In this video, I'll swatch all of my current collection of Wallace Seymour watercolors while answering questions submitted by my subscribers. I'll share the most valuable piece of art advice I've been given, whether or not I'm self-taught, where my colour palette inspiration comes from, and more. This is a super calm and chilled video, so make yourself a drink and a snack, or get your sketchbook/current project and put this on in the background while you work. I'd love to hear the best art advice you've ever been given in the comments section below. I hope that you enjoy the video. Natasha x
Oh no! Now I have a huge list of Wallace Seymour paints that I may not survive if I don’t purchase immediately. Why is colour so vital to my happiness? It genuinely makes my heart race to see a gorgeous new hue. 😍😍😍😂😂😂
The best advice I've ever received as an artist is not to compare your work with that of others. If you lined up 100 artists and put them in front of a scene, you'll get 100 works of art that may be similar on the surface, but is unique to the artist themselves. If you don't put that out to your audience, you're depriving the world of your individual vision. We all have those inner critics, but it feels good to lock them in a soundproof booth with ideas such as this.
Wow! Love these watercolors! The colors are gorgeous! I was mainly taught to work in oils over 50 years ago. Abt 30 years ago I transitioned to acrylics….now, I love gouache, colored pencils and watercolor. Who knows…one day I may go back to oils…it doesn’t matter what you use, just do your art and enjoy!❤
Oil paints can be cleaned off brushes with linseed oil. We were banned from using turps at uni and so that’s what I did. Scraping off most of the excess left on the brush with the palette knife on to the palette first, then finally cleaning with oil and a rag. Hope this might help you. Love the Vintage swatches!
I love that when you were answering the question about your color palette, you were swatching colors that matched your sweater. Consistency! ☺ Thank you for another relaxing video. 🎨🖌💕
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and the advice from Leon (It's also my son's name.)! I am glad you surpassed those times in your young adult life and kept on! ❤❤❤ The paints also look beautiful. 😍😘
A beautiful and relaxing video as always 😊 I really enjoyed the question and answer session, your voice is so relaxing, and the gorgeous colours of the paints too! ✨ Having the different colours as individual swatches will be really handy for working out various colour combinations without having to re-swatch, great idea! 🎨💖😘 xxx
i hated watercolours before i came across your channel. now i can't believe how beautiful those colours are and how wonderful watercolour art is. i just got one of your watercolours/mixed media prints and... thank you so much. The print is super high quality, almost feels like holding the original painting. every time i see the print in my living room, my heart feels like opening up and jumping of joy. this print captures so much beauty, it feels like a magic spell in shapes and colours! love your work💐
ooooooo .. .. what a delight of a video this is darling! Lot's of gorgeousness colour wise .. but blimey o'riley the Potters Pink at the end there took my breath. I most definitely will have to grab one of those!!!. Thanking you muchly for your time Natasha .. I've really, really enjoyed this one. As always, big hugs to you & Dominic xx xx
@@NatashaNewtonArt.. Isn't it just yummy!.. (& there is a sale on the Wallace Seymour just now 😉) Not been my best (health wise) for the last few months but am happy to report am starting to feel much better & far more chipper now, hooray & hallelujah! 😊 xx xx
Lovely video from every perspective. The paints are absolutely gorgeous, even better than I expected, maybe one day I will treat myself to a few of these. How rich they are! I am a lover of deep darks, so these are like an incitement to buy! Your q&a’s were so interesting, gosh I can remember just how much £500’s could get you back then! I loved painting in oils, and everything else feels a little unnatural to me, but space, chemicals and practicality prevented me, along with a white cat that was constantly moulting! She is not with me now and I have a really nice accumulation of water based oils that will get over some problems. I have been working in acrylics and watercolour like you, but unlike you I am not very courageous! So your just keep going advice is spot on for me. Thanks so much for that. I so relate to your feelings about paints, one of the things I like about your posts is that you do ‘artist talk’!
I just received my beautiful Wallace Seymour vintage watercolors the “Scottish Highlands” set, and they are absolutely gorgeous! They’re a bit difficult to get a hold of, but I was very pleased to work with ArtReq.. and they were delivered this afternoon in the post in the USA. They are extremely different than anything I’ve worked with and so I’m looking forward to painting something soon with them. Thank you for swatching these beautiful colors in the video …because they certainly are different.
These colours are so beautiful, I feel similar to you I have a lot of primary shades and I’m working my way through the more interesting ones and it’s really fun 😊
These colours are fabulous Natasha so rich and creamy , I wonder what each swatch would look like with more of a gradient in the values of each colour . xx
These greens, ah, these greens ♥ Thank you for the video. As always - so cozy and calm, and like-home. 'Just keep going' is the best piece of advice I can think of in relation to creative work, no matter the form or medium.
I was lucky enough to stumble upon an art shop in Bristol that sells Wallace Seymour 5ml tubes!!! My favourites (out of my small selection) are Lapis ashes, Torreón Sandstone and Indigo genuine. I wished I’d seen your video before I chose mine…… I absolutely love your burnt sienna and your whole selection of greens!
Thank you so much for sharing. I am thrilled to hear an adventure in the English countryside is on the cards. Also really loving the swatching on this handmade cotton paper I think it shows the amazing textures and characteristics of these beautiful water colours. The close up of the swatches (when dried) is terrific, so useful in helping decide which one could be added to my palette. I love that you explore new water colours with us and as an added bonus ....so relaxing .
The best piece of advice I ever received was that everyone can do art, and that just because you're not "naturally gifted" at drawing doesn't mean you can't enjoy art and learn how to get better at the techniques you find difficult or off-putting. Equally, if you don't want to use those techniques, you don't have to - think of all of the stunning collages, sculptures and abstract paintings out there in the world that don't involve precise work with a pen or pencil! I wish I'd known this as a child and teenager with what, in hindsight, was some quite frankly rubbish art teaching at school. Perhaps I would have found this wonderful creative outlet that I enjoy so much earlier in my life.
Thank you so much for sharing so much with us. I love watching your swatching & always learn from every video of yours. These are beautiful paints as well! I am so glad you gave “kept going” as you have been a great influence for me in my art journey.
“the day you give up is the day it will never happen”, gonna write this on my forehead and both hands just in case i feel like throwing my paints out of the window 😂❤
Finally someone makes an awesome swatch of Wallace Seymour. I love that you have been doing some in your channel, because their online official catalog is not very useful. Dufy in swatches is much lighter than what they show, for example. I love the brand but they could do a better job showcasing their products (and thankfully you are helping them and us).
I totally agree with you about their online swatches! Some of them look nothing like the actual colour! I'm glad you found this useful (it was all filmed in natural light this time to make sure they were as accurate as possible).
@@NatashaNewtonArt the best source to know how their colors would look was on their instagram page; they have pictures of their tubes which come with a stripe of real paint. It sounds almost pathetic, but that is how I picked my colors! 😅
Natasha! I thoroughly enjoyed this video and found listening to you answering everyone's questions very calming, informative and comforting. I felt really emotional when you were sharing the advice Leon was given - even though, as you said, the advice to 'just keep going' seems simple, it holds so much power! Have definitely been encouraged to keep going after hearing this and feel very inspired. Thank you x
Yaaassssss! I've been waiting for this!!! Thank you so much 🤩 Will you be posting a revised video of your updated "main" palette soon, pretty please?? ☺
@@NatashaNewtonArt Thank you dear! And I am soooo excited for your course, I know it's still in its infantry stage but that was the best news I've heard all day and I can't wait!!!!
Oh my days ...I have been waiting for the wallace seymour swatch video. I have 6 colours up to now and I have been wanting to buy more as I adore them. So many beautiful colours, and a lovely bonus to have the Q&A too. I have recently started swatching on watercolour Fabriano trading cards and attaching them on a key ring as a more convenient reference to use. Although, the paper you used looks yummy with those watercolours. Hope you had a lovely bank holiday Natasha xx
Patty-I find all those rules restrictive. I'm very much a person who tries to find a place for everything I'm working with. I try to keep color in my pieces if I can. I'm learning to appreciate the greens and the darker colors. I'm really a warm tone person so the cool tones have become an interesting challenge. I do love Payne's Gray because of you. I love the blues undertone, my favorite color. Thank you for swatching all of those colors. If I choose to sample that brand, it will have to be one color . I just don't know which one.
Thankyou for sharing the Keep on Going advice Natasha, it’s something I will keep on telling myself from now on. My art career has been so up and down (and mostly down in recent years) so this is very inspiring thankyou!xx
Thank you for all the work you put into making these fine swatches, and that is the wildest Potter's Pink I've ever seen. I don't think this brand is for me, which is a great relief given my recent total cave-in to Roman Szmal, but I am very glad to see them.
Hello Natasha! Thanks for the video! Were you pleased with using that paper for the swatches in the end? Or would you have preferred a different ground? I have some similar size paper (Khadi brand) and I wonder if they will showcase the full range of granulation if I do likewise.
They're fun to work on and I love the ready-made size for swatches, but to be honest I do prefer to work on regular watercolour paper for swatches. I feel that the paints perform a little better on less heavily textured paper and dry a little more evenly (these looked a little blotchy in places!). You could just use a cold-pressed cotton watercolour paper - that should show granulation nicely.
Question Natasha. I’ve read in Jane Blundell’s blog that Wallace Seymour Vintage are better for painting straight from the tube, as she saw massive cracking and poor rewetability if drying from pans. Was that your same experience?
Such beautiful colors! I love hearing all of your answers. You are very inspiring. Thanks so for sharing so much with us. I'd love to know what pen you use to write the name of the color on your swatches. Would you be willing to share with us? Thanks.
