A beautiful palette you have there :) I would actually replace the Permanent Brown with Burnt Umber, as this is my favorite earth tone for mixing greys. I know you prefer Burnt Sienna+Ultramarine, but my favorite grey/"black" mix is Burnt Umber+Ultramarine.
I like the video and your thought process in selecting colors, I like having burnt umber in my palette for creating darks (shadows, etc.) with the blues...and with your reds and blue for an almost black of a different hue than your red and green.... allows you to have two types of darks.
Hi Teoh! Great video! I was curious what your current staples are. If I were to make a suggestion, I might suggest PY129. DS rich green gold is very versatile and would create a whole world of greens with the blues you already have. The cobalt deep blue would also be very cool!
Hello Teoh! I'm so glad to be back to watching your vids. I used to watch your vids all the time. Unfortunately, life got in the way. But here I am, I'm back! I love watching your videos so much. They're really informative. Thank you for this 😊
I find that Quinacridone Burnt Orange from Daniel Smith is a very nice color. I use it a lot in landscape paintings. If I had your palette, I would probably replace the brown with the Quin Burnt Orange.
You could add a metallic white, I use it to mix my own gold copper and silver... it would come in handy if you wanted to paint a car and have it stand out from a background with the same color
My first recommendation is Garnet Genuine from the Primatek collection. I got ahold of a tube when I couldn't get Red Jasper Genuine just yet and it quickly became a part of my 12-pan travel palette. It's a bold red-brown on its own and mixing it with other colors can make an easy super dark red or a rich dark brown. It's granulated, but that's what I personally love about Primateks. Eventually I did get Red Jasper Genuine, but the granulation is really weird when you layer it. The pigments will start piling into clumps on the paper. Maybe I'm using it wrong... Second rec is Quinacridone Gold. I recently replaced my burnt sienna and yellow ochre with quinacridone gold for about two weeks and I haven't went back yet. Depending on how much pigment you use of it, it can work like either when you mix it with other colors, if you have a tube or could get a tube, I recommend playing with it sometime. My third favorite is Moonglow, though it may not be your cup of tea. It's a mix of PG18, PB29, and PR177. On its own, it makes a strange blue purple where you can see faint swirls of red sometimes, but I've also mixed it with assorted blues and red My usual palette became Hana Yellow Medium, Quin Gold, Pyrrol Scarlet, Quin Rose, Garnet Genuine, Moonglow, Jadeite Genuine, Green Apatie Genuine, Prussian Blue, Cobalt Blue, and Jane's Grey. I'm replacing Pyrrol Scarlet this week with Quin Coral, as Pyrrol Scarlet seems to absorb everything I mix it with...
One of my new favorites is Sennelier’s transparent brown, if you want another earth tone. However, you may want a convenience color - dioxazine purple. I find it difficult to mix a good, cool, dark purple without adding too much quin magenta.
My 'can't live without it' Daniel Smith color is Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Genuine. I can get interesting greens with it or create bright, colorful skies. It's a fun, versatile color that would be a nice addition to your palette instead of the brown!
Lily Manson I have that but never use it! I got it because I have a lot of jewelry made with Sleeping Beauty turquoise. I’ll have to dig it out and try it again. At first I thought it was too weakly pigmented and granular. Thanks for the suggestion for making greens with it. What yellows do you use then?
@@suzbart2084 You're right, the pigment is on the weak side and it does granulate a lot. I like that effect, but I know not everyone does. I often mix it with buff titanium. You can get an almost opalescent looking green that way! It also mixes well with Hansa yellows, raw sienna and any of the ochres. Definitely grab that color and experiment!
I live in a semi desert climate and have no problem traveling with them. This summer has been a little more damp though and I've noticed that they are much more tacky. I've had to adjust how I use them. For my climate they have been wonderful! I can imagine them being difficult in Singapore. How bout asking for some samples from your viewers? I'd be happy to share! Thanks for all your videos!
since you like granulation, why not add mayan red? that will give you option to make granulating orange and even more granulating purple with ultramarine blue.
I just made this palette today so I've yet to test it out but I switched the primary/ permanent brown for a yellow ochre seeing as there wasn't one in the set and I usually like to have it anyway. Thanks for the great video Teoh, I always learn so much!! :)
how funny you posted this - I was looking for an update to your palette just a few days ago! I second the vote for Quin Gold. I love mixing with that color.
That might be the same pigments I keep in my palette too. I have those basic 12 DANIEL SMITH and about 6 M. Graham paints and I can do basically anything. Very well done. Thank you!
I can't imagine myself using only twelve colors 🙈 I'm adding more and more colors to my palette because it's so much fun to try new things and have fun with colors. But I think eventually I'll need yo narrow down my palette and mix my colors more. Anyway, I suggest perylene green, it's great to paint shadows on your trees since you paint a lot of trees. Cobalt teal is also fun and good for marine paintings. Or maybe a perylene maroon or perylene violet? They are great and have a ridiculously high tinting strength, but I'm not sure how you can apply to your style. Other than these, I definitely love quinacridone gold. It's just fantastic for dramatic sunset skies and it makes great mixes with other colors. I think it has nickel azo yellow in it, I'm not sure. Maybe instead of quin gold, a nickel azo yellow can provide a wider array of mixes. I also like potter's pink but definitely from Schminke. It rewets sooo easily than D.S. Cobalt blue is also a dream. If you don't like any of my suggestions, I say go for cobalt blue. Thanks for the video, take care!
