Academy Watercolors - Alizarin Orange

I don't know how I got this far without using payne's grey, especially this brand. Perfect for when you want to limit your black usage.

This is the best purple on the market. I've compared it to every other manufacturer's purple that I could find, and it's simply the best. I keep coming back to it. As a watercolorist and a teacher of watercolors I insist that my students use this color and no other. If they want to paint the way I do, (and why else would they take my classes) they have to use the paints that I use. In my paintings I underpaint all my dark values with purple, then glaze over it with other colors. Wet and dry, this particular paint is the most brilliant purple I've tried. When I try to use purples by other manufacturers I simply don't get the same results. I hope Grumbacher never changes its recipe for Thalo Purple.