There’s not much academic literature on legendary League instructor Frank Dumond’s “Prismatic Palette,” but the knowledge on this hyper-specific set-up has been passed down through the decades from painter to painter.
If you have 15 minutes to spare, check out his video of current League instructor John Varriano explaining the basics of this time-tested painter’s palette. It might just make you reconsider the colors in your current set-up: