Today was a swatching day! For today’s Advent Calendar, I drew Quin Violet (PV19). I previously did a three-way comparison of Quin Fuchsia (PR202), Bordeaux (PV32), and Quin Violet (PV19 beta). I no longer have Bordeaux, but I want to do some more comparing of PR202 and PV19b.
Color Mixes
In the assortment below, I’ve included some swatches I did previously, and some I did for this post.
Lemon Yellow (PY175)
PR202 makes brownish-tans and QV makes blech grayish colors.
Naples Yellow Deep (PBr24)
PR202 mixes are warm and friendly; there is a mutedness to the PV19b mixes, though they are more brownish and not as intensely gray as the mixes with Lemon Yellow.
Isoindolinone Yellow Deep (PY110)
I like the PR202 mixes which make striking reds and oranges that are not super-bright, fire engine reds or pumpkin oranges, but are still intense and interesting. The PV19 mixes have more of a brown edge to them.
Transparent Orange (PO71 or PO107)
I used slightly different oranges for this, so maybe it’s not a fair comparison. PR202 mixes crimsons, and QV mixes cranberry reds.
Transparent Red Oxide (PR101)
Both of these do a cool thing of making quite a deep crimson with TRO. The orangeyness of the TRO balances the violet undertones to a warmer red, so the two mixes kind of end up in the same place.
Perylene Red (PR178)
Both make deep crimsons. It’s hard to scan, but I found the Quin Violet mixes got significantly darker.
Cobalt Blue (PB28)
Again PR202 is looking higher chroma, and Quin Violet is looking darker and lower chroma, and perhaps with more of a reddish tint in the violets? All the PR202 violets read cool to me, even the ones that are more pinky.
Cerulean Blue (PB36)
These are very similar, granulating violets. Both are mid to high chroma. Again the mixes I achieved with the PR202 on the left seem cooler.
Phthalo Blue Green Shade (PB15:3)
Both options make these lovely deep dark blues and violets with Phthalo Blue Green Shade; including Indanthrone Blue, Carbazole Violet, and Quin Purple hues.
Phthalo Turquoise (PB16)
Mixes are similar, but the Quin Violet mixes are moodier, which is to say, a bit lower chroma.
Phthalo Green (PG7)
Mixes are grayer with PR202 (which is more of a complement), and more violet and blue with Quin Violet.
Conclusion
Both of these colors are powerful mixers with the capability to make dark darks.
- PR202 mixes more vibrantly with yellow and orange, making intense red-orange hues the avoid the brownness that PV19 can make with yellows.
- Both mix deep crimson with red, with Quin Violet’s getting darker.
- Oddly, in mixes with blue, I found that PR202-mixed violets had a cooler, pinky-violet appearance which read as “cooler” to me, compared to PV19’s violets which had plum undertones and read as “warmer” to me. This is the opposite color temperature as I found in the mixes with yellow and orange.
- Once I got to green, however, the color temperatures reverse back. PV19 mixes more vibrantly with green, making purples and blues that avoid the grayness that PR202 can bring to the mix.
The differences are subtle. Frustratingly, I didn’t find that one color was consistently better across the board. However, if I have to pick, I do think my slight preference goes to PR202. I find the more vivid mixes slightly more appealing. That said, Quin Violet, despite being made with a version of PV19, does seem more distinct from PV19 rose.