Pigments I like or thoughts and whatever

PR122 Quinacridone magenta I love the deep and juicy color of this pigment as a watercolor. I don't like it as an opaque paint. The small particle size is excellent for watercolor. Rhodamine Alumina Lake ( rose tyrien ) This is actually my favorite pink, I think its a laked aniline dye ? Laking means that to make a dye into a pigment they take neutral particles and dye them with the dye to create a pigment... a pigment is different from a dye because it is insoluble in the media. Those properties cause different behavior and notably, pigments are more lighfast than most dyes. However , I no longer use rose tyrien because it isn't very light fast and its toxic . It isn't often offered by brands anymore. That said , I love the high pink color of it. Its just not as useful as a true deep magenta, though. Iron pigments I'm particularly partial to golden ochre and burnt umber. Golden ochre is one of my favorites and its great for skin tones in watercolor . Im generally partial to all the iron oxides and I like iron blue as well. Isoindoline yellow I like this buttery yellow as a watercolor. Its my choice for a deep yellow over cad deep, nickel dioxine, and the diarylidey yellows. Its pretty covering for a watercolor. Cadmium Scarlet I really like how covering this is as a watercolor. Its nearly opaque so ii need to cover something up, I use this if I can if its red or brown. Also, its very heavy so you can get some lovely dropout granulations. Pthalpcyanines I like green too but I can't stand the pthalo pigments. I use them only as a necessity. I hate how staining they are and can't be picked up, and they're commonly overpigmented in brands because they're cheap to produce. So very often much too strong. My favorite is pthalo yellow shade but I don't use it much because the blue shade is better, and makes a good black with perylene maroon, stronger than carbon black actually, which is a big nono to use in watercolor. At least for me. Ultramarine blue This is what I consider to be ( to me ) the most sacred and loveliest color , it is as one historic painter said " beyond reproach ". The lapis mine is currently under Taliban control and its fate is tragic. There is another lapis mine in south am , but its not as good of quality. Otherwise id want a mineral tube of this ( its synthetic now but you an get paint made from lapis from south america ).I also love love love love the purple ultramarine which is usually a castoff... Its a dull violet that you can see in my earliest paintings ( " Azathoth unleashed " ) ... cause it came in a tube of my first set of watercolors. I use French ultramarine which has to do with the particle size and the way its milled ultramarine will flocculate a lot depending on the particle size. If I had two colors it'd be this and burnt sienna. Together they make a lovely grey. Cobalt Stannate ( cerulean ) and Cobalt Violet The granulation is great. Daniel smith cobalt stannate is so weakly pigmented. But that is actually good : you want your cerulean to add texture, not color. This way you can impart granulation to almost any color. Cobalt violet is lovely and granulates well, its a weak pink color, good for dulling yellow without being too strong. If I was a color, this would probably be me. The brand I use now is Daniel smith. I like them a lot. I've considered wanting to try Qor because of the fancy aquazol binder that they use, but I don't know if it matters. There's also a very cool sounding line of DS pigments made from milled stones such as tiger eye, kyanite, etc. I thought this was stupid but I have a pan of the serpentine and I love it, the texture for one, but also the color is unique. You can see this color in the hair of " Watermelon Tourmaline " ... which was LOTL fan art. The full list of my choices for a 15 pan box is as follows : Benzimida yellow, isoindoline yellow , yellow ochre, cadmium scarlet , perylene maroon, cobalt stannate cerulean* , french ultramarine, pthalo blue GS, pthalo green BS, burnt sienna, burnt umber. Now there's 3 spaces left, one I usually assign to Paynes grey, one usually goes to a violet, and the last goes to a lighter green . Right now its serpentine, dioxazine, and Paynes grey. To my thinking, its fine to do it any number of other ways, but for those 12 spots for watercolor, the way I see it, there's only a couple other acceptable options for optimization. But that's like, a personal choice. * as in, not chromium . I forgot the pigment numbers I used to know them all but. These are all single pigments.