A NEW WATERCOLOUR BOX; I've just painted swatches of the 66 two-colour combinations that are possible with the 12 colours in my Winsor & Newton Artists' Water Colour Lightweight Sketchers' Box. Like the little pocket-box that I've been using recently, the basis of the colour selection is two versions of each of the primaries:
Permanent Alizarin Crimson
Winsor Red
Winsor Lemon
Winsor Yellow
French Ultramarine
Cerulean Blue
But it's the secondaries that come with these are more earthy than the selection that I'm used to:
Winsor Green (Blue Shade)
Yellow Ochre
Burnt Sienna
Raw Umber
Burnt Umber
Ivory Black
The surprises here for me are Burnt Sienna which to me seems to have a chestnut glow to it and Ivory Black, which I would never have chosen for myselt which, as you can see from the penultimate row of my swatches (above, left), is quite useful if you're mixing a froggy or toadish kind of green when you mix it with the lemon or the yellow respectively. I would never have thought of any black as being suitable for mixing.