Swatch with Me: M. Graham Watercolors (47 Colors)
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2018
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I’ve been waiting for this review from you. Super excited - THANK YOU!
Hi Denise! Great video, as always. The M Graham Swatch With Me video is finally here! (I might have squealed and done a little happy dance, but I was alone so there were no witnesses.) ;-)
Thank you for swatching the M Graham watercolors for us--it was so helpful to compare paints I already have with those on my wishlist--and now after watching this, some can come off my wishlist while others have been added. Isn't that how it always goes...
So, terra rosa! SUCH a lovely and versatile color, right? I was playing around the other day with azo green mixes (MG--PY129) and found that azo green and terra rosa make some intriguing warm browns. I know how much you love earth tones, might be something to try when (if!) you have time.
Ultramarine blue--so beautiful! Ultramarine is such a wonderful color and has become my go-to blue (along with phthalo) for most of my illustrations. Since I'm hired to do mainly children's books and (if I'm working in a whimsical style) need non-granulating colors, I've been using Schmincke's ultramarine finest, and going through it like wildfire! Thanks for mentioning the properties of M Graham's ultramarine--it might be the one I try next since Schmincke's is so hard to rewet once it dries on my tiny porcelain palette (I prefer to squeeze out little dabs straight from the tube instead of working from pans).
And lastly, sepia. I was really looking forward to seeing this one, since MG is my fave brand by far and I tend to use sepia like a black when I paint in my more realistic style (mostly animals). Warm, deep, dark sepias are awesome! Currently, I'm using (and loving) Holbein's sepia. It'll last a while, but after seeing this video, I'll probably replace it with MG when the time comes. They look very similar in tone, if the color is accurate on screen. ;-)
Thanks again, Denise, for all your hard work and dedication to produce quality content. It's so very appreciated!
Thanks for all your kindness Melissa! And for the heads up about the PY129 - that's later in the series so I'll try to remember to mix it with terra rosa when the time comes :)
Looking forward to that spotlight, Denise!
I love this brand of paints. They look absolutely amazing. I would definitely love it if you offered more on your store! Thank you so much for your reviews and swatches. Yours are my favorites!
The colors in your thumbnail are so beautiful. I physically reacted to them in a way that I have no words to describe. Thanks
thank you for this!! i've been debating on a few colors and this video helped me so much to decide my final list!!
This was an excellent demonstration. I really appreciated the pigment numbers as well as the color name. Your presentation was well paced and clear. Thank you.
The Perm. Alizarin Crimson is GORGEOUS, it creates such beautiful mixes and I use it to deepen my other reds and also other colors. It is so vibrant when glazed and it has a glorious place in my main palette.
As for the noise, while I am watching this, I am listening to a lawnmower being fixed and tested... It's so restful. lol. You have nothing to worry about. Great start, will watch the rest of this when I get home tonight.
Great idea and even better ppl really helped to put it together! ^.^ purchasing all is so pricey... But small sample never hurts to share! ^.^
This content scratches my brain itch. Thank u 🙏🥰
I love these swatching videos, so relaxing yet informative. And I am definitely on Team Cold Purples :)
I love M. Graham also. Hard to pick a favourite, but Terra Rosa definitely up there. Enjoyed this casual video very much on a dull cool day.
Terra Rosa is a great one!
Lovely Doll I just love Swatches love all the colors
I am playing with granulating pigments, particularly with blue and violet pigments. Would you please do a video on how the granulation texture can be used and best taken advantage of?
Hello there! I have an older video on granulation that you may find helpful :)
so so satisfying, glad i was able to help. I like using sepia and payne's gray together for a really deep blacks. your reaction to the perm. alizarin crimson was the same as mine haha! it's so beautiful :)
Thanks so much for contributing!
This was so helpful because I ordered a 10 tube set and wanted to see if there were any colors that would be missing but I realize that my Sennelier will fill in the gaps Thanks for your help.. I’ll do a final swatching video once I get the pallet together
you have no idea how excited I just got clicking on this video
Thank you! Very useful
Those velvetouch brushes are amazing! They’re the only decent brush for watercolor sold at hobby lobby in my opinion.
Thanks for the shout-out, Denise!
Oh dang, those granulating purples are gorgeous! I didn't realize how nice they were. M. Graham's Dioxazine Violet remains one of my favourite paints of all time (because I am one of those people who loves cool purples) but all the colours from them I have I really love!