Nice! Your red selection is interesting, I expected Transparent Pyrrol Orange in there but I guess those orange mixes look similar. A cobalt teal could be useful, or cobalt green turquoise - and it can't really be mixed with other combinations. I mix many of my greens from Sennelier's Cobalt Turquoise and they have a very soft granulation. They also mix very soft purplish tones with reds, something like your Cerulean mix, but softer. Also, Perylene Green, Payne's Gray or Moonglow are great dark neutrals. Maybe a specialty color that has a very strange texture like Potter's Pink or Bloodstone Genuine? I use Bloodstone for streets and pavements - has a very street-like texture, could fit your sketching style.
I’m trying to find Cobalt Turquoise by Sennelier, and can’t seem to find it. I’m curious about adding more colors to my palette for mixing greens, so if the color you mention is going by another name, I would be grateful if you’d drop it in another comment :-)
@@Jofa93 Hey. Yes, of course. Just looked at the color chart - so Sennelier has two hues - a teal light color called Turquoise Green (843 in their chart) and a darker greenish hue called Cobalt Green (856). I found a Jane Blundell blog post so you can find the swatch samples here, hope this helps ^_^ I use Cobalt Green on my palette. janeblundellart.blogspot.com/2017/06/sennelier-watercolours.html
I know the name says it's Cobalt Green, but it is a pigment usually used in Cobalt Turquoises with other brands, PB36. I own both this and the Turquoise Green, both granulate, quite differently. I personally love the deeper hue of the PB36 and its granulation pattern. Both are beautiful though.
Love your videos Teoh - such great information and I love how you show your wet on wet mixes! I love transparent, single pigment DS colours, so my suggestions for a replacement for your brown would be my favourite Indanthrone blue: PB60 (it's great for deep values), or if you're worried about too many blues, Anthraquinoid Scarlet: PR 168, isn't talked about a lot but it's a gorgeous warm, coral red. All the best!
You should add Rich Green Gold. It's PY129 and is an amazing color. I love that you can get so many variations of green with it, from bright to dull AND it's beautiful by itself AND it's a single pigment color!
I find that burnt umber is essential, maybe replace the permanent brown with that. However, I mostly use oil pastel and acrylic and paint cats so need lots of yellows and oranges (for ginger cats), browns and other earth colours. I use very little blue or pure red. Kitten eye light blue is useful, cerulean is great for mixing background grasses, and prussian blue plus burnt umber makes a great black.
I'd swap out perm. brown with burnt umber. I think not having a dark brown will make it harder to mix dark shadows and black easily and I know how often you use those dark tones.
I really like your color choices! I find that mix of perm. brown and french UM gorgeous! I might consider keeping it just for that mix! haha It's a good idea for my palette anyway, because I need a purple-brown color that is not too dull for the dark brick buildings in the Netherlands! You could try switching it for tr. pyrrol orange, which neutralizes beautifully with cerulean blue chromium. Another option could be to add a burnt umber. I like the chocolate-purples you can mix with it and the quin. magenta and the cool gray it mixes with UM. Finally Cobalt turquoise is another gorgeous choice! I would consider keeping all the above! haha can't choose just 12!
switch permanent brown for transparent brown Iron oxide, it has such beautiful granulation. I love to mix it with blues for the most interesting greys.
I got no ideas as I am struggling w/ what to keep & what to chuck out myself. But one thing I know for sure, you do not need that 2nd brown. Did you ever try buff titanium? (suggesting Jane Blundell ultimate mixing palette colors given that I am failing miserably :D)
Thanks for your videos. To answer your question, there a re several options : - cobalt teal blue - replace sap green with green apathite genuine - buff titanium - goethite - transparent red oxyde - indian red - burnt umber
I know you could always mix purples but... Either a manganese violet? Or maybe a potter's pink, because of its lovely granulation? Or a cobalt teal. Colors that are difficult to get a mix. I would go ham and add an opera pink, just for the pink shock factor 😂 or always a lovely buff titanium! I'm dying to buy one but the only brands that sells at Jackson's are too expensive (DS and Qor)
I would actually think over the decision to replace permanent brown. I use the Mission gold variety (same pigment as far as I know) which creates beautiful greens mixed with phthalo green and stunning neutrales with most of the blues🤔 But if u find urself not using it nontheless, I'd add moonglow, mayan dark blue or even lunar black for a granulating dark.
Lavender Mint Rose check out handprint.com - it has all the info on pigments you never wanted! But seriously, it's like someone with a PhD in chemistry took every tube of watercolor ever and broke down color theory tube by tube.
The name makes it sound like that nasty oil paint, Naples yellow. I don't like most watercolors that have white added to them - cloudy, dull yuk. YMMV.
Or even Burnt Umber, it's a good mixing color towards the yellow shade instead of the red shade like the Siennas, without the sturdiness of the Raw Umber. 👍
I was thinking the same or perhaps sepia or some kind of grey toning to wash the colours down when needed but you can do that with the mixed colours....
I can't give you advice on colors, I am still learning from you. I have heard of a new brand Aquarius by Roman Szmal. It isn't available everywhere yet & has honey so you might not like that, but it is supposed to have a lot of interesting granulating colors I would like to try. They are supposed to have booth 11 in Amsterdam (if I am understanding correctly). I would love to see what you think of them.
