I am an eldering (such a nicer word than ‘old’) woman in my 70’s and I’m so glad you make these very interesting and informative videos. I am learning so much by watching and taking notes on your tutorials. I’m working my way through them all and getting better with my watercolors. Thank you and please keep up the excellent descriptions.
I'm not even eldering but I read this as Elden Ring... we can all see where my brain is! But I learnt from my grandmother (who basically raised me!) that age has very little to do with what you can accomplish and enjoy (a very positive lesson for me). I'm so happy to see comments from people who really embody that lesson! Also, thanks Michele! Your tutorials are a lot more accessible than a lot of the ones available. You also have a really nice soothing way of communicating. Quin Rose is really one of my favourites.
Me, too, Cheryl, but I'm 85, and I love watching these tutorials. I get a chance to try out the colors AND the new methods I see. And, loving the granulating Moonglow and Lunar black!
You really don’t deserve rude comments from people who are just looking for attention. Some opinions may possibly be valid, but you are giving your talent and time as a sacred gift. Ignore the buffoons. You’re enriching many of us who appreciate you deeply.
I discovered that indanthrene blue with some light red and a touch of orange makes a nice silvery grey. I also like using indanthrene in the sky though it’s a little muted compared to other choices I suppose.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber And btw great vid (my only "but" is that I don't need more temptations to buy art supplies, desperately trying for a limited palette...🤣)
Thanks for another superb video. I'm really glad that you brought up how even a single pigment can look different. It something I became aware of not too long ago with PBr7. Thanks again.
I’ve been working on portraits and I use nickel titanate yellow and quinacridone rose for skin tones. Also, my favorite gray comes from mixing perylene violet with perylene green.
That was so helpful!! I wish I could walk around the corner and take one of your classes, lol. I'm still such a beginner. I have watched so many of your videos, but still learn from watching them again. Thanks so much for sharing, and for continually yanking me out of my baffled little box! Much admiration from Abigail, in New Hampshire, USA
Thanks Abigail, I no longer teach 'real world classes' unfortunately the pandemic ended them, and now of course I don't have time, but it's nice to teach more people online!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber I agree with SJL. I've only found two Naples Yellow that do not contain yellow pigment....Winsor Newton and Turner. It's like yellow ocher's shy little sister, lol
Thank you for the tip. I am very careful when I put yellow in skies. I will try my WN Naples yellow, which, luckily, is the one I have. That said, I've seen green skies. Right before a derecho or tornado here in the US Great Lakes region.
Cliffs in Devon on the south coast have that colour burnt sienna, especially when lit by evening sunlight. Rocks near Hartlebury in Worcestershire are also that colour. The latter are the only inland sourced wind blown sandstone. I like sepia, but prefer vandyke brown and a little raw umber for greater variation of UK rocks. If you want to see ALL rocks close up, visit the rock library at Cambridge University on one of their open days. It's a rock museum of lumps that are all about 4 inches x 4 inches x 4 inches.
"Good enough to eat." I started my journey with oil paints as a teen, and I often said that. Sometimes I didn't want to paint, just mix creamy bight colors!
Ha, ha! I had to lose some weight per Drs. orders. I filled that space with buying, mixing, and painting with watercolors. It worked and I lost the weight. I've gotten decent at watercolor painting, so now it's a maintenance diet. Colors fill a hunger for me. I know someone who went on a guitar diet sucessfully. Every time she was hungry, she picked up her guitar.
I love all the perylene colors. I love moody muted colors. I also find mixing a little PBk 11 (lunar black or mars black) gives lovely granulation and brings down the chroma. Just a touch though,don’t overdo.
It might be interesting someday, if you took us on a tour of one of the paint manufacturers that send you samples, and if you spoke to some of their technical staff. Good advertising for them so they should be willing to fund it. It sounds like quite a fascinating subject. That’s just if they are still made in your country, of course. I think everything here is made overseas these days. Something about exchange rates and “managed economies”.
Yes!! I love this idea! Do they do one pigment a day in bulk or have several going at once? What does QC lab look like? Do they use spectroscopy to match lots? Do they have watercolor in one area and acrylics somewhere else? Ooo do they grind a pigment in a big batch and divide between watercolor, acrylic, oil, pastels, etc. wow, I am so intrigued!!! I hope you can do!!
Brenda Shields reply about pigment grain size, what other things are done to make same pigment different like burnt umber/raw umber, is it really burnt? I’m a medical lab med tech, that’s why all the questions, so cool! I’ve read a lot about the pigments and watch Denise Soden religiously, but seeing a demo in a factory how different pigments are made would be so neat!! I’m sure this is all proprietary but wow to see a swimming pool of swimming pool blue!!!
