Swatching my Daniel Smith Palette - 52 pan palette
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Hey friends! I am swatching my Daniel Smith Watercolor paints today!! @DANIELSMITHArtistColor I have been slowly building up my collection and finally have a completed 52 pan palette of Daniel Smith watercolors. I am going to be going through them all today!
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Thank you for this video. That “gumminess” you mention in a few of the paints is the binder. I’m also not a fan of DS Potters Pink. There is definitely a difference in the 2 Moonglow swatches - perhaps a difference in the ratio of the pigments for some reason. I love Purpurite (I thought it was Purplite but it’s not it’s PurPURite and it’s a mineral). I also love Blue Apatite Genuine and Sodalite Genuine. I use Sodalite Genuine as my Paynes Grey and it is a beautiful mixer with yellows to create incredible greens. Also mix it with reds and Quin Rose to get gorgeous moody purple shades. Sodalite is a very versatile color. For those who find the Daniel Smith paints too expensive to buy in the tubes, I recommend buying their watercolor sticks. The sticks are all the same price no matter what series they are. The sticks are about $10-12 from Blick. There are a number of the Primatek sticks that are series 3 and 4 which are available in the stick form (including Serpentine Genuine and Sodalite Genuine) for the same price as the sticks that are series 1. You can cut the sticks and put them into half or full pans. They don’t have nearly the full range of DS paints available in stick form (I think it’s about 80 colors) but it’s a great way to start. P.s. - the sticks are NOT crayons - they are more like a pan of watercolor paint- very dry - in fact, DS calls them “a pan in your hand’. I’ve used them and I think they offer great value for the money. They are very, very concentrated pigment sticks that contain the same ingredients as pan watercolors - no wax or other ingredients- just pigment and binder. 😊
Daniel Smith tubes of paint are what I have in my MONSTER palette, and I love them. Like you, I have tried brands, and I always go to Daniel Smith, but I will keep trying! AND I like purples too! Please give me all the purples! Your swatch method reminds me of beautiful pebbles in a river... I love it
The potters pink and cerulean are like that in most brands because that is a quality of the pigment, they are really meant for mixing. If you want a strong cerulean get cerulean blue chromium.
We can only get M. Graham and Daniel Smith in Helena MT, and because the only Art and Craft store named Hobby Lobby decided to make a really bad decision to take all the professional name brand art supplies out of their assortment and replace it with poor student grade China made store brand I can no longer get the Professional Windsor Newton grade I started with, so the only other alternative I had is MGraham or Daniel Smith at a tiny art stor with very very limited supplies. I find them equally comparable of the same professional level as Windsor Newton and I do like that they are American made. I have a good assortment of tubes and the Daniel Smith watercolor sticks, which I can really recommend highly. I can buy both individually. Dick Blick has the best prices on them.
Yes that was sad of hobby lobby. Masters touch is crap. I won’t even use their paper as scrap it’s so terrible.
I love the sticks!
I have 165 colors from D Smith. It's difficult to choose mij faverits... Last i made a limited palette for on the go and i choose: lemon yell, azoyell, nickel azo yell, aussie red gold, pyrrol scarl, pyrrol crimson, quin lilac, Indian red. Cerulean BL chrome, sleeping beauty turq, prussian Blue, Ultramarine BL. Indanthrone bl, phthalo bl, olive green, sap gr, phthalo gr (ys), prylene green, buff titan, monteAmiata nat sienna, quin burnt orange, Italian venetien red, yavapai gen, permanent brown, raw umber, van dyck brown, hematite gen, sodalite gen, carbazole violet. Great relaxing video...🤗
That's what you call a limited palette?😅
@@ladyinblack3398 My thoughts exactly. 18 is my upper limit and that's only because certain paints granulate in ways I can't achieve with a more conventional set of 12. Almost 30 colors, though...I'd be staring at my palette all day with analysis paralysis. Hah.
Loved watching you swatch these beautiful colours, your excitement is endearing! 😊
I have 55 DS colors. You swatched 27 colors I don’t have! 6 of the ones you swatched I made a heart next to on my list.
One thing I’ve done is buy DS watercolor sticks and put slices into paint pans. It’s a bit cheaper.
