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Red, blue and yellow are the basics, but ideally you should have cool and warm versions of each. Mixing a green from a cool blue and a hot yellow will make a muddy colour, as will mixing a greeny blue with a red to make a mauve, so provide yourself with sufficient pigments to mix subtle, fresh colours. Including a dark red and a dark blue will allow you to increase the tonal range.

My own basic palette, following these principles, consists of Cadmium Red, Magenta and Permanent Mauve; Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Deep and Raw Sienna; and Coeruleum, French Ultramarine and Indigo. Because I use a lot of dark colour I also add Burnt Umber, Ivory Black and Hooker’s Green Dark.

I am a hoarder of paints, but you do not need this many and a superabundance can be a disadvantage. Build your collection slowly, adding to it only when you need to.