Swatching watercolors from Daniel Smith, Winsor & Newton, Schmincke, Jackson's ✿ 2/3 of the Art Haul
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- In Part 2, I'm swatching the watercolors from last week's art haul and sharing my first impressions of them. I was so excited to finally be able to test them! I'll be swatching the gouache paints and pencils, and sharing a closer look at the Etchr sketchbooks in Part 3, which is coming soon. There will also be a separate video all about the gorgeous Kremer Pigments Greys Watercolour Palette. Materials featured: Daniel Smith, Winsor & Newton, Schmincke, Roman Szmal, and Jackson's Artist Watercolours. I'm using a Pro Arte Prolene flat brush to swatch, on 140lb NOT surface cold pressed watercolour paper.
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In Part 2, I'm swatching the watercolors from last week's art haul and sharing my first impressions of them. I was so excited to finally be able to test them! I'll be swatching the gouache paints and pencils, and sharing a closer look at the Etchr sketchbooks in Part 3, which is coming soon! There will also be a separate video all about the gorgeous Kremer Pigments Greys Watercolour Palette. Materials featured: Daniel Smith, Winsor & Newton, Schmincke, Roman Szmal, and Jackson's Artist Watercolours. I'm using a Pro Arte Prolene flat brush to swatch, on 140lb NOT surface cold pressed watercolour paper.
Vicarious art hauls are always popular as most people like to see colours on UA-cam before we order them - or just drool at them!
I know I do! :)
For the primatek colors, I squeezed my tubes into full pans- you can expect certain ones to shrink a LOT (mayan blue did for me) but what I did as well was put a drop of vegetable glycerine into the full pan and stirred with a toothpick to incorporate them into the paint. This helps prevent cracking and I've noticed my paints rewet easily and beautifully. I believe this is a tip I learned from Jane Blundell. I will also note that I have the DS dot sheets so I can compare my primatek paints to the dots without glycerine and I do think they look very similar, the only one I think is a bit different is the Mayan blue- which I have read often has trouble rewetting in people's palettes but I have not experienced this at all while adding the glycerine. I find out of my pan seems less dull than the one on my dot card.
Oh and I also did the glycerine trick with the WN potters pink I put into a half pan, mostly because I read many people had issues rewetting it, and potters pink can be a bit notorious for that. I also don't have issues rewetting that color either.
Sorry for the long comment, hope it helps or gives you some insight :) We have a lot of same colors so I thought I'd share my experience.
I think I need to get my hands on some vegetable glycerine! Thanks so much for the tip. :) Did you find that the paints with the glycerine in them dry differently, or do they look different on the paper at all? Thanks again!
@@NatashaNewtonArt Basically as long as you don't overdo it, and only add 1 drop, there shouldn't be a visible difference. If I recall correctly if you put too much in, the colors could potentially dry a bit shinier. If you have a steady hand, putting one drop is fine but if you're worried, I have dipped a toothpick into a little blob of the stuff and then stirred the toothpick into my pan of paint! Seems like not every brand/color needs this and I don't always add it to my paint.
Here's the post on Jane's blog about it: blundell201.rssing.com/chan-52752720/article9-live.html
Also, Liz Steel who absolutely loves WN potters pink has mentioned the drop of glycerine trick as well so I think it's tried and true among more experienced watercolorists. I'd purchase a tiny bottle if you can find one. I have a huge bottle and I don't think I can ever use all of it just for paint hahaha. Basically glyerine is a humectant so it helps rehydrate the paint easier, and you don't need a ton of it for it to work, which is great!
Good luck! Let me know if you need any help❤️ ! Also, thanks for the lovely videos.
@@ChrisLauren Thank you so much for all the info - it's really helpful and I appreciate it! I'm going to check out Jane's blog post now. :)
I really like your videos and going to watch them all, it was an instant subscription for me.
There's something about your calm and yet fun way of talking and giving out information. You're also choosing great art supplies and rhr color Palette definitely speaks to me. The way you're filming and the length of your videos are ideal to me, very entertaining, interesting and informative!