The Veridian and Pthalo Green with other colors very similarly. The biggest difference is the granulation so you get some interesting varied colors because of the granulating particles. Veridian plus Indian Yellow gives some really great Sap-like and Hooker’s green-like colors. Yeah, kinda love my M. Graham watercolors. Love this video...new colors just got added to my wish list.
Thanks for the video! So happy I got in time to buy the set from your shop, I really wanted to try this watercolors but they are not available in Spain.
Hi Cris! Thanks so much for picking up a set! I hope they reach you safely and that you really enjoy them :)
Received it today, beautifully packaged and labeled 😍
Worth noting... The lightfastness issues with Prussian Blue actually are not new at all! I just read in the book Color: Travels Through the Paintbox, that the English once used to paint their homes Prussian Blue (back in the 1700s I want to say), but they stopped because the color faded so rapidly and had to be repainted within a year--even in the weak sunlight of the UK! So the Prussian Blue lightfastness debacle is a longstanding one. No professional paint should fade like that when exposed to light, and I really respect your (hard!) decision to take it off your palette for client paintings
Thank you Amaya! That's so interesting about the historical note, thank you for sharing! It was a hard decision to remove such a pretty color, but when we have so many options, it makes it a bit easier :)
Aldewyne yeah we've had a loooot of Prussian convos over on Instagram haha. Mine are rated as excellent but faded in a couple weeks. People claim if you keep it in a dark space it'll restore which is best, but not at all practical or reasonable imho.
Thank you, very informative.
After watching several of your swatch videos I just went down to the art store and they had JUST RESTOCKED THE M GRAHAM and the whole display was full. It's not anymore :-) Definitely got the Anthraquinone Blue as well as Terra Rosa since you rave about them so much!
Thank you - I found their distributor here and Im on overload lol. got their anta blue and I'm in love with that color this come out just in time for me to check and get more MGrahams.
Woohoo!!
So glad to get to see such a wide variety of MG colors, Denise!
Regarding the Phthalo Green (YS), and Permanent Green Light, being similar to each other; would you (one day in the distant future?) be able to show us how pairs of very similar looking colors (not necessarily the same brand) compare when they are mixed with other colors. It would be interesting to see which individual color within each pair is more versatile.
Great channel (and you know it! ;). I'm right by adventuring that those last two (sepia and paynes grey), mixed could "become" a winsor and newton neutral tint?
I love using cool purples for really dark backgrounds and as a replacement for black, but while I should be realistically be using them for like, shadows, I actually really like using warm purples for shading so the darks have a pop of colour (my colouring style is no where near realistic so colourful shadows all the way)
Please do a spotlight on neutral tint! And yes to more paint:)
I found that when i mix Pyrrol Orange with Phthalo Blue green shade (im using daniel smith watercolours), i get a pretty good Prussian Blue Hue which should be lightfast.
Finally the M. Graham swatch with me! M. Grahams (I can finally admit) are my favorite watercolors, from the limited selection that I have. By the way I got MG Cerulean Blue and it is PB36 instead of PB35 which you listed here maybe a typo(? Anyways the more and more I see about MG's colors I love them more, from their price to their extraordinary pigment load. Great video!
Hmmmm. Goes to show you can triple check something and still be wrong! 😭 I think the ink scratched off of my print out and looked like 35 :(
I also like M. Graham's neutral tint (on its own or mixed).
I love cool purples. I recently painted some pansies (sp) and I had started with warm purples but I don't feel they "popped" until adding some cool violet especially some granulating ones . Made them feel like velvet. Too bad I can't photo my painting worth-a-💩. Any suggestions on how to photograph your art for social media?
Arielle Nathanson lighting lighting lighting! :) Natural sunlight or daylight light bulbs.
I just love swatching. I have the PY151 in both Schmincke and M Graham. Its more opaque in Schmincke. Schmincke is semi-opaque and M Graham is semi-transparent. Its a perfect yellow leaning to neither warm nor cool and with the highest light-fast rating which is very important to me since I sell my work. It really glows through well through glazes. I never liked Prussian blue because it just looks dirty to my eye compared to the Phthalo Blues.
more m grahm tins please!
this was such an informative video and I loved hearing what you knew about each color
I'm in talks with the company still - hoping to have word soon!