It's Polish brand that appeared last December - it's well available online in Poland but not so well in local shops but there are also 2-3 distributors that sell worldwide. They have 141 colors and if I'm correct 117 of them is single pigment and 61 of those granulating. In Poland they are just a touch more expensive than White Nights. I haven't tried them yet but I have my eye on one of the 12 sets (there's a basic 5 set, two 12 sets chosen by different artist and 36 sets that I've seen only in one shop). It's only full pans right now.
seems like you have the blues covered, maybe a transparent red oxide or a nice neutral? titanium buff? naples yellow? your mix experiments have influenced my ink palette
You could add PO73 Pyrrole Orange Red Shade. It's right on the border of a warm red. Pyrrole Scarlet PR255 would work too. I'm currently using my travel palette and I have; Indian Red (PR101) Burnt Sienna (PBr7) Burnt Umber (PBr7) Yellow Ochre (PY43) Permanent Lemon (PY109) Permanent Yellow (PY154) Perm. Yellow Orange (PY110) Pyrrole Red (PR254) Quin. Magenta (PR122) French Ultramarine RS (PB29) Cerulean Blue Chromium (PB36) Phthalo Green YS (PG36) I think Pyrrole Red is a great primary red. I can warm it up with Perm. Yellow Orange (PY110) or cool it with Quin. Magenta (PR122). Like you though, I'm considering swapping it for Pyrrole Scarlet but I think if I do that, then I think I'd need to exchange the Quin. Magenta for Quin. Rose. I think the purple bias on Quin. Magenta would be too strong to mix a primary red using Pyrrole Scarlet.
What about switching Transparent Brown for Permanent Alisarin Crimson? One of the colors I use the most in my White Nights pan set is Madder Lake Red Light, they look quite the same (I think). 👍 Edit: Not that you're in need of more cool reds, lol! Maybe like others said a Cobalt Teal Light or a Burnt Umber would be better options. I recently bought the Cobalt Turquoise full pan from White Nights and it's a fun color, but I realized I can actually mix a pretty color like that using Emerald Green ( = Phtalo Green blue shade) + Lemon Yellow + a light blue (can't remember what I used, lol, I think it was Cobalt Blue or a smidge of Phtalo Blue). Any other color would be a convenient color, just that, so you're good with any choice you make. I would consider even Carbazole Violet, it mixes a gorgeous color with Phtalo Green blue shade. 👏👏👏
How about replacing that brown with a dark neutral as Paynes or neutral tint? Or what about a deep, dark blue as anthaquinone blue? Or what about Cobalt teal?.... Maybe mineral Violet by holbein?....runned out of ideas 🤔
You seem to favour granulating colours so how about manganese violet? Or a green gold single pigment, not sure whether DS does a version of the one Kremer call Irgazine yellow. Both of these would modify well with other colours in your palette and I know you also like those complex colour mixes.
looks great, Tech! I love that palette with all the mixing areas - 13 that is awesome! plus room for a brush. Is that the palette you'll bring to Amsterdam?
Why do you need a brown? which can easily derived from orange and a little blue.... i would keep that for another green which is difficult to obtain. (but maybe i do more landscape)
hi! love ur videos❤️ im still a beginner in using watercolors, which will you recommend to buy student grade watercolor, artist grade watercolor or watercolor in tubes?
Best to get artist grade because they last longer. More pigmented paint means you need to use less paint. See this article www.parkablogs.com/content/best-watercolor-sets-beginners
Hi Teoh, I have a hard time picking my earth tones. I have burnt sienna already from Daniel Smith, but I'm not sure if Yellow Ochre is a good addition to my palette or Raw Sienna or Permanent Brown?
Yellow Ochre is opaque or semi opaque. Raw Sienna is a better choice. These two are good for mixing skin tones. Permanent Brown PBr25 is good if you enjoy painting darks because it mixed with blues to form really deep darks. On its on it's a dark brown with red undertone
I forgot to ask you about the Viridian problem when squeezed into pans: what do you think of mixing glicerin to watercolor to prevent it from hardening into a rock? I've seen people talking about it in other videos and they'd even mix a drop our two of honey instead of glicerin to their pans. My concern is if the paint reacts with other products afterwards affecting its quality.
I'm not sure if that will help if there's something specific to the Viridian pigment. Or maybe just get a brand with very fluid Viridian to begin with, eg Sennelier, Jackson's Art.
@@teohyc i have a viridian green from Rembrandt, the pan set. In my climate the pans are sticky but by god the viridian color is of a low tinting strength. Even weaker than their regular cerulean blue. I think it's a pigment property like green earth, for example.
I have Daniel Smith's cobalt green pale, and it's almost impossible to re-wet. Even if you can lift some onto your brush it's got an extremely Low pigment density, and separates it from the binder. It's just awful to work with. I squeezed some into a full pan a couple days ago with a spritz of water and two drops of honey, I filled the pan about half full with the total ingredients, and maybe a half a pan worth of paint with a spritz and two small drops in a full pan and then stirred it up thoroughly. After a day or so it was still a little bit soft. When I try to lift the color it's a little better, but the pigment density issue is still going to be there. The amount of paint you have to get into a brush to mix is really never going to give you a good even coat of that particular green. I really love this color but I don't use it because it's so difficult to work with. Like the Liz Steele post about potter's pink that someone else mentioned in the comments, I think it must have very few specific applications beside ones that don't exactly have much to do with the actual color it's self being a key element of how the color looks on the page. But what I figured was so unpleasant to use that particular paint, that I've got nowhere to go but up by experimenting with adding honey since I'm not able to really use the paint at all at this point. I keep trying to find ways to use it but always coming away really disappointed. Not only that but I noticed the binder in this particular tube of paint is really very brownish color and it actually stains the page a little bit yellowish through the pigment of the cobalt even after it's dried, the other thing I was thinking of trying was light Karo syrup because it doesn't have the amber color of honey. The binder on cobalt green was brown honey colored binder anyway before I even put honey in it though so again I didn't figure I had much to lose. I was recently at -'the'- Daniel Smith store in Seattle and I checked out a couple other tubes of cobalt green pale to see if maybe I got a bad tube but they all looked exactly the same-- very clumpy and with separated binder. So I suspect that if the overpriced flag ship store for Daniel Smith paints has crappy tubes of cobalt green, then it probably has to do with the pigment and the particular process they use.
