Trying Old Holland Watercolours! First Impressions and Review. Are They as Good as I Hoped?
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2023
- I've been wanting to try Old Holland watercolours for years, but they've been difficult to find and unavailable as far as I know in Australia. While in Greece recently, I was able to locate them at a small art shop, and I brought some home to try. Are they going to be as good as I had hoped, or will I be disappointed after having them on my wishlist for so long? Let's find out today!
Oh yes, and there's a mishap as well, haha!
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These are lovely! The Old Holland website says Flesh Ochre is now called Red Earth.
That would explain why I couldn't see it! I'll go and look on my chart again for Red Earth. A lot of companies have ditched the word Flesh, so this doesn't surprise me at all. Thanks for that! 😊
Hi Becky, Scheveningen is a city by The Hage, near the North Sea. It's a beautiful place. I live in the Netherlands and your video of the Scheveningen-paint is really great. Keep on going the good work. Bye bye
Thank you, I hope I didn't mispronounce it too badly. I'm adding to my list of places to visit, if ever we get to that region. I've been to Amsterdam briefly, and that's about it!
Even though this video didn’t go how you necessarily expected, they still always put me in a good mood so thank you ☺️☺️
I'm glad of that! It didn't quite go according to plan, lol. 😂
You had me cracking up! “How do I do this? It’s got to take a special talent.” Just made me lose it for a bit there.
As far as the seasonal depression I can relate. I found what works for me though. Daylight bulbs and lots of painting with bright colors. I hang up the paintings, lots of them. Color charts, paintings with colors I associate with spring, flowers, anything of bright color that cheers me up.
I'm with you on the bright colours! 💜😁
I agree that a lemon yellow and indigo/Payne’s grey would compliment the palette. Also maybe a dioxizine or imperial purple kind of colour? I love that it’s a bright palette!
So many choices...I'm going to be here a while trying to choose! 😂
I don't hear much about this brand so thank you for showing them. Happy to see them in action!
Their oil paints seem to be a lot more common than the watercolours. But their watercolours are lovely so I am glad I managed to get my mitts on some tubes. I'm intending on filling out that whole tin now, haha!
Payne's Grey is an incredibly versatile cool shadow color. That or a Lunar Violet is probably what I'd put for a cool dark mixer.
Thank you for the suggestions! 😊
Oil paint lol! They look identical- no wonder you didn't pick it! Thank you so much for the review, and well done achieving anything when you feel so down ❤
I keep ending up with unexpected tubes of oil paint! It is hard to be creative when feeling down, and sometimes I just have to grit my teeth to push through that...or have no video to release, and I can't have that! 😂
Im so glad to see an artist try old holland watercolors. I only have two of their colors on my paleto:royal purple lake and turqoise blue deep. The colors are so rich and vibrant. I always end up using either of these two colors in my paintings.
Oooh lovely colours! I love purples and turquoises a lot. 💙
Great first impressions video, Becky! Thank you!
Bravo, Becky!!!
Hi Becky, thanks so much for the swatching and the gorgeous painting! I agree the colours you got are great! 😊
I'll do a second video when I eventually get more tubes, because I like them so much I really want to fill the tin! 🙂
This is one of my favourites Thankyou for creating it. I agree with you about the colours I can’t wait to try them too how fabulous!❤
Thank you, and have fun with the paints! 😊
You can buy Old Holland at Parker's at The Rocks, Sydney
I think someone else mentioned Parker's as well....thank you 🙂
Beautiful sketchbook spread, Becky! These are fun colors and I agree that it would be great to have another shadow color or a purple or one that fits both needs.
Shadow colours are always so useful!
Really cute and colorful 🎉
Thank you! 🤗
The colours you ended up with are really gorgeous! So much so that I’d seriously consider buying some. I have seasonal depression too BUT I get it in summer - Brisbane’s looooooong, hot, never ending, ugly and unbearably humid summers that last for a good 5 months, often 6 months… I feel exactly as you described your feelings. We are literally indoors for 6 months of the year in air conditioning hiding from the heat and humidity and i feel like I’m being imprisoned. I live for May,June, July and August as that’s the only time of year it’s bearable to be outdoors and we dont really have winter here, most people only need a jumper to be warm. For me a happy day is a cloudy day as they are rare here and by September things start getting ugly again… Yes, I’ve spent the 6 months of autumn and winter in a cool climate country with beautiful snow and I was soooo happy that I could be outdoors every single day and cried and cried when we had to come back to Brisbane😢. We cant move to Victoria, where I would happily live, as I help care for my mum who is not well. I hope the sun comes out for you soon.
