I use a paint bucket from dollarama for my rinse water....it has a ribbed slant on one side that helps clean your brush without giving you the option of stabbing downward and it's too deep to leave most brushes in it...but it's not huge or heavy.....
When I saw you bring out the shop towels, I literally cheered! I am an artist but also work part time in an auto shop (because bills 😭). I discovered those magical blue towels there and never looked back! Thanks for sharing - great content 🤗🎨
You are kinda right about using toothpaste to stop plastic palette beading. The idea is to scrub the surface to add some roughness. So i guess you may have seen someone using toothpaste for that. But just get a pan scrubber, and be done with it already. Or, never buy a plastic mixing palette. I do like an enameled surface. I use cheap creamics, sometimes artist type, sometimes thrift. But my fav is metal enamel dishes and trays. You know the type, white pie dish with the cobalt blue rim. Or, butchers tray. You can get them in all shapes and sizes, better surface than ceramic. But also light and durable to take out. And also magnetic, so i can throw it on a magnetic easel.
An alternative to the Winsor Newton Series 7 brushes are the Escoda Reserva series. They are made from real male sable hair. They have great water retention, beautiful points and can do large washes and fine details. Model 1212 is the regular handles and Model 1214 is the travel brush line.
@@SK-gk3tx An alternative is Princeton Velvetouch brushes. They are synthetic and cruelty free. The handles are great and the synthetic hairs have great absorbency and spring. I find they are an excellent alternative and I use them all the time guilt-free. The price point is much more affordable and they are widely available in many styles to suit my needs.
The best Kolinsky though,are the Raphael 8408 and 8404 series, as also the DA Vinci Maestro series 35 and 10 and the more affordable Royal Talens Rembrandt series 100, that are as good, as the others I mentioned and some like them even more! Those are the top 3 Kolinsky brushes in the world. Escoda comes next and follows Princeton. Escoda has the best marketing and thus are more edvertised than the Raphael, but professional artists with years in their back, know what I mean. RAphael also makes the best Quills squirel brushes,their 803 have the most professional handle/balance I've ever seen on any brush.Provides incredible control and precision on your strokes.
I just found your channel today and I've watched a few of your videos. I love the information that you're giving thank you. I have a strong desire to get the M Graham paints because I love honey watercolors and living in Phoenix Arizona they respond well here. I have purchased some handmade honey watercolors and I have loved them so much. I work in realistic and photorealistic animals and watercolor make beautiful backgrounds and I am dying to use them in a full piece when I get enough colors. Being disabled and very low income makes it complicated but I have not given up hope.
Schmincke also does a Naples Yellow Reddish (like you, I saw the colour and went "I need that" - I purchased a printed chart of Schmincke and that was one colour I definitely needed), if that's more accessible to people that is another option for that. Its pigments are PW6 PW4 PR242 PY42 and is opaque, but definitely a good base for a ligher skintone. I love Schmincke because they offer alternatives to traditional heavy metal colours while in most cases also offering the original in case people want the traditional ones; I also love them because they have a bunch of fun granulating colours, though their supergranulating colours are better for convenience mixes in my opinion. I grabbed volcano yellow and volcano red, most others I can mix up when I need them.
I also love shop towels. You can rinse them out over and over and reuse them. Sometimes one will last for a week and I paint every day. Very economical
I have to agree that I also love the Neptune Brushes. They are just a good middle ground and very affordable for the quality. I use mine a lot and they have really stood up so well.
All good advice! I have the worst problem with tape at the bottom of the image because I prefer working on a flat surface and of course, the lower half gets a bit more pressure on it from my wrist laying on it. I'll have to try that hair dryer technique you mention! Thanks again!
Thank you. Just a note, I've found the Master's Brush Cleaner does a nice job of cleaning plastic palettes. I have a big tub that I find quicker to use than the smaller sizes. It's also seems to do a better job on ink stained hands than their bar soap.
Good to know! I love that stuff. Normally I have some form of hand sanitizer or isopropyl alcohol hanging out on my desk so I’ve gotten super used to cleaning up any harder stains and spills with that.
I love my fellow artists because we get each other. I use shop towels too! My husband works at a supply warehouse so we brought some home and the first thing I thought was, these would be perfect for my watercolors ! But my all time favorite is the Viva brand paper towels. Those are like luxury paper towels. Super thick and soft and I can reuse over and over. They are my absolute favorite! I haven't tried Winsor and Newton watercolor paper but I remember your first impression video on it and it made me want to try. I also use blue painters paint and haven't found any issues with ripping paper. As long as you're using 100% cotton i found it doesn't disturb and tare. Thanks for another great informative and entertaining video!
I've been collecting my daniel smith tube colors for about 7 years now and I found the best palette ever to hold all the colors. It's the Paul Rubens 24 well Palette with extra mixing trays. It will hold 133 half pans and its air tight. Great for holding lots of colors. I used glue dots to hold the pans in and it works amazingly well compared to a lot of other palettes I've tried. You have a nice collection and I see that skin tone section which I really love! I hope you have a video somewhere relating to those colors. I'm new to your channel and this was a great video and very detailed!
Interesting! I’ve always meant to switch mine over to one of my palette towers but I’ve never gotten around to it. Mostly because I don’t want to have to relearn where the different colours are located, haha! Right now I don’t have a specific video about my most used skin tone colours but it’s a video I plan on imminently doing as it’s been on my list for a while now.