I seen so many colors here i already consider core colors haha Though, if i need a deep blue, I'll find a blue leaning Paynes grey my favorite color (if i remember correctly daniel Smith's version is blue leaning, the paul Rubens was too. I remember van Gogh's being more like a charcoaly dusk grey)
I disagree that no one uses Quin Rose. Isn't it it a staple in split primary beginner sets? It is part of the Daniel Smith introductory set for sure. Manganese blue piqued my curiosity.
I like that ultramarine green shade. I really don't like Fr.Ultramarine in skies, maybe high elevation alpine skies but not for typical English skyscapes. I like the idea of a none cobalt alternative to cobalt blue that could be my main mid blue. I bet it mixes better greens too. The only reds I use in my palette is light red / red oxide as my warm red and quinacridone magenta as my cool I find them more natural. I've had a tube of cadmium red for probably 5 years and barely touched it. It comes out once in a blue for splattering poppies and thats it. I do find Naples Yellow quite useful, in evening skylines, it behaves well wet in wet with cobalt blue, as long as you let it do it's thing, they tend to avoid mixing and generally grey into each other rather than producing green and Naples yellow tends to stay where you put it. It mixes great skin tones too mixed with a touch light red.
I'm always surprised when folks don't use either a quinacridone rose PV19 or a magenta PR122--they are so important for mixing! I'm already a huge fan of nickel titanate--great to see it get some press! Chrome oxide green is the most gorgeous and natural green, so soft and lovely. Perylene violet mixed with perylene green makes absolutely gorgeous darks and blacks. I love the mix of raw umber and payne's grey--what a beautiful mix! Fantastic video. Thank you. No problems with the audio here. I'd save your pennies and keep using your phone as is.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber i have just bought a new iphone, it arrived today. if you could use my old phone iPhone 6s 256gb, which is in working condition, as a back up, I shall happily send it you. I dont know how much life is left in it, i cracked the screen and replaced it with a cheap screen and replaced the battery around a month or so ago, so not perfect, but if it could be of some use to you… its yours.
I don't use sepia as a water colour but I use (synthetic) sepia ink for sketching and combine it with water colour washes. for fast portraits mainly but you could also use it for urban sketching. I like that it's dark enough to be dominant against water colour washes but not as dominant as pure black would be. I often combine it with prussian blue or payne's grey, vermillion and some ochre maybe burnt umber (prussian blue+ burn umber looks very pretty to me). the next colour I want to try is potter's pink. I think it would be nice as a light colour to add texture into skin and maybe also a nice addition for some botanicals like matthiolas or holly hocks. it seems to be less dominant so it maybe would be nice to add into other colours. I also want to try neaples yellow reddish in the future...mainly because I think it looks pretty, but if I also want to try swapping it for my ochre to get a more soft look maybe.
Love the discussion of different colo(u)rs! I am going to try the Perylene Violet, since I've been using a lot of violet in my paintings lately. I have Perylene Maroon and Perylene green/black. They are great colors. So easy to make distant evergreens with this color. Like your tip of mixing it with Payne's Grey. Agree with you about the Chromium Green being a great color. Interesting fact: The D.Smith Manganese blue will glow under UV light. Other Manganese Blue colors won't. They do make a lovely version of it. Thanks for the video.
Audio is great here in Texas, U.S.of A., thru WiFi on my Amazon Kindle fire-10 device , on the Video for UA-cam APP....whew! .out of breath!! You're a very pleasant, proficient and professional instructor. Thank you for generously sharing your talent and time.
Lots of these colors are so useful in portraiture! I like using English red as a portrait underpainting since it’s so staining and warm. Perylene violet makes beautiful browns when mixed with the yellows or light greens, and raw umber can make a nice blond tone
Thanks Michele. I have many of the colors you mentioned and most of them I really don't use much, so I found this video helpful and I am eager to pay a bit more attention to the potentials of the colors you shared today. The one exception for me was Sepia. I use Sepia all the time. Even though its a darker color, it somehow just seems to work in so many different situations. It seems like it enhances other colors without detracting from them while adding a nice contrast . I hate to hear that some people may be rude or argumentative with you. There is no cause for that and people really need to get a life lol. I appreciate you.
I'm so glad you made this video and also that I watched it. Very helpful to me. I appreciate your clarification of the subtleties of these colors and I will be adding some to my palette now that I understand their usefulness. Thanks
I've not yet become acquainted with most of the colors spoken about, but have ultra marine and umber. I especially enjoyed learning about the latter's uses. Cerulean Blue is my go to for clear skies (probably because all my instruction books usually call for it), but I'll look into getting the manganese blue you spoke of--I like that "shade" (😉) very much. Thanks, Helen!