I spent a summer in Bundaberg and I totally get that misery - it was insanely hot! Queensland winters are the best. I complain about the heat here in Summer as well, but it is usually a lot shorter, and we get heatwaves along with blessed cool changes so that keeps things less monotonous. The grass is always greener on the other side in this case I think!
Oh, you sound just like me. ☺☺ Karen from Canada
I’d be pretty happy with the brightness of this range too. They’re an interesting company, so old and I’d be curious to try them too. Handy to find them on holiday in Europe.
I still haven't replaced that yellow, but yes I do like the colours I ended up with! 😊
They really went there with the name Scheveningen😂 I would recommend Golden barok red (if its still sold!) and Scheveningen Yellow Lemon
I would have had that yellow light......but oops! 😂
Yellow Lemon is a py3. I think yellow light is a py74😊
Gorgeous colors! You handled that unexpected oil tube well. I am the same when I feel blue. Color always snaps me out of it. Lovely paintings 😊
Thank you! I got over my blues eventually. 😊
Hi Becky. Thanks so much for this video. I would love to get some of the Old Holland colors, but they are pricey in the States. I just found you and subscribed so not sure what colors you would need as I am not familiar with your work. But they have some very interesting colors. I may have to start treating myself once in a while. Thank you for pushing through a bad mood. You nailed when you said your bad mood made you more adventurous. It definitely does! Sometimes I abandon everything when I get in that mood. You pushed through even though you were derailed by the oil tube...ugh. Been there, done that. Thank you!
Thank you for your lovely comment! I'll probably order a few more colours off Jackson's Art to fill up the tin completely, now that I know I like the paints in general. I guess we'll all find out together what colours I end up with, haha!
Hi Becky I think your art page turned out great! You had the swatches, freehand flowers, and the mushrooms all on one page. It was very interesting. I go through phases when I don’t draw, paint, or color anything. When that happens to me I need to draw, paint, or color something, anything, to get back into art. It doesn’t have to be a good, I just need to put something on to paper. 😊
Thank you, and that's so true; any art is better than no art, especially when it's really difficult to be motivated and anything that actually gets done is a win, haha.
My favorite Old Holland is golden baroke red......even though I seldom use oranges I look for places to use it. It makes me happy.
I think that may have to go on my list!
Nice floral pallet Bec 💐😊
I am in sunny Queensland and definitely could not cope without the sunshine. It is very difficult for me on rainy days here I could imagine what the Melbourne winter is like 😩
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Some friends are up in the Gold Coast right now and it looks so sunny and lovely! Raining here, lol.
Yay. I totally relate to buying a tube and having some mishap! Love the swatching though, thank you. Some colors I'd recommend: Manganese Blue Extra, OH Blue Violet, Golden Barok Red, Indian Yellow Brown Lake, and Persian Indian Red.
Awesome suggestions, thank you! Managanese blue is always gorgeous, and lots of people have mentioned the Golden Barok Red. 🙂
You pronounced Scheveningen not bad! You are right it is a seaside city next to The Hague. Greetings from the Netherlands, Linda
Yay!! 😆 Dutch 'Tuber Mandy van Goeije swatched them out a few years ago; I found her video and listened to her pronunciation a few times to try and get it right. It's as close as I can say it, lol. Thank you - I'd like to visit Scheveningen now. ❤
Actually the pronunciation of the "sch" is thought to be so hard for non-dutch persons that the word "Scheveningen" was used as a password in the dutch resistance (during WW II) quite often. Helped to keep Nazi agents out of their meetings.
Love these paints. They look so beautiful when they dried. The flesh color looks like potters pink. Loved the little mushrooms. Feel better! (Aka go get a massage!)
I'm really liking the paints! And yes, I should go for a spa day. 🌸
Jackson's lists all the pigment info for all the Old Holland paints right on the page where you choose the colors you want. Flesh Ochre is PY42, PR112, and PR102.
Great to know! I need to do some more research before my next video on them, lol.
These are lovely. I would just put some DS Hansa Yellow or other lemony yellow in for the oil tube and forget about it. Your paintings are lovely.
Thank you! Good idea to use another paint brand.
Hi Becky, not sure if you are aware but Jackson's art supplies from England has a warehouse in Australia now. They ship from their new warehouse in Adelaide and have the Old Holland watercolours at quite a good price. I recently ordered from them and had an excellent experience. I must admit that I spent a few hours looking through their catalogue and tempting myself with the Roman Szmal paints.