Help me, Teoh Yi Chie, you're my only hope! Plus, you're the only Art-Jedi I know of! The issue is, I don't like earth tones. I don't know what to do with them. I see everyone making these lovely greys and I'm really trying to include them in my limited travel palette, but I have a hard time justifying them when there are so many other actual colors that I love, and when I like lunar black or Payne's grey (m graham's anyhow) so much better. I uploaded some color charts I did with various single pigment earth tones yesterday, and I'm really unhappy with the mixes with primaries I like to use. I mean, besides greys and the occasional brown, and skin tone bases, (which I guess is a lot,) I just don't understand why they are so mandatory when colors from basic single color pigments can expand your options in a 12 or less palette. I just never reach for a brown unless I'm making a grey. I know I should be using them. Can you please help me understand them better? Thanks! drive.google.com/file/d/11Bt-S9ZG-xuPyWiIos05evx7BvWcnlmu/view?usp=drivesdk
I also tend to gravitate more towards the bright rather than the earth colors. But, I recently watched a video by a UA-camr called In Liquid Color about their 5 favorite browns, and I found it very interesting. Maybe it would give you some ideas. HTH!
Effie Cross thanks! I have seen a couple of those videos but not that one. I did watch a little steel video about putters pink which is a color that I have but never really figured out how to use either, but it did get me thinking about the weird iridescent colors that I have from Daniel Smith that I really love but aren't very practical in most paintings. I did find that the scarab red iridescent kind of works like she uses potters pink with a little bit warmer bronzy tone, and actually has a better tinting strength. I guess the point is just to try different experiments to see what we like before we go using it in a piece of artwork that we really want to turn out well.
Transparent Red Oxide [DS], beautifully granulating orange brown, great on its own and interesting when mixing! Great vid as always! 👍🏼
I found the courage to mix up my palette! I sent you a msg on IG to show you my first watercolor sketch! Thank you for all your guidance!
Thank you so much for your helpful videos.
I just lost my baby boy and started watercolor. I'm building a Pallette now.
It really helps me . Thanks.
Natalie Juarez *hugs*
So sorry for your loss. Hugs
Natalie Juarez, I’m so sorry for your loss. Sending you kind thoughts.
So sorry for your loss.
Sending you lots of good vibes and hugs. Look after yourself.
A beautiful palette you have there :) I would actually replace the Permanent Brown with Burnt Umber, as this is my favorite earth tone for mixing greys. I know you prefer Burnt Sienna+Ultramarine, but my favorite grey/"black" mix is Burnt Umber+Ultramarine.
Since you like granulation, maybe try sodalite genuine? It's a nice payne's grey color, but it has a really beautiful granulating texture.
It does have beautiful granulation. The last time I included it in my palette a few years ago, I didn't use it much.
Yes, I would definitely get Schmincke Cobalt Turquoise (PG 50) as it mixes the most gorgeous greens and compliments the blues in your palette.
I like the video and your thought process in selecting colors, I like having burnt umber in my palette for creating darks (shadows, etc.) with the blues...and with your reds and blue for an almost black of a different hue than your red and green.... allows you to have two types of darks.
I've been doing entirely digital art lately but it's always nice to catch a relaxing new Teoh watercolor video!
Hi Teoh! Great video! I was curious what your current staples are. If I were to make a suggestion, I might suggest PY129. DS rich green gold is very versatile and would create a whole world of greens with the blues you already have. The cobalt deep blue would also be very cool!
I second that. Py129 is new on my palette. If you mix a tiny bit of this with almost any colour it gives a beautiful golden-hour effect.
Ooh that's an awesome idea! 💡 I wish I'd brought that with me.
Hello Teoh! I'm so glad to be back to watching your vids. I used to watch your vids all the time. Unfortunately, life got in the way. But here I am, I'm back! I love watching your videos so much. They're really informative. Thank you for this 😊
I find that Quinacridone Burnt Orange from Daniel Smith is a very nice color. I use it a lot in landscape paintings. If I had your palette, I would probably replace the brown with the Quin Burnt Orange.
I think you should add Perylene Green.
Gábor Oláh perylene green mixed with perylene maroon = tasty dark.
I suggest quin gold! For its varieties that it can make! And for the glow. You as well get a LOT of greens when mixing it with all your blues!!!
Oh! I was just think this... what is Teoh using these days!!! Yea grabbing coffee!!!
You could add a metallic white, I use it to mix my own gold copper and silver... it would come in handy if you wanted to paint a car and have it stand out from a background with the same color
My first recommendation is Garnet Genuine from the Primatek collection. I got ahold of a tube when I couldn't get Red Jasper Genuine just yet and it quickly became a part of my 12-pan travel palette. It's a bold red-brown on its own and mixing it with other colors can make an easy super dark red or a rich dark brown. It's granulated, but that's what I personally love about Primateks.
Eventually I did get Red Jasper Genuine, but the granulation is really weird when you layer it. The pigments will start piling into clumps on the paper. Maybe I'm using it wrong...
Second rec is Quinacridone Gold. I recently replaced my burnt sienna and yellow ochre with quinacridone gold for about two weeks and I haven't went back yet. Depending on how much pigment you use of it, it can work like either when you mix it with other colors, if you have a tube or could get a tube, I recommend playing with it sometime.
My third favorite is Moonglow, though it may not be your cup of tea. It's a mix of PG18, PB29, and PR177. On its own, it makes a strange blue purple where you can see faint swirls of red sometimes, but I've also mixed it with assorted blues and red
My usual palette became Hana Yellow Medium, Quin Gold, Pyrrol Scarlet, Quin Rose, Garnet Genuine, Moonglow, Jadeite Genuine, Green Apatie Genuine, Prussian Blue, Cobalt Blue, and Jane's Grey. I'm replacing Pyrrol Scarlet this week with Quin Coral, as Pyrrol Scarlet seems to absorb everything I mix it with...
Nice color selection. Love the soft grey made with the Cerulean Blue.
Thanks for the useful info. I would replace Permanent Brown with a black or Neutral Tint. Or Moonglow, since you use only DS.
I like your current palette. 👍 😀 You certainly make it work for you and get the most out of those colors that they can offer.
One of my new favorites is Sennelier’s transparent brown, if you want another earth tone. However, you may want a convenience color - dioxazine purple. I find it difficult to mix a good, cool, dark purple without adding too much quin magenta.
My 'can't live without it' Daniel Smith color is Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Genuine. I can get interesting greens with it or create bright, colorful skies. It's a fun, versatile color that would be a nice addition to your palette instead of the brown!
Lily Manson I have that but never use it! I got it because I have a lot of jewelry made with Sleeping Beauty turquoise. I’ll have to dig it out and try it again. At first I thought it was too weakly pigmented and granular. Thanks for the suggestion for making greens with it. What yellows do you use then?
@@suzbart2084 You're right, the pigment is on the weak side and it does granulate a lot. I like that effect, but I know not everyone does. I often mix it with buff titanium. You can get an almost opalescent looking green that way! It also mixes well with Hansa yellows, raw sienna and any of the ochres. Definitely grab that color and experiment!
Lily Manson thanks for all the suggestions!
One day can u do a review on the m.graham watercolors?
Not sure when I'll be able to get to it
They're beautiful for studio work, but they never fully set firm in pans so not well suited for portability 🙃
I have M.Graham. They are lovely but can be a bit messy to travel with since they never truly solidify.
In Singapore those M Graham watercolors are going to be liquid, so definitely not portable
I live in a semi desert climate and have no problem traveling with them. This summer has been a little more damp though and I've noticed that they are much more tacky. I've had to adjust how I use them. For my climate they have been wonderful! I can imagine them being difficult in Singapore. How bout asking for some samples from your viewers? I'd be happy to share! Thanks for all your videos!
since you like granulation, why not add mayan red? that will give you option to make granulating orange and even more granulating purple with ultramarine blue.
I just made this palette today so I've yet to test it out but I switched the primary/ permanent brown for a yellow ochre seeing as there wasn't one in the set and I usually like to have it anyway. Thanks for the great video Teoh, I always learn so much!! :)
how funny you posted this - I was looking for an update to your palette just a few days ago! I second the vote for Quin Gold. I love mixing with that color.
That might be the same pigments I keep in my palette too. I have those basic 12 DANIEL SMITH and about 6 M. Graham paints and I can do basically anything. Very well done. Thank you!
I can't imagine myself using only twelve colors 🙈 I'm adding more and more colors to my palette because it's so much fun to try new things and have fun with colors. But I think eventually I'll need yo narrow down my palette and mix my colors more. Anyway, I suggest perylene green, it's great to paint shadows on your trees since you paint a lot of trees. Cobalt teal is also fun and good for marine paintings. Or maybe a perylene maroon or perylene violet? They are great and have a ridiculously high tinting strength, but I'm not sure how you can apply to your style. Other than these, I definitely love quinacridone gold. It's just fantastic for dramatic sunset skies and it makes great mixes with other colors. I think it has nickel azo yellow in it, I'm not sure. Maybe instead of quin gold, a nickel azo yellow can provide a wider array of mixes. I also like potter's pink but definitely from Schminke. It rewets sooo easily than D.S. Cobalt blue is also a dream. If you don't like any of my suggestions, I say go for cobalt blue. Thanks for the video, take care!
I really love quinacridone colors! Red, magenta, gold...
Nice! Your red selection is interesting, I expected Transparent Pyrrol Orange in there but I guess those orange mixes look similar. A cobalt teal could be useful, or cobalt green turquoise - and it can't really be mixed with other combinations. I mix many of my greens from Sennelier's Cobalt Turquoise and they have a very soft granulation. They also mix very soft purplish tones with reds, something like your Cerulean mix, but softer. Also, Perylene Green, Payne's Gray or Moonglow are great dark neutrals. Maybe a specialty color that has a very strange texture like Potter's Pink or Bloodstone Genuine? I use Bloodstone for streets and pavements - has a very street-like texture, could fit your sketching style.
Thanks for the suggestion. Cobalt Teal Blue might be fun. Transparent Pyrrol Orange is a nice colour.