I just opened a tube of DS Napthamide Maroon tonight and when I swatched it I basically swooned. Very sublime pigment with good movement, very close to Perylene Violet. I also really love many of the Green Gold shades. Subtle but bright...
Two colours i really love for shadows are Moonglow and Raw Umber Violet. Raw Umber Violet is more natural looking shadow colour, Moonglow is prettier but more synthetic, but both work great for shadowed areas.
Useful,tip about mixing Burnt Umber with a blue to get a Sepia type brown…..I do have a tube of Sepia but just not room in my paint palette to carry it around
This is such a nice and useful video! Thank you! As for the hues, I was also told, that Naples yellow can be used also for winter sky, since the light in winter is rather muted. I went for it and I was very happy with the result. I love the idea of using it for primeroses!:)
Fantastic video as usual Michele, and no problem with sound, in fact I'd never noticed one previously. Obviously I'm so engrossed in the useful information that you so kindly give us on a regular basis that I was too busy enjoying the video 😊 I have a couple of those colours you mentioned, and I love my Sepia, it's so versatile, just like Paynes Grey 😉, they both come in very handy. I rather like the look of the Naples Yellow, and the various Oxide colours you mentioned. The muted Green would be a great addition to my collection. I think it's time I made some more colour charts 🤔. Thanks again for your valuable time and support. Take care 🤗💕x
Fantastic suggestions! I agree about Raw Umber. I remember as a child not wanting to use the warm brown crayon that was always in the box because tree trunks were a cool brown! Raw Umber is a staple in my palette!
Thanks for all your hard work making these interesting and informative videos! I love Chromium Oxide Green. Use it obsessively for the grey greens of Australian gum leaves. It darkens beautifully with cadmium red or ultramarine. Mixed with cerulean, you'll get such beautiful soft blue-greens that take your breath away!
I was having a lot of trouble finding a shade of tan that I wanted and found out that gold and pink makes a good tan, but I think that yellow she was using would work if you use the yellow lightly.
I absolutely fell in love with the manganese blue hue the first time I used it, but on camera, I think I prefer the ultramarine green shade - it’s such an intense blue!
I liked all the colors you demoed but particularly the Ultramarine green shade. I will order it from Jackson's next time I order from them. I recently discovered Jackson's and like their watercolors. I also was quite taken by your painting that you showed. You are a very excellent watercolor artist and teacher. Thank you for your videos. Sharon in the Yukon Territory, Canada 🇨🇦
Thanks, Michelle, for your hard work! You sound just fine, BTW. I've never used nickel titanate yellow, but all the other colors have rotated in and out of my palette for the last 50 years! Well, Quin Rose isn't that old, but it's a standard cool red replacement for Alizarin in modern palettes. Raw umber is so underrated. It's essentially a very neutral yellow and is wonderful for softening too bright violets and purples (PV23, I'm looking at you!) Mixed with cobalt blue, you get a beautiful soft grey. I love Perylene Violet, but Perylene green has a permanent place on any of my palettes, from the 12 color travel palette on up. It's an extremely versatile mixer. Manganese blue hue was a disappointment, not that it isn't a lovely color, but it doesn't have the incredible granularity of the original Manganese PB33. (Luckily I still have 5 tubes!) Naples yellow is so different from each manufacturer, it's hard to compare them, but my go to is W&N's Naples Yellow Deep. I use it instead of yellow ochre, and it's even a single pigment, PBr24. Chromium oxide green is a great landscape green, also very granular (and opaque). That and Perylene green is all I need for the desert-y greens around here! Thanks again, Michelle! Keep up the good work 👍
I love to add a tiny amount of other colors to Naples yellow as a base. All the colors have a creaminess to them. Manganese blue hue is nothing like the original. From the time I started painting, manganese blue was a staple for me. So versatile. Easy to move around, wonderful in skys and water. I went to replace it several years ago and found only the “hue” version. The color was wrong. It seemed dead in comparison. It also no longer could be moved around. Luckily I found a tube of the original in a little art shop in a small village. Hopefully it will last me a long long time.
A wonderful video! I love learning more about colors. DaVinci Paints makes a gorgeous Manganese Blue Mixture with PB33/PB15. I’m off to binge watch some more of your videos. I really appreciate your informative style and sense of humor.
This is a great video & I love how your explaining the various uses and mixing tips. That very first yellow almost seems like a “cool” yellow even without the green in it , thought that was neat
This is another great video by you. I love these videos about colours that are not the absolute basics. Anne Kerr recommended Napels yellow for sunsets, saying that it won't turn easily into a green sky.
