Our Colours

Get your Derivan paints here, and find paintings which use those colours.

• Our full range of colours
• Hue families: Red | Orange | Ochre | Yellow | Green | Blue | Purple | White | Black | Grey
• More info:
• Sizes
• Why is good paint quality important?
• Colour naming conventions
• Comparison of Derivan Student and Artist

Colour Swatch	Derivan Acrylic Professional name	Inglis Academy Colour description
Red hues
	Crimson	Cool Red Basic Palette Which paintings? Click here to buy (WIP)
	Pyrrole Red	Which paintings?
	Scarlet Red Light	Warm Red Which paintings use this? Click here to buy (WIP)
Orange hues
	Vermilion	Orange Which paintings? Click here to buy (WIP)
	Red Oxide	Red Ochre Which paintings?
	Burnt Sienna	Which paintings?
	Burnt Umber	Which paintings?
Ochre hues
	Yellow Oxide	Yellow Ochre Basic Palette Which paintings?
	Raw Sienna	Which paintings?
	Raw Umber	Which paintings?
Yellow hues
	Yellow Deep	Warm Yellow Which paintings?
	Cadmium Yellow	Yellow Basic Palette Which paintings?
	Lemon Yellow	Cool Yellow Which paintings?
Green hues
	Australian Leaf Green	Which paintings?
	Australian Sap Green	Which paintings?
	Phthalo Green	Turquoise Transparent Blue/Green useful for seascapes and present in many impressionist paintings. Which paintings?
		Australian native tree colours. We learn how to mix these colours from our Basic Palette.
Blue hues
	Cerulean Blue	Cerulean Blue Warmer blue, semi-transparent. Which paintings?
	Phthalo Blue	Cool Blue Our primary blue. Transparent. Basic Palette Which paintings?
	Ultra Blue	Ultramarine Blue A purple tinged blue, transparent. Which paintings?
	Cobalt Blue	Cobalt Blue More purplish. Opaque. Which paintings?
Purple hues
	Purple	We mix purple and it's related colours from our stable of reds and blues. Rarely used as a hue from the tube, unless it matches a particular fabric. Which paintings?
	Magenta	Rarely used as a hue from the tube, unless it matches a particular fabric or flower. Which paintings?
White hues
Whites
	Titanium White	Warm White Basic Palette Which paintings? Click here to buy (WIP)
Derivan Matisse (coming soon)	Zinc White	Cool White
Black hues
	Carbon Black	We never use black. Black can be warm or cool. We make black from the colours on our palette, ensuring colour harmony in our painting. When I say never... ... I often use a thin mixture of black to sign my paintings. Which paintings?
Grey hues
	Cool Grey	Inglis Academy Custom Colour Used for toning the canvas when the painting is predominantly warm.

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Yellow family

Yellow family
Yellow Deep	Cad Yellow Hue	Lemon Yellow
We use Cad Yellow as our primary. This gives us the option of going to a warmer yellow (Yellow Deep) or a cooler yellow (Lemon Yellow) when needed.

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Why is good paint quality important?

When you are learning to mix colour, it is incredibly important to use paint that:

1. Is consistent from batch to batch.
2. Retains maximum chroma (brightness, saturation) when mixing
3. Behaves like the natural pigment

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Colour naming conventions

We name our colours by Hue and Temperature, e.g. Warm Yellow, Cool Yellow. We use the Chevreul Colour System , as did the Impressionists . Study this system in this session: Colour Wheel Mastery.

Derivan's names are based on historical usage, you will find these names are used by most paint manufacturers and art systems, although Derivan's naming conventions are probably the most accurate. Other brands may vary. As you work through the Syllabus in our 'Monet & Friends' stream you will become familiar with both conventions.

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Sizes

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