I’m trying to find Cobalt Turquoise by Sennelier, and can’t seem to find it. I’m curious about adding more colors to my palette for mixing greens, so if the color you mention is going by another name, I would be grateful if you’d drop it in another comment :-)
@@Jofa93 Hey. Yes, of course. Just looked at the color chart - so Sennelier has two hues - a teal light color called Turquoise Green (843 in their chart) and a darker greenish hue called Cobalt Green (856). I found a Jane Blundell blog post so you can find the swatch samples here, hope this helps ^_^ I use Cobalt Green on my palette.
janeblundellart.blogspot.com/2017/06/sennelier-watercolours.html
I know the name says it's Cobalt Green, but it is a pigment usually used in Cobalt Turquoises with other brands, PB36. I own both this and the Turquoise Green, both granulate, quite differently. I personally love the deeper hue of the PB36 and its granulation pattern. Both are beautiful though.
Ana Marko Thank you very much for the reply!
Love your videos Teoh - such great information and I love how you show your wet on wet mixes!
I love transparent, single pigment DS colours, so my suggestions for a replacement for your brown would be my favourite Indanthrone blue: PB60 (it's great for deep values), or if you're worried about too many blues, Anthraquinoid Scarlet: PR 168, isn't talked about a lot but it's a gorgeous warm, coral red.
All the best!
I would add perylene violet. I think that color is so pretty on its own and I like using it for skin shadows
You should add Rich Green Gold. It's PY129 and is an amazing color. I love that you can get so many variations of green with it, from bright to dull AND it's beautiful by itself AND it's a single pigment color!
I find that burnt umber is essential, maybe replace the permanent brown with that. However, I mostly use oil pastel and acrylic and paint cats so need lots of yellows and oranges (for ginger cats), browns and other earth colours. I use very little blue or pure red. Kitten eye light blue is useful, cerulean is great for mixing background grasses, and prussian blue plus burnt umber makes a great black.
I'd swap out perm. brown with burnt umber. I think not having a dark brown will make it harder to mix dark shadows and black easily and I know how often you use those dark tones.
Yeah, I often have problems mixing really dark shadows quickly. Using the weaker Burnt Sienna means I have to use a lot paint and Ultramarine.
I'd replace the brown with neutral tint; or if you feel very confident, lamp black the Rowland Hilder way ;)
I really like your color choices! I find that mix of perm. brown and french UM gorgeous! I might consider keeping it just for that mix! haha It's a good idea for my palette anyway, because I need a purple-brown color that is not too dull for the dark brick buildings in the Netherlands! You could try switching it for tr. pyrrol orange, which neutralizes beautifully with cerulean blue chromium. Another option could be to add a burnt umber. I like the chocolate-purples you can mix with it and the quin. magenta and the cool gray it mixes with UM. Finally Cobalt turquoise is another gorgeous choice! I would consider keeping all the above! haha can't choose just 12!
switch permanent brown for transparent brown Iron oxide, it has such beautiful granulation. I love to mix it with blues for the most interesting greys.
I got no ideas as I am struggling w/ what to keep & what to chuck out myself. But one thing I know for sure, you do not need that 2nd brown. Did you ever try buff titanium? (suggesting Jane Blundell ultimate mixing palette colors given that I am failing miserably :D)
You could add a Payne's grey!
Thanks for your videos. To answer your question, there a re several options :
- cobalt teal blue
- replace sap green with green apathite genuine
- buff titanium
- goethite
- transparent red oxyde
- indian red
- burnt umber
I know you could always mix purples but... Either a manganese violet? Or maybe a potter's pink, because of its lovely granulation? Or a cobalt teal. Colors that are difficult to get a mix. I would go ham and add an opera pink, just for the pink shock factor 😂 or always a lovely buff titanium! I'm dying to buy one but the only brands that sells at Jackson's are too expensive (DS and Qor)
Quinacridone red appears to be a cooler red, almost like a classic lipstick colour
I would actually think over the decision to replace permanent brown. I use the Mission gold variety (same pigment as far as I know) which creates beautiful greens mixed with phthalo green and stunning neutrales with most of the blues🤔 But if u find urself not using it nontheless, I'd add moonglow, mayan dark blue or even lunar black for a granulating dark.
Try green apitie, very granulating and great green.. lunar red earth is a brown that granulated..
Thanks for the vid. Also you may try out a Burnt Mars (PBr 6tr) instead of your brown, that is more deep and vibrant tone from warm earthes.
I wish there were a wiki or something for all the paints from each brand, that could link to videos like this that mention those particular colors.
Lavender Mint Rose check out handprint.com - it has all the info on pigments you never wanted! But seriously, it's like someone with a PhD in chemistry took every tube of watercolor ever and broke down color theory tube by tube.
@@ANonymous-rx6lu , thank you. I've bookmarked it
I love Permanent Brown! Try it for skin tones.
How about adding Daniel Smith's Buff Titanium?
The name makes it sound like that nasty oil paint, Naples yellow. I don't like most watercolors that have white added to them - cloudy, dull yuk. YMMV.
How about Perylene green?
What about raw umber? Great for landscapes, under washes and darkening your green. Mixes great with blues too.
Thanks for the suggest. I may try that.
Or even Burnt Umber, it's a good mixing color towards the yellow shade instead of the red shade like the Siennas, without the sturdiness of the Raw Umber. 👍
I was thinking the same or perhaps sepia or some kind of grey toning to wash the colours down when needed but you can do that with the mixed colours....
Titanium white...create delicate pastel shades and cover lost lights...OR...can the Art Graf white block be cut down to fit half pan size?