This is so lovely to hear, thank you so much! I really appreciate your kind comment. :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt you're very welcome! Still continuing to watch your videos and its still such a blessing👏🏼😊
Mayan Dark Blue is my absolutely favorite watercolor. The biggest difference between it and Indigo or payne's grey is that it granulates a tiny bit and since it doesn't contain the usual phthalo blue that the other dark blue mixes have sometimes, depending on the brand of course, it tends to be a little bit less staining. It's great!
I can already tell that it's going to be a firm favourite! To me, it's pretty much the perfect dark blue. I'm so glad to hear you love it too! 🧡
The biggest difference is actually that the mayan dark blue is a blue with warm undertones while especially the indigo but also Sodalite genuine have cool undertones. Mayan colours aren't prone to heavy granulation in general. If there even is one it is a very soft and subtle. But this is just the point of daniel smith. The indigo of daniel smith is very special. It has a mixture that no one else uses for indigo and the genuine indigo, which you won't get that often in watercolour, is more of a warm colour as well. :)
Love how you get so excited with every single colour. I want all those colours too❤
I love your searching videos so much more than unboxing videos.
Me watching at 3am swatching a ton of gorgeous colors and listening to your happy and excited tone plus a calmig and soothing lofi jazz = Perfection💕 Looking forward to part 3!😊
Ah, thank you for such a lovely comment! I'm so pleased that you enjoyed the video. 🧡 Part 3 is coming soon!
Mixing watercolours is so magical with endless lovely discoveries and surprises! Transparent pyrrol orange makes the most beautiful black mixes with phthalo blue (gs) or phthalo turquoise. I love using it for black shiny beatles (I love painting insects) Potters pink and caput mortum mixes with various cobalt colours or cerulean is also beautiful. Phthalo turquoise or phthalo green (bs) with quin rose or magenta makes beautiful inky dark blue. So many moody and muted colours to mix with your selections here, so many textures and hues to explore. I know you will love every minute of it.
Thank you! 🧡🧡🧡 I love this comment! I've just written down those mixes in my notebook and will try them out. Thank you for sharing them. I'm very excited to explore mixing the paints I've bought - I do feel like the possibilities are endless!
Good to hear the Jackson’s own brand are such good quality. And I love Jane’s Grey too.
Fantastic. I decided to watch this instead of the big interview yesterday as I needed to chill out. Your voice is very relaxing. Thank you, I can't wait for the next one x
Thanks so much, Claire! I'm pleased you enjoyed it - Part 3 is coming soon! 🧡
Thank you for another great video! I've been enjoying my coffee while I watch🙂 Very relaxing💕
You’re welcome, thanks so much Leah! 😊 x
Your handwriting 😍 Loved all the swatches!
Ah, thanks Brooke! :)
Wow these colours look absolutely gorgeous, especially together! Very lovely swatches and you're making me want to buy them all! 😂
Ha ha, I do apologise Wendy! ;)
@@NatashaNewtonArt 🤭 I'm from Australia but purchase most of my art supplies from Jacksons UK, just can't beat their range! 🥰
@@WendyPaints Wow! They do have an amazing range of products and often at pretty good prices too!
Looking forward to the swatching of the beautiful grays. I adore my Daniel Smith watercolors, though I only have a handful for now. So glad to have found your channel.
Thanks Anne! I've just filmed the swatching of the Kremer greys palette and the first piece of artwork I created with it, so that should be up on my channel very soon. I hope that you're able to add to your Daniel Smith collection - they're such beautiful paints. 🧡
Hi, I have found my primatek tubes poured into pans really easy to rewet once they dried with no issues. Really gorgeous colours your swatching will be needing to purchase more ds colours and the holbein shell pink colour 😍
Thanks Sarah! I'm so glad that you told me this as I *really* want to put them into pans. It's good to hear that you haven't had any problems!
I also have no problems rewetting Primatek paints in my pans. Some I had a few drops of water for a minute and good to go 😊🤷🏼♀️✌🏼
I also have a weird obsession with Payne's Grey. I'm glad I finally found someone else who feels that way!! Haha
It's such a great colour that looks fantastic on its own or with so many others - I love it!
@@NatashaNewtonArt Likewise, I love Daniel Smith Moonglow.