Very reasonable shipping costs too. I ordered on a Tuesday and received my order that Friday.
Yes, my page switched over recently to the Aussie one (and I got that email about their warehouse being in Adelaide...I wonder if that's open to public!) I will have to do some more browsing; Roman Szmal paints are always amazing!
I think you chose holiday beachy colours. It definitely tells me the mood you were in when you were there. 😂 Yo can definitely do some spring art soon with that palette.
Spring isn't too far away! 🌸🌷🌺
I would gladly send you some of our Arizona 117 degree weather for your winter weather. Lol Love your videos! ❤
Eww I don't like the heat either, haha! Nice temperatures only, lol. 😂
Hey Becky, nice video! I' definitely go for indigo, but hey, I love indigo and use it a lot. As for other colors to round out your palette, I'd secon the gold barok red, add in an iron oxide (since you have many bright colors, the darkest - Persian Red, that is), and fir further "interesting picks", Naples Yellow Deep Extra, Old Delft Blue and Old Holland Blue Deep. Also, depending on what you want to paint - a burnt siena is never wrong. Why those? they feel somewhat like trademark colors of the brand, and I have the feeling they could go nicely with the colors you have so far (best grabs imho were the van dyck and the violet-grey). Hope you are having fun with those colors...
Thank you for all of the wonderful suggestions! I do love Indigo. I think I'll get enough to fill the whole palette, and will definitely include a few more dark or shadow colours into the mix to really pad it out. Now I have a lot more time to make decisions, I can spend hours dithering over which to choose, haha! 😂
@@BeckyTregear yer welcome. As for the flesh ochre, I found its pigments listed as Y42, R112 and R102.
Oh! Also, if you cover the oil paint in water it will keep in from drying out. Oil and water don't mix as we well know, so just putting some water in that pan to cover the paint will save it and it will be as good as new when you go to use it☺☺
Great tip, I may well need to try that so I don't have to rush to think of a painting in which to use it, lol.
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firstly them colours are amazing! sorry about your oopsie with the oil paint though, what a shame, and here in north Wales the weather is also poop!! all July has been is wind and rain and this is our summer! So I'm also feeling quite down too, and I loved your shroom art! whenever I'm struggling to think of something to paint, it's always mushrooms I turn to, there's tons of them here :D
Shrooms are always so much fun to paint! Sorry you're having such rough weather; I see in some parts of Europe that there's a massive heat wave? And I was looking at Athens - daily temps of 38 and 39 degrees. I'm so glad we aren't there right now for that! 😬
@@BeckyTregear yeah that's scary hot temps but I wish some of it would come to the UK for a while, the sun makes everything better! :D
open the bottom of the tube and put the oil paint back in with a palette knife
That's a good idea, I might try doing that! Unless I can paint with it in the meantime.
Awwww.. how disappointing that tube was in the wrong place!! I love your painting (the entire page) and really enjoy paintings that let the paints run into each other… I think it gives such a cool effect. I’ve never tried Old Holland, it certainly looks like they have a huge colour selection!
They sure do; I think there are 100 colours? More than enough to make choosing a smaller palette quite difficult, haha!
You're saying "Scheveningen" perfectly.
Hooray!! 😆
Wonderful review as always! I’ve always been curious about these as their oil paints have quite a great reputation. They appear to have some white mixed in since they’re so vibrant in the tube? Maybe a bit like Holbein? We were in Japan a couple months ago and I went crazy for Holbein! Have you tried Michael Harding? Still curious about that brand. Greece looks beautiful and we hope to get out there someday. How lucky to have family to visit!
Yes, some of the paints I picked definitely have white mixed in; the light blue and violet grey I think. I have a review from a few months ago looking at some of the Michael Harding paints. I only have eight of those because of the price, lol.
Hi Becky, for the blank spot i would choose lemon yellow. Emma Lefevbre a channel creator on UA-cam has really mad skills when it comes to mixing paints to duplicate a color. I think she has lemon yellow in her palette. She uses Winsor and Newton professional paint.
I love your mushroom and flowers.