I can't give you advice on colors, I am still learning from you. I have heard of a new brand Aquarius by Roman Szmal. It isn't available everywhere yet & has honey so you might not like that, but it is supposed to have a lot of interesting granulating colors I would like to try. They are supposed to have booth 11 in Amsterdam (if I am understanding correctly). I would love to see what you think of them.
It's Polish brand that appeared last December - it's well available online in Poland but not so well in local shops but there are also 2-3 distributors that sell worldwide. They have 141 colors and if I'm correct 117 of them is single pigment and 61 of those granulating. In Poland they are just a touch more expensive than White Nights. I haven't tried them yet but I have my eye on one of the 12 sets (there's a basic 5 set, two 12 sets chosen by different artist and 36 sets that I've seen only in one shop). It's only full pans right now.
seems like you have the blues covered, maybe a transparent red oxide or a nice neutral? titanium buff? naples yellow? your mix experiments have influenced my ink palette
You could add PO73 Pyrrole Orange Red Shade. It's right on the border of a warm red. Pyrrole Scarlet PR255 would work too. I'm currently using my travel palette and I have;
Indian Red (PR101)
Burnt Sienna (PBr7)
Burnt Umber (PBr7)
Yellow Ochre (PY43)
Permanent Lemon (PY109)
Permanent Yellow (PY154)
Perm. Yellow Orange (PY110)
Pyrrole Red (PR254)
Quin. Magenta (PR122)
French Ultramarine RS (PB29)
Cerulean Blue Chromium (PB36)
Phthalo Green YS (PG36)
I think Pyrrole Red is a great primary red. I can warm it up with Perm. Yellow Orange (PY110) or cool it with Quin. Magenta (PR122). Like you though, I'm considering swapping it for Pyrrole Scarlet but I think if I do that, then I think I'd need to exchange the Quin. Magenta for Quin. Rose. I think the purple bias on Quin. Magenta would be too strong to mix a primary red using Pyrrole Scarlet.
I want to try DS but I hate that their sets arent primarily built on pans plus they are likely to burn holes in my pocket as a hobbyst only..
What a dilemma! I have an undersea green. I’m not so sure about that brown either. I’m wondering if you could do a sandy beach with what you have.
I could do a sandy beach with Raw Sienna
What about switching Transparent Brown for Permanent Alisarin Crimson? One of the colors I use the most in my White Nights pan set is Madder Lake Red Light, they look quite the same (I think). 👍
Edit: Not that you're in need of more cool reds, lol! Maybe like others said a Cobalt Teal Light or a Burnt Umber would be better options. I recently bought the Cobalt Turquoise full pan from White Nights and it's a fun color, but I realized I can actually mix a pretty color like that using Emerald Green ( = Phtalo Green blue shade) + Lemon Yellow + a light blue (can't remember what I used, lol, I think it was Cobalt Blue or a smidge of Phtalo Blue). Any other color would be a convenient color, just that, so you're good with any choice you make. I would consider even Carbazole Violet, it mixes a gorgeous color with Phtalo Green blue shade. 👏👏👏
How about Cobalt Teal?
I'm considering that and Burnt Umber
Teoh Yi Chie Burnt Umber would also be a great choice!
How about replacing that brown with a dark neutral as Paynes or neutral tint? Or what about a deep, dark blue as anthaquinone blue? Or what about Cobalt teal?.... Maybe mineral Violet by holbein?....runned out of ideas 🤔
You seem to favour granulating colours so how about manganese violet? Or a green gold single pigment, not sure whether DS does a version of the one Kremer call Irgazine yellow. Both of these would modify well with other colours in your palette and I know you also like those complex colour mixes.
Thanks 😁
I think quin red is a touch cool, but pretty close to neutral
Lemon yellow is my favorite yellow
What about adding a Payne's Grey?
I love working with Sepia.
Whoa, guess I am not understanding this palette......but I always enjoy your videos!
Good purples tho.
looks great, Tech! I love that palette with all the mixing areas - 13 that is awesome! plus room for a brush. Is that the palette you'll bring to Amsterdam?
Yes, I’ll be bring this to Amsterdam
I would add a payne's grey 😋
I use burnt umber all the time
Why do you need a brown? which can easily derived from orange and a little blue.... i would keep that for another green which is difficult to obtain. (but maybe i do more landscape)
hi! love ur videos❤️ im still a beginner in using watercolors, which will you recommend to buy student grade watercolor, artist grade watercolor or watercolor in tubes?
Best to get artist grade because they last longer. More pigmented paint means you need to use less paint. See this article www.parkablogs.com/content/best-watercolor-sets-beginners
Replace the permanent brown with burnt umber. It will give you a natural looking blacks when mixed with blues.
Looks like many suggested Burnt Umber.
Good video! How about neutral tint? I notice a lot of artists use this to tone down colors and darken.
It's a quick way to create shadows with Neutral Tint
What about Perylene Green or Rich Green Gold? I use these very often.
Very nice!!
what do you think of burnt umber ?
Add Payne's gray!
Cobalt teal
id go insane if i didn't have a convenient blue purple
Hi Teoh, I have a hard time picking my earth tones. I have burnt sienna already from Daniel Smith, but I'm not sure if Yellow Ochre is a good addition to my palette or Raw Sienna or Permanent Brown?
