I picked up a 75ml tube of Cryla '527 Light Red Oxide' acrylic paint and a 'Jakar, folding palette' for my watercolours. I became a watercolourist and a pastelist long before I discovered Acrylic paints and my current teach yourself course. The intention is to mix the Light Red Oxide acrylic with Prussian Blue acrylic to create a lovely grey mixture (of varying shades) to use in future acrylic paintings. I like Venetian Red (preferably) and Indian Red mixed with Prussian Blue, but I couldn't find any when I was looking through the display stand. Funnily enough, there's no colour chart for Cryla acrylic paint on display or available as a handout. But hey ho, I've got my stuff, and I'm well chuffed. Of course Daler Rowney do a Venetian Red in Cryla (product reference No.583) so that will be a future purchase. But for now it's Light Red Oxide all the way; both as a mixture with Prussian Blue, and as a stand alone colour within my seas and skies. So there's the update, and it's now time to finish this coffee and head back out into the street and maybe catch a film.
