Exciting Launch! Free! World’s Largest Watercolor Paints Database is Open!
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- If you’ve ever had to look up an information on any watercolor paint or a brand, here is the perfect resource for you! The world’s largest watercolor database, packed full of information about 3200+ paints from 36 different brands. Whatever information you need, it will be here for you.
Watercolor Database: otokano.com
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Watercolor Encyclopedia: otokano.com/wat...
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THIS is why I'm one of your patreon supporters! You have been working so hard to create this valuable contribution to watercolorists everywhere. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for your support 💛
Wow! Well done! I’m anxious to take a look. Very much needed resource.
Thank you so much!
Congratulations!! Your database is amazing and incredibly appreciated by a pigment nerd like me! 😊 Thank you for all of your time and hard work that has gone into your project. I've already bookmarked your site and know I'll be using it often. 😁
The best news for all watercolorist! Thank you Dr. Oto Kabo.
Congratulations, Dr. Kano. This is such an extraordinary and generous gift. Many painters will bless you.
Ròsa Gallery is a brand that deserves to be in the database, imo. Also, one thing I find very intereting is expansiveness (how much a paint spreads in contact with water), and it is not usually stated by the brands. We can intuitively know how that goes by brand, if it is an asian brand it settles and doesn't spread in no matter the colour, for example, but there is not a precise analysis by brand and speciffic colour. Thankyou for your hard work, it is very much appreciated.
I second this! They are very popular in my country and I own a few of them
Yes! I will definitely add Rosa Gallery to the database on the next big update. Thank you so much for your suggestion!
Really? And just how would you scientifically rate flow?
Yes, Rosa please!! I enjoy those!
Rosa Gallery is amazing. I haven't found a lot of people talking about them. I would guess that they aren't really popular where I'm from. But I love the semi wet watercolor pans!
Oh, wow - what a lot of work! Great job!
I've been away from watercolor for a while (pers/med issues) but I am coming back! I can't tell you how many hours I used to spend just watching your YOU TUBE reviews.
THANK YOU !!!! 💝✨💖💫💞🥳🤩
YOU ARE AWESOME!! this is such an incredible thing to have put together. I can't imagine the hours you have devoted to this, and the fact you are making it free to use is beyond generous! Sharing your time, and effort and amazing research is just such a gift to the watercolor community! I will be making a donation to your partron as a thank you!
I agree. And A VERY GOOD IDEA. (To make a donation to help her continue.)
I WILL ALSO DO THE SAME. 🤗 I was so excited that I didn't think of it. So thankyou for reminding me! 💕
Thank you both so much for the donation!!
Simply magnificent!! Those two words are just simply an understatement. We watercolorists will be forever grateful for your immense work and making it available to all. I was referred to your site by Steve Mitchell of MOW. Consider me one of your newest proud and lucky subscribers! 😘😘😘
thank you so much Deborah for coming over from Steve's channel. I really appreciate your support!
No, do not change the name. “Watercolor Database” is exactly that; people will locate it quickly. It’s perfect.
Whal a wonderful gift you have given us all, thank you so much..
Thank you 🙏
You. Are. AMAZING!!!!!
Needs pigment toxicity information if it is to be taken seriously as an educational resource, as well as a link to a way artists can dispose of their toxic paints. Lots of influencers are monetizing their socials and YT, thus getting paid for this type of influence and getting many tens of thousands of people into art, but extremely few of the top people (with the exception of Denise Soden - kudos Denise!) are showing concern for the environment and responsibility as brand ambassadors and 'influencers' (I dislike the term, but you get it).
AMAZING!! this is so helpful. Thank you so much for sharing this with the world, Oto ❤️
I would love to see Paul Rubens on your site, too. I was hoping to get more information on your site, which btw is so well put together... but probably you don't have any more information on Paul Rubens Paints either.
But nonetheless, I would love to see you testing those in terms of their properties. Find out for us weather a color is granulating or staining, for example. I would loooove to watch you do this, because I'd feel more comfortable in making my own tests to get to know the colors I own better. You're just so organized that I feel I'd benefit a lot from you talking about your thoughts and process when doing tests on a color of which you don't know anything other than the pigments.
