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Da Vinci Complete Dot Cards Part 1: Yellows & Oranges

August 28, 2023April 13, 2023 by Billy Idyll

When I originally swatched Da Vinci, the only dot card they offered was a tiny one with just 24 of their 100+ colors. They finally released a full dot card set of all their colors, so naturally I jumped on it, as Da Vinci is one of my favorite lines!

The 110 colors come in a set of five 24-well clamshell boxes.

Just like the 24-color set, the dots are very generous – you could do a whole painting with one, and I did multiple swatches instead of the barely-one I could do with the DS and WN dot cards.

Da Vinci yellow, orange, and red dot card

I ended up going a bit deeper in this dot card exploration than in previous dot card posts – because I have a pretty solid paint library already, I was able to compare several of the colors in the same light to colors I already have in order to make comparisons on-the-fly. So, I’ll be breaking this out into several posts to be able to give each one more attention.

First up: Yellows and oranges!

A Range of Oranges

August 28, 2023November 8, 2022 by Billy Idyll

Swatching out all the greens I can make was useful to me in determining which mixes were promising and which ones I wanted to explore further, so I did the same with oranges! I did these tiny, so they fit on one page.

Reds and red-oranges are the rows, and yellows are the columns. My thoughts below…

Color Spotlight: Pyrrol Orange (PO73)

September 25, 2023April 23, 2022 by Billy Idyll

Winsor & Newton Winsor Orange (Red Shade): Gradient, opacity & glazing tests, color mixes

A very strong and vibrant semi-opaque reddish orange, PO73 oranges such as Winsor Orange (Red Shade), pictured, can be substituted for a warm orange-red in color mixes.

Color Spotlight: Transparent Pyrrol Orange (PO71)

September 20, 2023January 15, 2022 by Billy Idyll

Daniel Smith – Transparent Pyrrol Orange

PO71 oranges are highly transparent and very vibrant oranges! The Daniel Smith version pictured here is more reddish than some of the others. That said, it should be noted that I bought the DS TPO in 2022, so it’s one of the newer iterations. I am told that the older version was even more red and a bit more muted and earthy.