Charting my oil paint colors

I've always thought I should have some sort of list or chart of my paint colors (oil paint). 

I have some old OLD tubes from when my brother and I were taking oil painting lessons

 (I was about 12 and he was 9 or so). Plus, I have collected many tubes of paint along the way.

So, when I received artist Todd M. Casey's The Oil Painter's Color Handbook as a gift, and read the section about doing a swatch chart ... I am now doing the charts of my paints.

It is honestly a bit easier and less complex than doing color charts like this:

from Richard Schmid's book Alla Prima II

But that is not to say I don't want and need to do those charts! I
 do! ... and someday I will, and these swatch charts will be helpful when I do.

There are instructions for how to make the swatch charts so I followed

them and they look somewhat like Todd's. My gray gesso may be a little darker

value, but that is fine.

My reason to make this a blog post is to explain it so I have a record 

of when and how I did it, and I hope it is slightly interesting for someone. 

My goal is to also post when I make my color charts, as well.

8 x 10 inch gessoed canvases taped to a panel

my blues, greens and violets 
(letting them dry before untaping the canvases)

There they are! All my oil tube colors. I have so many. 

These are the main colors I use:

Titanium White

Cadmium Yellow Light

Cadmium Yellow Deep

Yellow Ochre

Cadmium Red Light

Alizarin Permanent

Cerulean Blue

Cobalt Blue

Ultramarine Blue

Pthalo Blue

Burnt Umber

I use my extra colors that you see in my swatches every now and then; 

but I remember someone said 

that using an accent color 

is like using spice in your recipe ... you don't want too much.

If you have made swatch charts of your paints, I would love to hear about it, and

if you made color charts ala Richard Schmid, I would love to know how that went!

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