Dear Natasha, Here are a few tips for you to challenge yourself. There is a difference between putting paint onto a palette with water there in a well, compared to using wet paint directly on the swatch. So, this will affect how the granulation forms as soon as it hits the paper. If you use it dried on a palette or pan, you will find that you use much less too! Another pro tip is to put small amounts of water into your palette first, without dipping and wiping your brush, it is quicker, and it stops the bead forming near the ferrule, again to be wiped off on a towel on the edge of the table, at a slight angle to get rid of the bead. You will also use less paint if you start with the weakest mix on your swatch, to the mass tone last. Wipe your brush on paper serviettes, as this reduces pigment in waste water. Then use the paper as collage in new works with either a rice paste glue like yamato paste or paper Mod Podge matt medium as the glue, and coating over it. Use three glasses of warm water. One for cools, one for warms, (half the colour wheel in each jar) and the third is clean. I use pretty jugs from the op shop, to hear the "tink" as part of the experience. If you want to cut paper which has a deckled edge, wipe some warm water along the seam. Fold the piece over and out a few times, then tear to the right side, not up. I empty my cobalts and cadmiums on my plants, apparently not a bad thing after researching yesterday. I enjoy seeing the nicer coloured water go down the sink! One can also get rid of the water part, and decant back into full pans with each painting session, they become interesting random mixes. Dry brushes while flat, or slight 10 degree angle pointed downwards. Try the Elk on Etsy as a brush holder! Magnetite can be moved with lots of water and a magnet! If it is a light colour like yellow, always mix the dark in small amounts into the lightest, to not waste the light colour paint. Adding the water at the bottom, will only move part of the granulation, as you stroke it upwards. Try doing it with one swatch, particularly with the Potter's pink. Khadi paper with it's definite uniform, deep roughness, will give you a different result to another paper. Why not Try Fabriano Artistico in a pad, in traditional white, or the full sheets of Fabriano Artistico pack 3 + 1 for free. You can make them into a cheaper sketch book, and use the Coptic binding to stitch yourself, to lay flat. I challenge you to also cut your paper with or across the grain of the paper, will also effect the granulation and flow movement. Try the Etchr sketchbook in landscape linen A4, 3 pack is more affordable, and I use one for each topic, one is for swatching, one I use for illustration, the third...possibly a gift. It is good for enhancing your swatches. Far more satisfying, and will look totally different to the khadi! For that reason, I don't like the Canson XL, as the pattern of the grain, of the press has a look like mandarin skin. Each little dip, perfectly patterned reminds me of their pastel paper. How about this? You can use a glue stick on any metal or plastic palette, then wipe it with a wet tissue, to reduce the staining and beading! As for oil paint you can clean up with any light cooking oil. You can also use odourless solvent or medium, citrus turps, or gum turps. The look of oil paint, can not be created with acrylic, as it looks rounded, even with a medium added. Oil has sharper, higher edges if the brush is twisted in the hand, or applied with a palette knife. I think your work would look great as a woodcut or lino cut, and it isn't hard to do with a small intaglio press, or a barron. An intaglio press is good for all kinds of printing, including relief. You could look up, a reduction print. Print a colour. Cut. Print another colour Cut...etc... Oil paint for printing is a clean up on glass, and looks wonderful as it becomes a satin sheen in the light. This also gets you into papers like mulberry, the Japanese papers....another rabbit hole. My teacher at art school described the black as a panther jumping over the top of you" (the sheen changes up and down rolling, and the paint hissed as the roller went over the glass.) It is never to late to go to art school, or a vacation, or as you say take us for a walk with a gymble for your new course. Find your tribe, keep learning. The last thing I will say is I use an app, Camscanner on my iphone. It is terrific for taking photos of artwork, as we can control the edges, the shape distortion, add a watermark, or a handmade mark on paper to add like a stamp. You can take your photo of your work at night in the dark! The editing is amazing, and has OCR. It has lightening modes, and magic settings. Great for passports or important documents. I use it all the time, in progress to push my work further. Yesterday it showed me the stages I should have stopped at, overworked it completely, ah but I have my progress photos in Camscanner! Thanks for your lovely video, Natasha, and beautiful colour swatching. I think I liked that creamy shell pink colour at the end. I hope these words inspire you. Feel free to take a photo of this, so you can access this in the future, if you get stuck for a fast video idea or want to do something a wee bit different... In kindred spirit, Eliza Most Beautiful Day is Today! 29th of August 2023 8:44pm bed office xx
I used to do that with my collage art. Half of my income was from direct licensing for various purposes (usually non-exclusively, and sometimes exclusively), and for magazine articles/covers. The other half was print shop sales and originals.
