Good colours from Daniel Smith Series 3
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
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If possible, I would really appreciate seeing these reviews continued for Series 4 and 5. The more expensive colors I am unlikely to buy on my own, so more info on them would be very helpful. Especially with your comments as to which you feel are worth it and why. Thanks again for all this great info.
I love Green Apatite, it makes such a great leaf green. It can be quite beautiful in a wet wash, it has such effortless granulation, a great texture for implying foliage.
Yes, I just got a dot card to try and I would like to add Green Apatite to my palette because it looks like a natural green with no mixing. I mix my own atm
Green Apatite does NOT perform well on rough paper...separates into ugly brown specks
@@annepercival7814 that green and brown may be a look some are going for though. Personally I appreciate it's color separation, but know that it's personal preference. I've enjoyed their hematite paints, while some have mentioned that it looks like dirt (negative like gritty grime) when I thought the texture was lovely.
Your camera work is a great credit to how well these colors look up close, thank you so much for this video !!
Green apatite genuine is my favorite here…. I love the separation with the brown…makes an amazing eye color!
I use several of the colors but I have to say that the Green Apatite is an absolutely amazing color...the granulation of the color often indicates warm shades of brown, great for florals and landscapes. I really want to get DS Potter's Pink to create interesting neutrals, I saw a demo of it mixed with other colors that were wonderful. Thanks for another great video, Teoh!!
Moonglow is another great DS color.
I have Green Apatite Genuine in my Steve Mitchell Mixing Palette from Daniel Smith. I believe I also have a tube of it in my Primatek collection. I love the color and will use it in place of Sap Green in landscape paintings.
I love my Steve Mitchell palette, great colors!! I also added American Journey's Coastal Fog, Coastal Blue, and June Bug combo to the empty pans in the palette (the first two colors have white added). The array of neutrals and pastels that I get are beautiful.
I have his palette, too! I love the Green Apatite Genuine, also....I love how the granulation makes trees, plants, and grasses look alive, with just one or two strokes, no need to mix with other colors, for the most part.
I recently bought green apatite genuine, and it is a great colour for mixing to create foliage! Thanks for sharing.
I'd love to get Indian Yellow, it looks so pretty! About the only one I have out of these is Pyrrol Red, which is amazing. I also prefer the cheaper Cerulean Blue Chromium and it seems to be more saturated than regular Cerulean? I never have much luck with Cobalt Violet as the pigment never sits well in the binder (of any brand), which is a shame because it is such a stunning colour! Potter's Pink by Winsor & Newton and Schmincke are much nicer than DS's version (especially W&N which is a lot pinker). Just my thoughts, haha! Nice video, very helpful. 😀
Thanks for this. I have the basic 6 color set of DS, will be adding more this week :) Your blog has been helping me past couple of years ❤️
I love this set! I only have the primary colours here (I don't have the greens, violets, and Potter's Pink), but they make a very good palette. Azo Yellow re-wets well and is a good high-tinting, mid-tone yellow. I like to use it when I want a yellow background or underpainting to stay without lifting. That said, Hansa Yellow Medium is a more affordable alternative where you can EASILY do some lifting techniques. Indian Yellow is so unique! I love its warm, curry-coloured mass tone, but it tints out to be very cool! Cobalt Blue is my favourite mid-tone blue. I like that you can do a lot of lifting techniques on this, as well, making it easy to paint the sky and lift to make clouds. My favourite mixture with Indian Yellow is with Mayan Dark Blue and French Ultramarine. With Mayan Dark Blue it can become a granular version of the original Sap Green Formula. With French Ultramarine, it becomes a moody, imperfect mixture that can be used as shadows for trees and plants. My favourite mixtures with Cobalt Blue are with Indian Red to make granular violets, and with Bordeaux to make something close to Imperial Purple. It mixes well with warm yellows to make granular greens, my favourite of which is New Gamboge.
What a great series. Thanks.
Great colours! Daniel Smith's sap green is my favourite.
Your color choices are always insightful
Love your videos! You do a great job explaining the process and aspects of watercolour!
Teoh, thank you for your comprehensive videos. Your drawing and painting talent is an inspiration to many artists around the world. Being new to watercolors, I always consult your videos before buying any watercolor supplies. I use DS bronzite genuine for sand, soil and architecture. I use DS green apatite genuine for trees, leaves and greenery. The granulating properties are exactly what I am looking for; it helps make up for my artistic deficiencies. With much love and respect from the US.
Lynne
Another valuable and interesting review Teoh. I love to read what others think of various colours and manufacturers etc. My own opinion of Daniel Smith watercolours is that they are overpriced and overrated. Yes, I know I'm probably on my own here but when I compare a painting by a leisure painter who has used Daniel Smith colours with one painted by a professional using, say, the Cotman range, the latter always appears superior to the former and therein lies the heart of the problem for me. No matter how much I practice or how good the quality of the products I use I will never be able to emulate the results of a talented painter using inferior materials. If others are happy to pay the exorbitant price being charged for DS paints then fair enough - each to his or her own, but as an amateur painter I cannot justify the expense,
The Cerulean from DaVinci is real, saturated and so so much better than Daniel Smith 's version. It is on my palette. I love pyrrol scarlet then quin coral and permanent alizarin crimson from DaVinci cause it has a depth that DS lacks. But I use DS quin magenta. Also I just mix my own burnt orange and nickel azo yellow to make my quin gold or the darker quin gold version. It saves $.
What a nice review! I enjoy your objective comparisons. Thank you.