I'm with you about Paynes grey, it's my absolute favourite colour! I was drooling over all of the different Paynes grey in different media in your last video!
Payne's Grey is so versatile and such a useful colour!
I trade mail art, I've been doing a few monochromatic swaps, with a colour + black + white, I was so happy when we finally did blue cards, so I finally could use my Paynes Grey! 😄
So lovely to see the actual colours from the haul as you swatched them. Paynes Grey is such a versatile colour,one I use a lot in whatever medium I'm working in,(even digitally). I have the Daniel Smith colours of Moonglow and Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Genuine and they are lightfast. I think with the pandemic (and Brexit) affecting supplies I think paint companies are having to change the companies that manufacture their paints,so it could be there may be a batch of these two colours which may not be lightfast and some that are. Cerulean Blue is my staple blue, it's a great mixing colour and I have it in all the mediums I use,and also Naples Yellow is my favoured yellow and is also a great mixing colour. You have a real way of putting your palettes of colour together and they always work well together,and they reflect amazingly in your finished art works.I began with watercolours back in the day and I still love to paint with them now,they do have a slight unpredictability to them which I love and behave like no other paint. It's a really versatile medium that can be used in differnt ways.The fact you are keen to go back to using watercolour I sense means it's the right time on your creative journey to do so.It is good to revisit mediums sometimes as it can reenergise you and how you work.I think we begin with what mateials we can afford and as things take off and we get better so our paints should refelect this evolution, it is worth spending a little more on quality paints once you know how you like to work, what colours you like to create with and long term they are an investment in your creations and in your work as you continue to paint and get better.There is that old notion of 'you get what you pay for' and I think with investing in good quality paints this is certainly true and I find knowing you are working with the best,it somehow enhances your enjoyment of painting with them and am sure it also enhances the quality of your finished work too. Looking forward to part three! and also too seeing all these new colours in your future paintings.
Thanks Matt. :) That's interesting about your Moonglow and Sleeping Beauty Turquoise paints - it's nice to hear from someone that they have actually found them to be lightfast! I will do lightfastness tests on mine and report back (I made a list today of all the paints I want to do lightfast tests on). As usual, I agree with everything you've written here; thank you for sharing your thoughts and insights!
@@NatashaNewtonArt I have a feeling it is down to the effects of the Pandemic on suppliers and maufacturers.I suspect Daniel Smith have had to source another company to create their paints or who supplies them,and I think that there will be batches of these two paints that wil be light fast and some that won't,it wil depend if you get a set of Daniel Smith paints that are made now or from a batch that maybe have been in stock (In a warehouse) for a while.It will just be 'luck of the draw' so to speak when you buy these two paints,perhaps more so if you buy them online, if you go to a shop in person they might have a stock of these paints they've had for a while so you maybe more likely to get some that are lightfast.
I drooled so much... another visit to Jackson's Art is now necessary. Can I use your code again?
Wow, that beautiful supergranulating Forest Green from Schminke 😍 Looking forward to Part 3 xx
I think that Jackson's profits must be through the roof during lockdown! 😂 If you use the link below the video, I will receive a small commission on each order at no cost to you, but the special offer of 10% off your order is only available for the first order if you're a new customer. xx
@@NatashaNewtonArt They should be giving you sponsorship and free stuff! :-D
I love those Artists who are painting portraits with just five colours. Obtaining beautiful skin tones captured within a range of colours that have full contrast . An earth Yellow, Vermilion red, Vandyke brown, a Green and Phalo blue. Maybe a Cad. Red for highlights! It can vary between Artists but what a lesson to learn.
Thanks for a lovely video. I transfer all my tube paints to the pans. Out of 100+ colours I have tried so far all potter’s pinks and viridians (PG18?) are the worst to rewet. Oh and Sodaline is one of my favourite colours - I am very happy to hear you loved it as well :)
Thank you! This is good to hear. :) I can't wait to play around a bit more with the Sodalite - I need to add more water so that I can see the full extent of the granulation. Such a gorgeous colour!
Hi Natasha. Thanks for your channel. New chic here from Australia!
