A Rational Approach to Color Palettes

The palette is one of the most important tools in the history of oil painting. Yet its effect is one of the least studied aspects of art history. The method of setting the palette has an important history. Its development is relatively easy to trace in pictures of artists at work. Painters arranged colors on the set palette according to their tonal value. In this webinar, George O’Hanlon, Technical Director of Natural Pigments, explains how the use of a set, limited palette developed among European painters during the second quarter of the seventeenth century. The implications of a set palette in painting are the subject of this course.

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