Thanks for another great video! I already discovered and LOVE Naples Yellow and Chrome Oxide Green!!! They "balance" so many of my colors, I can't imagine not having them in my pallette.
This video just showed up in my feed and I watched because I was curious. I love that you explain why a single pigment paint can vary so much in appearance (from different makers) depending on pigment grind and binders. I was wondering about this phenomenon! I consider myself perhaps an intermediate to advanced beginner in painting. I think I’ll subscribe- there is a lot to learn!
I will save this video. Learning so much from all your videos. Thank you for your generosity in teaching. Appreciate it very much. Sound quality is fine this end.
I love all your videos, Michele, but especially your colour ones. This was great! I just recently tried to paint a landscape and my trees were horrible. I wish I’d had some Chromium Oxide Green to play with LOL I have always loved Naples Yellow and I will definitely be giving Nickel Titanate a try. One colour I did recently add to my palette, and love, is Transparent Red Oxide. Thank you SO much for this wonderful information ❤️
Somehow these include all my favourite colours! I'm not sure how it happened that I ended up preferring these to other possibilities people might reach for first.
Thanks greatly Michele for taking the time to share an intreguing video on colours, enjoyed the video as you explained how you're able to use these colours to create amazing mixes. Greatly appreciating stay safe and healthy
I enjoy your videos, especially the swatching ones. However, it would have been helpful if you had swatched the "regular" ultramarine blue beside the ultramarine blue (green shade) so we could see the difference.
I am an eldering (such a nicer word than ‘old’) woman in my 70’s and I’m so glad you make these very interesting and informative videos. I am learning so much by watching and taking notes on your tutorials. I’m working my way through them all and getting better with my watercolors. Thank you and please keep up the excellent descriptions.
You are very welcome, we are all eldering I think!
Lol im eldering also...lol like that word...many art blessings to you today...
Oh yeah, me too at 71!
I'm not even eldering but I read this as Elden Ring... we can all see where my brain is!
But I learnt from my grandmother (who basically raised me!) that age has very little to do with what you can accomplish and enjoy (a very positive lesson for me). I'm so happy to see comments from people who really embody that lesson!
Also, thanks Michele! Your tutorials are a lot more accessible than a lot of the ones available. You also have a really nice soothing way of communicating.
Quin Rose is really one of my favourites.
Me, too, Cheryl, but I'm 85, and I love watching these tutorials. I get a chance to try out the colors AND the new methods I see. And, loving the granulating Moonglow and Lunar black!
You really don’t deserve rude comments from people who are just looking for attention. Some opinions may possibly be valid, but you are giving your talent and time as a sacred gift. Ignore the buffoons. You’re enriching many of us who appreciate you deeply.
Thanks so much :-)
I discovered that indanthrene blue with some light red and a touch of orange makes a nice silvery grey. I also like using indanthrene in the sky though it’s a little muted compared to other choices I suppose.
Sound is "good enough" imo. Perfectly understandable, no back ground noise.
And after all, we are painting here, not playing music😉
Good job, I am tone deaf!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber And btw great vid (my only "but" is that I don't need more temptations to buy art supplies, desperately trying for a limited palette...🤣)
Thanks for another superb video. I'm really glad that you brought up how even a single pigment can look different. It something I became aware of not too long ago with PBr7. Thanks again.
Love chromium oxide green. And mixed with a little yellow is perfect for frogs.
I love frogs, I love that colour too!
North Carolina Piedmont area USA is burnt sienna clay. Texas is raw umber to just plain gray!
I’ve been working on portraits and I use nickel titanate yellow and quinacridone rose for skin tones. Also, my favorite gray comes from mixing perylene violet with perylene green.
They are so useful, aren't they? :-)
That was so helpful!! I wish I could walk around the corner and take one of your classes, lol. I'm still such a beginner. I have watched so many of your videos, but still learn from watching them again. Thanks so much for sharing, and for continually yanking me out of my baffled little box! Much admiration from Abigail, in New Hampshire, USA
Thanks Abigail, I no longer teach 'real world classes' unfortunately the pandemic ended them, and now of course I don't have time, but it's nice to teach more people online!
Sound is perfect. I love Winsor Naples Yellow. It doesn’t turn green in skies when it mixes with blue.