It basically means that a company/business will use your artwork for something and you're either paid a one-off fee for the use of the artwork, or royalty fees, which vary depending upon how much of the product they sell. Examples of licensing are book cover art, prints, greetings cards, phone cases etc. Hope that helps! x
Beautiful colors! I’m in the US, viewing on my iPhone. Clicked on the link to where you got the paints and was sent to a warning page- unsafe site. I did find a US seller through the Wallace Seymour website though.
I'm not sure why that is, as they're a legit art store in Scotland! I've taken the link out of the description, but I've bought watercolours from them several times and everything has been fine. :) Glad you found a US seller though!
At the moment I use mine from the tubes, but a friend has hers in a palette and she said that they've been ok! Some re-wet faster than others, but you can mix in a bit of gum arabic when you pour them into the pan to help with re-wetting, or just spray them with water and allow a few minutes to reactivate.
a really nice and relaxing swatch + Q&A =) the colors look wonderful. burnt sienne and thuilite cought my eye specifically. if you have already played around mixing them, how does thuilite perform in mixes? it looks like it could be a nice color for mixing
I don't know why that is, they're a legit art store in Scotland! I've taken the link out of the description, but I've bought watercolours from them several times and everything has been fine. :)
Can you share the name of the gallery that you will be exhibiting in with Melanie Chadwick and Kriksis please? I live in Cornwall and would love to come and see three of my favourite artists’ work for real.
Coast Colour Canvas Gallery at Roskilly's Farm, St Keverne from 6th or 7th October for a week, I think. I need to check and will announce it nearer the time! :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt thank you, will look forward to meeting you then if possible. Some Australian relations will be staying but they want to visit the grave of our mutual ancestors who are buried on and around the Lizard. It will depend on what other plans they have. Best wishes for a great show - would you like me to share information on my FaceBook list of friends - many of whom live in Cornwall and are artists?
@@lesleymoreland9629 Thank you Lesley, that would be great! Unfortunately I won't be there in person this time (too many commitments here in Surrey) but Kriksis and Melanie will be. :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt Thank you for letting me know. It is a shame but it would be a lot of travelling for you so I understand that it would be a big commitment.
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In this video, I'll swatch all of my current collection of Wallace Seymour watercolors while answering questions submitted by my subscribers. I'll share the most valuable piece of art advice I've been given, whether or not I'm self-taught, where my colour palette inspiration comes from, and more.
This is a super calm and chilled video, so make yourself a drink and a snack, or get your sketchbook/current project and put this on in the background while you work. I'd love to hear the best art advice you've ever been given in the comments section below. I hope that you enjoy the video. Natasha x
its a video I've been re-visiting as I purchase some Wallace Seymour watercolors from a couple retailers I've found that sell them. Thank you!
@@derwood206 You're welcome! So glad it was useful. :)
Oh no! Now I have a huge list of Wallace Seymour paints that I may not survive if I don’t purchase immediately. Why is colour so vital to my happiness? It genuinely makes my heart race to see a gorgeous new hue. 😍😍😍😂😂😂
I know this feeling well!
The best advice I've ever received as an artist is not to compare your work with that of others. If you lined up 100 artists and put them in front of a scene, you'll get 100 works of art that may be similar on the surface, but is unique to the artist themselves. If you don't put that out to your audience, you're depriving the world of your individual vision. We all have those inner critics, but it feels good to lock them in a soundproof booth with ideas such as this.
Very good advice!
not giving up, keep trying in every way possible, is indeed the best advice ever...
Wow! Love these watercolors! The colors are gorgeous! I was mainly taught to work in oils over 50 years ago. Abt 30 years ago I transitioned to acrylics….now, I love gouache, colored pencils and watercolor. Who knows…one day I may go back to oils…it doesn’t matter what you use, just do your art and enjoy!❤
Really enjoyed this video … and you answering viewer questions and an insight into you as an artist was fascinating. Thank you for sharing this video.
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
Such a wonderful video. I love your palettes and just hearing your wise advice.
Thank you so much!
Oil paints can be cleaned off brushes with linseed oil. We were banned from using turps at uni and so that’s what I did. Scraping off most of the excess left on the brush with the palette knife on to the palette first, then finally cleaning with oil and a rag. Hope this might help you. Love the Vintage swatches!
I love that when you were answering the question about your color palette, you were swatching colors that matched your sweater. Consistency! ☺ Thank you for another relaxing video. 🎨🖌💕
This was so much fun. Thank you! I really needed the "don't give up" advice right now. Those paints are so beautiful too.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and the advice from Leon (It's also my son's name.)! I am glad you surpassed those times in your young adult life and kept on! ❤❤❤ The paints also look beautiful. 😍😘
A beautiful and relaxing video as always 😊 I really enjoyed the question and answer session, your voice is so relaxing, and the gorgeous colours of the paints too! ✨ Having the different colours as individual swatches will be really handy for working out various colour combinations without having to re-swatch, great idea! 🎨💖😘 xxx
I kind of wish I'd swatched all of my colours like this from the start! ;) ♡😘xxx
Beautiful these paints are on my wish list. Thank you.
i hated watercolours before i came across your channel. now i can't believe how beautiful those colours are and how wonderful watercolour art is.
i just got one of your watercolours/mixed media prints and... thank you so much. The print is super high quality, almost feels like holding the original painting. every time i see the print in my living room, my heart feels like opening up and jumping of joy. this print captures so much beauty, it feels like a magic spell in shapes and colours! love your work💐
I'm so glad that you're appreciating watercolours now! It's also great to hear how much you love your print, thank you so much for ordering one!
ooooooo .. .. what a delight of a video this is darling!
