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title: Can you recommend six warm and six cool colors to start working with Water Soluble Oil Colors?
description: "When considering a color as either warm or cold, you need a point of reference. For example, with these three yellows – Hansa Yellow Light, Hansa Yellow Medium, and Hansa Yellow Deep: - Hansa Yellow Light is greener than the…"
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updated: "2025-07-12"
category: Oil Colors (DISCONTINUED)
tags:
  - Water Soluble
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# Can you recommend six warm and six cool colors to start working with Water Soluble Oil Colors?

When considering a color as either warm or cold, you need a point of reference. For example, with these three yellows – Hansa Yellow Light, Hansa Yellow Medium, and Hansa Yellow Deep:

- Hansa Yellow Light is greener than the other two, so it’s considered cool.
- Hansa Yellow Deep is redder than the other two, so it’s considered warm.
- Hansa Yellow Medium is cooler than Hansa Yellow Deep, but warmer than Hansa Yellow Light.

**Cool Primaries:**

1. Hansa Yellow Light
2. Lemon Yellow
3. Quinacridone Rose
4. Permanent Alizarin Crimson
5. Phthalo Blue (Green Shade)
6. Cerulean Blue, Chromium

**Warm Primaries:**

1. Hansa Yellow Medium
2. Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue
3. Quinacridone Coral
4. Quinacridone Red
5. Phthalo Blue (Red Shade)
6. French Ultramarine