Wow I must try that 🙏
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber I agree with SJL. I've only found two Naples Yellow that do not contain yellow pigment....Winsor Newton and Turner. It's like yellow ocher's shy little sister, lol
@@OhJodi69 Maimeriblu's Naples Yellow Medium uses PBr24 as well
I have several Naples Yellows….Winsor and Newton’s is the softest and doesn’t make green when mixes with blue
Thank you for the tip. I am very careful when I put yellow in skies. I will try my WN Naples yellow, which, luckily, is the one I have. That said, I've seen green skies. Right before a derecho or tornado here in the US Great Lakes region.
Cliffs in Devon on the south coast have that colour burnt sienna, especially when lit by evening sunlight. Rocks near Hartlebury in Worcestershire are also that colour. The latter are the only inland sourced wind blown sandstone. I like sepia, but prefer vandyke brown and a little raw umber for greater variation of UK rocks. If you want to see ALL rocks close up, visit the rock library at Cambridge University on one of their open days. It's a rock museum of lumps that are all about 4 inches x 4 inches x 4 inches.
I find your thoughts on colors so interesting. Thank you.❤
"Good enough to eat." I started my journey with oil paints as a teen, and I often said that. Sometimes I didn't want to paint, just mix creamy bight colors!
Apparently it's not advisable... Who knew?!
Ha, ha! I had to lose some weight per Drs. orders. I filled that space with buying, mixing, and painting with watercolors. It worked and I lost the weight. I've gotten decent at watercolor painting, so now it's a maintenance diet. Colors fill a hunger for me. I know someone who went on a guitar diet sucessfully. Every time she was hungry, she picked up her guitar.
By explaining how a color is used really adds to my knowledge
Please do more of these
I love all the perylene colors. I love moody muted colors. I also find mixing a little PBk 11 (lunar black or mars black) gives lovely granulation and brings down the chroma. Just a touch though,don’t overdo.
Nice tip.
It might be interesting someday, if you took us on a tour of one of the paint manufacturers that send you samples, and if you spoke to some of their technical staff. Good advertising for them so they should be willing to fund it. It sounds like quite a fascinating subject.
That’s just if they are still made in your country, of course. I think everything here is made overseas these days. Something about exchange rates and “managed economies”.
Good idea!
Yes!! I love this idea! Do they do one pigment a day in bulk or have several going at once? What does QC lab look like? Do they use spectroscopy to match lots? Do they have watercolor in one area and acrylics somewhere else? Ooo do they grind a pigment in a big batch and divide between watercolor, acrylic, oil, pastels, etc. wow, I am so intrigued!!! I hope you can do!!
Brenda Shields reply about pigment grain size, what other things are done to make same pigment different like burnt umber/raw umber, is it really burnt? I’m a medical lab med tech, that’s why all the questions, so cool! I’ve read a lot about the pigments and watch Denise Soden religiously, but seeing a demo in a factory how different pigments are made would be so neat!! I’m sure this is all proprietary but wow to see a swimming pool of swimming pool blue!!!
I seen so many colors here i already consider core colors haha
Though, if i need a deep blue, I'll find a blue leaning Paynes grey my favorite color (if i remember correctly daniel Smith's version is blue leaning, the paul Rubens was too. I remember van Gogh's being more like a charcoaly dusk grey)
I love quin rose!
I disagree that no one uses Quin Rose. Isn't it it a staple in split primary beginner sets? It is part of the Daniel Smith introductory set for sure.
Manganese blue piqued my curiosity.
I like that ultramarine green shade. I really don't like Fr.Ultramarine in skies, maybe high elevation alpine skies but not for typical English skyscapes. I like the idea of a none cobalt alternative to cobalt blue that could be my main mid blue. I bet it mixes better greens too. The only reds I use in my palette is light red / red oxide as my warm red and quinacridone magenta as my cool I find them more natural. I've had a tube of cadmium red for probably 5 years and barely touched it. It comes out once in a blue for splattering poppies and thats it. I do find Naples Yellow quite useful, in evening skylines, it behaves well wet in wet with cobalt blue, as long as you let it do it's thing, they tend to avoid mixing and generally grey into each other rather than producing green and Naples yellow tends to stay where you put it. It mixes great skin tones too mixed with a touch light red.
I'm always surprised when folks don't use either a quinacridone rose PV19 or a magenta PR122--they are so important for mixing! I'm already a huge fan of nickel titanate--great to see it get some press! Chrome oxide green is the most gorgeous and natural green, so soft and lovely. Perylene violet mixed with perylene green makes absolutely gorgeous darks and blacks. I love the mix of raw umber and payne's grey--what a beautiful mix! Fantastic video. Thank you. No problems with the audio here. I'd save your pennies and keep using your phone as is.
Thank you!
I enjoyed your video. You had me thinking about colours and I concluded that all colours are beautiful. We are so lucky to have colour vision.