Hi Diane, it's going to depend on where you live! Here in dry California, mine are fine to travel with, but I've heard people in more humid climates have trouble. Some colors are also more runny than others. You'll want to keep them covered when they're not in use as they will collect dust and pet hair. If you live in a humid climate and are looking for a watercolor brand that sets up a bit more, I'd recommend Daniel Smith or Da Vinci, both also US west coast brands if you happen to be semi local.
@Diane Fleming Where are you at in Southern Interior B.C.? I liv3e in the Yukon, and we now hav3e humidity up to 80% most days! It is not good for my bones...maybe Kelona orNelson or Osshuishi...oops can't spell or say it...down near the bottome...hoping to move to where it is less humid.
@Diane Fleming Did you get my message about humidity?...Janis
I know this isn't the best swatches you have of MG, but I still return to this video for reference anyway :) This time I happened to catch the brush struggles. Boy I feel you. I've experimented a lot with swatching brushes lately, and I feel a flat brush is perfect for laying down a smooth flat wash of masstone in a square; not so much on gradients though. A squirrel quill does the best gradients, but I can't get a perfect flat wash with it even on great paper. So lately I have been swatching with TWO brushes for my cards which show both a masstone and a gradient. No matter what I do though, it seems nearly impossible to get a smooth flat wash of many of my Qor paints, at least straight out of the tube.
The Neutral Tint is one of my favorites. It is close in color to the Daniel Smith Moonglow color. More purple than pinky in my opinion.
Great video! I am a red violet fan, so those 2 warm ones float my boat! I really love the M Graham paints i have (I only have 6 tubes) and look forward to expanding my collection. I think Steve Mitchell mentioned he has not had any Prussian Blue problems. Go figure. It is one of my all time favorite colors, but I don't sell my work, so, so far I keep using it. That Terra Rosa is dreamy. I am such a paint junky!!!
Hello, fellow paint junkie! It's not on this video, but if you're a red violet fan and love M Graham paints (who doesn't?) you might want to consider checking out M Graham's quinacridone violet. It's very much on the red side of purple and it just glows. ;-)
Use what you've got for sure! Don't let it go to waste :) Terra Rosa is super dreamy, but I did hear from some other's that it's much more terra cotta orangey for them! I wonder what happened there :(
Can you clarify: are the swatches for PV14 and PV14 as written... are the names swapped? or you would have just put PV15 before PV14 on the paper? thank you
I’ve never seen cobalt Green before, that’s a really nice one!
Viridian could be used to make Moonglow DS plus ultramarine blue and red pr177 anthraquinone,i don't have m graham so this was very helpful , not buying any more pigments i have tons already ☺tfs
I noticed that m.graham does not have indigo in its line. Would you happen to know why? KAREN From Canada
Hello I love your videos I do have a question though can you explain to me exactly what granulation is I tried staring at the colors to see what it is or what it meant and I couldn’t exactly figure out what granulation is?
3eyed ROBIN I have a video on granulation that can explain that for you :)
I enjoy your videos immensely. I have so much trouble with mixing colors and deciding what looks good together. Because of the honey can the M Graham paints be mixed with with other paints in a palette? Or just use the M Graham together?
They can be mixed with other non honey paints:)
Thank you for doing this swatching! It was very helpful for me in deciding which colors to finish with as a basic set I could add to later. I had trouble finding the Mission Gold Quinaquidone Rose. Is it possibly called by a different name??
I think they call it Permanent Rose!
Speaking of cobalt pigments, I wonder if pv49 will get a replacement. It is an annoying pigment to use, even aside from the cobalt aspect. But there it is on the handprint chart, a total outlier - ha ha. I looked at Daniel Smith PV55 recently, but couldn't tell if it could be moved close to pg49 hue / chroma or not.
Hahaha it is a unique one! PV55 isn't very close to PV47 from what I've seen unfortunately.
Would you be able to recommend you favorite pink color? I'm a portrait artist and I'm finding the reds are a bit too strong for the subtle skin tones I need.
I just pulled links for the video that's going up in the morning :) This is my favorite: MIssion Gold's Permanent Rose: amzn.to/2kWoA5U | bit.ly/2kXa8KT
Fantastic review..it's very sad you missed cad red light (pr108) and cad yellow light (py35) both are gorgeous and super light fast..but both are opaque as all the cadmium pigments are!!!!
