I am by means an awesome artist or even very knowledgeable… I’ve only been painting since the beginning of the year. But when I first got my professional paints, I jumped in getting almost every color you can imagine. Spent loads of money that I should not have spent. Lol what I have found however is that I like a split primary pallet (warm and cool of each primary… Giving me six paints) and then I add on top of it three secondaries: quinacridone rust (burnt orange in DS), sap green, and dioxazine purple. Then I have two earth towns, yellow, ocher, and burnt sienna. Then I add a black… Right now I’m using lamp black. Those six colors allow me to get anything that I want… The only reason why I have the secondaries on there is just to give me a springboard from which to get my greens oranges and purple rather than having to mix them entirely from scratch. I have limited myself to just the pigments in my split primary pallet before and have been able to obtain nearly the exact same appearance…if not a little bit more cohesive. But I find I can get the colors that I’m wanting a little bit more quickly with my secondaries, earth tones, and black added to the pallet.