So true!
I am binge watching so many of your videos. 🥴 Thank you for your tutorials! 🧑🏻🎨🎨🥰
You are very welcome!
Because I value your content and want to help you get a new phone😉
Thank you!
I,m sure you have a new phone by now and this isnt much. I do appreciate your talent sharing ⭐️
I don't yet, and this is so appreciated, thank you!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber i have just bought a new iphone, it arrived today. if you could use my old phone iPhone 6s 256gb, which is in working condition, as a back up, I shall happily send it you. I dont know how much life is left in it, i cracked the screen and replaced it with a cheap screen and replaced the battery around a month or so ago, so not perfect, but if it could be of some use to you… its yours.
That more violet PR101 looks like Winsor Newton Caput Mortuum violet - a fave of mine :)
Nickel titanate yellow is also perfect for painting yellow columbines, which as a Coloradan I appreciate.
I don't use sepia as a water colour but I use (synthetic) sepia ink for sketching and combine it with water colour washes. for fast portraits mainly but you could also use it for urban sketching. I like that it's dark enough to be dominant against water colour washes but not as dominant as pure black would be.
I often combine it with prussian blue or payne's grey, vermillion and some ochre maybe burnt umber (prussian blue+ burn umber looks very pretty to me).
the next colour I want to try is potter's pink. I think it would be nice as a light colour to add texture into skin and maybe also a nice addition for some botanicals like matthiolas or holly hocks. it seems to be less dominant so it maybe would be nice to add into other colours.
I also want to try neaples yellow reddish in the future...mainly because I think it looks pretty, but if I also want to try swapping it for my ochre to get a more soft look maybe.
Let us know how it goes using Potter's Pink!
Love the discussion of different colo(u)rs! I am going to try the Perylene Violet, since I've been using a lot of violet in my paintings lately. I have Perylene Maroon and Perylene green/black. They are great colors. So easy to make distant evergreens with this color. Like your tip of mixing it with Payne's Grey. Agree with you about the Chromium Green being a great color. Interesting fact: The D.Smith Manganese blue will glow under UV light. Other Manganese Blue colors won't. They do make a lovely version of it. Thanks for the video.
Audio is fine, clear and distinct.
Audio is great here in Texas, U.S.of A., thru WiFi on my Amazon Kindle fire-10 device , on the Video for UA-cam APP....whew! .out of breath!!
You're a very pleasant, proficient and professional instructor. Thank you for generously sharing your talent and time.
My pleasure!
Naples Yellow has become one of my favorite yellows in my landscapes...
It's a beautiful colour ☺️
Ultra Marine is one of my favorites 💗
Lots of these colors are so useful in portraiture! I like using English red as a portrait underpainting since it’s so staining and warm. Perylene violet makes beautiful browns when mixed with the yellows or light greens, and raw umber can make a nice blond tone
They really are, aren't they?!
Thanks Michele. I have many of the colors you mentioned and most of them I really don't use much, so I found this video helpful and I am eager to pay a bit more attention to the potentials of the colors you shared today. The one exception for me was Sepia. I use Sepia all the time. Even though its a darker color, it somehow just seems to work in so many different situations. It seems like it enhances other colors without detracting from them while adding a nice contrast . I hate to hear that some people may be rude or argumentative with you. There is no cause for that and people really need to get a life lol. I appreciate you.
Thanks so much ☺️
I went and ordered my first paints from Jackman's based on this video. They looked amazing in the video.
That's great, I know you will love them!
I'm so glad you made this video and also that I watched it. Very helpful to me. I appreciate your clarification of the subtleties of these colors and I will be adding some to my palette now that I understand their usefulness. Thanks
I'm so glad!
Perelyne green has become my “black”. All the Perelynes… wonderful contrast colours
That ultramarine you show looks like the French Ultramarine I have from Sennelier. It's a beautiful colour indeed.
It is!
I've not yet become acquainted with most of the colors spoken about, but have ultra marine and umber. I especially enjoyed learning about the latter's uses. Cerulean Blue is my go to for clear skies (probably because all my instruction books usually call for it), but I'll look into getting the manganese blue you spoke of--I like that "shade" (😉) very much. Thanks, Helen!
I just opened a tube of DS Napthamide Maroon tonight and when I swatched it I basically swooned. Very sublime pigment with good movement, very close to Perylene Violet. I also really love many of the Green Gold shades. Subtle but bright...
Perylene violet nails... Love iit! 😹😽
This was very informative and interesting. Thank you for showing us these colors. I've put a couple in my wish list.
Thanks for watching!