I have Green Apatite Genuine, Mayan Blue, Mayan Dark Blue, and Cobalt Blue in my main palettes! I do have Spring Green as well, and mixing it with Mayan blue makes beautiful shades happen. Pyrrol Scarlet, i do have as part of my first DS set, but I swapped it out for Quinacridone Rose. I get the best fire engine reds from mixing Quinacridone magenta with Aussie Red Gold, but I might get Prelyne Scarlet thanks to this video!
These are really helpful comparisons. Thanks!
Loved this, as I use Daniel Smith.
Daniel Smith paints are lovely, but if you haven't tried M. Graham (and they are available to you), consider them. Their colours are very vibrant and quality is just as good . I like Potter's Pink, but it is a very weak pigment as you said.
How's M Graham compared to schmincke?
@@joybean6955 Hi Joy. I don't own any Schmincke as they are more expensive and harder to find in Canada. I could be misinformed, but I believe Daniel Smith has more granulating colours than other brands. I have read many great reviews about Schmincke as well. From those reviews, they seem less intense than M. Graham. Steve Mitchell from The Mind of Watercolor channel is a huge fan of Mr. Graham, although he has also branched out to enjoying Daniel Smith. Here is his video on his 8 favourite M. Graham colours: ua-cam.com/video/obiKf0QGfjo/v-deo.html
@@joybean6955 Also you should know that M. Graham watercolors have honey in them, so people who live in hot/humid countries don't tend to use them (such as Jane Blundell from Australia). The honey component means they re-wet easily and don't go super hard in your palette.
Thanks for sharing. I have Anthraquinone scarlet because it’s more transparent than Pyrrol scarlet, and I love the color separation of Green Apatite and granulation.💕💕
Anthraquinoid Scarlet is fugutive
I use a lot of Green Apatite, it is great. I’ve switched to it from Sap Green. I like Cobalt blue but I use M. Graham’s for that. Indian yellow is good but I’m okay with any yellow. Thank you!
I love azo yellow, to me it feels like the most pure yellow; a very primary and neutral yellow..... it’s the most yellow-yellow (if that makes sense!) of DS colors that I’ve tried. I love these videos!
I love that colour too. It's just vibrant. I use Hansa Yellow Medium though, because it's cheaper. lol
Teoh Yi Chie I haven’t used hansa medium yet but I LOVE hansa light (which I learned about from your video!). You can never have enough yellow!
Price series 3 for Schmincke is quite similar. All the cadmiums and basically all the reds. I also use potters pink. I would love to try the apetite green but I feel like I can mix a similar green with quin gold
I just picked up a tube of green apatite gen. Love how it looks and granulates. I heard that it doesn’t play well with other colors. I haven found that to be the case yet. I may switch to a sap green instead. Not sure yet.
I use a variety of brands including DS. If you want a great real cerulean blue that you don't have to struggle with I totally recommend using DaVinci 's brand. It's beautiful and not a hue. Also the cobalt green from DaVinci just knocks the socks off of DS. I use certain ones from DaVinci which also is the same manufacturer as American Journey. The perylene green is more concentrated. I use pyrol red from DS haven't tried DaVinci's yet. You really save a lot on money and it is more pigment loaded. 🤗
Thanks for the tip Jennie, I also like DaVinci paints. Nick Simmons recommended them to me during a workshop I took with him years ago.
Wait what? 2+2=3? 😄 My fave Indian Yellow is the Sennilier one. Beautiful transparent color.
I don't need to buy series 3 and above unless I need specific colors?
But, I nEEd aLL ThE CoLoRs!
Thanks for the great video
I'm off Cobalts, they are just too wimpy. Except Cobalt Teal which for some reason isn't so wimpy and I use heavily.
Try Cobalt Blue Deep, PB74
Cobalt Violet breaks my heart on a regular basis, because it's so pretty but frustrating to use, lol!
@@BeckyTregear Exactly.
@@BeckyTregear I recently bought the W&N version of this since the DS one is so difficult to use. The W&N one is way better, although still a bit of a hassle to use. But it's so beautiful and cannot really be reproduced by any other pigment.
I heard pyrrole red (PR254) is what Ferrari exclusively uses for their red sports cars.
I try to keep my cost down, so I think the most expensive paint that I use is from series 2...
Hi Teoh ! Some of these colors have a bizarre texture, the pigments move too much and the result is not very convincing for me. Even a painting is granulating, we would not have such a disharmony on the application. Is it because of your paper or too much water loaded into your brush ?
Why did cerulean blue and cobalt violet look hard to blend with water, not spreading, and less intense than other color?
Some pigments just don't mix well with binder or water. Certain pigments (heavier ones especially) will separate from the binder easily.
As for the intensity of the colour, certain paints have low tinting strength which means you need a lot of paint to get the intensity. Paints with high tinting strength, eg. Phthalo and Quinacridone colours, just need a tiny bit of paint to be very intense and a tube can last for a long time.
There is no magenta from this brand?
Quinacridone Magenta PR202. There’s also a PV42
No book reviews in a long time! Why?
Cobalt colours of this brand looks unforgivingly weak, very dilluted. This review prove it once more. Blue one is borderline OK, but other three isnt. May it be gummiarabic (bounder) start to came off with time, and it should be mixed again inside a tube?
Cobalts usually have low tinting strength so you need a lot of pigment to get the intensity. They are also very heavy pigments so they usually will separate from the binder if you leave them unused long enough. You do have to mix them up if you want to use them to get the best results.
There is no "re" in Schmincke:)
Wish you stopped using paint straight from the tube, very unprofessional
Well sometimes I don’t care about being professional or unprofessional
Thumbs down
Alvaro Castagnet taught in a class that painting washes straight from the tube was unprofessional and not the right way. And he is very loose with following watercolor customs and norms in his paintings. I think your swatches are unreliable to go by because your washes are uneven and watery, and it discouraged me in the past to get a color