Roger Ehmpke's Palette
the oil paints, pigments, my preferred wooden, and glass palette I have used in most of my portraits consists of :
Wood Palette
I am working on getting a new wood pallete, mine is not balanced and made well, it was purchased at the local craft store.
The best place to get a wood palette from is located at the following link:
http://www.leeboynton.com/ArtPalettes.html there are others for sure but it seems like a great deal of modern day masters use this palette. you can find out more about others using this palette by going to http://forum.portraitartist.com and running a search on palette.
Glass Palette
I have mainly used my glass pallete over the last few years. It is comprised of a 2ply 10"x10" peice of glass that can be cut and purchased at any local glass cutting shop. I first started using it in college, as my teacher Eddwin Meyers had suggested it. I am moving away from it as it is not as easy to work with being made of glass and basically not the best thing to drag around when painting. I am getting to the point where I want to have a palette I can hold up to my easel when I need to judge colors that is the main reason I am moving away from it.. If I am going to be sitting in front of me easel at home I may have the glass palette sitting next to me.
Oil Paints
The brand I suggest is Holbein found here:
http://www.holbeinhk.com/
Pigments
More history and information can be found by clicking items on the pigment list below. I do not usually get these pigments from the sources I have them linked to, these are just to give more pertinent information than I have listed on my site.
- Permanant Rose
- Cadmium Red Light
- Raw seina
- Raw Umber
- Burnt Umber
- Cerulean Blue
- Ultramarine Blue
- Prussian Blue
- Mars Orange
- Alizarin Crimson
- Ivory Black
- Yellow Ochre
- Cadmium Yellow
- Chromium Oxide Green
- Flake White
- Titanium White
This list may shrink slightly depending on the subject matter but is pretty much the palette of colors I use.
Pigments and their history can be found here.
Famous artist palette:
and whole lot more useful information on him
John Singer Sargent (coming soon!)
