The Romantic Palette - No. 297, 298 & 299

The Romantic Palette

Three colors that feel like a whole mood, without being loud about it.

This palette is for the kind of painting where you want softness, warmth, and depth, but you still want it to feel grown up. Like something you’d wear as perfume, not something you’d drink with a straw. It’s romantic in the real way. Not hearts everywhere. More like that quiet pull you feel when something is beautiful and you cannot explain why.

It includes Blushed Rose, Cinnamon Kiss, and Clouded Waters, and together they create that perfect balance between warmth and calm, tenderness and strength, rose petals and storm clouds.

Blushed Rose
Blushed Rose is an old-rose pink with warmth underneath, the kind of pink that doesn’t try to be cute. It feels like velvet petals, faded love letters, and the inside of a vintage book you forgot you owned.

It paints beautifully in translucent layers, and it has that soft glow that makes everything look slightly more human. Perfect for cheeks, flowers, shadows in skin tones, warm sunsets, and anything where you want emotion without screaming.

This is the color you reach for when you want romance, but with dignity.

Cinnamon Kiss
Cinnamon Kiss is what happens when coral gets confidence.

It’s vibrant, spicy, warm, and alive. It has the heat of cinnamon and the softness of blush in the same breath, and it can either be playful or dramatic depending on how much water you give it.

It’s amazing for florals, bold marks, abstract energy, warm details, and those little accents that make a painting suddenly feel like something is happening.

This is the color that says: Yes, I have feelings. And yes, I’m going to paint them.

Clouded Waters
Clouded Waters is a light blue with earthy undertones and that subtle granulation that makes watercolor feel like a living thing.

It has the look of weathered seaside ceramics, worn paint on old doors, cloudy sky reflections in cold water. The “dirty particles” settle into the paper in the most satisfying way, creating texture without effort, and giving your washes depth that looks like time.

Perfect for atmosphere, background washes, shadows, distance, old walls, and everything that needs calm with character.

This one does not sparkle. It holds space.

Together, these three colors create a palette that can go from soft romance to bold emotion to quiet atmosphere, without ever turning sugary. It’s warm. It’s grounded. It’s elegant. And it makes you want to paint something that actually means something.