For this painting from the Trickster Project, I did something I thought I would never do again.  I used tube black.  When I was sixteen years old, I took a painting class in which I was taught to mix burnt umber and phthalo blue to create a richer and more variable black.  For seven years, I did just that.  But when I came to this painting, I was looking for pure black and white, so tube black seemed a logical choice.

Though I still only rarely use carbon black or bone black instead of my mixture, I will occasionally introduce different pigments into my standard palette of burnt umber, phthalo blue, cadmium yellow medium, quinacridone gold, quinacridone red, and titanium white.  For example, with this painting, I became completely comfortable with phthalo green, the yummiest green pigment ever!