I sometimes use Arches CP and Saunders Waterford High White CP, but my favorite is the Hahnemuhle Expression CP, I think the colors flow and blend best on that paper. And as a bonus it's just half the cost of the Arches paper.
Wow, what an amazing video you have provided for beginners to help them on their artistic journey ! Everything is explained so well and jam packed with such awesome suggestions and hints. Thank you for sharing your knowledge !
Thanks for this video. I love seeing the things that other people like to use. Also you have the prettiest complexion! Much love from Nashville TN USA 🇺🇸
Yes! They’re fantastic. I’ve always had some in my studio for cleaning resin 3d prints and other things, and eventually just started to use them for when I paint as well.
@@studioofmm I have never seen ur UA-cam channel before today. What have u done to me? I've been sitting here watching ur videos all day like a Netflix marathon 🤣
My go to paint supplies are - paint puck in a used jelly jar, Trekkel quill brush, silver black crystal brushes, fluid cotton paper blocks, and da Vinci paints.
Here in Australia, the WN watercolour block is nearly as expensive as Arches. I use Baohong Academy instead and I love it. I am saving my Arches for special art work lol.
the Roman Szmal Aquarius line has some very interesting single pigment colours!! they come in full pans but are so soft you can easily move them into half pans :D they're pretty inexpensive too, though that just might be my impression since in Poland I can get them for decent prices in every art store; I don't know how available they are to you but I've seen them around watercolour UA-cam so it can't be that difficult to get them
You can make your own transfer paper with tracing paper or vellum and a watercolor pastel stick. Rub the watercolor pastel all over one side and then you can use it over and over with the added benefit of the pastel melting into your painting without leaving sketch marks
So enjoyed this review of favourite art materials. Yes, Arches is a very one way try… hard to go back afterwards. I think Schmincke is a fantastic paint brand ( although maybe too expensive in US and Canada, it’s cheaper cousin Sennelier also very good, especially if you enjoy transparency. The Schmincke super granulation, I didn’t think much off until I tried them, and painting natural things, dogs fur etc, it is really fantastic- they do great swatch sets of the range. I love Daniel Smith and have slowly been collecting, project by project or just unusual colours. I totally ‘get’ the large palette, for home use, mine is big too - not quite as mega as yours. Thank you for taking the time to do such a good round up of so many materials. We all love art supplies.
My WC teacher advised using a paper bag to scuff up our plastic palettes. This was great. I've got a list of things to look for. Thank you for sharing these with us. --KateColors
I love watching videos about art supplies. Not a lot of stores carry them in WA state. I agree Daniel Smith the best. But also Schmencke is so beautiful like jewelry to other people. I have been in a painting slump lately so hope your enthusiasm will rub off on me. Almost too much to look at here on the Salish Sea. Thank you
Thank you so much for this video. I started using watercolor last year and haven't stopped. I still use acrylic but I mostly now use watercolor. I currently still have my first set of the Royal and Langnickel: Essentials and the work very well! I also use their brushes.
Great video!!! I'm a bit of a collector of watercolours too!😉 My collection consist of Daniel Smith, M. Graham, Qor, Schmincke & A. Gallo paint. Not to mention my Watercolour pencils! They're all AMAZING professional paints so...I just switch between them depending on what characteristics I'm looking for in a specific piece.
I live in Europe and like to play with layers, so I got Sennelier paints and I love them. They are so vibrant and transparent and also the ones with the least toxicity warnings I could find (I´m very clumsy and have sensitive skin, so this was a priority for me). Hahnemühle paper is very affordable here and they have a block with samples of their different papers that I´m enjoying experimenting with. Your collection of brushes!!!
Wow that’s a lot of info, yep I have great watercolour paper, brushes cover, paint this is we’re I’m struggling, I don’t like W&N that much it’s easy to get here but I’m meh 🫤 about it. Daniel Smith looks interesting bit the price, what colours to pick, swatch cards ok I’m so looking for these thank you, um schmincke paints look good too. NZ here so most shops sell W&N maybe this is why I don’t like them everyone has them and raves about them I picked up a Vos Prussian blue by mistake and oh my I love this it flows amazing and the colour is so amazing, see it’s the paint so going to look for the swatch cards thank you.
I know what you mean. W&N seems mighty boring especially compared to something like Daniel Smith that has all of these super unique colours and variations. I’d consider W&N a good staple brand though, they’re pretty classic in terms of paint lines so I think they’d suit a lot of people’s preferences in terms of watercolour properties. Sometimes I find some of the Daniel Smith colours almost too granulating, especially for the subject matter I’m wanting to paint using them so I have to be a bit careful there whereas a lot of the W&N paint is on the lower end of granulation (depending on the colour) so in that case I might prefer using them instead. There really are so many amazing professional watercolour paint lines out there. I’ve found myself looking up different ones and reading about the particular properties and strengths/weaknesses of the paints incase I ever want to broaden my paint horizons.
@@studioofmm thank you for this information, thinking the Daniel Smith would be good for scenic type painting, which I’m doing, I do love painting cartoon type things as well, came about because I did a rather nice beach picture and a friend said himm maybe a seagull so I put one in, lol looked so much like a pterodactyl (my hand shook!) I went with it and added in a few other Dino’s just for fun, know I’m painting dragons attacking hot air balloons and all sorts of fun things, just for fun, friends are liking them, I’m just relaxing and having fun, I’ve been selling though so thought I should use professional paint ergo W&N, I find at times I want a brighter colour, can get this with non professional brand I own but light fast isn’t the best. Still the painting is the fun bit. Thank you again for the information, have a lovely week.
