Sorting- Get out all your tubes of paint. Sort them into 7 piles. A pile for each primary color - red, yellow and blue. A pile for each secondary color - orange, green and purple. And one pile for the "odd" colors.
Now choose two versions (a warm and a cool, or a bright and a dull) of each of our three primary colors - 2 reds, 2 yellows and 2 blues. This is your basic double primary palette. Six tubes of paint.
As you become familiar with this simplified palette, you can begin to substitute different colors in the same family such as an orange for one of your reds. Still using six tubes of paint.
This will give you an interesting range of colors and it's is a fun way to use up those extra tubes of paint while still using only six tubes of paint.
Now add a tube of white. You now have all the colors you need.
Remove the "odd" pile of colors and put them away for another use.
After you have sorted through your tubes of paint, you will probably find that you have enough choices so that you won't have to buy any more paint - except maybe white - for a long time. Isn't that great!
Happy painting!
Celene
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