Swatches

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

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 .

Acrylic swatches

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