Lemon is always a useful yellow and I'll probably get that if I go for a few tubes. Thank you 😊
Loved the toadstool, if it helps its mid summer here and the whole of this month have been chilly with terential rain and today we've had hail stones!!! Havnt been out for days because standing at a bus stop is a big no!!!! I'm doing big half moons with a scene on the bottom of them, mountains, fir trees cabins then doing dots for shading, it takes ages but love the effect. On Jacksons they have 6 of these paints for £35 don't know if that's a good price though
Summer hail is the worst! We had a big storm in '17 which damaged both of our cars...mine was a total write off! Your painting sounds lovely. ❤
You took many colours! But not the one I’ve always wanted to get from them: Old Baroque Red. And now that I went to check their catalogue, I also want to try Vermillion Extra which unfortunately is a Series 4 💸
Oooh that sounds like an interesting colour; I'll check out Old Baroque Red....maybe Vermillion Extra too, haha.
Very good watercolours! Love the little paintings. Well, the mistake was easily done, they were just the same tubes, except for the tiny writing. I would have done the same without my glasses.
Yes, they look pretty much identical! I didn't even think to look more closely for the word "watercolour". 😂
Have you ever wanted to try toning a canvas with yellow light? I've been curious about these paints as well but alas, I already have so much that I don't think I should be sending away for a new brand. I mean, if it's not exactly easy to buy and if I love it, it won't exactly be easy to replace. *covets all the brands... But those green, turquoise and blue deep ! And that violet grey!!
I am also at that point of having entirely too many brands of watercolour, but I knew I had to get some of these when I had a chance to do so. Very glad I don't regret them, lol!
These colors are lovely, and I love the mushroom painting. The colors seem to layer really well. I have to say, I am on the fence about this brand. Many of the colors are multiple pigments, for example cobalt violet light has 4 pigments. Sap green has 5. Also, the lightfast ratings listed on Jackson’s (I assume provided by OH) are not entirely accurate, especially the reds and oranges. Of course, many are lovely and lightfast, but if these issues matter to you, research carefully before you buy. Thanks for the video. And the Glad wrap - I haven’t heard that for a while😄
Yes, there are a lot of multi-pigment colours in the range, which is why there are so many to choose from. I should have done my research first but there we go...live and learn! Or not learn. 😂
@@BeckyTregear 😂
I’d love to see a paynes grey.
Always a great option!
Hi Becky...love this video. Did you find any difference between the old holland brilliant pink vs the michael harding one?
Yes they're different to each other in colour, from memory. I would need to swatch them side by side to see by how much though. I also have Holbein's version. 😊
I like those colors they are vibrant, also i think you called it a violet gray it could be my one biggest favorite of this set my eye keeps telling my brian its perwinkle blue tho even tho i know you said violet gray lol.. do you know who makes them in what country ?,i enjoyed your mushroom paintings,i have seasonal disorder as i live in northern section of usa we get sun but shorter periods during winter so i was suggested ti try a blye light box, i have a blue light its a little box i turn it on in my room for 20/30 mintues a day as needed during winter months and i feel so much better, ay first i was like no way will this help and surprisingly after a few days i felt better, i cant imagine how you all feel since you recevie alot of sunlight and heat..i got my box off amaxon before covid it looks like a wooden box surround but its plastic and really sturdy, i was extremely skeptical but the lack of sunlight was getting to me,,i hope you feel better it was under$ 40.00 usa and worth a try at that time even tho i was really skeptical im glad i gave it a try. It came with directions and it recommended to just be in room a few feet away, so i doodled in sketch book at Same time..which was a twofer bonus practice time in creativity and getting my sunlight ..looking forwatprd to your future videos..🎨👩🎨✍🇺🇲💛
That's a very good idea, maybe I'll look around for a light box. Mostly I just try to go outside and absorb what little sun is to be had (which is basically none on a rainy day). Old Holland is in the Netherlands, and is a company that has been around since 1664, according to their website!
I like how the bright green and the brown merged together…sorry you are feeling crappy….
Those two mixed well together! I'm feeling a lot better now, as we had a few sunny days after I finished editing this video, haha!
Parker’s Art Supplies in Sydney sells Old Holland watercolours
Oh wow I didn't know that! Thank you for the info, I'll check them out online. 😊 Edit: found them! Cries at the prices...I'm remembering them being quite a lot cheaper in Greece.😭
I’ve heard people say Scheveningen worse. It’s a very touristy place on the beach near Den Haag.
I'll have to add it to my Visit List, if ever we get to that part o f the world. 🙂
@@BeckyTregear If you go, let me know, it would be fun to show you around in my area. I live in a little town close to Rotterdam, it's called Brielle.
Oh, and I love the colours you've bought. Looked them up last night and boy, they really are expensive.
So how is the layering with these paints? I heard that they are not very good at layering.
I didn't have any issues layering the mushroom, but that's a small painting so I can't say for sure yet! I'll need to paint some larger pictures.
@@BeckyTregear Thanks!