Great video, thanks!! I recognised a few of my own favourites 😊 but might add a few more: Silver Black Velvet brushes are my favourites (besides the Casaneo quills and Princeton Neptune you mentioned). I prefer Fabriano Artistico paper over Arches, and I recently used Hahnemühle Bamboo Mixed Media paper, which surprisingly handled wet washes very well. I couldn’t say which are my favourite paints - I see myself more as a collector in that particular field 😂 I love Sennelier, Schmincke, Daniel Smith, W&N, but also Lukas 1862, which were my first professional paints many years ago. And I just ordered another brand today which I have never tried before… 🎨 Just one question: It would be great to know which colours you use for skin tones, as I’m just starting to explore that myself.
I’ve heard great things about those brushes and I really hope to try them one day! Interesting! I’ve been a fan of other Artistico papers so I’ll have to try that out sometime as well, haha! I actually think I tried to get full sheets of the 300lb Fabriano from my local Curry’s but they only had Arches in stock so I went with that. For skin tones I seem to almost “tint” more neutral colour to fit whatever the tone/lighting situation is and also work at it in a lot of layers, gradually building up the intensity. Of the small little skin tone section of my palette the ones that I use the most are Daniel Smith burnt sienna, burnt umber, Winsor & Newton brown madder and then the Van Gogh in Naples yellow red. I also use D.S. quinacridone sienna, sepia, transparent brown oxide, lunar violet and W&N perylene violet and neutral tint a lot as well. There are of course more intense primary shades that sometimes get mixed in if I really need to swing a colour to be a different tone but those are definitely the ones I’m reaching for the most.
@@studioofmm Ahh, thanks so much for the skin tone info - it’s great to have a starting point! I probably have most of these from various brands, so will start experimenting. I love Naples Yellow Reddish, I’ve got the Lukas version and it’s very nice. W&N Brown Madder is a newer acquisition, I can imagine that it’s good for lips or blush. I really have to start using neutral tint, it’s never really on my mind for shading or toning down brighter colours, although that’s what it should do. Thanks again!
Yeah, for the most part they’re pretty standard colours and also ones you technically could mix up pretty easily as well if you were working from a more condensed palette. Yes! I love the brown madder for those super pink hues. It’s such a perfect colour for it as it’s not too saturated. Neutral Tint is easily one of my favourite paints. I really love using it instead of black for anything more monochromatic or something that should really be “black and white”. The slight colouring makes it much more interesting looking in my opinion.
For me, the best supplies are: Fondue and tapas plates to mix and this 36 colour plastic box from meeden that comes with 36 empty pans, where I can fold out the palettes on the left and right and lean it directly against the paper without there being a palette between the colours and the paper. Maybe I'll think of something else tomorrow.
Hello :) I have a weird question for you. I love your glasses!! Someone on Instagram has them in a different color and I've been looking for them for a while now. Can you please tell me where you got them or what brand they are?? Thank you so much!! ❤️ Nice review!!
Thank you! I got them from a local eyeglass shop but according to the insides they are the Caroline Abram ‘Nyoko’ glasses. They’re a few years old so not sure how readily available the style/colour is anymore. Best of luck finding them!
I really enjoyed watching this video and learning about some of your favorite tools for watercolor. Good stuff! I especially liked the Indigo sketchbook with decked pages and may have to check it out! :)
Eek a 40 minute video? How exciting! Also, I'm finally moving to BC on Saturday and I can't wait to hang up your prints. Any recommendations for hanging prints? My sister recommended museum putty. I'm renting so... trying not to damage any paint. But... I will happily repaint before leaving as long as I can have all my favourite artists on my walls.
That’s so exciting! I’ve had great success with the Velcro-like command strips but that’s probably more applicable if you’ve got them in a frame. I’ve heard great things about museum putty for a variety of applications though!
@@studioofmm ah my paintings on stretched canvas are usually hung with the velcro command strips! So good. Yeah I think I'll watch some reviews for museum putty and make it my "most likely" option.
Two Rivers 300lb rough watercolor paper is my holy grail. I got some in a sample pack from Jackson's Art a few years ago. If you get a chance to check them out they are great! I got my Schmincke Horadam watercolor tubes from them too. They have sales often.
If you want the water to stop beading on a palette or surface you add a layer of oxgall (mixed with water) all over and then wipe it off completely. This works 🤩
They’re these ones: amzn.to/2XXamZ3 I have them on so many of my drawing utensils; they’re amazing. They’re a bit big on some pens/pencils so I end up wrapping the barrel with a couple layers of masking tape and then they fit perfectly.
I love this video! Thank you for being so informative ❤️ I’ll have to keep this tucked away in a folder, cuz I’m still pretty new to watercolor. I have been looking to upgrade my paper tho.
In your palette, you showed 6 colors that are your “skin tones” I saw the swatches and adore the second to last color, the salmon pink, which would be the 5th one of those six. Can I ask what color it is? Would love adding it to my palette.
I was just going to do some browsing for supplies, so this comes as a perfect time. I got the light board puks from us Amazon after you showed them in another video, it was quite expensive but I absolutely love them!