Yellow Ochre is opaque or semi opaque. Raw Sienna is a better choice. These two are good for mixing skin tones. Permanent Brown PBr25 is good if you enjoy painting darks because it mixed with blues to form really deep darks. On its on it's a dark brown with red undertone
Thanks @@teohyc for your guidance! :)
DS Quin Gold.
Moonglow or potter's pink
I forgot to ask you about the Viridian problem when squeezed into pans: what do you think of mixing glicerin to watercolor to prevent it from hardening into a rock? I've seen people talking about it in other videos and they'd even mix a drop our two of honey instead of glicerin to their pans. My concern is if the paint reacts with other products afterwards affecting its quality.
I'm not sure if that will help if there's something specific to the Viridian pigment. Or maybe just get a brand with very fluid Viridian to begin with, eg Sennelier, Jackson's Art.
@@teohyc At least Phtalo Green blue shade is prettier than Viridian, so it's not a big problem to choose one from the other, lol! Thanks!
@@teohyc i have a viridian green from Rembrandt, the pan set. In my climate the pans are sticky but by god the viridian color is of a low tinting strength. Even weaker than their regular cerulean blue. I think it's a pigment property like green earth, for example.
I have Daniel Smith's cobalt green pale, and it's almost impossible to re-wet. Even if you can lift some onto your brush it's got an extremely Low pigment density, and separates it from the binder. It's just awful to work with. I squeezed some into a full pan a couple days ago with a spritz of water and two drops of honey, I filled the pan about half full with the total ingredients, and maybe a half a pan worth of paint with a spritz and two small drops in a full pan and then stirred it up thoroughly. After a day or so it was still a little bit soft. When I try to lift the color it's a little better, but the pigment density issue is still going to be there. The amount of paint you have to get into a brush to mix is really never going to give you a good even coat of that particular green. I really love this color but I don't use it because it's so difficult to work with. Like the Liz Steele post about potter's pink that someone else mentioned in the comments,
I think it must have very few specific applications beside ones that don't exactly have much to do with the actual color it's self being a key element of how the color looks on the page. But what I figured was so unpleasant to use that particular paint, that I've got nowhere to go but up by experimenting with adding honey since I'm not able to really use the paint at all at this point. I keep trying to find ways to use it but always coming away really disappointed. Not only that but I noticed the binder in this particular tube of paint is really very brownish color and it actually stains the page a little bit yellowish through the pigment of the cobalt even after it's dried, the other thing I was thinking of trying was light Karo syrup because it doesn't have the amber color of honey. The binder on cobalt green was brown honey colored binder anyway before I even put honey in it though so again I didn't figure I had much to lose. I was recently at -'the'- Daniel Smith store in Seattle and I checked out a couple other tubes of cobalt green pale to see if maybe I got a bad tube but they all looked exactly the same-- very clumpy and with separated binder. So I suspect that if the overpriced flag ship store for Daniel Smith paints has crappy tubes of cobalt green, then it probably has to do with the pigment and the particular process they use.
Raw umber?
I've got a watercolour pallette and there's a light red and some pinks and oranges but I can't manage to mix a nice bright red any advice?
What palette do you have and what are the names of the colours or pigment code?
Good
I love having Cobalt Turquoise Light and Prussian Blue on hand. Would you use those in your kit?
Prussian Blue is nice. But most brands don't rewet well when squeeze into pans. I like Cobalts
I'd consider Potter's Pink for its granulation and use in buildings etc...see Liz Steel's article here www.lizsteel.com/potters-pink/
Or you could replace it with white
You don't have a cool brown like Raw Umber. That seems to be what you are missing more than anything else.
Can you mix and match brands in your paint sale
You can. Just pick whatever colours you like.
Help me, Teoh Yi Chie, you're my only hope!
Plus, you're the only Art-Jedi I know of!
The issue is, I don't like earth tones. I don't know what to do with them. I see everyone making these lovely greys and I'm really trying to include them in my limited travel palette, but I have a hard time justifying them when there are so many other actual colors that I love, and when I like lunar black or Payne's grey (m graham's anyhow) so much better. I uploaded some color charts I did with various single pigment earth tones yesterday, and I'm really unhappy with the mixes with primaries I like to use. I mean, besides greys and the occasional brown, and skin tone bases, (which I guess is a lot,) I just don't understand why they are so mandatory when colors from basic single color pigments can expand your options in a 12 or less palette. I just never reach for a brown unless I'm making a grey. I know I should be using them. Can you please help me understand them better?
Thanks!
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I also use earth tone mostly for mixing grays
I also tend to gravitate more towards the bright rather than the earth colors. But, I recently watched a video by a UA-camr called In Liquid Color about their 5 favorite browns, and I found it very interesting. Maybe it would give you some ideas. HTH!
Effie Cross thanks! I have seen a couple of those videos but not that one. I did watch a little steel video about putters pink which is a color that I have but never really figured out how to use either, but it did get me thinking about the weird iridescent colors that I have from Daniel Smith that I really love but aren't very practical in most paintings. I did find that the scarab red iridescent kind of works like she uses potters pink with a little bit warmer bronzy tone, and actually has a better tinting strength. I guess the point is just to try different experiments to see what we like before we go using it in a piece of artwork that we really want to turn out well.
Don't you use white?
I see that many people already have recommended you the white colour but would still like to know why wasn't it in your pallet already? Thank you 😊
I don’t need white to make the colours lighter. White also makes the colours more opaque
Why not exchange the brown with one that is closer to a more natural skin tone
There's Raw Sienna
I Love burnt bronze genuine.
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@@riverbeee9643 thank you!
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