Paint was mostly oil, Windsor & Newton (artist quality when funds allowed).

Robert Lenkiewicz was very particular about the order in which the paints were arranged on the palette. This was, from left to right, as follows:

• White (usually Titanium)
• Naples Yellow
• Yellow Ochre
• Raw Sienna
• Terre Verte
• Burnt Sienna (or Indian Red or Venetian Red)
• Rose Madder Quinacridone
• Alizarin Crimson
• Ultramarine Blue
• Dioxazine Purple
• Raw Umber
• Black

So, this standard palette was added to depending on the individual requirements of each painting. He would use many other colours making use of whatever was to hand.

Most frequently used: Cadmium yellows, cadmium reds, pthalo green, viridian, cobalt blue, cerulean, pthalo blue, burnt umber. The paints tended to be student quality eg. Rowney Georgian and Windsor & Newton Winton.

Palettes were usually pieces of hardboard painted black to correspond with the canvasses which were primed black. These were used at most two or three times for consecutive sittings and then discarded.
Of course this wasn’t always the case. At times canvasses were primed white or tinted brown as is discernible from earlier unfinished works. I knew Robert for almost 30 years and during that time his palette did not vary a great deal. However what did vary was the way in which he used those colours.