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Article · Richard J Hunt
My Essential 13-Colour Oil Painting Palette: Pigment Choices, Colour Logic, and Why This Limited Palette Works
By Richard Hunt
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
About this lesson
Contemporary painter Richard Hunt breaks down his 13-pigment oil palette by function rather than by color wheel theory, explaining how specific pigments like Lemon Yellow and Burnt Sienna behave in mixtures for portraits, cityscapes and shadow work.
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