranc & Bourgeois LINEL Extra-Fine Gouache Gouache 77 38 0
Lukas Aquarell 1862 Watercolor 69 2 0
M. Graham & Co. Artists' Watercolor Watercolor 71 57 0
Maimeri MaimeriBlu Watercolor 92 89 87
Maimeri Tempera Fine Gouache 27 11 4
Matsuda Pigments Pigment, dry or paste 63 13 0
Mijello Mission Gold Watercolor Watercolor 127 125 2
Mitsubishi Pencil Mitsu-Bishi Polycolor 7500 Colored Pencil 36 12 0
Mitsubishi Pencil Mitsubishi Arterase Color (UACN) Colored Pencil 36 12 0
Nevskaya Palitra White Nights Watercolor 139 102 0
Newell Brands Karismacolor (Japanese) Colored Pencil 110 12 0
Newell Brands Prismacolor Premier Soft Core Colored Pencils Colored Pencil 151 81 0
Newell Brands Prismacolor Premier Verithin Colored Pencils Colored Pencil 40 1 0
Nicker Acrylic Gouache Acrylic Gouache 93 0 1
Nicker Designers Colour Gouache 95 1 0
Nicker Poster Colour Poster Color 84 48 0
Ocres de France Pigments Pigment, dry or paste 16 16 0
Old Holland Classic Watercolours Watercolor 173 162 32
Old Holland New Masters Acrylic 169 1 0
Old Holland Pigment Pigment, dry or paste 112 2 0
Pannoncolor Pigment Pigment, dry or paste 1 1 0
Prima Marketing Watercolor Watercolor 133 12 0
Renesans Extra Fine Watercolour Watercolor 54 44 0
Renesans Gouache Gouache 5 4 0
Renesans Intense Water Watercolor 70 1 0
Roman Szmal Aquarius Watercolor 181 43 0
Rosa Gallery Watercolour Watercolor 70 57 1
Royal Talens Bruynzeel Design Colour 8805 Colored Pencil 50 48 0
Royal Talens Gouache Extra Fine Gouache 60 25 0
Royal Talens Rembrandt Water Colour Watercolor 120 99 34
Royal Talens Van Gogh Watercolour Watercolor 72 72 0
Royal Talens Van Gogh Watercolour [Pre 2019] Watercolor 40 40 0
Schmincke AKADEMIE Acryl Color [Series 23] Acrylic 60 1 0
Schmincke AKADEMIE Aquarell [Series 16] Watercolor 53 12 0
Schmincke AKADEMIE Gouache [Series 22] Gouache 30 7 0
Schmincke Calligraphy Gouache [Series 27] Gouache 12 1 0
Schmincke Designers' Gouache (HKS) [Series 25] Gouache 60 21 0
Schmincke HORADAM Aquarell [Series 14] Watercolor 234 180 20
Schmincke HORADAM Gouache [Series 12] Gouache 51 13 9
Schmincke PRIMAcryl [Series 13] Acrylic 85 1 0
Schmincke Pure Artists' Pigments [Series 18] Pigment, dry or paste 78 5 0
Sennelier Acrylique Acrylic 120 3 0
Sennelier Dry Pigments Pigment, dry or paste 103 10 0
Sennelier l'Aquarelle Watercolor 110 56 11
Shinhan PWC Watercolor 104 104 1
Shinhan Professional Designers Gouache Gouache 72 22 0
Silpakorn Wichitrong Water Colour Watercolor 24 24 0
Titan Arts Oil Colour Extra Fine Oil 92 73 0
Tombow Irojiten Colored Pencil 100 3 0
Turner Acryl Gouache Acrylic Gouache 238 23 0
Turner Artists' Water Colour Watercolor 151 145 0
Turner U-35 Acrylic 81 2 0
Vallejo Acrylic Studio Acrylic 62 8 0
Wallace Seymour Pigments Pigment, dry or paste 442 14 0
Winsor & Newton Artists' Water Colour [Discontinued] Watercolor 116 3 0
Winsor & Newton Cotman Water Colours Watercolor 48 19 4
Winsor & Newton Designers Gouache Gouache 89 41 0
Winsor & Newton Professional Acrylic Acrylic 80 3 0
Winsor & Newton Professional Water Colour Watercolor 118 99 6

Gouache swatches

I paint 5 swatches from each color. One tube color - whenever it's possible without adding water - and some lighter values (by adding white) and some darker values (by adding black).

For gouache, I use Schminchke Akademie Gouache 100 White PW6 for tints Linel Extra-Fine Gouache 269 Ivory Black PBk9 for shades.

For Nicker poster colors I use their own 051 White PW6 PW4 and 054 Black PBk1 .

Number of
paints
Gouache
swatches
Holbein Artists' Gouache Gouache 147 45
Lefranc & Bourgeois LINEL Extra-Fine Gouache Gouache 77 38
Nicker Acrylic Gouache Acrylic Gouache 93 1
Nicker Designers Colour Gouache 95 1
Nicker Poster Colour Poster Color 84 48
Royal Talens Gouache Extra Fine Gouache 60 25
Schmincke Designers' Gouache (HKS) [Series 25] Gouache 60 21
Schmincke HORADAM Gouache [Series 12] Gouache 51 13
Shinhan Professional Designers Gouache Gouache 72 23
Turner Acryl Gouache Acrylic Gouache 238 20
Winsor & Newton Designers Gouache Gouache 89 45

Acrylic swatches

For shades and tints I mix with Lascaux Studio 983 Tint White PW5 or 973 Carbon Black PBk7 .

Number of
paints
Gouache
swatches
Golden Fluid Acrylic 83 1
Golden Heavy Body Acrylic 153 2
Golden High Flow Acrylic 86 9
Lascaux Artist Acrylic 54 6
Lascaux Studio Acrylic 54 26
Lefranc & Bourgeois Acrylique Acrylic 49 6
Lefranc & Bourgeois Flashe Acrylic 76 6
Liquitex Soft Body Acrylic Acrylic 100 12
Lukas Cryl Pastos Acrylic 68 1
Old Holland New Masters Acrylic 169 5
Schmincke AKADEMIE Acryl Color [Series 23] Acrylic 60 1
Schmincke PRIMAcryl [Series 13] Acrylic 85 18
Sennelier Acrylique Acrylic 120 1
Vallejo Acrylic Artist Color Acrylic 97 2