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A few days ago there was a comment on a monochrome work where Paynes Grey was used.
Robert Jones was right about the difference between the same colour by different suppliers. And yes, Winsor&Newton is more to the blue side and Daler-Rowney is more greyish.
I know that for sure, because I use both of them. Robert asked how it would be if someone made a painting mixing the two brands. I did that a few months ago and posted it here but I didn't mention the colours I used!
On http://www.painters-online.co.uk/gallery/picture.asp?id=53780
you can see the difference: I used the D-R grey in the background and for the trees in the foreground, first a light mix of both and for the grasses and shadows in the trees: the W&N more blue.
I sometimes use the W&N Paynes Grey for a typical windy Nothsea-sky. The Daler-Rowney one was used to darken my raw sienna (adding just a tiny bit of grey to it). I painted the sails of my "Blankenberge B1" with it. The W&N one would have turned it into green, now it is a "dirty yellow" but not muddy:
http://www.painters-online.co.uk/gallery/picture.asp?id=26583
:-> Mia