> It’s fascinating to see how desaturated many colors are around us! I do a lot of watercolor, and it truly is amazing how much of our world is some shade of m

> It’s fascinating to see how desaturated many colors are around us! I do a lot of watercolor, and it truly is amazing how much of our world is some shade of mud, and how far you can get with a couple of muddy pigments. Sargent did a lot of watercolor in sketches in Venice with just ultramarine, cerulean, raw sienna, burnt sienna, and a tube of white. James Gurney gets a lot of mileage out of the "six-pack" white, black, raw umber, yellow ochre, venetian red, and cobalt.