Lot's of gorgeousness colour wise .. but blimey o'riley the Potters Pink at the end there took my breath. I most definitely will have to grab one of those!!!.
Thanking you muchly for your time Natasha .. I've really, really enjoyed this one.
As always, big hugs to you & Dominic xx xx
Their Potter's Pink is so rich and deep, I love it! So glad that you enjoyed the video, Jo! Hope you're well. xxx
@@NatashaNewtonArt.. Isn't it just yummy!.. (& there is a sale on the Wallace Seymour just now 😉)
Not been my best (health wise) for the last few months but am happy to report am starting to feel much better & far more chipper now, hooray & hallelujah! 😊 xx xx
I'm so sorry to hear that you haven't been feeling great @@MsJMac72. Sending lots of love and healthy vibes! xxx
@@NatashaNewtonArt 🤍
Gosh I'm glad you kept going too Natasha! Your incredible skill & kindness shines through on every video.
That's a lovely thing to say, thank you. :)
Lovely video from every perspective. The paints are absolutely gorgeous, even better than I expected, maybe one day I will treat myself to a few of these. How rich they are! I am a lover of deep darks, so these are like an incitement to buy! Your q&a’s were so interesting, gosh I can remember just how much £500’s could get you back then! I loved painting in oils, and everything else feels a little unnatural to me, but space, chemicals and practicality prevented me, along with a white cat that was constantly moulting! She is not with me now and I have a really nice accumulation of water based oils that will get over some problems. I have been working in acrylics and watercolour like you, but unlike you I am not very courageous! So your just keep going advice is spot on for me. Thanks so much for that. I so relate to your feelings about paints, one of the things I like about your posts is that you do ‘artist talk’!
I just received my beautiful Wallace Seymour vintage watercolors the “Scottish Highlands” set, and they are absolutely gorgeous! They’re a bit difficult to get a hold of, but I was very pleased to work with ArtReq.. and they were delivered this afternoon in the post in the USA. They are extremely different than anything I’ve worked with and so I’m looking forward to painting something soon with them. Thank you for swatching these beautiful colors in the video …because they certainly are different.
Enjoy your new paints! :)
These colours are so beautiful, I feel similar to you I have a lot of primary shades and I’m working my way through the more interesting ones and it’s really fun 😊
That paper is gorgeous 🥰
And the colors are absolutely lovely 💕
Great chat and beautiful colors!
These colours are fabulous Natasha so rich and creamy , I wonder what each swatch would look like with more of a gradient in the values of each colour . xx
Loved this video, all the colours are a minimum 🤩
These greens, ah, these greens ♥
Thank you for the video. As always - so cozy and calm, and like-home.
'Just keep going' is the best piece of advice I can think of in relation to creative work, no matter the form or medium.
Thank you! ♡
That was lovely, both the Q&A and the swatches. Some of these paints will definitely have to go on my list, they’re gorgeous ❤
So glad you enjoyed it, Sonya!
I was lucky enough to stumble upon an art shop in Bristol that sells Wallace Seymour 5ml tubes!!! My favourites (out of my small selection) are Lapis ashes, Torreón Sandstone and Indigo genuine. I wished I’d seen your video before I chose mine…… I absolutely love your burnt sienna and your whole selection of greens!
Ooh, that’s a lucky find!
Thank you so much for sharing. I am thrilled to hear an adventure in the English countryside is on the cards. Also really loving the swatching on this handmade cotton paper I think it shows the amazing textures and characteristics of these beautiful water colours. The close up of the swatches (when dried) is terrific, so useful in helping decide which one could be added to my palette. I love that you explore new water colours with us and as an added bonus ....so relaxing .
I'm so glad that you found the video useful! :)
The best piece of advice I ever received was that everyone can do art, and that just because you're not "naturally gifted" at drawing doesn't mean you can't enjoy art and learn how to get better at the techniques you find difficult or off-putting.
Equally, if you don't want to use those techniques, you don't have to - think of all of the stunning collages, sculptures and abstract paintings out there in the world that don't involve precise work with a pen or pencil!
I wish I'd known this as a child and teenager with what, in hindsight, was some quite frankly rubbish art teaching at school. Perhaps I would have found this wonderful creative outlet that I enjoy so much earlier in my life.
