Swatch with me: all 70 M. Graham watercolors
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2021
- In the previous video, I shared that I bought samples of all 70 M. Graham watercolors from this shop 美奈酱水彩种草机 at TaoBao (淘宝).
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It was a mess when I received the palette but I have since cleaned it and prep it for the swatch. This is the massively long video where I swatch out them out.
* Corrections on some inaccuracies In this video*
(1) Ultramarine pink and quinacridone violet were swop in the video cos the pans came arranged like that.
(2) The pigment used in ultramarine pink is PV15, not PV19.
(3) Mineral violet Is a mixture of PV15 and PV16.
(4) Ultramarine violet is a mixture of PB29 and PV15.
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Deluxe (Intermediate) Set of 10
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WATERCOLOR (BASIC) SET OF 5 (Azo Yellow, Permanent Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Sap Green, Burnt Sienna)
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QUINACRIDONE SET OF 5 (Nickel Quinacridone, Quinacridone Red, Quinacridone Rose, Quinacridone Rust, Quinacridone Violet)
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THE SOUTH SET OF 5 (Viridian, Dioxazine Purple, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Neutral Tint)
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DESERT SOUTHWEST SET OF 5 (Dioxazine Purple, Yellow Ochre, Anthraquinone Blue, Neutral Tint, Sap Green)
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COBALT MIX SET OF 5 (Cerulean Blue Deep, Cobalt Violet, Cobalt Blue, Cobalt Teal and Cobalt Green)
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CITYSCAPE SET OF 5 (Sepia, Hansa Yellow Deep, Burnt Sienna, Payne’s Grey, Pyrrol Red)
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NEW ENGLAND SET OF 5 (Naphthol Red, Cadmium Yellow Light, Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Umber, Hookers Green)
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PACIFIC NORTHWEST SET OF 5 (Dioxazine Purple, Yellow Ochre, Anthraquinone Blue, Neutral Tint, Sap Green)
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SHADES OF SUMMER SET OF 5 (Sap Green, Bismuth Yellow, Cobalt Teal, Permanent Green Pale, Scarlet Pyrrol)
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JEWEL TONE SET OF 5 (Maroon Perylene, Permanent Green Light, Anthraquinone Blue, Cobalt Violet, Hansa Yellow)
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LANDSCAPE SET OF 5 (Cerulean Blue, Sap Green, Burnt Umber, Dioxazine Purple, Yellow Ochre)
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MARINESCAPE SET OF 5 (Ultramarine Blue, Azo Orange, Prussian Blue, Permanent Alizarin Crimson, Raw Sienna)
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Thanks for talking. I like it when people talk about the colors or their process rather than playing music. I get nothing from the music except for the desire to fall asleep. I prefer information or simply just listening to another artist's opinion or information they might have to share.
I struggle to find things to say so I just provide the paint info. 😬
@@eurekawanders You do very well so don't fret it!
M.Graham paints are always a great investment. Their Neutral Tint is a hidden gem. It creates fantastically beautiful darks with almost any color saving you precious time. And their activation time, which is close to zero, puts them way before DS in my list of preferred brands. They can also be used in a plein air palette (with the exception of hot and humid regions), you just have to let the paints dry properly after you set the palette up and then they won't make a mess (same with Sennelier).
Thank you for this video! I feel like some of the colors, which I have myself, are even stronger, than on these swatches, like Ultramarine Blue, Anthraquinone or Viridian.
Mineral Violet and Ultramarine Violet are both mixed colors. Mineral Violet has both PV15 and PV16 in it. Ultramarine Violet is a mix of PV15 and PB29.
Thanks for sharing your experience with the brand. I bought them as samples so I can’t be sure if the paints have been stored properly after the seller had kept it well. Oh you are right about mineral violet and ultramarine violet! I will update the description box.
Excellent. One of the best M Graham demos I've seen. You worked with them beautifully 💛
Thank you!
The Quin Violet and Ultramarine Pink are swapped. The ultra pink is the granulating soft hue and the Quin violet the strong purple/Magenta hue. I love Ultramarine pink it's one of my favourite colors XD
Yah. 😭 I realised too late cos the pans were swapped. Ultramarine is so delicate. I love it too but can’t think of how to use it in a painting. Maybe should try it during one of the limited art palette challenge!