Just to let you know, that when I did a workshop with Jane Blundell, we painted the blocked in colour of a building in a glaze of the granulating and lifetable goethite, let it dry and did a layer of her Jane's grey as shadow as another glaze.
This was really something different to using Payne's Grey, hers is such a clean glaze, which surprised me as it is made with granulating pigments.
In kindred spirit
Eliza in Sydney xx
Hi Eliza, welcome to my channel! 🧡 Thanks for sharing your experience of using Jane's Grey; it looks like such a beautiful colour and I can't wait to experiment more with it! xx
I really enjoy watching your videos and have saved this one to refer back to as there is so many scrummy paints I now want to buy! Looking forward to part 3 x
Thanks so much, Jeanine! Let me know if you decide to buy any of them. :) Part 3 is coming soon! x
I love this selection, you made some great choices with these purchases - i've got a note pad next to me writing down all the colors I like & want to buy myself! I can't wait to see how you incorporate these into your work 😊
Thank you! 🧡 I love that, as this is often how I discover the materials I want to buy - through other artists' UA-cam videos! I think it helps so much to see someone actually swatching the colours and talking about them. :)
This video is so enjoyable, you picked some beautiful paints 😍
I had to laugh when you spoke about the vibrations ( which I didn't notice at all) as I can't do what I'm supposed to today because there's people drilling in my building 😂
Ha ha! This is very relatable. 😂 May you have a day free of drilling tomorrow and are able to get on with what you need to do!
Thanks for this, was looking forward to it! Placed an order and saved some money so thank you for that too 😊 love indigo 😍
That's great - I hope you have fun with your new supplies once your order arrives! 🤗 Indigo will always be one of my absolute faves. 🖤
Ohh its arrived treated myself to arches and im in love 😊
@@clairetrimby111 I love Arches! Have fun! ;)
I love your gentle voice 😊☺️
I've finally got to watch this. You really chose beautiful colors, my favorites are phthalo turquoise, perylene green, turquoise genuine...you can see the theme here 😂
Ha ha, I can! They are gorgeous colours though. ;)
Since honey is added to the Jackson's paints, it does make make one wonder about the Sennelier . This was a good video for me. Lately I love blues in general so I enjoyed the up close of so many colors. Definitely adding the Mayan Dark Blue and the Payne's Blue Gray. The Jackson's Naples Yellow is perfection!
Hi Beth, I do have a suspicion that they may be made by Sennelier! Mayan Dark Blue and Payne's Blue Grey are both gorgeous. And I'm impressed by the Jackson's paints too. It'll be fun to get to know them a bit better!
Unrelated, but I love your penmanship, looks like printed omg
Ha ha, thank you!
Thank you 👩🏻🎨 for sharing your watercolor haul. It is so helpful for me to learn about watercolor. As a Pen & Ink artist, I have resisted watercolor, yea Derwent Inktense! 😊 But so much beauty is hiding in the watercolor paint, I have to explore it. Have an awesome week! I’ll be back for your next video. ~ Fran 🧑🏼🎨
Hi Fran, thanks for watching! I feel like I'm learning so much about watercolour at the moment. You're right; there's so much beauty in it. I find it quite magical! x
It does seem that there are very different results in lightfast tests. My hypothesis is that some window panes may have more UV protection than others resulting in the different outcomes. I don't always like to put glass over my paintings, but if I use Moonglow or some of the other colors that Kimberley Crick has found to have lightfastness issues, I'll use UV glass or varnish to protect them. I'm looking forward to your results, Natasha, thanks for sharing your new paints with us!
I've spent the past couple of days reading and taking notes from Kim Crick's blog - what a fantastic resource! I have now made a list of all the paints I'll be performing lightfastness tests on, and will report back. I'm also going to be trying her "recipe" to make my own lightfast version of Moonglow!
I ALMOST bought shell pink the last time I was at Blick specifically from seeing it in your videos, and was disappointed in myself when I got home for being cheap 🤣 I was SO SURPRISED to find out it is easy to mix with pyrrole orange (of all things) and white!
This is great to know, thank you!
I absolutely adore the Daniel Smith Desert to Mountain colors. I bought them in tubes so I could add them to multiple pallets. Bronzite Genuine is fantastic.