I use 2H, 4H, and 6H pencils mainly for sketching because of sensory problems. It makes me nauseous when the graphite transfers onto my hand or around the page. I assume the blackwing pencil smudges?
I’m sure it does smudge a bit but it’s very minimal for the lead darkness. I don’t find myself really resting my hand along the page like I might while drawing with other pencils while using them, so I can’t say I’ve seen much transfer onto the side of the hand and smudging that goes along with that. I believe the 602 pencils are supposed to be about the equivalent of a 2b or so and I’d say at worst it smudges like a durable HB. There is a harder lead blackwing pencil made (I forget if it’s the pearl (white) or brown/wood grain one though) that might be a better choice for you.
They’re these ones: amzn.to/2XXamZ3 Technically they’re made for Apple pencils so they’ll sometimes be a bit loose on certain pens/pencils. I just wrap a bit of masking tape around the pen until it fits on it nicely.
So annoyed with Polina bright.... I purchased by picture what you showed (light brown handles) and I received black ones shaped differently... They did not care. I only wanted the exact pictured ones. So upset.
That sucks! I believe someone commented on one of my videos a while back that they’d changed the handle colours, but if they also changed the shape of the brush hairs then that’s awful. I was highly considering buying a second set since I use them so much.
Girl, I enjoy your videos so much-just THANK YOU!😂 Only halfway in, and I had to comment-I was debating regarding purchasing the Polina Bright brushes, just wondering if they could possibly be as good as they appear (and my style is evolving to be somewhat similar to hers as time goes on; for a variety of reasons I won’t bore you with) but her longer sweeping brush strokes are not possible to emulate with any of my current brushes, mainly because holding that quantity of water is pretty difficult using the much loved Princeton Velvetouch brushes I’ve used since the beginning. Her brushes seem springy as well as capable of holding decent quantities of water for synthetics. I’m taking this video as a message to order them! On to watch the rest of your video! ✌🏻☺️
That’s super expensive on the Arches paper! I get full sheets at Hobby Lobby for less than $7 per sheet and cut it up and it’s great! I just got 3 sheets and it was under $25 with tax
It’s so rare to see someone else who has the same lip ring as me! Vertical Labrets aren’t common at all where I am, so seeing a fellow female artist with the same piercing makes me giggle! That said omg this is soooo informative I really needed some of this info 😭
Not sure how old you W&Newton paper is but they have changed their manufacturer recently, now apparently made in China, and quality has gone downhill 🤨very disappointing!!😒
Very nice supplies. It looks like these are your truly special old but trustworthy things. I can't recommend you anything new or different from what you already have. You are set really, unless you want to explore and spend a lot of money on things you don't need.
I use a paint bucket from dollarama for my rinse water....it has a ribbed slant on one side that helps clean your brush without giving you the option of stabbing downward and it's too deep to leave most brushes in it...but it's not huge or heavy.....
When I saw you bring out the shop towels, I literally cheered! I am an artist but also work part time in an auto shop (because bills 😭). I discovered those magical blue towels there and never looked back!
Thanks for sharing - great content 🤗🎨
You are kinda right about using toothpaste to stop plastic palette beading. The idea is to scrub the surface to add some roughness. So i guess you may have seen someone using toothpaste for that. But just get a pan scrubber, and be done with it already. Or, never buy a plastic mixing palette.
I do like an enameled surface. I use cheap creamics, sometimes artist type, sometimes thrift. But my fav is metal enamel dishes and trays. You know the type, white pie dish with the cobalt blue rim. Or, butchers tray. You can get them in all shapes and sizes, better surface than ceramic. But also light and durable to take out. And also magnetic, so i can throw it on a magnetic easel.
An alternative to the Winsor Newton Series 7 brushes are the Escoda Reserva series. They are made from real male sable hair. They have great water retention, beautiful points and can do large washes and fine details. Model 1212 is the regular handles and Model 1214 is the travel brush line.
Unfortunately the animal is killed for your brush.
@@SK-gk3tx An alternative is Princeton Velvetouch brushes. They are synthetic and cruelty free. The handles are great and the synthetic hairs have great absorbency and spring. I find they are an excellent alternative and I use them all the time guilt-free. The price point is much more affordable and they are widely available in many styles to suit my needs.
@@SK-gk3tx From my understanding, the hairs used for the brushes are just from the ones naturally shed by the animal. The animal is not harmed.
The best Kolinsky though,are the Raphael 8408 and 8404 series, as also the DA Vinci Maestro series 35 and 10 and the more affordable Royal Talens Rembrandt series 100, that are as good, as the others I mentioned and some like them even more! Those are the top 3 Kolinsky brushes in the world. Escoda comes next and follows Princeton. Escoda has the best marketing and thus are more edvertised than the Raphael, but professional artists with years in their back, know what I mean. RAphael also makes the best Quills squirel brushes,their 803 have the most professional handle/balance I've ever seen on any brush.Provides incredible control and precision on your strokes.
I’ve never seen the watercolor art board before. Sounds fun
I just found your channel today and I've watched a few of your videos. I love the information that you're giving thank you. I have a strong desire to get the M Graham paints because I love honey watercolors and living in Phoenix Arizona they respond well here. I have purchased some handmade honey watercolors and I have loved them so much. I work in realistic and photorealistic animals and watercolor make beautiful backgrounds and I am dying to use them in a full piece when I get enough colors. Being disabled and very low income makes it complicated but I have not given up hope.
