The Flexible Triad: Desaturated Violets is ideal for capturing the delicate shades of ripe fruit for marketplace sceneries or nature settings. Also, the magical hint of fairy dust can be perfectly rendered with the shades included in this triad, which is ideal for adding an ethereal quality to fantastical creatures or enchanted landscapes.

The Desaturated Violets Triad is suitable for projects across all genres of miniature painting, from historical and military figures to fantasy creatures and sci-fi models.

The Flexible Triad: Desaturated Violets consists of:

• Warpaints Fanatic: Mulled Berry
  • The Warpaints Fanatic: Mulled Berry is a black purplish red which lends itself well as a dark desaturated violet base colour. It’s the darkest tone from the “Desaturated Violets” Flexible Colour Triad and its Practical Colour Name is “Black Purplish Red”.
• Warpaints Fanatic: Moldy Wine
  • The Warpaints Fanatic: Moldy Wine is a deep purplish red that makes for a great shadow colour for desaturated violets. It’s the second-darkest tone from the “Desaturated Violets” Flexible Colour Triad and its Practical Colour Name is “Deep Purplish Red”.
• Warpaints Fanatic: Elder Flower
  • The Warpaints Fanatic: Elder Flower is a purplish red mid-tone within the desaturated violet family. It’s one of the two middle tones from the “Desaturated Violets” Flexible Colour Triad and its Practical Colour Name is “Purplish Red”.
• Warpaints Fanatic: Forbidden Fruit
  • The Warpaints Fanatic: Forbidden Fruit is a light purplish red that is versatile as a mid-tone or highlight colour. It’s one of the two middle tones from the “Desaturated Violets” Flexible Colour Triad and its Practical Colour Name is “Light Purplish Red”.
• Warpaints Fanatic: Figgy Pink
  • The Warpaints Fanatic: Figgy Pink is a pale purplish red perfectly tuned as a light, bright layer and highlight colour. It’s the second-lightest tone from the “Desaturated Violets” Flexible Colour Triad and its Practical Colour Name is “Pale Purplish Red”.
• Warpaints Fanatic: Wilted Rose
  • The Warpaints Fanatic: Wilted Rose is a very pale purplish red that is the right choice when adding your final highlight to soft violets. It’s the lightest tone from the “Desaturated Violets” Flexible Colour Triad and its Practical Colour Name is “Very Pale Purplish Red”.

The Flexible Colour Triad System is a segment, or family, of six colours that range from dark to light with a consistent hue. This system allows you to easily select paints that create a natural colour progression on your miniatures. This is an easy way to create a colour scheme for your miniature when army painting because you always have 27 Flexible Triads to choose from instead of mixing colours.

The system builds upon the traditional triad system by introducing more versatility and adaptability in colour selection, expanding the conventional three colours to six. This gives you almost endless possibilities for putting colours together within the triad.

When using a triad system, you usually select 3 colours (a base, a shade, and a highlight), depending on the level of contrast you want on your miniature. For instance, for minimal contrast, opt for 3 adjacent colours to achieve a smooth colour transition. For maximum contrast, use the lightest, middle, and darkest colour available in the flexible triad.