I'd be happy if you consider my idea 😊 apart from that, thanks for everything you do. I appreciate you so much 🧡
Yes, would also love to see Paul Rubens Paints listed in your database 👌
Nice! handprint seems to be abandoned and is hard to navigate, so I think a newer database will be really helpful.
I love the layout of the site, it is really easy to navigate despite the gigantic amount of data.
I understand that you don't want to add the lightfastness database from the other side into it, but having the information in the same place would be really helpful. Maybe you could link their tests if they are ok with it?
Thank you so much for your great suggestion!
This is absolutely AMAZING! YOU ARE A Beautiful Soul. Thank you 💕
Congratulations, Oto! This is such a great resource. Thank you so much providing it for our community!
Thank you so much Denise!
Wow, thank you!
I APLOUD YOUR AMAZING EFFEORT ! BRAVO! I AM 100% POSITIVE I WILL UTILIZE AND VALUE THIS PIGMENT RESOURCE A LOT! A MILLON THANK YOU'S ! 😊
Oh my god! You are crazy! That database is HUGE! That must have been so so so much work! And that you can click the video and even land on the correct timestamp?! That is amazing!
awww thank you so much for your donation!!!
What an amazing resource! You generous sharing of your passion and knowledge are so appreciated!!
This is one of the coolest things since handprint! Thank you so much!
AWESOME !!!!!
Amazing! thank you and Congratulations!!!
🤩 Wow! 🤩 Nice!
qué excelente trabajo has hecho, muchas gracias por compartirlo, saludos 😊😊
wow! amazing! love it!
You are amazing! Thank you so much for alllllll your effort over so many years.
I just stumbled upon your channel very recently, it is so awesome and helpful for me as a beginner! However, since today I can't open your website anymore. 😢 I hope, it is just temporary? I would love to explore that more!
Wow!!! It looks amazing. Thank you!
Og My!!!! This is Fantastic! You are amazing! 🖌
Fantastic news! Thank you for all the information you provide.
Thank you for this much needed, incredible resource!! It's amazing how you managed to sort through, and gather all the pertinent information and put it in an easy to understand, valuable database. An impressive amount of work!
Wow, what an undertaking! This is amazing. It's very well organized and user friendly, and I will definitely be consulting this in the future. A few suggestions for future features:
- a link from the pigment name (e.g., on the by brand page) directly to the page for that pigment
- a way to sort the columns to view differently
- an indicator for old formula vs new formula for when pigments are discontinued or a brand changes for other reasons (could maybe be years it was active), as well as capturing some already discontinued paints for those of us who end up with used sets (I have some old Rembrandt tubes, and I really wish I could find pigment info on the colors that no longer exist in their range to find modern equivalents)
- add Paul Rubens and Camlin to the brands.
Thank you for all the hard work you've done!
Awesome database! I'm happy to see that PBk11 is under Mars Black 😜
This is the best thing ever!!!!! Thank you so much!!!! Is there an option where we can select a few to compare? Xxxxx
You’re amazing! Thankyou !
Omg this is incredible!
Wow! Amazing how much information you have provided. It is so generous of you to make this available to everyone. As far as suggestions, it would be most helpful if we could filter. For example, we are looking at blue colors, but would like to filter those that are transparent, or maybe which ones are staining, or maybe just see the granulating pigments, etc. thank you for your hard work in putting this together.
That's a great suggestion, thank you so much!
This is huge to watercolor world.. you almost engraved ur name "forever" in the aquarelle world..
you should actually get a PHD for it.. 🥰🥰
This is an incredible resource, and unbelievable feat! Wow! It's absolutely wonderful.
One thing I was hoping to do as I just dove in and poked around is to compare colors! I'd love to be able to pull up larger images for the swatches at the very least, but selecting a few to view side-by-side would be super duper helpful!
Thank you for your great suggestion!
thank you i love your videos and your passion i share about paints
This is literally a game changer! Thank you so much for putting in the work to roll this out. I can't wait to use it for my future planning
That's a very nice project! Love the site, very easy to navigate. I wish the swatches were your own and it was possible to see them at greater scale. Your video experiments are really useful when you compare the same pigment or color with different brands. It's my go-to when I need to buy a tube!