Omg I need terra rosa. Whyy. Also, Denise, your nailpolish is terra rosa! :D
Hahaha so funny!! Third person to mention that. You'd think I of all people would have noticed that over the past six months I've been using it hahah!
hahahha! And you call yourself a color lover?! Shame, Denise ;)
After her first mention of Terra Rosa, I ordered it and love it beyond words! Stunning!
They changed the formula. It looks like red iron oxide now:(
Good to know m gram is great when looking for vibrant high quality pigmented non granulating colours. Overall I prefer non granulating although I’m thinking of getting a few granulating options to try out. That maroon peryl. Looks nice and different I may look into getting that one specifically. The cobalt is always a concern eco wise and toxicity overall. Great video overall good to see for purchasing options. I hear m gram has good batch consistency and very high overall quality. Also thanks for listing which you find more granulating. Good to know Prussian blue may have lightfastness issues. The more I learn the more I use the most lightfast for originals for sale. I also make non lightfast works in sketchbooks or for photographing/scanning or just for world notes so it is not the only factor just good to know. I really do like the cobalt teal... I may look into the anthra.blue. I always pre wet my veridian I think it is a bit harder to work with, glad to know it’s not just in my imagination. I use the veridian for foliage colour variety. Mid and deep tone leaves most often. Still looking for a great burn’t sienna I can use and be perfectly happy with, I think I’m looking for a more reddish one than this. Maybe the quin rust is more what I’m looking for from this line. Anyway great video thanks.
Thanks so much for sharing Valasa! Glad you found it helpful :)
Actually toxicity with cobalts is not really much concern. They have the same safety rating as Quinacridone Magenta (potentially mildly irritating).
raosprid cobalts also environmentaland ethical concern with the way that they are produced.
That's true. While we've gotten better at handling pollution, it's still a concern -- even if any impact due to artists' materials is virtually nonexistent. Unfortunately there are pollution concerns with most pigments, including the so-called "safe" ones. Not to mention these modern organic pigments are synthesized from coal tar and petroleum distillates (and therefore tied to the coal and oil industries). Just because a pigment is perceived as safer for us doesn't mean it is, nor does it mean there aren't serious environmental concerns. Just look at the environmental disasters occurring in India and China involving the very dyes that are processed to make our "safe" pigments!
While I think we've still got a long way to go, at least companies in the west have improved dramatically and generally aim to prevent pollution. Most pollution occurs in the 3rd world where there is much less concern for the environment. I'm sure you'll agree with me that we must demand our companies seek pigments from ecologically responsible sources, even though that likely means paying a little more. I'd think it much better to use a responsibly produced cobalt blue than an irresponsibly produced phthalo blue that's causing heavy-metal pollution. Fortunately many artists' materials manufacturers seem to care about these issues (such as M. Graham and Daniel Smith).
I don't love that watercolor paper either, the grooves in the paper put me off. I'm glad you switched brushes too LOL I started using larger brushes for swatching, it helps with a smoother mass tone. Terra Rosa is also your nail paint color :)
Haha, how funny, your the second person to say that about my nails! I didn't even notice :D
Weiiird. This video just reminded me that I have a sample of M. Graham Burnt Sienna I squeezed out for you. On the other hand, I bought Terra Rosa hoping for what I see on your swatches and got a sort of...terracotta plant pot sort of colour. Much more orange and not pinky at all.
Whoa, really?? The MGraham Terra Rosa was a terra cotta pot color? I'd definitely email them and ask about consistency! I love this color and would be sad to see it change.
My Terra Rosa looks a little redder than here. Funny, I remember telling the gent at Currys in Waterloo that I thought it looked rather blue (like here), and him looking at me funny - lol. Perhaps the hue shifts a bit over time (X-files music).
I got mine at the same Curry's! Might be the same batch? I got mine a couple months ago.
@lee angold, me too! My terra Rosa sounds just like yours and not the pretty version from the video.
My terra rosa is also nothing like this. I got it at Blick online in the states. So disappointed.
which scanner do you mention I couldnt find it in your link tree lists, but I make watercolours and having an accurate scanner would be such a great addition to my business! thank you
Hi Deborah, my scanner has actually been discontinued. It's the Epson V370.
i just swatched mine the 10 color set. im on a budget you you tubers got me to buy them .i wanted the best .it was my decision but when i got them today and read the labels there are warnings on 5 of 10 tubes im upset
interesting switching, some good colours in there, its so hard in the uk getting any usa based paint way out of my price range, but thanks for showing us the swatch cards, at least i have seen what they look like, tfs
Ian Jackson I did hear a rumour that Jackson's may start carrying MGraham soon. Crossing my fingers for you guys!
that would be nice if they can keep the price down lol
I hope so!