That's good to hear! Thank you. They do look so lovely. 💖
Beautiful colours! I find only some of my primateks are hard to rewet, in particular those with shimmers, but again not all of them.
The Sodalite genuine apparently is one of the components of Lapis Lazuli [according to Daniel Smith website]. But to see more of the blue tone you need less of the pigment, I find it looks almost black and the stunning granulation is lost when the mix is too intense. Try next time with more water, the colour comes alive!
Please do the lightfastness for the Sleeping Beauty, I am so curious as the reviews are mixed. I will try doing mine from the dot card set Mineral Marvels, I wonder if there was a bad batch and the colour has been improved. Only one way to find out. :)
Also thanks for reminding me about that W&N Rose Dore I was looking it years ago and I think it was out of stock, such a pretty coral light pink. :)
I'm going to be playing around with the Sodalite so that I can see the full extent of this gorgeous colour! I will definitely be performing lightfastness tests on a few of the paints I'm unsure about and will report back. The Rose Dore is BEAUTIFUL. It creates stunning mixes too. More about that soon! 🖤
Sodalite genuine is so beautiful I want to cry! I bought it almost accidentally (back then I knew nothing about pigments, lightfastness...) I just found it “cool”🤣Now that I’m more knowledgeable I’m so glad I spent that much money on it, so worth it😍💖
@@marisawu3646 From what I've seen of it so far, I totally agree! 🧡
hello new subscriber here and I'm thrilled to have found your Channel. Im also an artist and I absolutely adore your style. Ive mainly worked with Daniel smith and Windsor newton brand. I however want to add to my collection and try new brands. This has been very helpful thank you so much for such a beautiful video and lovely swatches. Now the hard part for me, narrowing down to my top favorite colors to grow my color collection. Thanks again I definitely will be watching all of your videos. sending you positive vibes.
Thank you so much Meka, and welcome to my channel! I'm so pleased that you found this video helpful. :)
Some Primatek paints definitely turn into un-wettable rocks in a pan. My Garnet Genuine, Malachite, and Bronzite (both of them) are basically unusable in pan form. It just depends. Also, I do think the Jackson’s paints are manufactured by Sennelier, they just don’t use the branded tubes anymore.
I have a feeling you're probably right about the Jackson's paints!
Oh really your bronzite? I have that one and it'll come back to life if I prewet it :3
very nice video ^_^ i love the super granulating colors from schmincke
Thank you! They look so beautiful - I only have one right now but may purchase more in the future. :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt I have 6 of them so gorgeous colors❤️
@@VitasArtworks Ooh, lucky you! :)
I have 10 primatek paints in pans and I don't have an issue with rewetting them. The way you are swatching them is that you used a lot of the mass tone of them. With this it is often hard to see the real difference. The Sodalite will granulate much more than the Payne's grey for example even they are a bit similar in tone. The effects will come out with more water. And as you said you saw swatches which weren't that pigmented of the sleeping beauty sometimes it depends if they used a dot card for it. I don't know why but I had a lot of that issue with dot cards of daniel smith but when I got the paint and even they were dry in the pan I got much more pigmentation out of it. The lunar blue is actually really similar to the blue apatite genuine but the mayan blue genuine have a similar undertone indeed. This swatching video was really relaxing to watch. Thank you for that. There is a good video to how to make swatch cards for watercolour out there. This might be helpful to you. With those you can see the mass tone but also the watered down version, how transparent they are and how good they will be in glazing.