I like how you explain all things rather than just showing the stuff like most people do.
Schmincke also does a Naples Yellow Reddish (like you, I saw the colour and went "I need that" - I purchased a printed chart of Schmincke and that was one colour I definitely needed), if that's more accessible to people that is another option for that. Its pigments are PW6 PW4 PR242 PY42 and is opaque, but definitely a good base for a ligher skintone. I love Schmincke because they offer alternatives to traditional heavy metal colours while in most cases also offering the original in case people want the traditional ones; I also love them because they have a bunch of fun granulating colours, though their supergranulating colours are better for convenience mixes in my opinion. I grabbed volcano yellow and volcano red, most others I can mix up when I need them.
I also love shop towels. You can rinse them out over and over and reuse them. Sometimes one will last for a week and I paint every day. Very economical
Thank you for sharing such detailed information. I can see a few things I'd like to get, but I'm happy to say I have a lot of what you showed.
I have to agree that I also love the Neptune Brushes. They are just a good middle ground and very affordable for the quality. I use mine a lot and they have really stood up so well.
All good advice! I have the worst problem with tape at the bottom of the image because I prefer working on a flat surface and of course, the lower half gets a bit more pressure on it from my wrist laying on it. I'll have to try that hair dryer technique you mention! Thanks again!
Thoroughly enjoyed your video and how you kept on subject, so to speak. Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Just a note, I've found the Master's Brush Cleaner does a nice job of cleaning plastic palettes. I have a big tub that I find quicker to use than the smaller sizes. It's also seems to do a better job on ink stained hands than their bar soap.
Good to know! I love that stuff. Normally I have some form of hand sanitizer or isopropyl alcohol hanging out on my desk so I’ve gotten super used to cleaning up any harder stains and spills with that.
I love my fellow artists because we get each other. I use shop towels too! My husband works at a supply warehouse so we brought some home and the first thing I thought was, these would be perfect for my watercolors ! But my all time favorite is the Viva brand paper towels. Those are like luxury paper towels. Super thick and soft and I can reuse over and over. They are my absolute favorite!
I haven't tried Winsor and Newton watercolor paper but I remember your first impression video on it and it made me want to try.
I also use blue painters paint and haven't found any issues with ripping paper. As long as you're using 100% cotton i found it doesn't disturb and tare.
Thanks for another great informative and entertaining video!
I've been collecting my daniel smith tube colors for about 7 years now and I found the best palette ever to hold all the colors. It's the Paul Rubens 24 well Palette with extra mixing trays. It will hold 133 half pans and its air tight. Great for holding lots of colors. I used glue dots to hold the pans in and it works amazingly well compared to a lot of other palettes I've tried. You have a nice collection and I see that skin tone section which I really love! I hope you have a video somewhere relating to those colors. I'm new to your channel and this was a great video and very detailed!
Interesting! I’ve always meant to switch mine over to one of my palette towers but I’ve never gotten around to it. Mostly because I don’t want to have to relearn where the different colours are located, haha!
Right now I don’t have a specific video about my most used skin tone colours but it’s a video I plan on imminently doing as it’s been on my list for a while now.
I sometimes use Arches CP and Saunders Waterford High White CP, but my favorite is the Hahnemuhle Expression CP, I think the colors flow and blend best on that paper. And as a bonus it's just half the cost of the Arches paper.
Wow, what an amazing video you have provided for beginners to help them on their artistic journey ! Everything is explained so well and jam packed with such awesome suggestions and hints. Thank you for sharing your knowledge !
AHHH THIS VIDEO IS SO GOOD! I love how informative and well explained everything is! Definitely gonna upgrade with a couple of this things 💖
Thanks for this video. I love seeing the things that other people like to use. Also you have the prettiest complexion! Much love from Nashville TN USA 🇺🇸
Thank you for including brushes.
You're the first person I've seen that also uses shop towels! They really are so much better than a paper towel and last so much longer.
Yes! They’re fantastic. I’ve always had some in my studio for cleaning resin 3d prints and other things, and eventually just started to use them for when I paint as well.
@@studioofmm I have never seen ur UA-cam channel before today. What have u done to me? I've been sitting here watching ur videos all day like a Netflix marathon 🤣
Whoops 🙈🤣 Enjoy!
My go to paint supplies are - paint puck in a used jelly jar, Trekkel quill brush, silver black crystal brushes, fluid cotton paper blocks, and da Vinci paints.
I’m an art teacher, I teach watercolor for seniors, your video help me so much, thank you 😊
Here in Australia, the WN watercolour block is nearly as expensive as Arches. I use Baohong Academy instead and I love it. I am saving my Arches for special art work lol.
Great suggestion Sheree. Baohong is fantastic for the price.
the Roman Szmal Aquarius line has some very interesting single pigment colours!! they come in full pans but are so soft you can easily move them into half pans :D they're pretty inexpensive too, though that just might be my impression since in Poland I can get them for decent prices in every art store; I don't know how available they are to you but I've seen them around watercolour UA-cam so it can't be that difficult to get them
Jackson’s art in the UK carries them and ships to many places around the world. I have a bunch of roman szmal paints and I love them too!
I absolutely adore Shop Towel. It's such a lifesaver. Super absorbent, no fibers, and quite hardy.
Thanks for the amazing video. One of my new (to me) favorites is DS Sleeping Beauty. It's a granulating teal. Gorgeous!