Love watching swatching videos . I have a palette dedicated to just reds, pinks and purples . I love those tones and your color choices are stunning 😊
Please get a colbalt teal. Mixing it with potters pink is agreat stormy sky lol
Get it as a stick it’s cheaper and easier to rewet
I really want to see the large painting in your living room!! 🙏
I know that I'm very late to commenting, but I just found your channel. I have a very mixed brand palette, after buying many, many tubes of paint and finding the shades that I like between different brands. For instance, I hate DS Indigo, Potters Pink, Cobalt Turquoise Light and Perylene Green - liking the Winsor & Newton version of those much better. (Although I really love Schmincke Potters Pink too) Quin Magenta and Cerulean Blue are always Qor, My Sap Green is Holbein, Prussian Blue is Sennelier, and my favorites of DS include Goethite, New Gamboge, PH B GS (so much stronger than many I have found) any of the Lunars, and Green Gold which is so different from other brands. And who doesn't love Green Apetite Genuine! :)
I haven't made my way through all of the other brands yet to do this. I may in the future change to make an all over favorites palette.
Personally I like the potters pink fron A. Gallo, Schmincke, and Roman Szmal. All rewet nicely and are well pigmented. I too have a lot of watercolors, over 100 Daniel Smith, I guess I am a collector of watercolors. I will never be able to use all I have. Always have to try new things.
I love Daniel Smith, I use the sticks. I have 44 colors. Some of my favorites that you didn’t have are cobalt teal blue, piemontite genuine, nickel azo yellow, and quinacridone burnt orange.
@@veeroach I recently picked up piemontite and cobalt teal blue!
I do have Moonglow (I only have tube) and Shadow Violet I love both but SV much more!!! I love it in my Nature journaling, I will micron a botanical and instead of painting it I just use SV as a shading around the black and white drawing. I use both more for shading. Thanks for this video. I’m starting to create a Daniel Smith collection and gurllllll I would do the same for a DS sticker😂😂😂😂
Lovely palette! Thank you for sharing. I've been expanding my Daniel Smith collection a little at a time, too. I'm up to 59 colors, having most recently added New Gamboge, Rose of Ultramarine, Alizarin Crimson, Lunar Blue, Manganese Blue Hue, Jadeite Genuine, Terre Vert, and Amazonite Genuine (there was a sale, lol.) My go-to green is Green Apatite Genuine. Quin Gold is a favorite, along with Pyrrole Scarlet, Ultramarine Violet, French Ultramarine, Buff Titanium, and always Burnt Sienna.
Use that gorgeous orange in a sunset it’s glorious!
Hey Ashley! Have you thought of doing a monochrome painting with the Lunar blue?
Absolutely!! I think I need to do that soon!! 😊
Mix potters pink with colbalt turquoise, it’s gorgeous.
Even though daniel smith is not my favorite brand they do have some really unique colors, I don't like green but my favorite green of all time is serpentine genuine 🥰 and I got the smaller inspiration set and felt the exact same as you about moonglow! Now I'm reeally tempted to try the tube version 😅
I would like to see a blind test of watercolor paint. I think people would be surprised.
That is a fantastic idea!
What brands should I include?
Do you know if you pull out the placeholders for the pans you can have six rows of paint think of all the extra colours you could add
Beautiful collection! I love Daniel Smith paint ~ it’s my favorite also. I actually have a larger collection than you do and need to put them all together in a larger pallet. Just a few comments about your paint. As for potters pink, I understand what you are saying. I make sure to put a drop of water in it a bit before I use it. But I love love the color! It paints the most gorgeous muted flowers with a light earth green color for the leaves. I know it can be replaced with other brands but I like having it in my palette because it’s so pretty. The jadeite is one of my favorites and I use it for cypress trees when I’m painting pictures from Italy. I noticed that you don’t have cobalt blue. It is an absolute must have color in my palette for so many things and for mixing with so many combinations. It is my most important blue. Alizarin Crimson is also a very very fugitive color. And tigers eye genuine is absolutely so gorgeous when painting rocks and adding granulation to landscapes. It is very light so I prefer burnt tigers eye genuine but they are both certainly well loved and well used in my palette. I don’t think you paint landscapes much because you don’t have a lot of the absolute gorgeous primateks that I feel are necessary for my collection.
It was so fun to see your palette and what you paint with! Thank you for sharing!
Also, my Ocean Paper paint that I ordered is at the post office today! I’m so excited to pick it up! 👏👏 I know you understand my excitement!
I just started doing some landscapes, what are your must haves??
