A three-tube sepia palette for sketching on location
Sketching outdoors has two enemies: weight and hesitation.
Burnt sienna
Semi-opaque warm earth, settles fast.
3 published
Palette 200 gsm · Not applicable
Backruns: turning the cauliflower into a tool
A backrun — the pale, hard-edged cauliflower that appears when water lands on a drying wash — is the classic beginner accident.
Yellow ochre, burnt sienna, Venetian red: three tubes that cover half of painting
These three earths were the entire palette of European oil painting for two centuries, and they still do more work than any other group in watercolour.