Altalite watercolor palette:

This is the watercolor palette I used for my watercolor Visual Novel, Altalite! (You can check it out here!)

I'm personally a huge fan of knowing what materials an artist uses for their work, and as I'm constantly rearranging my paints, I thought it'd be fun to have a page dedicated to exactly what I used for this project, both for myself to look back on and for anyone interested!

(Hover for brand names/pigment codes!):

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Regarding the numbers associated with the paints: In case you're unfamiliar with how pigments work, (professional) watercolor paint companies distinguish their main ingredients with pigment codes, as marketing names can vary from company to company.
If you wanted to replicate any of the palettes I've made, you do not need to use the same brand of paints, instead look to match pigment codes.
(As long as your "Yellow Ochre" has "PY42" written on it somewhere and has a similar hue to the one I'm using, it's basically the same stuff.)

Palette sections:

Neutrals:

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Hardly neautral, all just varying shades of beige. Both for Fern's pasty face and mixing into other things to mute them down/make them more pastel. Esca's shirt is Buff Titanium PW6:1. Didn't really use Caput mortem or Venetian red (Both PR101's) and instead often chose Burnt Umber PBr7 or my homemade Brick red.
Perylene Violet PV29 was my main red-dark. Very useful for the darker woods, shadow areas of the bricks.

Church:

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A bright chunk of colors used for the stained glass inside the church. Copper Hue also made it's way into these mixes.
The frames were all a mix of Deft BluePB60 and Perylene green PBk31, and the stone was mostly Grey titanium PW6:1 with a bit of slate PBk19 and Ultramarine pink kPR259 thrown in here and there (especially in the shadows).

Homemade:

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First time putting my homemade paints into practical use!
The yellow ochre is a bit dirty compared to a commercial grade (I have a more refined version which gets pretty close) but it worked perfectly for the basement background:


Special mention to the brick red it was cool having an accurate brick tile color but the smell of iron was so strong it part of my brain was telling me something HAS to be bleeding. (No smell to the finished painting nor when the paint is just sitting in the pan so that makes it...useable?):

Honestly, I could have just gotten away with a regular venetian red. A perfectly reasonable color that doesn't have you wading into a lake to make it.

Siblings

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A section that was mostly for covering Esca and Sienna's color palettes, the browns and purples came in super helpful for painting everything else.

First time using a couple pigments, Imidazolone Brown PBr25 I found to be VERY powerful and a little overbearing. Also my first time using the pigment YInTiCo red PR298! Though only a tiny bit because my small tube is precious.... almost solely in Esca and Sienna's eyes.


Delft blue PB60, while being the last addition, was an absolute star of the palette. It's probably clearest here, in the sky of the outdoors BG, but it was used in mixes throughout the paintings.

Fern

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Fern's hair specifically is a mixture of Buff Titanium PW6:1 and Perylene green PBk31, with some level of Cobalt green turquoise PG36 in there to liven the mix up. The Copper Hue as his hair tie.
(As for the rest of him, his coat is mostly just Schminke's neautral tint (my favorite!), with a teeny bit of Delft blue PB60 in the mix.)

I didn't really make use of the Green Earth PG7 PBr7 or Victoria green PG51, both could be removed and I wouldn't really notice it. Chromium Oxide PG17 was used a little here and there but by far Perylene green PBk31 was doing most of the heavy lifting for this section (and outside of it in mixed for the church/window panes, as mentioned above).

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