Mixing coloured greys, a subtle palette

Here we see a pale orange mix with the addition of white, being slowly adjusted to a neutral ‘coloured grey’. Moving from left to right the colour softens as with each mix a small but increasing amount of ultramarine is added.

As you move along the two rows, away from the orange, the swatches of orange have an increasingly small amount of blue added and you can observe how as we move from left to right the original mix becomes muted and more de-saturated. Ultramarine blue has been added to the top row, whilst cerulean blue has been added to the lower row. Although the difference is very subtle, it is possible to see how the top line of mixes here are subtly warmer than the mixes in the row below.