I love the fact that you do really large swatches. It gives me a clear idea of what the colour really looks like. I recently bought a W&N Manganese blue hue which I love! I was lucky enough to get it on super sale!
thank you so much Jen! that's really good feedback :D i always think my vids are maybe too slow but i feel like people can speed up watching while i offer viewers the virtual experience of swatching it out to see how it behaves. OHHH ON SALE! LUCKY! XD
@@TracyIndy 👋🏼 Hi Tracy! I thought Daniel Smith was the best? I haven’t tried either so I can’t judge for myself. Does the W&N version granulate heavily?
I have both of Daniel Smith's Ceruleans, the PB35 and PB36, and love them both for different reasons. The PB35 is excellent for bright, crisp skies and lively green mixes, and a low tinting strength, making light sky washes very easy. The PB36 has a much higher tinting strength, making green mixes very easy, and the dullness lends a moody, atmospheric quality to weathered country scenes or darker skies over a stormy sea. Thanks for sharing this! 🙏😊
same pigment but totally different colors - always fascinating to see. the white nights and davinci seems very "flat" to me - the daniel smith has depth and seems to live - plus the best granulation. but sometimes you want a more flat and less granulating color - so it depends on the motive and style you want your picture to look like ❤
I’m loving watching these !! Even though cerulean blues are my most despised color ever lol Its the only color I will never use. I associate it with the color of the sky in the late summer when winter is coming … and when school started 😵
thank you! i appreciate it :D haha, i guess i can see what you mean. skies around the world are so different in temperature. i dont think i've noticed to sky here all that much but i definitely have to be more observant from now on. lol
As we've discussed before, so much variation possible with this pigment! And these hues looked particularly different on video and in your still, so I'm glad I noticed that. I have Daniel Smith's, but wasn't in love with it. I have a couple oddball PB 36 like M. Graham and Qor, which are both very greenish. I had not bought DaVinci's yet, so it's great to see it compared here. It does look the closest to PB 35.
I think P.B.35 and P.B.36 are usually low tinting and dull in comparison with, say, phtalo blues. I personally love that but I get that it’s not to everyone’s liking. The P.B.28 cobalt blue is a nice warm granulating blue as well, but not particularly vivid either. The only bright cobalt based colour I can think of is P.B.28 cobalt turquoise, or cobalt teal.
yeah definitely agree with you. i think i experienced a dull cerulean blue and hated it until i found a brighter one. that's when i discovered my love for it. hang on... bright cobalt based colour? PV14 COBALT VIOLET! :D rembrandt and w&n are lovely and bright hehe~ i think i uploaded a vid a while ago. :)
As we've discussed before, so much variation possible with this pigment! I have Daniel Smith's, but wasn't in love with it. I have a couple oddball PB 36 like M. Graham and Qor, which are both very greenish. I had not bought DaVinci's yet so it's great to see it compared here.
I have the White Nights one and was planning on using it to see if I liked how it mixed before getting some Da Vinci, but something tells me the mixes won't be the same with the Da Vinci's being warmer in hue.
I think I prefer the ceruleans that lean more turquoise. The red shades are too reminiscent of PB28. The one that I really want to try is the W&N Cerulean Blue (not the red shade). It’s funny, in the video the Daniel Smith and the White Nights looked violet leaning and in the image at the end they were very much turquoise leaning. Which one is more accurate?
i'll have a vid on that in the next week or two ;P OH MY!! oh no... i think uploaded the wrong scanned file. i'd say the more accurate one is the one in the video, not the scan. thanks for pointing that out , and apologies for the mistake!
The White Nights is a fabulous sky blue, but sadly they use honey, and in tropical and rainforest areas honey based watercolors tend to get attacked by insects (I have experienced this) so White Nights is no good for me. I like the Da Vinci and it might be okay for some summer skies it is too warm for me. Despite Da Vinci misleadingly using the word genuine, it is the Daniel Smith that is typical of this pigment until the recent variations that are used by the other two. This more traditional Cobalt Cerulean is no where near as nice for skies as true Cerulean PB35. But dang, I do like the look of that White Nights version.
oh really?! i'm in a tropical region but i haven't had issues with insects yet. that sucks! i'm so sorry you have to be so careful with honey-based watercolours. :( i've definitely heard some people find ants in their honey-watercolours. such a pain to get out. and i agree, i much prefer PB35 for skies :D if you like the look of white nights here, then might i suggest taking a look at rembrandt's cerulean blue greenish 598? i remember seeing a swatch of it in person at the store and it's very comparable.