Does Daniel Smith and sennelier’s version of PB60 have the same textural quality like m graham’s?
I don't believe so.
Im looking into trying these paints i'm definitely getting anthra.blue
Cecilia Likos I agree that’s such a unique and beautiful hue
Would love to see a video of 6 M. Graham colours and the 6 that neutralize them! I feel like I'm going broke trying to find them.
Would love to buy a sample set, hard to get a hold of M. Graham where I live. Thanks again for great content!
Thanks Heidi! I'm working on trying to see if I can make more sets. Will let you all know!
Update: Jackson's art supplies now stocks M. Graham watercolors on their website! So much more accessible to me now with their great international shipping. Still would love to try out smaller sample sets though :D
This was really helpful to me! I was debating adding Napthol Red, but I have Pyrrol Red and now I feel I don't need both. Same thing with the T. Red Iron Oxide and Quin. Rust- now I don't feel like I should get both. I'm glad I'm not alone with the weirdness of T. Yellow Iron Oxide- I like painting toads and it is good for that, but I wasn't sure what else to do with it. I decided tonight to see what mixes it makes and it does make some nice greens! Maybe I'll post a pic of the mixes on the patreon community tab if it would be of any interest.
Sorry for the delay Katy, but sure! I'd love to see what you came up with for the mixing. It cracked me up when I audibly reacted to it. I can see it being useful for toads for sure, but otherwise, it's such an odd duck! Thanks so much for your contribution
Hi Denise, I have a question. Does your M.Graham smells really bad? My ultramarine blue, green gold, and phthalo turquoise smells like a rotten age T_T I don't know why. And I can't really stand the smell. Even when I use it on my painting I can still smell it from the paper. I love love how M.Graham water color behave, the color intensity, and even how it flows on wet paper. How did you store your M.Graham? thank you Denise!
Mine do not have this issue but I've heard others comment on it. It would be worth contacting the company I think!
My M. Graham palette has a sweet, a sort of honey-ish, smell whenever I open it. The smell comes from the binder, but it goes away after 5 minutes of letting the palette air out.
I just build an 18 pigment pallet of M. Graham. Do you find that they smell bad? Mine smell like fish for some reason.
susinok that doesn’t sound good! I’ve had mine in a palette for almost a year now and no smell. Hopefully you don’t have something growing in there - I guess that’s one danger of paints that never fully dry.
Can anyone tell me if their M Graham paints have any peculiar scents? I just got some watercolors from the M Graham line and the Yellow Ochre smells like burnt caramel made with spoilt milk. The Nickel Quin Gold I got also smells a bit like burnt caramel, but the scent isn't as heavy as the Yellow Ochre. I'm not sure if this has something to do with the pigments used, or if I just happened to get a bad batch. Please help.
I'm not sure as I don't have a lot of the tubes myself, but you can always contact the company! I'm sure they could help answer questions.
I have a palette dedicated to just M. Graham paints that I have been using for a while. Whenever I open it, it has a sort of honey-ish and berry smell. I leave the palette open for 5 minutes for the smell to air out before I paint. I personally enjoy the smell, but I wouldn't dare take it outside.
I have DaVinci's Pthalo Blue RS and it's a dead ringer for my DS Prussian Blue but not as moody. My only issue is both my Pthalo Blue RS from DaV and their Pthalo Turquoise PB16 get that milky sheen in masstone you've mentioned. The three blues in my palette are FUB, PthaloBRS, and DaV Manganese ... so I'll need to find a better behaved RS Pthalo or just switch to a Pthalo GS
I also agree with you on Terra Rosa. It's my favorite opaque PR101!
Hi Denise. M Graham's Ultramarine Pink is PR259. Whoever gave you info that it's PR258 got it wrong. Just wanted to let you know.
i love m grahams but the only issue is they leak out of the pan or stick to the lid 🥲
Denise when will you be adding those MGraham pallets to your shop? I’d love to try them!!
Hi Shellie! The two I had sold really quickly, but I'm waiting to hear back from the company to see if they'd be okay with me producing more!