Just in case this may be helpful to someone; a lot of their watercolors are not as lightfast as you'd expect. I have 30+ colors that I've been running a lightfast test on since april, and even pigments that are considered fully lightfast are not doing great (like quinacridone).
a lot of the colors appear to have dulled/darkened, and even though the difference isn't huge at this point , I've put all the paints aside and won't be using them until the swatches have been in my window for at least a couple of years so I can truly see which colors I can potentially use in the future.
For anyone who are concerned with lightfastness or keeping colors bright/vivid,. considering the pricepoint, I don't currently recommend these 🙄
Which is a shame, because I really enjoyed painting with them. But I probably won't be repurchasing.
Wow, that isn't boding well if they're having issues already! I love these paints too....wah!
@@BeckyTregear they might not change more than what they already have, won't know until I see it 🤷♀️
But I'm especially disappointed with the indian yellows and quinacridones 😭
I am being nitpicky with a couple of them, but with those pigments (and that price), I'd expect no change.
Buy the Dioxazine Mauve PV23. It is the prettiest 💖 one on the market!
I'll check it out - I do love a good dioxazine! ❤
Love your video Verry funny hahahha🤗 .I think "Holiday Head" takes over and this is why you pick up Oil paint and also....why do oil paint ,being added to water color shelf....WHY ? 🤔so sorry you get winter blue's ... i also get them ...we get lots of gray days from december to may this year , way longer I hope you see sunshine soon xxxxxxx...Electronic Hug 🥰.Happy swatching xxxxxxxxx🥰
Thank you! It has been quite sunny this past week, with very cold frosty mornings but during the day the skies are blue and gorgeous. I'm feeling a lot better! 😊
Flesh Tint - contains the following pigments - PW4-PY120-PR214
Thank you 🙂
Could you maybe mix your own with the colors you have there. That's always a fun thing to do. Karen from Canada
I've definitely tried that before....things tend to get very messy, haha!
Aussie accent? I thought you had a Kiwi accent!! I really need to get my accentation recalibrated 😂😂
Originally Kiwi but I've lived in Australia for half of my life so I think it is more of a hybrid now - swings between the two, lol.
Oh definitely a paynes grey, indigo or perylene green.
All excellent choices!
Flesh Ocre seems to have been discontinued or renamed, comes up as Red Earth now
I think it's probably a rename.
Why is my comment gone? I did a quit deep research to find out that the flesh ochre I belive is called red earth now (changed name.) If you look at the side or back of the tube it's a letter and a number. (Red earth has number A343, probably check if that's the number on your tube.) The letter is price classification and the number is the paint number. I posted my comment with a link to that color on Old Holland website, so maybe that's why my comment is gone? I also wrote something about old holland being similar to some Chinese paint that has different binder compered to watercolor ...I forgot the name of at the moment.
Ah yes, if you include links, YT's filter will almost always prevent the comment from being posted. Too many scammers out there! 😭. Anyway, I think you're right; it's now called Red Earth. Thank you for the research. 😊
@@BeckyTregear I commented just days after the video was up. 🥲😅 But noticed after I commented again here some other mentioned it. …a UA-camr compared Old Holland watercolour to gansai paints because of the binder I believe.
I’m quite new to watercolour so I really don’t know much difference on panting with different brands. My local store had OH so first got the primary colour and some more now.
I made a colour triangle with Rembrandt, Daniel Smith and OH. And to me OH looks more classic. (But it’s not the exact same red, yellow and blue from the brands so I can’t say for certain. It got so stuck in my head though that I would love hearing some mentors in watercolours opinion. To me OH seems a bit different.)
I send you the solution....
Glad wrap? What on ear- glad wrap??!!!
Top brand name in Australia/NZ...clingfilm? Saran wrap? Same thing!
Back in the day in the US, we had Glad Wrap saran wrap. I haven't seen it for a long time.
Hello! Thank you both 🙂. For a moment there I did consider that Glad Wrap might be what Australians called clingfilm 😂. That sounded rather odd, but then again it is Australia 🤣.
Lol. Just pulled a box of cling wrap from the drawer and sure enough it was Glad wrap. 😉
@@justsomeone-hl2ff 😂
First!
I wish you sunshine 💛 I like your painting. I'm sure a flying reindeer was the one you didn't paint! Seems you are also collecting a surprise oil palette :)
Thank you! No sunshine today again but we had a couple of nice days this week (after I'd filmed this, lol). I'll have to find all of my single tubes of oil paints and come up with a painting. 😁