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Hazel Soan’s Art of the Limited Palette

This is by no means the first book on painting with a limited palette, but it is certainly the most comprehensive and least prescriptive. Hazel Soan has nothing to sell you – no set of colours, no range of brushes, not even some sleight of hand. As you would expect, it is entirely practical and all about the results, not the materials.

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