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Building a Color Diary

How to make them and why you should

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Michael Clark
Mar 26, 2024
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I am a big proponent of organizing and documenting all the colors that you own. It makes it a lot easier to decide what to use in a painting instead of guessing what a color might look like.

Even colors that are named the same can vary between brands. This documenting of colors is sometimes called a color swatch, but I have started to like the name “col…

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