Thanks, this is very good to hear about the Primatek paints! I'm definitely going to be putting them into pans. I mentioned to my partner Dominic that I should have used more water when I was swatching, but it was just to get a first impression of them and I look forward to experimenting further and adding more water to really see what they can do. I honestly love them all but I'm very excited about Lunar Blue - from my tiny swatch of it I could see that it's something special! I've never tried Blue Apatite Genuine, but it has been on my wishlist for a while. There are people out there who swatch in a way that's so much more technical than how I do it and I enjoy watching them (Dr. Oto Kano springs to mind!). I had so much fun filming this video though. :)
@@NatashaNewtonArtI don't think someone would really need both lunar blue and blue apatite but as a horder of indigo, Payne's grey and indanthrone blue who am I to judge if someone gets both? For myself I don't really enjoy the lunar blue that much and I don't know why. I have other mixtures with pbk11 from Rembrandt fo example (their dusk colours) and even I like how they all are looking swatched I don't use them really often. Maybe the separation between the base colour and the black granulation is too harsh for my taste I don't know. But I have a really soft spot for the Sodalite genuine and the purpurite genuine. And I enjoy both the methodical swatching same as just chat and look what the colours will do as an approach to videos. 🙂
Also completely in love with Payne’s Grey! I use it more than pretty much any other color! ❤️
My love for it has developed into an obsession! 😂
My absolute favorite Naples Yellow is the ohne from Schmincke Horadam. Love it 💜
That's interesting to hear, thank you! :)
Beautiful ,very nice my friend❤️❤️👍❤️❤️...
Thank you! 🧡
Jackson's own van dyke brown s outstanding. I have the full pan. It is my fave.
and they payne's grey too.
I love the combination of colours you chose, they are just what I like - the caput mortuum to indigo/Payne’s grey to turquoise range 🥰 and that orange really stands out in there! Looking forward to the rest of the swatches!
Thanks Brigitte! It's nice to know that we have similar taste in colours. 🧡 Part 3 is coming soon with the rest of the swatches!
Jacksons say on their website that their tubes of watercolours are made with honey which is is similar to M. Graham, the brand I use. The advantage is that when you squeeze some from the tube into your palette it will stay wet for a very long time, in fact it won’t dry completely at all if you have a palette with a lid. I find this saves time in the rewetting process.
I have not tried the Jacksons paints so I cannot say how they behave with respect to the rewetting but Sennelier are also putting honey in theirs so they could be rebranding.
This sounds great! I'm going to be putting them into pans soon so I'll be able to see how they behave. :)
Yes, I also do not have issues rewetting my Primatek colours. Like you suggested a drop of water is all you need, beforehand.
This is good to know! Thanks so much. :)
Howdy, thank you for sharing the swatches. It helps me target my next tube of paint 🎨. (Avid color hunter). Also, I’ve heard from another UA-cam artist that companies use museum conditions when rating lightfastness. This is because of the assumption that it will be kept in archival conditions (frame with UV protection). I also know that there is a difference between fugitive colors and non fugitive pigments.
Thanks Dawn! 🧡 I think that this shows the importance of doing our own lightfastness tests (especially for pigments we're unsure of) and not replying entirely upon what the manufacturers say.
Hi Natasha, this was great fun and relaxing to see all the swatches, thanks! As I am just starting experimenting with watercolours II was curious about why moonglow seems to have some green granulation. I have seen the same with one of my Roman Szmal (Violet Shadow). Do you know why this happens?
Hi Emma! I think it's because those colours are made from several different pigments, so that when they granulate the individual colours show themselves. For example, Moonglow is a mix of three pigments, one of which is Viridian. I hope that answers your question! :)
Nice, I totally enjoy a good swatching session. :)
It's so much fun, isn't it?! 🧡
@@NatashaNewtonArt Totally! I love to see the colours, their shades, how they behave... you can see so much in a little swatch as how they flow and the tinting strenght. It's a love for colours :D
@@LanaGoesArt Exactly! 🧡🧡🧡
I’m watching this a year later, so you may have discovered the following. Adding more water to Sodalite Genuine makes it granulate like crazy. I love it. Feel the same way you do about watercolour medium ❤️
It's an amazing colour, isn't it? I love the granulation and texture!
I always add a couple drops of water to all my pans before painting. I have a few Primatek paints and haven’t had any issues rewetting them if I add a little water first. It is so much fun swatching paints. I swatched all Daniel Smith colours from the dot chart last week. It will help decide what colours I might like to add to my collection.
Thanks Marlene! Several people have mentioned this now, and I'm relieved to hear it as I really want to put them into pans. :) I think that dot charts are such a good idea! I'm going to get the Mineral Marvels one so that I can see which paints I would like to add to my collection too. Swatching is addictive!