Well done!
Some paints are TOXIC. Did you include that info?
Thank you so much.
Wonderful achievement😊
Wow! Fantastical source. I have watched so many of your videos to help me decide how to spend my precious watercolor obsession budget. You're fantastical!
Wow - fabulous! Thank you! One request: Could you eventually add a search feature where, for example, I could search "Paynes Gray" or, more specifically, "Winsor and Newton Paynes Gray" - so that I can quickly find info on all the Payne's Grays in the database or just W&N's Paynes Gray?
Thanks again.
I am amazed by what you created!!! I just finished an info search for several brands today... going from one web page to another... until I closed it all and found this waiting for me... what a thrill! This is just what the community needed. I'm fairly new to watercolor- ... Awesome! With love and gratitude from a California Gramma ❤️
I'm so glad you like it!!
Lol- Maybe in your spare time " WINK, 😉 WINK " YOU COULD INCLUDE A #1 WATERCOLOR PAPERS AND PERHAPS #2 PAINT BRUSHS DATABASE, WITH ASSISTANCE PERHAPS. THAT WOULD BE INCREDIBLE , I AM SURE ALL WILL AGREE.
YOUR PIGMENTS PROJECT IS NOTHING LESS THAN SPECTACULAR! SO MANY THANKS TO YOU FRIEND.
...excellent indeed...
1...you have a typo for Jane blundell in the other resources section
2 ...The particle size of the paint and it's ability to spread / not spread ...eg aquazol by QoR will spread the most but Holbein will not. The vegan filter is a bit confusing. I am more concerned about handling properties. So which mftr paints spread or not? And of course , this will be different on each paper type
3...relative densities of each pigment/mix would be nice. How they go on each paper type would be a hoot...swatches...how far can one go with granulation,sizing,pigment and paper texture. This would be a shitload of work though.
Cheers
Wow!!!! How exciting!!! 💗💗💗💗💗
Dear Dr Oto Kano.
Some people have P049 in their collection. Sometimes we can buy it from them. I have recently tried it, and it does have a kind of special quality that PO48, or PY150 doesn't have. It was my first search in your database. I tried looking in oranges, or is simply not there as it is no longer produced, rather just stockpiled and hoarded in the underground....
I do know that some private home made brands are using it, and I know you are only showing viable artist sources. Yes, like Yinmin, it is elusive, but we are all pigment nerds after all!
When I didn't see it there, I got a bit sad.....
In kindred spirit,
Eliza Most Beautiful Day is Today!
Friday 2nd of September 2022
8:43pm
Sydney Australia
xx
PS I have donated a tiny amount to your site! It is not reflective or representative of your fine work! Thank you for hours of details that had to be researched, and entered. We appreciate you!
OMG! Thank you so much for your efforts!!
Amazing! Thanks!
WOW! What an amazing resource! 🤩
xin chào bạn, đây là một điều đáng kinh ngạc khi kết hợp lại với nhau. Tôi không thể tưởng tượng được số giờ bạn đã dành cho việc này, và thực tế là bạn đang làm cho nó miễn phí để sử dụng là quá hào phóng! Chia sẻ thời gian, công sức của bạn và nghiên cứu tuyệt vời chỉ là một món quà cho cộng đồng màu nước! Tôi sẽ đóng góp cho tổ chức của bạn như một lời cảm ơn !.🥰🥰
Because you paint, you know what us watercolourists need, and your database is it! I’ve just checked it out and I’m in heaven. Thank you 🤗🇬🇧
Wow!! It’s super news for me as a pigment nerd 😅 👍 great and congratulations 🎉
Maybe for each brand, a list of unique or outstanding colors that are standouts for the brand.
Wow incredible. Must have taken so much work!
Thanks!
You are amazing!
Thank you!