This is so true!
Loved this Natasha thanks for sharing ❤
Thanks Deborah, glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you so much for sharing so much with us. I love watching your swatching & always learn from every video of yours. These are beautiful paints as well! I am so glad you gave “kept going” as you have been a great influence for me in my art journey.
That's so kind, thank you!
Another lovely swatching video and also a very nice Q&A 😊. Thank you! (That permanent sap green though... Just wow.)
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
“the day you give up is the day it will never happen”, gonna write this on my forehead and both hands just in case i feel like throwing my paints out of the window 😂❤
These vintage colours are so lovely. I will add them to my ‘wish list’. Great advice - keep going. 🙏💜
Finally someone makes an awesome swatch of Wallace Seymour. I love that you have been doing some in your channel, because their online official catalog is not very useful. Dufy in swatches is much lighter than what they show, for example.
I love the brand but they could do a better job showcasing their products (and thankfully you are helping them and us).
I totally agree with you about their online swatches! Some of them look nothing like the actual colour! I'm glad you found this useful (it was all filmed in natural light this time to make sure they were as accurate as possible).
@@NatashaNewtonArt the best source to know how their colors would look was on their instagram page; they have pictures of their tubes which come with a stripe of real paint. It sounds almost pathetic, but that is how I picked my colors! 😅
I had the same issue with Wallace Seymour! I wonder if their colors change quite a bit from batch to batch.
That's actually a great way of doing it! @@vilvile
Natasha! I thoroughly enjoyed this video and found listening to you answering everyone's questions very calming, informative and comforting. I felt really emotional when you were sharing the advice Leon was given - even though, as you said, the advice to 'just keep going' seems simple, it holds so much power! Have definitely been encouraged to keep going after hearing this and feel very inspired. Thank you x
I'm so glad that it inspired and encouraged you, Joanna. Hope you're well, m'dear! x
Yaaassssss! I've been waiting for this!!! Thank you so much 🤩 Will you be posting a revised video of your updated "main" palette soon, pretty please?? ☺
I may include it in another video rather than making a dedicated video just to that one palette, but yes, I'll share it! ♡
@@NatashaNewtonArt Thank you dear! And I am soooo excited for your course, I know it's still in its infantry stage but that was the best news I've heard all day and I can't wait!!!!
I love this swatch idea! 🤍
I would love to take an art course by you, Natasha!
Oh my days ...I have been waiting for the wallace seymour swatch video. I have 6 colours up to now and I have been wanting to buy more as I adore them. So many beautiful colours, and a lovely bonus to have the Q&A too. I have recently started swatching on watercolour Fabriano trading cards and attaching them on a key ring as a more convenient reference to use. Although, the paper you used looks yummy with those watercolours. Hope you had a lovely bank holiday Natasha xx
Love the key ring idea! x
Patty-I find all those rules restrictive. I'm very much a person who tries to find a place for everything I'm working with. I try to keep color in my pieces if I can. I'm learning to appreciate the greens and the darker colors. I'm really a warm tone person so the cool tones have become an interesting challenge. I do love Payne's Gray because of you. I love the blues undertone, my favorite color. Thank you for swatching all of those colors. If I choose to sample that brand, it will have to be one color . I just don't know which one.
Natasha, what a wonderful relaxing chat and swatching session! You are a gem and I love your art.
Glad you enjoyed it, Marian! Thank you. :)
Thank you for a most helpful and inspiring video!❤️
Thankyou for sharing the Keep on Going advice Natasha, it’s something I will keep on telling myself from now on. My art career has been so up and down (and mostly down in recent years) so this is very inspiring thankyou!xx
Everything ebbs and flows, Jess - just keep going, stay curious, and keep learning and experimenting! xxx
I'm so glad you didn't give up UA-cam! Loved this!
Thank you so much!
Lovely video x
Beautiful swatches! "Keep going." ❤️
Thank you so much!
Thank you for sharing with us! And the paints are lovely! ❤
My pleasure!
Thank you for all the work you put into making these fine swatches, and that is the wildest Potter's Pink I've ever seen. I don't think this brand is for me, which is a great relief given my recent total cave-in to Roman Szmal, but I am very glad to see them.
Just an awfully big thank you for sharing 🌳
Thank you for watching, Mandy!
Hello Natasha! Thanks for the video! Were you pleased with using that paper for the swatches in the end? Or would you have preferred a different ground? I have some similar size paper (Khadi brand) and I wonder if they will showcase the full range of granulation if I do likewise.
I’ve used Khadi paper for a lot of my swatches and in my experience, it’s great for granulating colours.
They're fun to work on and I love the ready-made size for swatches, but to be honest I do prefer to work on regular watercolour paper for swatches. I feel that the paints perform a little better on less heavily textured paper and dry a little more evenly (these looked a little blotchy in places!). You could just use a cold-pressed cotton watercolour paper - that should show granulation nicely.