Yeah, I didn't realize alizarin was a fugitive color until I was doing the titles for the video. I will definitely keep that in mind when painting.
Oh, and what ocean paper paints did you get??? I am itching to get some more.
Do you use the Duochromes over other colors? I believe that's their intended purpose, to convey translucency found in certain elements of nature (e.g., beetles, fish). On their own, on white paper, they're definitely light.
@@mnap1595 absolutely!!! I just have other ones that far surpass these. I love getting handmade Watercolors for this type of effect. I love the Daniel Smith paints, but I just don't prefer their shiny paints. (I have only tried a few though, I may light other colors from their range.)
I totally understand how you feel about watercolor, I was always drawn to watercolor a incense I was a kid. I also always thought is has something magical, i love the hsrmony in blend it creates like no other medium. I love pastel and colored pencil as well also charcoal and graphite, I don't care for ACRYLYICS BUT THE WATERCOLORS were always really special.
I can’t believe you don’t have a colbalt teal? It’s a perfect pair for your pinks
I like ds version but the best is version is probably qor or sennelier. They are more of the classic version of the color . But ds is nice because it is different than the others. Sleeping beauty turquoise is close to the others.
I have double bought a few paints too. Lol. PR122 has pretty good light-fastness when its the pure pigment . It's the florescent dye used with it that's fading. Daniel Smith Quinacridone Lilac is pure PR122. No florescent dye added. Alizarin Crimson PR83 is very fugitive.. I don't care much for moonglow either. But also will never use shadow violet. Blessings and thanks for sharing. Schmincke doesn't have any gummy watercolor. Not even in potters pink.
I love Daniel Smith. It’s one of my favorite brands of watercolor. By I don’t much like their Potter’s Pink. I much prefer Schmincke’s. Winsor & Newton is nice as well.
26:57 for the moonglow i actually have noticed a difference in hue. When i first bought the tube i put some in a half pan, fast forward a few years later to now, i went to refill my pan and noticed the binder and pigments had separated inside the tube so i ended up with larger sections of blue/green ontop of the pan. So my new swatch is bluer than my last one haha
I'm glad it's not just me!
I agree I won’t buy duo chrome mauve again. I think…
Great video. Are there artists out there who are interested in trading watercolor pans or tubes? If there is a group doing this please let me know.
That is not lapis lazuli. D.S. Lapis is very pale and does not granulate into separate colors. The swatch you painted is likely one of the primatek blues.
@@eliseking9047 it actually is! I just double checked. Maybe it just looked different on camera.
I far prefer WN and Davinci cerulean. I don’t like DS version at all
There is no reason in the world to pay Daniel Smith prices when there are so many great quality brands at half the price or less. I love Mission Gold, Van Gogh & Da Vinci.
Generally true but there are quite a few exceptions like Aussie red gold,green gold, azo yellow, green apatite, …
Daniel Smith is actually one of the more affordable options for me, since I live in the Northwest USA. It's more local for me than other brands and the price is good for the powerful pigment load. Yes, DaVini is mote affordable. But I really dislike mine. For the pigment load, Daniel Smith is nore bank for the buck where I live.
@@renmuffett you dislike Davinci? Which palette do you have? I’m shocked, they are right up there with DS and Holbein for me
I get Daniel Smith sticks. They have absolutely the best! It is about the same amount of paint as 5 pans and they cost less than $10 a stick. It is the same paint no other filler.
Daniel Smith is amazing. I love their colors and the way they move. I think I have 130 of their colors. I also have Mission Gold and Van Gogh, which are great, but they're not the same as my DS.
Several colors are completely useless and apart from being very pleasant and spectacular to swatch, I realized that I never used them to paint... I eliminated these colors from my palette to keep only those I use to paint... And which are transparent or semi-transparent...Moonshadow is an example of useless colors for me …
I use moonglow a lot for shadows and shading
Maybe a strange question but are you sure that is lapis lazuli because every video or swarch i see i so much lighter. Thank you in advance!!
To be more specific it looks more like kyanite is that a possibility?
I like Daniel Smith very much and its only one of my brand palettes. Saying that b/c like so many people today, I have more w/c than I need. However, many if not most serious realistic w/c painters use a limited palette of 12 or fewer pigments and occasionally use a convenience color or two. You can mix almost any color, and a limited palette really helps unify paintings.