Two colours i really love for shadows are Moonglow and Raw Umber Violet. Raw Umber Violet is more natural looking shadow colour, Moonglow is prettier but more synthetic, but both work great for shadowed areas.
Haven't tried Raw Umber Violet, will have to take a look!
I have several of these colours quin rose, perylene violet, oxide of green, mangenese blue, raw umber, sepia
Thank you for showing us these colors. I especially love that yellow.
You are very welcome 🙂
Useful,tip about mixing Burnt Umber with a blue to get a Sepia type brown…..I do have a tube of Sepia but just not room in my paint palette to carry it around
This is such a nice and useful video! Thank you! As for the hues, I was also told, that Naples yellow can be used also for winter sky, since the light in winter is rather muted. I went for it and I was very happy with the result. I love the idea of using it for primeroses!:)
perylene violet mixed with perylene green gives a lovely black/shadow colour
Wow, I need to add most of these to my set. Now to find a USA distributer near me.
Fantastic video as usual Michele, and no problem with sound, in fact I'd never noticed one previously. Obviously I'm so engrossed in the useful information that you so kindly give us on a regular basis that I was too busy enjoying the video 😊 I have a couple of those colours you mentioned, and I love my Sepia, it's so versatile, just like Paynes Grey 😉, they both come in very handy. I rather like the look of the Naples Yellow, and the various Oxide colours you mentioned. The muted Green would be a great addition to my collection. I think it's time I made some more colour charts 🤔. Thanks again for your valuable time and support. Take care 🤗💕x
No probs, thanks for watching :-)
Your sound is fine…good volume and clear speaking. IMO no problem. I appreciate this information! Excellent!
I like the nickel titanat yellow.
Fantastic suggestions! I agree about Raw Umber. I remember as a child not wanting to use the warm brown crayon that was always in the box because tree trunks were a cool brown! Raw Umber is a staple in my palette!
So true!
I hear you clearly and understand all! NO PROBLEM😂
I love the sepia colour.
Fab top and yummy lipstick xx love those colours.
Thank you for fabulous information on colours and their uses. First time I have tuned in, but I will definitely be tuning in again.
Thanks JoAnn so glad you liked it 😊
Thanks for all your hard work making these interesting and informative videos! I love Chromium Oxide Green. Use it obsessively for the grey greens of Australian gum leaves. It darkens beautifully with cadmium red or ultramarine. Mixed with cerulean, you'll get such beautiful soft blue-greens that take your breath away!
Great tip, sounds very exotic!
I recently discovered Nickle Azo Yellow and I am in love with it.
that sounds interesting, who sells it?
@@artwithalexander5359 Mine is Daniel Smith's but Im pretty sure every brand has a version of it with different names. It usually is a PY150
It's a great yellow for mixing.
I was having a lot of trouble finding a shade of tan that I wanted and found out that gold and pink makes a good tan, but I think that yellow she was using would work if you use the yellow lightly.
I absolutely fell in love with the manganese blue hue the first time I used it, but on camera, I think I prefer the ultramarine green shade - it’s such an intense blue!
It's always tricky to completely show certain colors on camera, as sometimes the camera shifts them ever so slightly.
I liked all the colors you demoed but particularly the Ultramarine green shade. I will order it from Jackson's next time I order from them. I recently discovered Jackson's and like their watercolors. I also was quite taken by your painting that you showed. You are a very excellent watercolor artist and teacher. Thank you for your videos. Sharon in the Yukon Territory, Canada 🇨🇦
Your audio is fine. You have a good clear speaking voice too.
Thanks, Michelle, for your hard work! You sound just fine, BTW.
I've never used nickel titanate yellow, but all the other colors have rotated in and out of my palette for the last 50 years! Well, Quin Rose isn't that old, but it's a standard cool red replacement for Alizarin in modern palettes. Raw umber is so underrated. It's essentially a very neutral yellow and is wonderful for softening too bright violets and purples (PV23, I'm looking at you!) Mixed with cobalt blue, you get a beautiful soft grey. I love Perylene Violet, but Perylene green has a permanent place on any of my palettes, from the 12 color travel palette on up. It's an extremely versatile mixer. Manganese blue hue was a disappointment, not that it isn't a lovely color, but it doesn't have the incredible granularity of the original Manganese PB33. (Luckily I still have 5 tubes!)
Naples yellow is so different from each manufacturer, it's hard to compare them, but my go to is W&N's Naples Yellow Deep. I use it instead of yellow ochre, and it's even a single pigment, PBr24. Chromium oxide green is a great landscape green, also very granular (and opaque). That and Perylene green is all I need for the desert-y greens around here!
