I tend to line up my colors with a “red first” order.
The color chart on the Derwent site doesn’t do that, so the numbers I will give of the pencils I use will be scrambled a bit.
Here they are, in “red first” order, as they appear left to right in the photo:
- Madder Carmine #1900 I also use Crimson Lake #2000 as a more ‘blue’ red.
- Scarlet Lake #1200 This is a nice dark orange
- Orange Chrome #1000
- Zinc Yellow #0100 I like how ‘clear’ this yellow is.
- Emerald Green #4600
- Mineral Green #4500
- Light Blue #3300
- Prussian Blue #3500
- Imperial Purple # 2300 The most used color in the bunch. It is the workhorse.
- Ivory Black #6700
- Gunmetal #6900 I use this color to ‘overcolor’ my initial graphite sketch.
- Chocolate #6600 Yum. Chocolate…I am using this as a substitute for Sepia. I ran into a big batch of Sepia that just crumbled and would not work in the pencil sharpener. The sepia has never recovered it’s original usefulness for me. I want it back. They must have changed the formula.
- Copper Beech #6100 This is another ’sepia’ substitute. But it’s lighter and red in color.
- Venetian Red #6300
- Raw Sienna #5800 Another workhorse color for me.
- Pink Madder Lake #1700 Sometimes I use this for a flesh effect.
- Chinese White #7200
There are other colors that I will play with, but the colors listed above are what I use consistently. Combining them in layers creates the effect of more colors.
I have chosen this group because they are the closest to ‘true’ colors that I can find. Red, yellow, blue and some neutrals.
I’m gonna go color now…maybe eat some chocolate…
Leslie