ZORN Palette | Color Relationship | LIMITED PALETTE

Make sure to check out my website to buy my paintings at or contact me at @. You can also DM me on Instagram at This video is about the famous now mythical Zorn Palette. The colors that are used here are presumably Lead White (now Titanium White), Yellow Ochre, Vermillion (now Cad Red Light) and Ivory Black. The combination is highly popular amongst artists and extensively used. Although not true primaries, these can be effectively used using the color relationship theory of primaries and complementaries. I feel that since Zorn was a highly regarded artist always on the run for portrait commissions, he wanted a set of colors that are available everywhere and also used other colors like green and blue whenever necessary. I used this palette extensively in portraits, still lifes and landscapes. Being a landscape painter, I wanted to understand if this can be used in landscapes. It works as a good landscape palette under certain condi