8:51 That is a gorgeous green earth!
It really is!
Natasha, you are a gem!
Aw, thanks!
Beautiful awesome work💞💞❤💛❤💛❤💞❤💝💞❤💟❤💛💝💞💝💝♥💝💟💝💟💝💝💓💗💛❤💛❤💜💖💜❤💜👏👍💜👏💜👏💞💕💞💖💞❤💞
Thank you!
Wonderful swatch video. Did you buy these online ? I cannot find a store with a decent website when mail order? Thank you Natasha :)
I got them from artreq.co.uk :)
Question Natasha. I’ve read in Jane Blundell’s blog that Wallace Seymour Vintage are better for painting straight from the tube, as she saw massive cracking and poor rewetability if drying from pans. Was that your same experience?
Do you have a video on licensing? Like the process, what to watch out for, how to negotiate, etc? I would love to see that while you paint
Such beautiful colors! I love hearing all of your answers. You are very inspiring. Thanks so for sharing so much with us. I'd love to know what pen you use to write the name of the color on your swatches. Would you be willing to share with us? Thanks.
Thank you. :) It's a Micron fineliner - a 0.3 or 0.4, I think!
Oh thank you so much!
@@NatashaNewtonArt
🤤🤤🤤 how do they compare to Schmincke, W&N, Kremer?
Gorgeous colors 🥰
I am very interested in the course that you are considering creating and I look forward to hearing more about it❣️
Thanks Wendy!
Dear Natasha,
Here are a few tips for you to challenge yourself.
There is a difference between putting paint onto a palette with water there in a well, compared to using wet paint directly on the swatch. So, this will affect how the granulation forms as soon as it hits the paper. If you use it dried on a palette or pan, you will find that you use much less too!
Another pro tip is to put small amounts of water into your palette first, without dipping and wiping your brush, it is quicker, and it stops the bead forming near the ferrule, again to be wiped off on a towel on the edge of the table, at a slight angle to get rid of the bead.
You will also use less paint if you start with the weakest mix on your swatch, to the mass tone last.
Wipe your brush on paper serviettes, as this reduces pigment in waste water.
Then use the paper as collage in new works with either a rice paste glue like yamato paste or paper Mod Podge matt medium as the glue, and coating over it.
Use three glasses of warm water. One for cools, one for warms, (half the colour wheel in each jar) and the third is clean. I use pretty jugs from the op shop, to hear the "tink" as part of the experience.
If you want to cut paper which has a deckled edge, wipe some warm water along the seam. Fold the piece over and out a few times, then tear to the right side, not up.
I empty my cobalts and cadmiums on my plants, apparently not a bad thing after researching yesterday. I enjoy seeing the nicer coloured water go down the sink! One can also get rid of the water part, and decant back into full pans with each painting session, they become interesting random mixes.
Dry brushes while flat, or slight 10 degree angle pointed downwards. Try the Elk on Etsy as a brush holder!
Magnetite can be moved with lots of water and a magnet!
If it is a light colour like yellow, always mix the dark in small amounts into the lightest, to not waste the light colour paint.
Adding the water at the bottom, will only move part of the granulation, as you stroke it upwards. Try doing it with one swatch, particularly with the Potter's pink.
Khadi paper with it's definite uniform, deep roughness, will give you a different result to another paper.
Why not Try Fabriano Artistico in a pad, in traditional white, or the full sheets of Fabriano Artistico pack 3 + 1 for free. You can make them into a cheaper sketch book, and use the Coptic binding to stitch yourself, to lay flat. I challenge you to also cut your paper with or across the grain of the paper, will also effect the granulation and flow movement.
Try the Etchr sketchbook in landscape linen A4, 3 pack is more affordable, and I use one for each topic, one is for swatching, one I use for illustration, the third...possibly a gift. It is good for enhancing your swatches. Far more satisfying, and will look totally different to the khadi!
For that reason, I don't like the Canson XL, as the pattern of the grain, of the press has a look like mandarin skin. Each little dip, perfectly patterned reminds me of their pastel paper.
How about this? You can use a glue stick on any metal or plastic palette, then wipe it with a wet tissue, to reduce the staining and beading!
As for oil paint you can clean up with any light cooking oil. You can also use odourless solvent or medium, citrus turps, or gum turps. The look of oil paint, can not be created with acrylic, as it looks rounded, even with a medium added. Oil has sharper, higher edges if the brush is twisted in the hand, or applied with a palette knife.
I think your work would look great as a woodcut or lino cut, and it isn't hard to do with a small intaglio press, or a barron. An intaglio press is good for all kinds of printing, including relief. You could look up, a reduction print. Print a colour. Cut. Print another colour Cut...etc...
