Grisaille Palette

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These colors can be blended and used interchangeably with other oil color brands.
The Grisaille Palette includes one 50 ml tube each of:

Rublev Colours Grisaille Palette
Color Swatch	Item No.	Color Name	Tube	Price
	820-810	Barite is a semi-opaque buff colored pigment ground in linseed and walnut oil. It is ideal for flesh tones where a soft, mixing buff color is needed to tone down whites and other colors.	50 ml	$17.95
	820-809	Ceruse is a semi-opaque white ground in linseed and walnut oil like that used by Rembrandt and Velázquez. It is used for translucent white effects and soft tints when mixed with other colors.	50 ml	$17.95
	820-904	German Vine Black is an opaque blue-black with high tinting strength, fine grained and brushes "long" in the direction of the brush stroke. Our vine black is a single pigment color made of calcined vine cuttings from Germany.	50 ml	$12.95
	820-906	Roman Black is a single-pigment oil color comprised of a natural black earth; a dense, opaque, heavy color that is absolutely permanent. It is comparatively neutral in undertone and is non-greasy, when compared to carbon blacks	50 ml	$12.95
	820-903	Bone Black is an opaque warm black with good tinting strength, fine grained and brushes 'long' in the direction of the brush stroke.	50 ml	$12.95
		Save $14.75		$74.75

Note: Colors swatches are shown in mass tone, straight from the tube, on the left, and mixed with an equal amount of titanium white on the right. All pictures of color swatches in this web site are only approximations of the actual color of the oil paint. We taken every care to match the color in these pictures on calibrated color monitors to the actual color. However, because of the wide variance in color monitors the results you get may vary.

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Tone, Color and the Limited Palette
Tone is the use of contrast between light and shade in painting, which is sometimes referred to by the Italian term chiaroscuro. It can be an aid to composition, such as in the works of Vermeer; the creation of space; and to communicating a sense of form, as in paintings by Leonardo. The use of tone was especially prevalent in the works of Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Velázquez, and the schools to which they belonged.

Tone is also important in the use of colors. Harold Speed, British painter and author, writes that it is "so intimately associated with color that many think they are admiring color when they are admiring tone." Muddy color is usually the 'result of bad tone relationships.'

A limited palette of earth pigments, Earth Tones™ palettes, was especially conceived to help build tone relationships and color harmony in oil painting. Earth Tones™ palettes enable you to paint with color without losing an emphasis on tone.

The limited palette has many advantages. One advantage is that with fewer colors on the palette it is easier to create color unity in a painting. Improving your color mixing skills is another advantage. The simplicity of a limited palette encourages experimentation and quickly builds an appreciation for the subtle nuances of every color. Philip Hammertone wrote in The Graphics Arts: "Limited palettes are the best instructors in colouring, because they teach us, far better and more effectually than a great number of pigments ever can do, the wonderful effects of mixture."

Speed advised learning to paint using only two colors—a warm and a cold color. "A great deal that is of vast importance with regard to colour, can be more directly learned by this means than by stumbling straight into a full palette."

Warm colors are those hues ranging between yellow to red-violet on the chromatic circle. Cool colors are colors ranging between blue-violet and yellow-green on the color circle.

This degree of warmth or coolness exhibited by a color is also called 'color temperature.' For example, madder lake is a cooler (leaning toward blue) red than red ocher, which is warmer (inclining toward yellow).

The interaction between colors may cause a hue such as yellow-green to appear colder if it is placed next to a warm color, such as red, or warmer if it is placed next to a cool color, such as blue.

Contrasts of warm and cool colors, as Speed insists, is 'the most important consideration in coloring' upon which 'the vitality of coloring largely depends.'

Warm-cool contrasts resulting from the juxtaposition of warm and cool colors makes warm hues appear warmer, and vice versa. This type of contrast, which helps balance color schemes, are in Earth Tones™ palettes.

Earth Tones™ palettes are built on the idea of warm and cool colors in a subdued range of green, red and brown hues. The palettes help to make clear the contrasts of temperature within each of the colors.