In Liquid Color Ok, Please keep me in mind when/if you will have more! 😊
I could NEVER live without my cobalt pigments! 😩 Especially PG50
Thanks for another great video - love the info you give with them! The Arteza paper does not do these paints any justice - very streaky! Would definitely be worth the dollar (using coupon at Michaels) to use Arches! Thanks!
I have a question as well, is Anthraquinone Blue like Indanthrone Blue and Phthalocyanine Blue (Red
Anthraquinone blue is the same colour as indanthrone blue just a different name, and phthalo blue red shade is slightly cooler and not as deep.
Jackie Davis so it is closer to a middle blue than Indanthrone blue
@@justtheletterV274 yeah
49:35 Quinacridone Rose looks way more magenta but wait is it actually that cool like Quinacridone Red
Just the other day I had decided I really don't like alizarin crismson...but the M. Graham version is beautiful! I'll be replacing it when I have the funds to do so :D)
I can't wait to play more with that one!
You have so many colors! How do you store them all? I’m having trouble with mine…
I sought out a small business that makes inserts for cube storage! I have cube storage, like the kinds you can find at most chain stores like Target or Ikea, and found a seller who makes little shelves that fit inside each cube. There are different models, but mine turns the one cube into five narrow shelves, so I can stack two palettes per shelf and not have to topple the entire tower of palettes to get one from the bottom :P
Oh and if you meant tubes instead of palettes, I have little craft organizer drawers (you can also find them in hardware stores to sort screws, washers, etc.
I have viridian in my main palette, and I find it so interesting as a M. Graham paint. All of the M. Graham paints on the palette remained sticky, except for this one. It's hard to the touch, and I can even rub my finger on it without picking up any paint. It's even more hard than the Daniel Smith paints on my palette. I know viridian is a notorious color for being hard to re-wet, but it's so strange considering the honey in the paints. Great relaxing video!
Scarlet Pen viridian is a veryyy hard paint. DSs version is soooo hard to rewet so by comparison the MGraham color at least still lifts. It's just a property of that pigment :)
This is good to know. I was wondering about MGraham's viridian, since the other colors stay sticky. I guess I'll skip that one.
Stacy, you can see in the video I had no trouble rewetting it even though it's harder than the others. It behaves like many other brands normal colors.
Have you tried adding some glycerine to it? Would that help, do you think?
I don't think it needs it. Really guys, it's hard but rewets fine! :) nothing like the DS rocks haha
I have recently begun working with the M.Graham watercolors. In fact I can attest that the Prussian Blue doesn’t ever really fully dry; I had it in a set of half pans I’d poured sitting by me while I worked yesterday and my little dog (Bambi’s a 7.5 lbs Italian Greyhuahua) decided she NEEDED snuggles and stepped in the Prussian blue on the open palette while trying to get into my lap and ended up staining out couch with a deep blue paw print. There was NO getting the color totally out of the mauve canvas fabric.
Oh noooo!
Do you think you'll be doing another video with more colors at any point?
I'm doing redos of the videos on better paper, but I don't have addition MGraham colors to add.
Okay, thank you for answering:)
kinda funny -- the transparent yellow iron oxide is so ugly in watercolor but I have the same color in m. graham's oil paint line and it's so beautiful! perfect for glazing. the terra rosa in oil paint is also gorgeous and is SUPER powerful over most of my other oil painting pigments. they're actually both perfect glazing colors
Isn't that funny? The translucency can really affect how we see it!
Your Azo Yellow is completely wrong. It is a very cool yellow - cooler than gamboge because azo is part of my cool triad and the gamboge is in my warm triad. Anyway, thanks for doing the video, great info. Agree with you on the sap green, I need to switch to DS when I finish my tube of M Graham.
Have you heard back about where the M. Graham cobalt is mined?
Nope :(
@@InLiquidColor Bummer. :(
I'm going to go with Ultramarine then.
MGraham make my favorite watercolors. They're so creamy and vibrant, and they keep in the palette and rewet just as nicely as QoR. There's a lot less variation between the consistency of colors in MG than, say Daniel Smith.
That is true! They're mostly similar, with a few being very liquidy and the viridian being hard, but otherwise very similar :)
What do the numbers mean after the P’s?
