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Designed to help you create your own easy-to-use personal reference guide of your watercolors. The list below outlines primary colours for 3 or 6 colour mixing systems in the Winsor & Newton water colour ranges. Professional Water Colour 3 colour system Winsor Lemon Winsor Blue (Red Shade) Permanent Rose Professional Water Colour 6 colour system Winsor Lemon Winsor Yellow French Ultramarine Winsor Blue (Green Shade) Permanent Rose Scarlet Lake Within the traditional water colour technique, the white of the paper provides the white used as highlights in a painting as well as providing a light-reflecting background which contributes to the overall brilliance of water colours. However, many artists use Chinese White at the end of their painting for highlights or to dull some colour mixtures during painting. Introduced by Winsor & Newton in 1834, Chinese White is the most popular white in water colour. It is semi-opaque and has a blue undertone. Titanium White (Opaque White) is the whitest, most opaque white. It has a high tinting strength and a high covering power.