Congratulations on such a fantastic, worldwide endeavor. 🌏🌐 You have always been amazing, but this is the sweetest icing on the cake. Bravo! 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
I decided after 3 years to became a member today after seeing this post. What you did was very detailed and passion driven work. You are always thorough but offering this for free shows your generous heart. I support you. Thank you so much
Thank you so much for becoming a member!!
This is so EPIC!!! What an awesome contribution to the watercolor community.
Thank You Thank you thankyou!!
This is quite wonderful
Wow, thank you so much for all of your work doing this . Much appreciated and I will be using it.
Oto, this is amazing and so helpful! Your hard work is so appreciated. I was a Patreon supporter of you for a few years, and I know from your previous work that using the site will be easy and informative. Thank you for all you do! Of course I will donate.
Amazing! Thank you!
This is WOW and coincidentally I just spent the last 3 days using the clunky internet to make certain which of my paints are nongranulating in order to make one palette with absolutely no surprises.
I admire you and your diligence!!
Thank you.
This is amazing. Thank you
Wow, what an incredible resource! Congratulations on the launch. I can't imagine the enormous amount of work that went into creating it. Thank you!
You look wonderful!!! Seeing your excitement and that big smile! Love!!
This is amazing!
As a beginner in the medium, I'm finding it difficult to choose my core colours in artist grade paints. In Australia art is a very expensive (extortionate) exercise. Rather than the hearts of colour on the website it would be great if it was a colour wheel. That way one doesn't have to sift through to find which way the colour leans with regard to warmth, coolness or neutralrality. Just a thought. BTW I LOVE your UA-cam videos, they're a great resource. x
Hi, it's a great suggestion, however color leaning is relative to other colors, so a single color on their own can't truly be said to be warm or cool. Only that it's warmer or cooler than another color. I hope this makes sense!
Oh My Gosh!! YOU ARE AWESOME!!!! I always love your videos - you provide a wealth of information in each video. This database is fantastic! So much amazing information in one place. THANK YOU!! ❤️❤️❤️
AMAAAAAZING!!!!!!!
Thanks!
oh wow thank you so much for your donation!
Thanks!
Wow thank you so much for the donation!
So cool, thank you.
Otoooooooo! Now at the end of the video! How wonderful! Thank you - and such a great piece of work from a pigment nerd / information designer! Sending you all the exclamation points ! ! ! ! ! 💖💖💖💖💖💖
Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into your content. I have learned so much from your wisdom. 💕 from an Australian fan xx
oh wow thank you so much for your donation!!
This is amazing!
Incredible!
Just awesome
Fabulous...
This is simply AMAZING! Being a pigment nerd I am blown away by the detail and the amount of information. It’s the best database by far that I’ve come across. Thank you!!!
Rosa Gallery should be added. Your work is impressive. Thank you.
Great suggestion, I will definitely add that to the next big update. Thank you so much for your suggestion!
Congratulations Oto, amazing work! So fantastic to see all the knowledge you've been gathering for years and all the effort you've put in your videos and your research come together in this project 💜 wonderful!
You should be very proud you’ve done a great job. Thank you so much.
Hi, Ms.Oto. I’m a follower since three years ago (Covid)
I was trying to do a color Wheel of 48 colors and I discovered your date base last week in your web.
I think it’s amazing and incredible.
If you accept a suggestion, you could add de number serie of the Brand, in order to make it easy to find in the bying webs
Best Regards
Thank you so much for your suggestion!
You read my mind!!! I’ve thought of doing something similar with my paints and now I don’t have to!!! Thank you 🎉I am so excited to use this! 👏
This is AMAZING!!! Thank you so much.
Does anyone know where I can find tinting strength info? I’d like to have a pallet with sting tinting colors and another with weak. Is the only way to find that with rules of thumb (Quin’s and phthalos are strong) or is there an online resource?
You can see the tinting strength if I have swatched the brand. If you scroll to the bottom of QoR or M. Graham (2 brands I've already swatched the whole brand), on the right bottom corner of each color, if it's low, very low, high or very high tint strength, it'll say those words. If it doesn't have anything written in that corner, it's medium tint strength.
This is amazing! Such a useful resource to those of devoted to watercolours 🙌🙌🙌 congratulations and Thank you!