Most Wanted Singles 2026, No. 22, 70, 74, 123 & 164

Most Wanted Singles from last Year

You know the ones.
The colors you think you bought for a specific purpose, and then somehow they end up in every single painting like they pay rent.

These are the shades that don’t need a dramatic backstory. They just show up. They work. They behave beautifully. And they quietly become the reason your palette looks used and loved instead of “brand new and slightly abandoned.”

So yes: these are the Most Wanted Singles from last Year, because they’re the ones you keep reaching for like you’re in a long-term relationship with them.

#22 Perinone Orange
This is orange with self respect. Warm, punchy, and alive. It can be a sunset, a flower, a rusty gate, a vintage label, a dramatic detail… or just the color that makes the whole painting go: “Ah. Now we’re awake.”

#70 Serenity
This one should honestly come with a warning label:
May cause calm.
A granulating favorite that does everything quietly but effectively, like the friend who shows up with snacks and doesn’t need applause. Perfect for atmosphere, softness, depth, balance, and saving paintings that were about to turn into chaos.

#74 Whispering Rose
A rosy shade that isn’t trying to be cute. It’s soft, warm, and slightly dusty, like the memory of a good moment. Beautiful for petals, skin tones, shadows, vintage papers, cheeks that look like they’ve seen sunlight, and anything you want to feel human.

#123 Clever Egg 
Yes, it’s an Egg. And yes, it’s clever.
This is the kind of neutral that makes you feel like you suddenly know what you’re doing. It tones things down without killing them, makes other colors behave better, and somehow always ends up being the smartest thing in the painting. Like: “Don’t worry, I’ll fix this.”

#164 Violet Mist
A soft violet that can lean romantic, moody, or slightly haunted depending on how much water you add. Perfect for dusk, florals, shadows, distance, dreamy layers, and that exact watercolor mood where everything looks like it has feelings.

All five are handmade with obsessive attention to behavior on paper. I’m not just mixing colors. I’m building movement, granulation, flow, separation, and those little surprises that make watercolor feel alive.

Together, these singles give you warmth, softness, grounding, and lift. They work across subjects, seasons, and moods, and they’re the type of paints that keep ending up on your brush even when you promised yourself you’d “use something new today.”

And honestly.
That’s how you know they’re the real thing.