2 Color Watercolor Limited Palette Ideas

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 What is a Limited Palette?

In painting, a limited palette is exactly what it sounds like, rather than using every color you could ever want on your palette, you limit it to a much lesser amount. Using a limited palette allows beginner and professional artists to focus on aspects of painting besides color, like value and technique. Using limited palettes is also great for improving your understanding of color theory and how to mix color. In this post, I will show you some unusual but interesting color combinations for watercolor painting.


#1) Burnt Sienna + Lamp Black

    Using Burnt Sienna in collaboration with Lamp Black would be a great way to get quick skin tones for impromptu portraits. If you want to make a travel watercolor palette, these two colors could do you a lot of good.


#2) Vermillion + Ultramarine Blue

    While the mix of these two colors will result in a bit of a muddy purple, they certainly make for an interesting mix.


#3) Prussian Blue + Lemon Yellow 

For someone that paints tropical landscapes and nature close-ups, this would be a great combo. The mix of Lemon Yellow and Prussian Blue creates a nice green for foliage and watering down the blue could serve as an open sky to your landscape.


#4) Magenta + Vermillion

This unnaturally bright combination would do great for floral artists as well as those who paint in styles that are more colorful and whimsical.

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