Oil paint for printing is a clean up on glass, and looks wonderful as it becomes a satin sheen in the light. This also gets you into papers like mulberry, the Japanese papers....another rabbit hole. My teacher at art school described the black as a panther jumping over the top of you" (the sheen changes up and down rolling, and the paint hissed as the roller went over the glass.)
It is never to late to go to art school, or a vacation, or as you say take us for a walk with a gymble for your new course. Find your tribe, keep learning.
The last thing I will say is I use an app, Camscanner on my iphone. It is terrific for taking photos of artwork, as we can control the edges, the shape distortion, add a watermark, or a handmade mark on paper to add like a stamp. You can take your photo of your work at night in the dark! The editing is amazing, and has OCR. It has lightening modes, and magic settings. Great for passports or important documents. I use it all the time, in progress to push my work further. Yesterday it showed me the stages I should have stopped at, overworked it completely, ah but I have my progress photos in Camscanner!
Thanks for your lovely video, Natasha, and beautiful colour swatching. I think I liked that creamy shell pink colour at the end. I hope these words inspire you. Feel free to take a photo of this, so you can access this in the future, if you get stuck for a fast video idea or want to do something a wee bit different...
In kindred spirit,
Eliza Most Beautiful Day is Today!
29th of August 2023
8:44pm
bed office xx
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Hi Natasha how are you? You mentioned licensing your art work, i haven't heard of this, what does it mean and what are the benefits. Thank you x
I used to do that with my collage art. Half of my income was from direct licensing for various purposes (usually non-exclusively, and sometimes exclusively), and for magazine articles/covers. The other half was print shop sales and originals.
It basically means that a company/business will use your artwork for something and you're either paid a one-off fee for the use of the artwork, or royalty fees, which vary depending upon how much of the product they sell. Examples of licensing are book cover art, prints, greetings cards, phone cases etc. Hope that helps! x
Beautiful colors!
I’m in the US, viewing on my iPhone. Clicked on the link to where you got the paints and was sent to a warning page- unsafe site. I did find a US seller through the Wallace Seymour website though.
I'm not sure why that is, as they're a legit art store in Scotland! I've taken the link out of the description, but I've bought watercolours from them several times and everything has been fine. :) Glad you found a US seller though!
Superb! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I think the only place I could get this is via Choosing Keeping. Not sure where else anyone from United States could have access to these.
I think at the moment they're largely UK based - they're quite difficult to get hold of even here!
Do you keep your Wallace Seymour watercolors in the tubes or do you dry them in pans to include in your palette? Not sure how they re-wet in pans?
At the moment I use mine from the tubes, but a friend has hers in a palette and she said that they've been ok! Some re-wet faster than others, but you can mix in a bit of gum arabic when you pour them into the pan to help with re-wetting, or just spray them with water and allow a few minutes to reactivate.
a really nice and relaxing swatch + Q&A =)
the colors look wonderful. burnt sienne and thuilite cought my eye specifically.
if you have already played around mixing them, how does thuilite perform in mixes? it looks like it could be a nice color for mixing
I've never used it in mixes! It's a very weak colour (although beautiful), so I'm not sure how well it would mix. I should try it perhaps!
Lovely, but where to get the paint?
I've listed a few places in the description under the video. :)
Better late than never 😂😂. Hope you are well and thanks for this swatching session 😊.
Well, there you are! I was wondering what happened! 😂 (Hope you're well too!)
@@NatashaNewtonArt Hi Natasha! Thanks, all good. I’m actually still watching this video. I had to leave it to attend to an errand.
When I tried the link to the paint website, I got a message saying that the link was collecting financial data and not safe?
I don't know why that is, they're a legit art store in Scotland! I've taken the link out of the description, but I've bought watercolours from them several times and everything has been fine. :)
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Can you share the name of the gallery that you will be exhibiting in with Melanie Chadwick and Kriksis please? I live in Cornwall and would love to come and see three of my favourite artists’ work for real.
Coast Colour Canvas Gallery at Roskilly's Farm, St Keverne from 6th or 7th October for a week, I think. I need to check and will announce it nearer the time! :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt thank you, will look forward to meeting you then if possible. Some Australian relations will be staying but they want to visit the grave of our mutual ancestors who are buried on and around the Lizard. It will depend on what other plans they have. Best wishes for a great show - would you like me to share information on my FaceBook list of friends - many of whom live in Cornwall and are artists?
@@lesleymoreland9629 Thank you Lesley, that would be great! Unfortunately I won't be there in person this time (too many commitments here in Surrey) but Kriksis and Melanie will be. :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt Thank you for letting me know. It is a shame but it would be a lot of travelling for you so I understand that it would be a big commitment.
Please give the source of the really cute handmade paper. Thank you for sharing.
I bought it from the Royal Academy's online shop. :)
22:57 Are you sure that‘s Potter‘s Pink? It’s very strong.
It is indeed! A very rich and deep one. :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt The W&S Potter’s Pink is indeed unique!