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 7 7 3
Blockx Aquarelles Watercolor 72 72 71
Blockx Pigment Pigment, dry or paste 70 6 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
Color Rare Pigments Pigment, dry or paste 386 13 0
Couleurs Leroux Pigments Purs Leroux Pigment, dry or paste 59 55 16
Da Vinci Permanent Artists' Gouache Gouache 28 20 0
Da Vinci Watercolors Watercolor 124 110 0
Daler Rowney Aquafine Watercolour Watercolor 48 1 0
Daler Rowney FW Acrylic Ink Acrylic Ink 45 15 0
Daniel Smith Extra Fine Gouache Gouache 74 22 0
Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors Watercolor 183 181 0
Daniel Smith Primatek Watercolors Watercolor 36 34 0
Derivan Matisse (Structure Formula) Acrylic 124 1 0
Derwent Chromaflow Pencils Colored Pencil 72 72 0
Derwent Coloursoft Pencils Colored Pencil 72 72 0
Derwent Drawing Pencils Colored Pencil 24 22 0
Derwent Inktense Pencils Water-Soluble Colored Pencil 100 100 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 48 0
Faber-Castell Polychromos 9201 Colored Pencil 120 120 0
Gamblin Artist's Grade Pigment Pigment, dry or paste 22 1 0
Gekkoso Watercolors Watercolor 24 24 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 150 150 0
Holbein Artists' Gouache Gouache 150 55 2
Holbein Artists' Pigment Pigment, dry or paste 80 11 0
Holbein Artists' Watercolor (HWC) Watercolor 130 109 0
Honsell JAXON Aquarell Watercolor 48 45 0
Jackson's Artist Pigment Pigment, dry or paste 100 100 0
Kama Pigments Pigment Pigment, dry or paste 194 17 0
Koh-I-Noor Polycolor 3800 Colored Pencil 175 153 0
Kremer Pigmente Watercolor Watercolor 137 1 0
Kremer Pigmente [Dry] Pigments Pigment, dry or paste 292 238 65
Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolor 100 24 0
Kusakabe Artist's Pigment Pigment, dry or paste 101 11 0
Kusakabe Artists' Water Colours Watercolor 102 90 0
Kusakabe Harmonia Granulating Colours Watercolor 24 24 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 41 0
Lefranc & Bourgeois LINEL Extra-Fine Gouache [Pre 2020] Gouache 124 1 0
Lukas Aquarell 1862 Watercolor 69 2 0
M. Graham & Co. Artists' Watercolor Watercolor 71 57 0
Maimeri Brera Acrylic 72 2 0
Maimeri Maimeri Gouache Gouache 54 4 0
Maimeri MaimeriBlu Watercolor 92 89 87
Maimeri Tempera Fine Gouache 31 26 4
Match Basic Watercolors Watercolor 13 13 0
Matsuda Mizuneri [Water-Based] Pigments Pigment, dry or paste 24 1 0
Matsuda Pigments Pigment, dry or paste 63 17 0
Michael Harding Professional Watercolour Paint Watercolor 135 9 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
Mitsubishi Pencil Mitsubishi UNI Colored Pencil (UCN) Colored Pencil 90 36 0
Natural Pigments Pigment Pigment, dry or paste 157 18 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 153 130 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 Gouache 84 57 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 4 0
PanPastel Artists' Pastel Soft Pastel 97 20 0
Pannoncolor Pigment Pigment, dry or paste 1 1 0
Pigment Tokyo Pigments Pigment, dry or paste 2 1 0
Prima Marketing Art Philosophy Watercolor Confections Watercolor 133 12 0
Renesans Extra Fine Watercolour Watercolor 54 44 0
Renesans Gouache Gouache 27 4 0
Renesans Intense Water Watercolor 70 1 0
Roman Szmal Aquarius Watercolor 204 99 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 Colour Pencil Colored Pencil 60 60 0
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 8 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 233 187 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 8 0
Sennelier Acrylique Acrylic 120 3 0
Sennelier Dry Pigments Pigment, dry or paste 103 11 0
Sennelier l'Aquarelle Watercolor 110 60 11
Shinhan PWC Watercolor 104 104 1
Shinhan Professional Designers Gouache Gouache 72 40 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 239 23 0
Turner Artists' Water Colour Watercolor 154 146 0
Turner U-35 Acrylic 81 16 0
Vallejo Acrylic Studio Acrylic 62 8 0
Verfmolen De Kat Pigments Pigment, dry or paste 109 2 0
Wallace Seymour Pigments Pigment, dry or paste 442 14 0
Winsor & Newton Artists' Water Colour [Rebranded] Watercolor 116 3 0
Winsor & Newton Cotman Water Colours Watercolor 48 19 4
Winsor & Newton Designers Gouache Gouache 89 68 0
Winsor & Newton Professional Acrylic Acrylic 80 3 0
Winsor & Newton Professional Water Colour Watercolor 118 102 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

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