Thanks again, Michelle! Keep up the good work 👍
You are welcome Julie, I have never had any genuine Manganese! I think they banned it or something...
Thank you because these shouldn't be disregarded. Great information.
Thanks for watching!
I love to add a tiny amount of other colors to Naples yellow as a base. All the colors have a creaminess to them. Manganese blue hue is nothing like the original. From the time I started painting, manganese blue was a staple for me. So versatile. Easy to move around, wonderful in skys and water. I went to replace it several years ago and found only the “hue” version. The color was wrong. It seemed dead in comparison. It also no longer could be moved around. Luckily I found a tube of the original in a little art shop in a small village. Hopefully it will last me a long long time.
DaVinci Paints makes a beautiful Manganese Blue Mixture that is PB33/PB15. Maybe it would suit you. I love it
I love raw umber, to get a non-red tinted brown
I really like napes yellow....
Your sound is very good-strong and clear on my end. Save your money on a new phone! Love your channel. You are do knowledgeable 💐
Awesome, thank you! I now have a new phone :-)
Sound is perfect. Thank you for your always clear, concise tutorials.
You're very welcome!
I am going to make a pallet with these!
I’m a late comer to this video but I loved it! Thank you for all the great information!
Hearing you perfectly
A wonderful video! I love learning more about colors. DaVinci Paints makes a gorgeous Manganese Blue Mixture with PB33/PB15. I’m off to binge watch some more of your videos. I really appreciate your informative style and sense of humor.
Thanks for sharing!
I like your channel! Thank you
Me too @86 and I am a card maker for family n friends
Your nail polish looks like perylene violet! Thanks for the video.
I only noticed when I was painting!
Absolutely FABULOUS advice on these colours. I totally agree. Love those colours.
Learned new mixes thank you.ill watch this over again, take notes and make swatches
Have fun!
thank you Michele. very interesting and useful.
You are so welcome!
Thanks for this! I will definitely not be returning my W&N Nickel Titanate! I appreciate your content!
Any time!
This is a great video & I love how your explaining the various uses and mixing tips.
That very first yellow almost seems like a “cool” yellow even without the green in it , thought that was neat
Yes it would definitely be considered cool.
Great information. Looking forward to painting after I get my drawing more consistent (and better 😊).
Wonderful!
This is another great video by you. I love these videos about colours that are not the absolute basics. Anne Kerr recommended Napels yellow for sunsets, saying that it won't turn easily into a green sky.
Thank you, Regi!
Thanks for another great video! I already discovered and LOVE Naples Yellow and Chrome Oxide Green!!! They "balance" so many of my colors, I can't imagine not having them in my pallette.
I have so many colors like that :-)
This video just showed up in my feed and I watched because I was curious. I love that you explain why a single pigment paint can vary so much in appearance (from different makers) depending on pigment grind and binders. I was wondering about this phenomenon! I consider myself perhaps an intermediate to advanced beginner in painting. I think I’ll subscribe- there is a lot to learn!
Thanks for subscribing Gerrie, I appreciate it!
Nickel Azo Yellow is my favorite
Thanks for the informative demo.
I will save this video. Learning so much from all your videos. Thank you for your generosity in teaching. Appreciate it very much. Sound quality is fine this end.
Thanks fore a great video. 💛💙 From Sweden
Thanks for watching!
Terrific tutorial, thank you.
I love all your videos, Michele, but especially your colour ones. This was great! I just recently tried to paint a landscape and my trees were horrible. I wish I’d had some Chromium Oxide Green to play with LOL I have always loved Naples Yellow and I will definitely be giving Nickel Titanate a try. One colour I did recently add to my palette, and love, is Transparent Red Oxide. Thank you SO much for this wonderful information ❤️
Not a problem!
I agree! Michele is a color master ❤️👍🏽
Somehow these include all my favourite colours! I'm not sure how it happened that I ended up preferring these to other possibilities people might reach for first.
Thanks greatly Michele for taking the time to share an intreguing video on colours, enjoyed the video as you explained how you're able to use these colours to create amazing mixes. Greatly appreciating stay safe and healthy
Thanks, Philip.
Fascinating. Very good information. Take notes. Swatch your colors.
Thank you!
I enjoy your videos, especially the swatching ones. However, it would have been helpful if you had swatched the "regular" ultramarine blue beside the ultramarine blue (green shade) so we could see the difference.
Me too at 86 and I am “a card maker” as gifts for friends and family
I found this really useful and interesting. Love these colors and will consider them as I re-work my beginner palette! Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for sharing uses for these slightly unusual colors! They’re gathering dust in my paint box.
You are welcome!