They are pigment index numbers.
there's two Azo Yellows, one's supposed to be Azo Orange i think
In case it confused anyone, it's not accurate to say different colors are "made from the same pigment." If that were the case, they wouldn't be different colors! Some pigments _share a color index code,_ like Quinacridone Rose and Quinacridone Violet being both PV19, or Transparent Red Iron Oxide and Terra Rosa being both PR101. It's similar to how a brother and sister share a last name. They are closely related, but obviously not the same.
For all intents and purposes, the word pigment is used very commonly when referring to a color index label. It's hard enough keeping track of numbers for most people, I'm not going to start calling things by their chemical compound names on a regular basis :p You'll probably appreciate in the upcoming color spotlight, I talk about how the PBr7s are different compounds that result in different hues.
Yes I know that. While it's technically not correct it's fairly common to say. However I don't think it would be hard to say they have the same code instead of saying they are made of the pigment. You're talking about the code after all, not the pigment. As I'm sure you've figured out by now, I'm a pedantic nit-picker that just can't help himself sometimes. Sorry!
I'm sure I'll like that, considering that I'm not only interested in the technical details but also quite fond of earth colors. Oh, and for that video you may be interested to know that Holbein and Jackson's (and probably Sennelier by extension?) have Raw Siennas that are quite yellow and transparent, but are still PBr7. There is also a Green Earth by Sennelier that is PBr7!
Hi Denise! I am loving this Swatch with Me! I am a M. Graham devotee for any pigment that I can get from them over another manufacturer. I started my palette with a Cad Red and a Cad Yellow, and now also have a Cad Orange. I am starting to consider moving away from Cads due to toxicity concerns, and I have a couple questions: 1) Which M. Graham pigments would you suggest as a replacement for each of the Cads? (Although I believe I'm already convinced of Scarlet Pyrrol as my Cad Orange replacement since it's the brilliance and almost neon quality of each of them that attracts me.) and 2) Do you have suggestions for safe disposal of Cad or other toxic pigments? Thanks so much for all of your dedicated work! I am so grateful for everything that I've learned from your videos!
Hi Kayla, sorry for the late reply. I like PR254 for a strong mid valued red and PY154 is a good solid yellow. I let my pigment settle in the water container, then pour off the water, and wipe out the settled pigment with a tissue. It's not perfect throwing them away, but better I think than pouring them into our water system.
@@InLiquidColor No worries at all! Thank you for your response. I think that sounds like a great way to dispose of paints with toxic pigments! I'll be adopting that habit at once! I'm so torn between making the switch now, or using up what I have using more responsible disposal techniques. Maybe I'll wait to see what pigments might come to me during the holiday season! :)
Oh ya this paper doesn’t do this paint justice at all!
Cooler violets - Holbein's Mineral Violet is nearly like Rose of Ultra! 😘
Y no cadmium yellow ?
I don't use cadmiums. Any cadmiums I have in my collection were sent as samples, and I don't make a habit of hanging onto them.
Your nail polish matches Terra Rosa. ;-)
It does a bit, doesn't it? :D
I would be interested in a sampler set of the M. Graham Denise, if you are ever making more. Please let me know..PM me...thanks Janis and thanks for this so thorough review..great to see the shades and hear your commentaries
Thank you! I am seeing what I can do about additional sets :)
Thanks, Denise! I have about a baker's dozen MGraham paints, almost 40% of my collection. Aside, I thought their permanent green looked more like it was made with pg36, not pg7.
I'm not sure Stephen! I double checked the label though and it is PG7 :)
Yeah, it's so different than other PG7 I've ever seen - how do they do that?
I’m sorry I did not send you eny I just don’t have watercolors less m gram but I do want some for th holidays
you really think the violet blues are warmer than the teals? I don't care about the theory, just asking you what you feel?
Yes, my perception is that blues that lean towards violet or red are warm.
After seeing this video, I guess I'm gonna have to re-evaluate my interpretation of "reds" because all of the ones in this line literally are "pinks" to me.
Perhaps it's the screen settings that you're watching on? The naphthol and pyrrol are definitely not pink, though the others I could see them being interpreted as such :)
@@InLiquidColor that is very possible. I'll fiddle with my screen settings when home to figure out if that's the problem. Thank you!
Prussian blue is a lot better in oils
I’m sorry you make so many mistakes and don’t correct them. Where you had Azo Orange,you wrote Azo Yellow,, then for Cerulean Blue and Cerulean Blue Deep you put pigment 36 for both of them.And there are other mistakes too