Hi, I recently found your channel and I absolutely love your videos! Can't wait for the limited palettes that you come up with :)
I also wanted to ask if the Venetian Red by Jackson's art that you swatched is some kind of out of production colour? When I checked the website it says it's only made from PR101 and not PR101 and PY43. I adore this colour from your swatches and immediately wanted to buy it, but maybe it's discontinued :(
Ooh, that's really strange! I just double-checked and my tube does have the two pigments listed, where as the website just has PR101. I can only tell you that I bought the Jackson's watercolours very recently, so I doubt they've changed the formula in that time, although of course they could have done. I wonder whether they've just made a mistake either on the tube or on the website?
@@NatashaNewtonArt thank you for the answer :) I just contacted them with the question about this colour and it's pigments - we'll see what they say. I hope there is a way to get the two pigment mix, because in my opinion it's beautiful and I'd really love to have it
@@thebooksofmylife Please let me know what they say when you hear back from them! :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt I finally got an answer. The tube that you have is some kind of an older product. The pigment that they currently sell is PR101. I'm quite a bit heartbroken, because I fell in love with the swatch, but what can you do... Ugh. It's still a bit weird though, to still sell some of the old tubes. I also can't understand why they would stop making this gorgeous mix.
I agree that Payne's Grey is one color you can't have enough of. I have a tendency to collect those and Prussian Blues. As for Primatek paints, I've never had an issue with rewetting them in the palette. The only thing is some of them can fall out of the palette after a long time of disuse.
That's good to know, thank you! Payne's Greys vary so much from brand to brand - how could we not collect them all?! ;)
Love Payne’s grey,I make my own variations. If I remember correctly William Payne born round the mid 17th century in Britain, taught watercolour painting,. Naturally the art officialdom of the time, thought him a bit lesser than themselves but hey! His the name is the name known by artists world wide. So far as I know, I have seen only one of his paintings, in truth not that exciting, very much in the style of the time as you would expect. Thanks for this video although it does make me wish to try every thing LOL.
I try to always have empty half pans when I open a tube of Daniel Smith so that if they explode the overflow can just go into a pan for my pallet.
Thanx for a great video. I’m going to end up broke🤣!
love all the beautiful paints...thank you for sharing...you should try schminckes tundra violet :)
Thank you! I've just checked it out on Jackson's and it looks like a stunning colour. :)
Something I now do to all my primateks and other colors I know dry hard like potters pink is add about 2 to 3 drops of honey off a tooth pick to the half pan after filled and mix well. I’ve never got them to runny and they rewet so much better. If you have questions on which specific ones tend to dry hard just ask and I’ll tell you.
Sennellie changed the tubes because the earlier batches had their branding on the tube. They make them for Jackson’s and the colors aren’t all the same as their own brand. From my experience the Jackson’s brand are a lesser quality and I can tell the difference but they are still a good buy.
Teoh a watercolor artist on UA-cam actually pulled a label off in one of his videos.
Have you tried Isaro watercolours, quite nice with several different colours at an affordable price. Jackson's sells some but not the interesting mineral pigments and only in the small tubes. Cheaper to buy direct from the company in Belgium and postage is often covered by their offers, there you can obtain 20ml tubes.for around £9/10 for most with just a few above that price.
I have three Isaro watercolours and I like them a lot!
Having 3 doesn't state that you like them a lot!
Your handmade Italian ones are appealing.. I love those oval hinged wood palettes!
To obtain a set dedicated to a specific colour did you hand pick the colours or are they standard to their range?
In a mix the less lightfast ones are made more lightfast by using them mixed with whatever lightfast color you choose so it’s just fine🙏🏻❤️🔥
Lovely haul😊
Thank you, Elizabeth! 😊
BTW, if you're in the UK, Seven Hills Crafts has these amazing watercolour swatch stamps to making swatching super organised (and you can cut out your swatches like cards). They need a waterproof stamp ink and an acrylic block, though.
That's good to know, thank you! I'll have to check them out. :)
The swatch stamp mini is the most useful one since it has the light fastness, staining pigment stuff already there to check off or fill in.
