“When DANIEL SMITH launched its watercolor line highlighting the properties of mono-pigments, that gave painters better opportunities for getting clearer and brighter color mixes. During the same period, I added more choices to my personal palette, a palette that I had developed in former years. For a long time, I had preferred painting with restricted palettes. Continuing to limit myself to a seven or eight color range in a single painting, l started developing a modular primary triad color system, which led me to the selection of a full, yet personal spectrum of paints organized in triads. The special clarity and vibrancy of DANIEL SMITH’s broad range of Extra Fine Watercolors did the rest. I had finally found a way of organizing my favourite kind of colors (from granulating to earthy to blues, etc.) in a rich lineup of triads exquisitely fitting my beloved plein air Italian landscape views. My updated palette on this Dot Card shows the main primary triads I have been using so far.”

—Raffaele Ciccolani