@@eurekawanders Oh yes I would love to see that😆 I mostly use it for warm night skies or to mix with different yellows to make a pretty sand color. I heard many also use ultra pink for portraits, I haven't tried that yet.
@@sumbae7668 good advice! Ohhhh I will definitely put it in the upcoming limited palette challenge. We always have a portrait subject for our challenge.
Not sure how I missed this one when it came out! Great swatches. I agree that the quins and phthalos are unusual in this brand, also the Anthraquinone and the PY150 and PY129. I recently heard from Lindsay Weirich that most brands use additives to prevent these pigments from flocculating (they are very small particles.) I guess M. Graham does not!
Wow, both the anthraquinone blue and the maroon perylene are gorgeous!
Thank you SO MUCH Alice for the close up shots of your swatching - SUPER helpful for picking out M. Graham colors I want!
Hi! Yes, we love this kind of videos :) Thank you! Very interesting results.
One of my favorite brands, except for their Mineral Violet (PV 16), which has inexplicably hardened like a stone, while the rest of the tubes remain fresh and usable.
Love longer videos! 💗 Can't wait for the Qor one!
I can’t wait to try the Qor one too!
I really enjoyed watching your video. It was very helpful to me as I want to purchase a few more colors from M. Graham and now I can tell what they will look like. I also want to let you know, that it looks like you may have mixed up two of the violet colors; the Quinacridone Violet (PV 19) with the Ultramarine Pink (PV 15). That's probably why it seemed like the Quin. Violet was granulating, because it was actually Ultramarine Pink.
I was thinking the same thing. But My ultramarine pink is labeled pr258 from m graham
Loved this video! I do hope you do more of these swatch videos. This helped me make up my mind about the Mineral Violet, which was the only one of M Graham that I was still on the fence about.
Thank you! I am swatching Holbein colours in the next video. Look out for it soon~
Love the swatching and info
Thank you!!
Thank you! This is so helpful 👌🤗
Very helpful, thanks!
This was very helpful! Thank you : )
Thank you for getting into the trouble to swatch for us so many colours.
M. Graham colours are heavily pigmented and made with the best materials but their main disadvantage is that they contain some sort of diffusing agent that makes them( what else ) to diffuse like crazy with the slightest hint of water. This is great for those who paint in a more loose or abstract style but problematic and counter productive for those who are painting in multiple layers and details. I paint botanical illustrations and I've never managed to make this line of watercolours work for me, as I had to dry completely my paper each and everytime I wanted to work the details.
If the paper is slightly wet from a previous application of the tiniest detail then whatever you apply next will diffuse into it.
I assume that this watercolour will be great if you work on printing papers without sizing but if you work with them on regular watercolour paper or even worst in one that has an internally and externally sizing then that's it... you are done.
You are going to get blurry results unless you have the hair drier at hand and dry continuously your paper.
This is very unfortunate because these colours are extremely vibrant and expensive ( particularly for European artists) and it is a pity that are made for a particular kind of painting.
Your channel is underated btw. You have great videos and very few subscribers for the quality of your content.
Very nice and informative channel.
I'm very glad that I've found it and I subscribed.
Oh thank you so much for your kind words and sharing more about these paints.
very fun i watched it all i love granulating and learning pigments i am going to watch daniel smiths video next with john cogley
Very helpful.
Thank you for this useful swatch! I like M.G’s version of PB60 a lot. The greens seem a little disappointing compared to other brands’ though. Can’t wait for your swatching of other brands 👍😊
When I first looked at the official swatch that PB60 was the first colour I noticed too. Then I realise it’s indanthrone blue which is one of my fav blue. 😃
I have done Mission gold and Schmincke swatches. 😄
@@eurekawanders yes I’ve seen the Schmincke one and bought quite a few granulating colors to self mix the super granulating ones 😍. Currently trying out Sennelier paints and they are lovely too
Thanks for introducing sennelier. Which are your fav colours?