@@PaintinHiding Rembrandt is another honey one isn't it? Back in the 1980's I was living in a caravan in Cairns, North Queensland, in Australia. I had just fished an A3 sized watercolor of a fishing trawler down at the docks. I had several areas of pure Cadmium Red Light in the picture. In those days I was using mostly Winsor & Newton, Blockxx and Linel, and I was using honey based cadmiums. But next morning I woke to discover that the red, all of it, had been eaten to the point where there was only a light paper stain left. You could see the rows of eating marks from the little mouths. I have no idea if it was a caterpillar, some kind of beetle, or ants. All I know is that they really liked that Cad Red, yet they totally ignored the W&N turquoise colors around it. I presume that because I had made that red strong and very opaque, and so maybe it wasn't as thoroughly dry as the rest of the colors. Whatever the reason, I stopped using honey based colors at that point. And of course I heard after that, other artists having had problems with insects and honey based watercolors. Ants being attracted to honey based watercolors is very believable to me.
@@artistjoh rembrandt is actually vegan so no animal products, no honey :D woooooaaaahhh whatever devoured your cad red light must have been beastly to have done it overnight. even if it was a whole army of them, still pretty impressive but devastating D: i still have some honey paints in tubes from white nights and sennelier but i'm definitely not going to be buying anymore. although i haven't had bug issues like yourself, i just can't deal with the fact that it doesn't cure properly and i'm scared of mold lol
@@gastonguz607 Thank you. I shall write to the company to find out what their ingredients are. If I can confirm zeo honey or anything else to avoid, then I will certainly buy their products after Russia leaves Ukraine.
I love the fact that you do really large swatches. It gives me a clear idea of what the colour really looks like. I recently bought a W&N Manganese blue hue which I love! I was lucky enough to get it on super sale!
thank you so much Jen! that's really good feedback :D i always think my vids are maybe too slow but i feel like people can speed up watching while i offer viewers the virtual experience of swatching it out to see how it behaves.
OHHH ON SALE! LUCKY! XD
@@TracyIndy 👋🏼 Hi Tracy! I thought Daniel Smith was the best? I haven’t tried either so I can’t judge for myself. Does the W&N version granulate heavily?
I have both of Daniel Smith's Ceruleans, the PB35 and PB36, and love them both for different reasons. The PB35 is excellent for bright, crisp skies and lively green mixes, and a low tinting strength, making light sky washes very easy. The PB36 has a much higher tinting strength, making green mixes very easy, and the dullness lends a moody, atmospheric quality to weathered country scenes or darker skies over a stormy sea.
Thanks for sharing this! 🙏😊
thanks for sharing how you use the different ceruleans :D
They're all so pretty!
same pigment but totally different colors - always fascinating to see. the white nights and davinci seems very "flat" to me - the daniel smith has depth and seems to live - plus the best granulation. but sometimes you want a more flat and less granulating color - so it depends on the motive and style you want your picture to look like ❤
I’m loving watching these !! Even though cerulean blues are my most despised color ever lol Its the only color I will never use. I associate it with the color of the sky in the late summer when winter is coming … and when school started 😵
thank you! i appreciate it :D haha, i guess i can see what you mean. skies around the world are so different in temperature. i dont think i've noticed to sky here all that much but i definitely have to be more observant from now on. lol
As we've discussed before, so much variation possible with this pigment! And these hues looked particularly different on video and in your still, so I'm glad I noticed that. I have Daniel Smith's, but wasn't in love with it. I have a couple oddball PB 36 like M. Graham and Qor, which are both very greenish. I had not bought DaVinci's yet, so it's great to see it compared here. It does look the closest to PB 35.
I think P.B.35 and P.B.36 are usually low tinting and dull in comparison with, say, phtalo blues. I personally love that but I get that it’s not to everyone’s liking.
The P.B.28 cobalt blue is a nice warm granulating blue as well, but not particularly vivid either.