Thank you, this was very informative!
Oh no my partner hates that I watched this video lmao- I see SO many things I NEED!!! 😂
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You can make your own transfer paper with tracing paper or vellum and a watercolor pastel stick. Rub the watercolor pastel all over one side and then you can use it over and over with the added benefit of the pastel melting into your painting without leaving sketch marks
So enjoyed this review of favourite art materials. Yes, Arches is a very one way try… hard to go back afterwards. I think Schmincke is a fantastic paint brand ( although maybe too expensive in US and Canada, it’s cheaper cousin Sennelier also very good, especially if you enjoy transparency. The Schmincke super granulation, I didn’t think much off until I tried them, and painting natural things, dogs fur etc, it is really fantastic- they do great swatch sets of the range. I love Daniel Smith and have slowly been collecting, project by project or just unusual colours. I totally ‘get’ the large palette, for home use, mine is big too - not quite as mega as yours. Thank you for taking the time to do such a good round up of so many materials. We all love art supplies.
M.Graham would be a great brand to try and can be bought on Amazon :)
Very helpful! I really appreciate the shop towel hint!
Arches is the very best one! Second to none! Expensive yes, but it’s worth spending money on it cause it will give you the very best results
My WC teacher advised using a paper bag to scuff up our plastic palettes. This was great. I've got a list of things to look for. Thank you for sharing these with us. --KateColors
Love etcher as well as Kilimanjaro
I love watching videos about art supplies. Not a lot of stores carry them in WA state. I agree Daniel Smith the best. But also Schmencke is so beautiful like jewelry to other people. I have been in a painting slump lately so hope your enthusiasm will rub off on me. Almost too much to look at here on the Salish Sea. Thank you
Thank you so much for this video. I started using watercolor last year and haven't stopped. I still use acrylic but I mostly now use watercolor. I currently still have my first set of the Royal and Langnickel: Essentials and the work very well! I also use their brushes.
Yes they do great brushes for the price 👍
My favourite brushes are the silver black velvet watercolour brushes
Great video!!! I'm a bit of a collector of watercolours too!😉 My collection consist of Daniel Smith, M. Graham, Qor, Schmincke & A. Gallo paint. Not to mention my Watercolour pencils! They're all AMAZING professional paints so...I just switch between them depending on what characteristics I'm looking for in a specific piece.
Is there any art supply for pouring out water colour paint from tubes other than mixing palletes
Im a newly subscriber! Thank you for your informative video. I was wondering what your thoughts are on Paul Rubens Watercolor pan sets.
What an incredible video, thank you for the information blast!
Please where is the 12 pan mixing palette from
It’s the mix dish from the White Nights 36 full pan palette.
I live in Europe and like to play with layers, so I got Sennelier paints and I love them. They are so vibrant and transparent and also the ones with the least toxicity warnings I could find (I´m very clumsy and have sensitive skin, so this was a priority for me). Hahnemühle paper is very affordable here and they have a block with samples of their different papers that I´m enjoying experimenting with.
Your collection of brushes!!!
I’ve always been interested in trying the Sennelier paints as I’ve heard such great things about them always.
I have recently discovered Roman Szmal (on Jackson's). I love all their paints! Their Potter's Pink is really nice!
This is extremely informative! Thanks for all your helpful tips.
Yes! This is the video I needed! Thank you new subscriber, I love your content🤍
Wow that’s a lot of info, yep I have great watercolour paper, brushes cover, paint this is we’re I’m struggling, I don’t like W&N that much it’s easy to get here but I’m meh 🫤 about it. Daniel Smith looks interesting bit the price, what colours to pick, swatch cards ok I’m so looking for these thank you, um schmincke paints look good too. NZ here so most shops sell W&N maybe this is why I don’t like them everyone has them and raves about them I picked up a Vos Prussian blue by mistake and oh my I love this it flows amazing and the colour is so amazing, see it’s the paint so going to look for the swatch cards thank you.
I know what you mean. W&N seems mighty boring especially compared to something like Daniel Smith that has all of these super unique colours and variations. I’d consider W&N a good staple brand though, they’re pretty classic in terms of paint lines so I think they’d suit a lot of people’s preferences in terms of watercolour properties. Sometimes I find some of the Daniel Smith colours almost too granulating, especially for the subject matter I’m wanting to paint using them so I have to be a bit careful there whereas a lot of the W&N paint is on the lower end of granulation (depending on the colour) so in that case I might prefer using them instead. There really are so many amazing professional watercolour paint lines out there. I’ve found myself looking up different ones and reading about the particular properties and strengths/weaknesses of the paints incase I ever want to broaden my paint horizons.
@@studioofmm thank you for this information, thinking the Daniel Smith would be good for scenic type painting, which I’m doing, I do love painting cartoon type things as well, came about because I did a rather nice beach picture and a friend said himm maybe a seagull so I put one in, lol looked so much like a pterodactyl (my hand shook!) I went with it and added in a few other Dino’s just for fun, know I’m painting dragons attacking hot air balloons and all sorts of fun things, just for fun, friends are liking them, I’m just relaxing and having fun, I’ve been selling though so thought I should use professional paint ergo W&N, I find at times I want a brighter colour, can get this with non professional brand I own but light fast isn’t the best. Still the painting is the fun bit. Thank you again for the information, have a lovely week.
Those sound so cool! And yes, definitely agree: painting and having fun with it is what ultimately matters, not the specific tools.