@@eurekawanders I have only 12 colors so far 😂. But I love their Forest Green, French Vermilion & Opera Rose (feels softer compared to the other Operas). I would love to try their Green Umber too
There are multiple pigment code errors written on the chart, if you got the pigment info from the seller listing they have no idea. . .
Besides that, I really loved watching the close up swatches and that the video wasn’t insanely long and full of nonesense so thank you for that!! I’ll be watching some more videos :-)
So sorry about the mistakes. Some were my carelessness though. 😞
Thanks for the encouragement. I have intentions to post other brands too but not before I check and recheck all the information.
@@eurekawanders I’ll be looking forward to the new videos
For sure !!
This is great info, hoping swatching will also show it's lightest form (more water), so viewer can understand its end to end color. Thanks
Got it! Thanks for the suggestion!
That was fun. And helpful. My M.Grahams consist of a few of the drop dead gorgeous colors I couldn't live with out. Now I know what else I might like to have
Which are your fav m grahams colours?
@@eurekawanders I am a sucker for Quinns and blue greens and violets. Quin red, rose, gold, violet. Ultra pink and violet deep. Azo green, phth green and turquoise.
@@corriemcginnis4400 They are all beautiful colours! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
@@corriemcginnis4400 You just named all the lovely jewel toned colors
Hey ,if you want to reduce the weird texture of m graham paints , you should use distilled water or bottled water instead of tap water because I faced the same problem and the type of water made a huge difference especially with permanent alizarin crimson PR264.
😱😱😱😱😱thank you so much!
@@eurekawanders I should mention that when pick up some color, mix it with your brush (using bottled water) on your palette a little bit more than usual before applying it on paper because I found this trick is very helpful to smooth the paint.
😮 That tiny palette is so cute! Where did you get it, if you don’t mine me asking?
thank you, it was really great to see these colors *side by side* ! i was trying to see if cerulean blue deep was too similar to turquoise. : ) but it helped on a lot of other colors too, along with the transparency!
Glad it was useful!
Can you compare qor vs m graham watercolors. Out of all of UA-cam I can't find one single comparison between these two paints
Ohhhh I would love to do that. Only problem is I can’t get my hands on the full set of qor paints. I managed to get a dotcard of all qor paints but there’s probably not enough paint to do more than a swatch. 🥲
I’m curious, why does M. Graham not have a single pigment Ultramarine Blue Violet and/or Quinacridone Magenta? QoR and Schmincke are the only brands I know that make their Bluish Ultramarine Violet dual pigment. And pretty much every brand has Quin Magenta.
I have no idea too. They must have their reasons. Like why Schmincke has 3 ultramarine blues.
I enjoyed the MGraham swatches. It seems that the paper was wanting to pill up on you, that makes painting difficult.
I was using the clairefontaine 💯 cotton HP paper. It didn’t pill up. I think the graininess was due to flocculation of pigments.
Thanks for sharing. I want to say that the Ultramarine Pink isn't PV19. Its PV15 that is a Ultramarine Violet pigment. Sometimes MGraham has mislabeled. Blessings!
Oh sorry... I mislabelled the pigment info and swop the ultramarine pink and quin magenta.
It's PR259
@@eurekawandersand quinacridone violet
Isn't Ultramarine Pink 192 PR258?
Actually I wrote to m Graham to clarify and they said that the pigment in their ultramarine pink is PV15, not PR259. They unfortunately had a printing error on their label.
@@eurekawanders Thank you for this. I'll correct it in my notes too. M. Graham is an uncommon brand in the UK, and such information is particularly valuable.
Too much water.its a shame,I love this brand and you do a tidy job of swatching.
😢
Colorchcart lin
Oh? Something about colourchart?
The colors look chalky dry? Or am I the only one who notices that
I actually bought these as samples that have dried on pans so they aren’t the same as those you squeeze from tubes.
I wish you'd use less water . some of the colors dried poorly because they dried in a pool of water.
I love my my graham and was dissapointed in your swatching.sorry no offense ment
It’s ok. I will use less water in future. Thanks for the feedback.