My Palette

I have used the same palette for most of my painting years. Sergei Bongart used a double primary palette - a warm and cool of each color, with some earth tones added. I have added a few of the higher tinting strength colors. This is a large palette, but I find I reach for all the colors.

Transparent Red Oxide 

Raw Sienna

Yellow Ochre (about ready to drop it, since I rarely reach for it)

Cadmium Lemon Yellow 

Cadmium Yellow Medium 

Cadmium Orange 

Cadmium Red Light

Alizarin Crimson

Quinacridone Violet

Dioxazine Purple

Ultramarine Blue Deep

Cobalt Blue

Cerulean Blue

Phthalo Blue (Red Shade)

Phthalo Green (Blue Shade)

Viridian

Sap Green

Phthalo Yellow Green

Titanium White

Sometimes on location, to save space and weight, I eliminate some of the colors.

Transparent Red Oxide

Raw Sienna

Permanent Yellow Lemon

Permanent Orange

Cadmium Red Light

Alizarin Crimson
Quinacridone Violet

Ultramarine Blue

Viridian

Titanium White

Kevin MacPherson's limited palette is my favorite when I really want to simplify. You can mix everything you need, maybe not with the subtlety of a full palette, but you can mix a complete range of colors from warm to cool, full chroma to toned.

Cadmium Yellow Light 

Cadmium Red Light

Alizarin Crimson

Ultramarine Blue
Phthalo Green (Blue Shade)

Titanium White

My medium of choice is Archival Oils Odourless Lean.