The 2017 new colors are really amazing, definitely not boring…smalt, aqua, transparent orange, perm magenta…green gold, I think….
Also try watercolor ground by QoR also I love it!
Great video, thanks!! I recognised a few of my own favourites 😊 but might add a few more: Silver Black Velvet brushes are my favourites (besides the Casaneo quills and Princeton Neptune you mentioned). I prefer Fabriano Artistico paper over Arches, and I recently used Hahnemühle Bamboo Mixed Media paper, which surprisingly handled wet washes very well. I couldn’t say which are my favourite paints - I see myself more as a collector in that particular field 😂 I love Sennelier, Schmincke, Daniel Smith, W&N, but also Lukas 1862, which were my first professional paints many years ago. And I just ordered another brand today which I have never tried before… 🎨
Just one question: It would be great to know which colours you use for skin tones, as I’m just starting to explore that myself.
I’ve heard great things about those brushes and I really hope to try them one day!
Interesting! I’ve been a fan of other Artistico papers so I’ll have to try that out sometime as well, haha! I actually think I tried to get full sheets of the 300lb Fabriano from my local Curry’s but they only had Arches in stock so I went with that.
For skin tones I seem to almost “tint” more neutral colour to fit whatever the tone/lighting situation is and also work at it in a lot of layers, gradually building up the intensity. Of the small little skin tone section of my palette the ones that I use the most are Daniel Smith burnt sienna, burnt umber, Winsor & Newton brown madder and then the Van Gogh in Naples yellow red. I also use D.S. quinacridone sienna, sepia, transparent brown oxide, lunar violet and W&N perylene violet and neutral tint a lot as well. There are of course more intense primary shades that sometimes get mixed in if I really need to swing a colour to be a different tone but those are definitely the ones I’m reaching for the most.
@@studioofmm Ahh, thanks so much for the skin tone info - it’s great to have a starting point! I probably have most of these from various brands, so will start experimenting. I love Naples Yellow Reddish, I’ve got the Lukas version and it’s very nice. W&N Brown Madder is a newer acquisition, I can imagine that it’s good for lips or blush. I really have to start using neutral tint, it’s never really on my mind for shading or toning down brighter colours, although that’s what it should do. Thanks again!
Yeah, for the most part they’re pretty standard colours and also ones you technically could mix up pretty easily as well if you were working from a more condensed palette. Yes! I love the brown madder for those super pink hues. It’s such a perfect colour for it as it’s not too saturated. Neutral Tint is easily one of my favourite paints. I really love using it instead of black for anything more monochromatic or something that should really be “black and white”. The slight colouring makes it much more interesting looking in my opinion.
@@studioofmm I just heard that the brown madder pigment PR206 is being discontinued… W&N are replacing it with PR179 Perylene maroon 😢
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For me, the best supplies are:
Fondue and tapas plates to mix and this 36 colour plastic box from meeden that comes with 36 empty pans,
where I can fold out the palettes on the left and right and lean it directly against the paper without there being a palette between the colours and the paper.
Maybe I'll think of something else tomorrow.
Hi AskiaLuna. Can you close the palette without colors mixing?
Check out the A. Gallo line of watercolors. Exquisite!
Hello :) I have a weird question for you. I love your glasses!! Someone on Instagram has them in a different color and I've been looking for them for a while now. Can you please tell me where you got them or what brand they are?? Thank you so much!! ❤️ Nice review!!
Thank you! I got them from a local eyeglass shop but according to the insides they are the Caroline Abram ‘Nyoko’ glasses. They’re a few years old so not sure how readily available the style/colour is anymore. Best of luck finding them!
Check out visionworks if you're in the US. I believe they have something that's either the sane or very close. (I was shopping in there recently!)
Also, I'll never buy a name brand palette again because I find so many good opinion at Goodwill and Aluminum trays etc at Dollar Tree. :-)
Great information. Thank you.
Arches ( pronounced Arsh) also comes in a roll 44” x 10 yd for 140 lb…much more cost effective
I really enjoyed watching this video and learning about some of your favorite tools for watercolor. Good stuff! I especially liked the Indigo sketchbook with decked pages and may have to check it out! :)
Eek a 40 minute video? How exciting! Also, I'm finally moving to BC on Saturday and I can't wait to hang up your prints. Any recommendations for hanging prints? My sister recommended museum putty. I'm renting so... trying not to damage any paint. But... I will happily repaint before leaving as long as I can have all my favourite artists on my walls.
That’s so exciting! I’ve had great success with the Velcro-like command strips but that’s probably more applicable if you’ve got them in a frame. I’ve heard great things about museum putty for a variety of applications though!
@@studioofmm ah my paintings on stretched canvas are usually hung with the velcro command strips! So good. Yeah I think I'll watch some reviews for museum putty and make it my "most likely" option.
Thank you, love the information. ✨
Two Rivers 300lb rough watercolor paper is my holy grail. I got some in a sample pack from Jackson's Art a few years ago. If you get a chance to check them out they are great! I got my Schmincke Horadam watercolor tubes from them too. They have sales often.
I love Jackson’s! Will have to remember to pick some of that up next time I place an order. Thanks!
If you want the water to stop beading on a palette or surface you add a layer of oxgall (mixed with water) all over and then wipe it off completely. This works 🤩
Thank you for sharing 🙏
Qor watercolors are my fave I have all 83 colors and 98% of my usage.
