Painter Color Diary for Recording and Refining Color Mixes

Exclusive to Jerry’s, the Painter’s Color Diary® is a must-have for artists who want to stay organized and consistent with their color choices. With a smart, easy-to-use layout, this diary makes it simple to swatch and document your paint mixtures, mediums, pigment names, and brands. Whether you're building your palette, testing new colors, or trying to recreate a specific mix from a previous piece, this tool helps you keep everything at your fingertips.

Designed to work across all painting mediums—oil, acrylic, watercolor, and gouache—the Color Diary features acid-free, heavyweight pages that can handle whatever you throw at them. Each swatch page includes bold black outlines for tracking transparency or half-tones and comes with removable sheets protected by glassine interleaving, so your pages stay clean and stick-free.

Key Features

• Fail proof format for swatching and color documentation
• Records pigment names, paint brands, mediums, and mix ratios
• Spiral bound with removable pages and glassine interleaving
• Swatch boxes with bold lines to assess transparency and tone
• Top space to label by brand, date, or class assignment
• Heavyweight, acid free pages ideal for all paint types

Perfect For

• Swatching new color purchases
• Testing transparency, opacity, and coverage
• Creating and referencing color mixing formulas
• Planning color palettes for upcoming paintings
• Tracking and recreating paint mixes used in past work