The only bright cobalt based colour I can think of is P.B.28 cobalt turquoise, or cobalt teal.
yeah definitely agree with you. i think i experienced a dull cerulean blue and hated it until i found a brighter one. that's when i discovered my love for it.
hang on... bright cobalt based colour? PV14 COBALT VIOLET! :D rembrandt and w&n are lovely and bright hehe~ i think i uploaded a vid a while ago. :)
@@PaintinHiding Ah, right! I have that violet cobalt by Rembrandt too - I love it :)
As we've discussed before, so much variation possible with this pigment! I have Daniel Smith's, but wasn't in love with it. I have a couple oddball PB 36 like M. Graham and Qor, which are both very greenish. I had not bought DaVinci's yet so it's great to see it compared here.
Really nice work. I think DaVinci has the edge on hue, but DS is more granulating for sure, also more transparent. I've used both.
Great point!
I have the White Nights one and was planning on using it to see if I liked how it mixed before getting some Da Vinci, but something tells me the mixes won't be the same with the Da Vinci's being warmer in hue.
honestly though, in mixes it's not all that different. at least not that it matters to me. hehe ":)
I think I prefer the ceruleans that lean more turquoise. The red shades are too reminiscent of PB28. The one that I really want to try is the W&N Cerulean Blue (not the red shade). It’s funny, in the video the Daniel Smith and the White Nights looked violet leaning and in the image at the end they were very much turquoise leaning. Which one is more accurate?
i'll have a vid on that in the next week or two ;P
OH MY!! oh no... i think uploaded the wrong scanned file. i'd say the more accurate one is the one in the video, not the scan. thanks for pointing that out , and apologies for the mistake!
@@PaintinHiding Nothing to apologise for 🙂 and thank YOU!
I don't have any PB36s. I do have WN and Holbein in PB35. I have to say I really like the Da Vinci you show here. That is a beautiful color.
if you already love PB35, i think you wouldn't like PB36. i find that people like either one or the other.
The White Nights is a fabulous sky blue, but sadly they use honey, and in tropical and rainforest areas honey based watercolors tend to get attacked by insects (I have experienced this) so White Nights is no good for me. I like the Da Vinci and it might be okay for some summer skies it is too warm for me. Despite Da Vinci misleadingly using the word genuine, it is the Daniel Smith that is typical of this pigment until the recent variations that are used by the other two. This more traditional Cobalt Cerulean is no where near as nice for skies as true Cerulean PB35.
But dang, I do like the look of that White Nights version.
oh really?! i'm in a tropical region but i haven't had issues with insects yet. that sucks! i'm so sorry you have to be so careful with honey-based watercolours. :( i've definitely heard some people find ants in their honey-watercolours. such a pain to get out. and i agree, i much prefer PB35 for skies :D if you like the look of white nights here, then might i suggest taking a look at rembrandt's cerulean blue greenish 598? i remember seeing a swatch of it in person at the store and it's very comparable.
@@PaintinHiding Rembrandt is another honey one isn't it?
Back in the 1980's I was living in a caravan in Cairns, North Queensland, in Australia. I had just fished an A3 sized watercolor of a fishing trawler down at the docks. I had several areas of pure Cadmium Red Light in the picture. In those days I was using mostly Winsor & Newton, Blockxx and Linel, and I was using honey based cadmiums. But next morning I woke to discover that the red, all of it, had been eaten to the point where there was only a light paper stain left. You could see the rows of eating marks from the little mouths. I have no idea if it was a caterpillar, some kind of beetle, or ants. All I know is that they really liked that Cad Red, yet they totally ignored the W&N turquoise colors around it. I presume that because I had made that red strong and very opaque, and so maybe it wasn't as thoroughly dry as the rest of the colors. Whatever the reason, I stopped using honey based colors at that point. And of course I heard after that, other artists having had problems with insects and honey based watercolors.
Ants being attracted to honey based watercolors is very believable to me.
@@artistjoh rembrandt is actually vegan so no animal products, no honey :D
woooooaaaahhh whatever devoured your cad red light must have been beastly to have done it overnight. even if it was a whole army of them, still pretty impressive but devastating D: i still have some honey paints in tubes from white nights and sennelier but i'm definitely not going to be buying anymore. although i haven't had bug issues like yourself, i just can't deal with the fact that it doesn't cure properly and i'm scared of mold lol
White nights does not uses honey in their binder. That was a myth already denied by the company.
@@gastonguz607 Thank you. I shall write to the company to find out what their ingredients are. If I can confirm zeo honey or anything else to avoid, then I will certainly buy their products after Russia leaves Ukraine.
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