The Jackson’s paints could be “white label” made by Sennelier for Jackson’s like Duracell makes batteries for Costco.
I just got the set of blues yesterday
sennelier watercolor dry a bit sticky in the pan because they have honey and they wet quickly and feel like butter to paint.
Im surprised none of the Bennet sisters were watercolourists, i reckon they'd be like you
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an artist in possession of a good palette, must be in want of a swatching video. 😂
@@NatashaNewtonArt the opening credits to your autobiography 😆
Feel like I’ve met a kindred spirit
All of my primatek paints are in paints and I have no issues rewetting them
This is a relief to hear! Thank you. 🧡
Sennelier Artist quality are within the best five available in my opinion, Jackson's are ok but I feel they are different. Made by Sennelier but you tell me if they are the same quality?
I've since tried Sennelier and I would say that Sennelier are superior!
I wonder if sunlight is the only way to do lightfastness tests. I have various UV lamps for my plants and some people have UV nail lamps, and I imagine its a bit more powerful than dispersed daylight, I wonder if it would speed the test up
That's a very interesting point! I wonder whether it would work?
The thing to consider is what are you testing for? UV lights vary in their output. If you want to compare one colour to another you would ideally want to do them under the same light. Also, since you’d be quite close to the source the distribution of the light would not necessarily be even. However you decide to test remember to do a duplicate set of swatches and put them in an envelope in a drawer or between the pages of a thick book where they will be protected from any light - this will be your control (make sure to let the swatches dry completely, maybe a day or 2 before putting them away). Personally I would suggest a sunny window ledge as this will be more representative of a real world scenario.
Shadow Violet and Moonglow are difficult to tell apart in a different Daniel Smith pallette.
This is a beautiful video. I haven’t painted in watercolor for years; I am an oil painter. But I have recently become interested in bringing watercolor back into my repertoire. Your swatching videos are extremely informative and helpful as I will be choosing some colors to put together my watercolor pallets
Payne’s greys... blacks... dark blues ... alllll so pretty. Maybe also have too many of them
They're very addictive, aren't they?!
If you look up Teoh Y Chie’s Jackson’s tube review he peels it and it has the sennelier logo on the the tube so I guess they have since repackaged them ! Here’s the link. ua-cam.com/video/bVSVuMfiGzw/v-deo.html
Hi Ava! Thanks for this. I'll take a look. :)
Kimberley Crick advised moon glow isn't lightfast.
I saw her blog about it! I'm going to be doing a lightfast test of my own. I'll report back!
I have primateks in pans. It's no problem at all. I usually give Sleeping beauty a drop of water before using, but that is the hardest one I have. None of the others need prewetting :)
This is good to hear! I also find it funny that Sleeping Beauty needs a little help to 'wake up'! :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt At least I don't have to kiss the pan 😆
For me it's funny that mayan paints are inspired by long-lasting Mayan pigments - but Daniel Smith's version is not lightfast. It does not make sense 😅
I'll be doing my own lightfastness tests so it will be interesting to see!
What is the watercolour paper you are using please?
I'm not 100% sure as it was paper that I had cut myself from some larger sheets and placed in my paper folder a while ago, but I do know that it was 140lb NOT surface watercolour paper, possibly Clairefontaine but I'm not certain on the manufacturer.
@@NatashaNewtonArt do you always use 100% cotton though?
I saw that moonglow isn't lightfast from Kimberly Crick on youtube, but she has a post about it on her website too.
Personally, I wouldn't take Jane Blundell's test alone as proof that it is lightfast since she also tested opera rose with no fading, and that one is notoriously fugitive. I also take manufacturer ratings with a grain of salt.
I would definitely recommend that anyone thinking of selling or displaying originals with that paint do their own tests first, and I am interested in seeing your results.
I saw the post on Kimberley's website! I'm very curious about this paint and will definitely report back once I've performed my own lightfast tests.
None of those blues are pale, strong chroma❤️🔥
I have at least 7 different Paynes Grey as well as 6 Burnt Siennas and they’re all different
I find it to be an extremely sensual medium to dance with as sometimes she really throws you some interesting possibilities and oppurtunities
Buy Sennelier and you get Sennelier!
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