I utilize primarily most of all their transparent and semi transparent oil paints. I paint in multiple thin glazing layers, very similar to Leonardo da Vinci, and by doing that you get color, beauty and depths and luminosity in your oil painting that you cannot get by just painting one color on your surface. The magenta here is a gorgeous and once again a series 5, which is a very high-quality pigment and the beauty is, it's only made with one pigment to maintain that color, so that is a almost pure color would be very hard if you mixed a red and a blue primary to get that magenta would be very hard so once again, if you love that particular color exactly the way it is for your painting then you got a winner. One of the things I like to share with you that I do that's a little different all the manufactures all of them will send you a color printed brochure of their color palette of all the colors they have an offer to sell to each artist, but I make up my own journals and make my own color patch of every color with all the technical data, and at the drop of a hat I can go into my art journal with whatever manufacture, and I use mini and look up the data, a real color patch to look at the real color not a printed color tells you what you wanna see And then you make better choices just a suggestion have a great day and keep painting Amazon does a tremendous job and offers a tremendous price and shipment of these great Williamsberg oil paints, and I have bought mini through Amazon and very happy of course.Jim Springett, wild