Great video you should try Da Vinci paints. Studio six art store in Ontario sells them. I’m from Quebec so I know how hard it is to find stuff here.
I love your recommendation, and several have ended up in my cart. where did you get the little gel finger rest on the Orenz pencil? it looks so comfy!
They’re these ones: amzn.to/2XXamZ3
I have them on so many of my drawing utensils; they’re amazing. They’re a bit big on some pens/pencils so I end up wrapping the barrel with a couple layers of masking tape and then they fit perfectly.
@@studioofmm perfect THANK YOU for the quick reply!
I love this video! Thank you for being so informative ❤️ I’ll have to keep this tucked away in a folder, cuz I’m still pretty new to watercolor. I have been looking to upgrade my paper tho.
masonite is also often at hardware stores! and cheaper tbh. it's where i got all of mine
Yes, definitely! Completely slipped my mind to mention it.
Qor is fun! ❤️ Thank you for this vid 🙌🤗
In your palette, you showed 6 colors that are your “skin tones” I saw the swatches and adore the second to last color, the salmon pink, which would be the 5th one of those six. Can I ask what color it is? Would love adding it to my palette.
It’s Winsor & Newton Brown Madder. Perfect for lips and any more blush tones in portraits.
Great! Very helpful. TY 💙
I was just going to do some browsing for supplies, so this comes as a perfect time. I got the light board puks from us Amazon after you showed them in another video, it was quite expensive but I absolutely love them!
Yay! I’m so glad you were able to get some and that you’re enjoying them.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ thank you...
I use 2H, 4H, and 6H pencils mainly for sketching because of sensory problems. It makes me nauseous when the graphite transfers onto my hand or around the page. I assume the blackwing pencil smudges?
I’m sure it does smudge a bit but it’s very minimal for the lead darkness. I don’t find myself really resting my hand along the page like I might while drawing with other pencils while using them, so I can’t say I’ve seen much transfer onto the side of the hand and smudging that goes along with that. I believe the 602 pencils are supposed to be about the equivalent of a 2b or so and I’d say at worst it smudges like a durable HB. There is a harder lead blackwing pencil made (I forget if it’s the pearl (white) or brown/wood grain one though) that might be a better choice for you.
I would recommend cotton gloves! I use these all the time and it keeps the smudging off of the hand.
They also come longer than just the wrist
I love the etchr sketchbook it’s one of my favorites. Side note your brows are bomb af!
Haha, thank you!
I forgot to ask in my last comment... where did you get the pencil grip for your mechanical pencil? :D
They’re these ones: amzn.to/2XXamZ3
Technically they’re made for Apple pencils so they’ll sometimes be a bit loose on certain pens/pencils. I just wrap a bit of masking tape around the pen until it fits on it nicely.
@@studioofmm Great idea! Thank you!!
So annoyed with Polina bright.... I purchased by picture what you showed (light brown handles) and I received black ones shaped differently... They did not care. I only wanted the exact pictured ones. So upset.
That sucks! I believe someone commented on one of my videos a while back that they’d changed the handle colours, but if they also changed the shape of the brush hairs then that’s awful. I was highly considering buying a second set since I use them so much.
@@studioofmm Not the brush shape, the handle shape. I wanted what you have. The black ones are bulbous... 😔
Ah, I see. That still isn’t great news for anyone who likes/was interested in the originals. So strange that they’d change it.
Your so awesome!
Watercolor sale going on in Blick now
Girl, I enjoy your videos so much-just THANK YOU!😂
Only halfway in, and I had to comment-I was debating regarding purchasing the Polina Bright brushes, just wondering if they could possibly be as good as they appear (and my style is evolving to be somewhat similar to hers as time goes on; for a variety of reasons I won’t bore you with) but her longer sweeping brush strokes are not possible to emulate with any of my current brushes, mainly because holding that quantity of water is pretty difficult using the much loved Princeton Velvetouch brushes I’ve used since the beginning.
Her brushes seem springy as well as capable of holding decent quantities of water for synthetics. I’m taking this video as a message to order them!
On to watch the rest of your video!
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That’s super expensive on the Arches paper! I get full sheets at Hobby Lobby for less than $7 per sheet and cut it up and it’s great! I just got 3 sheets and it was under $25 with tax
The Arches paper Michaela cited the price for was 300lb. That's why it is so much more expensive. :))
It’s so rare to see someone else who has the same lip ring as me! Vertical Labrets aren’t common at all where I am, so seeing a fellow female artist with the same piercing makes me giggle! That said omg this is soooo informative I really needed some of this info 😭
Haha, yay piercing twins! It definitely seems like one of the more rare piercings. Glad you enjoyed the video ☺️
I absolutely love Neptune but we all lust for W&N and Da Vinci *sigh* ................1st world problems
Not sure how old you W&Newton paper is but they have changed their manufacturer recently, now apparently made in China, and quality has gone downhill 🤨very disappointing!!😒
lol 'goo in a jar' 😀
I want to try the Arches paper, but cry at the price
Another one that lost the fight with the toolbox.
You mention Van Gogh, by Talens, but the artist quality by Talens is the Rembrandt watercolor.
Very nice supplies. It looks like these are your truly special old but trustworthy things. I can't recommend you anything new or different from what you already have. You are set really, unless you want to explore and spend a lot of money on things you don't need.
I use a face washer to dab my paint brushes on