21 watercolors and 12 ink palette

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In the middle of April I finally had the time to make the point about my most used palette, as for watercolors as for ink with brushes and fountain pen.

About watercolors, my choose is:

  1. Quin Magenta WN 4235,
  2. Winsor Red WN A1 0910,
  3. Chrome Yellow Schminke 213,
  4. Naples yellow reddish Schminke 305635,
  5. Naples Yellow 2215709 Schminke,
  6. Winsor blue red WN 4433,
  7. Prussian Blue WN 1A 1119,
  8. Olive Green Permanent Schminke 534,
  9. Cobalt Turquoise WN AA1 1272,
  10. Kings Blue Old Holland E250,
  11. Cerulean Blue WN 2526,
  12. Winsor Blue red WN 4433,
  13. Prussian Blue WN 1A 1119,
  14. Indigo Schminke 485,
  15. Ultramarine Violet Schminke 495,
  16. Lilla Dioxanine Sennelier 917,
  17. Yellow Ochre WN AA 0923,
  18. Burnt Sienna WN AA1 0911,
  19. Burnt Umber WN 4815,
  20. Van Dyck Brown Schminke 662,
  21. Ox. of Chrome WN AA 31717.

About fountain pen / brushing ink:

  1. Winsor & Newton White
  2. Diamine Forever ink Blue Indigo,
  3. Diamine Forever ink Passion flower,
  4. Diamine forever ink Red ochre,
  5. Roher & Klinger Sketch ink 42750 Jule,
  6. Roher & Klinger Sketch ink 42200 Carmen,
  7. Roher & Klinger Sketch ink 42730 Frida
  8. Roher & Klinger Sketch ink 42600 Lilly
  9. Roher & Klinger Sketch ink 42300 Uroni
  10. Roher & Klinger Sketch ink 42540 Emma
  11. Lefranc & Bourgeois Sepia
  12. Sailor Black Ink

I also proceed to codify both set of palettes for Procreate (iPad user), HiPaint and Sketchbook Pro (Android user) and Photoshop for digital painting and encoding. Extended and other watercolors palette int the .zip archives are named “Azad” as tribute to Azad Nanakeli living watercolor master and artist in Florence, as my use of watercolor and palettes approcah is grounded on his teaching.

Shad Ahmad Al Sawaf

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Shahd Ahmad Al-Sawaf
5 years old
The elder Shahd, despite being only five years old. She used to say : “ I’m not just big; I’m the oldest one in the house, like grandpa “
She refused to be called small.
She was one of israeli’s* in the massacre committed against Al-Sawaf family.
She and her family were killed in an israeli* airstrike on their home on 2023 November, the 18th.

إِنَّا ِلِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un
Indeed, we belong to Allah, and indeed, to Him we return

*lowercase in “israeli” as a willing choose o’mine