MY NEW 2023 WATERCOLOUR PALETTE! ✷ Swatches, thoughts + favourite colours
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- It's time to share my new, revised 2023 watercolour palette with you! This one is my main palette with 47 colours, and since you last saw it I've taken out 18 colours and replaced them with new ones. In this relaxing and chatty video, I'll swatch all 47 colours for you and talk to you about why I've included them in my palette. I hope that you'll find the video interesting or useful, and if there are any colours you think I'd love, given my preference for muted and earthy tones, let me know in the comments section below! Thanks for watching.
P.S. I kind of always feel that I could have swatched better in my videos, meaning that some of these colours aren't shown at their best (in my opinion). I've shared a few examples of my artwork in the video, so hopefully this gives you more of an idea of what they actually look like with a little more water added. I'm blaming the fact that I'm swatching under pressure with a camera on me! ;)
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By the way, you may be wondering why part of the way through I have pale green nail polish on my thumbs only! It's a new one and I was trying it out. 😂
Bahaha! Natasha! Sounds like me, lol. I like it, do you? x Nell. (Nail polish)
Lol it’s hard to pick a favorite I like all these colors I have to say potters pink is one of my favorite colors I want to try the Daniel smith one um and I really like the neutral tint 2022 I would love to get my hands on some lol but these r all really nice colors❤
Nope! Wasn't wondering that at all! That's the sort of thing I just do on the daily sooo.........🤣🤣🤣🤷♀🤷♀☺☺
@@tasticola I do! :)
i was totally not aware, probably just being absorbed by watching the nice swatch. 😂
Jane's grey has the advantage of generally being easier to lift out to lighten or even remove compared to most Payne's greys if we artists make a mistake that isn't happy!
Haven’t arrived to the swatching part of the video yet, but I find it interesting how we have a common preference for some colours (usually the granulating or rich ones), but at the same time, diametric opposite! I love using vibrant colours like Quinacridone rose, transparent orange, cobalt turquoise and green gold (DS). I may be wrong, but I have this impression our background can indicate a lot of about our colour preference. Having lived in Dublin for a few years now, I can totally see why you like so much all these greys and muted colours. In my case, having spent most of my life in Brazil, I still find myself attracted to a more tropical or vibrant palette I suppose. But I enjoy watching your choice nevertheless, beautiful colours! Have many of them myself.
Ah, that is interesting and I think you're probably right! You have the best of both worlds. :)
Thanks Natasha...lovely colors !! Love ❤ from Canada 🇨🇦
I love the advice that the palette for you is one that excites you every time you open it up. 🤩
It’s funny how you can love a colour in theory but never use it in practice. This was lovely ❤
Hhhnnnnnnggg so many gorgeous colors! I have recently started using Buff Titanium and fallen in love with it. I guess I'm leaning towards softer tones and that is such a wonderful color. It mixes with everything and just gives the mixes a subtle sophisticated softness!
It's such an amazing mixing colour, I couldn't be without it now!
thx for inspiration. lovely as always ❤
I especially like the way you shared your artworks using the colours - it really adds to our understanding of how it can work on larger areas. I wish I could afford Bloodstone! Thank you for this, Natasha.
Thank you. :) It's pricey but a tube of it does last a long time!
You can mix it yourself with PR101 (or 2 I suppose, a dark earth red basically) and PBk11. That's exactly what it is. I know this because someone on here took a magnet to it a few years ago and PBk11 is magnetic. So the magnet pulled all of the black out and what was left was earth red. Same as how purpurite is PV16 and PBk11, that's what it's made of before it's separated after it's been mined.
@@mydogeatspuke Thanks, that's so interesting!
@@coffemuse a lot of the "special" ones DS make are very simple mixes haha, although they'd obviously never tell you that, but I guess it depends whether you'd rather spend a comparatively small fortune for the convenience of not having to mix it yourself. To each their own ofc 😛
Oh!!!!! What a magnificently inspirational palette! I’ve watched this video over and over and over and pulled together my own mini, Natasha Newton themed palette of 12. Sadly, I needed to buy a couple of new paints…. which of course, everyone hates doing. But there is something so exciting about seeing beautiful colours together that makes me pick up my brush and paint. You have exquisite taste! Thank you for allowing us all to join your muted revolution!!!!! Xxxxx
Thank you, Toni! I love that you have a themed Natasha Newton palette! x
Having a collection of colors you enjoy using is definitely important. I actually learned that from watching your videos. As such I have expanded my watercolor collection to include some colors that I initially never though of.
I couldn't live without shadow violet. It's a relatively new color for me but I love using it in mixes and for painting shadows.
I loved seeing the examples of where you used certain colors in your pieces!
Your muted earthy palette is gorgeous and inspiring. Love that you let go of other's expectation about what colors should be there and instead focus on what colors you like to work with. Beautiful. I think its sounds freeing to have a palette where you can paint straight from the palette. Mix if you want, but don't have to. And those colors you took out are great and can live on as a part of other palettes :)
Thank you for understanding where I'm coming from! :)
This video was soo worth the wait. Your new main plalette makes more logical creative sense, looking at how you paint your amazing landscapes and magical birds. It was great to hear how you arrived at the colour choices too and how you use certain colours for certain things in your work. You are so right when you say a palette should inspire you each time you open it to work.Glad that the colours you took out found new homes with some of your patreon members. I found myself thinking when you showed us the actual revised palete that is definitly a 'Natatsha palette'. I sense already how much this revised palette of more muted colours is inspiring you. I am, doing the same thing over this bank holiday weekend. I am making a main palette of 48 colours and one of 48 metallics (as you know I love my metallics!) and a palette of 48 dark colours. All are handmade colours. A swatch book is a good idea too, a sort of useful studio tool, I have done this for ages myself. As your work evolves and changes so does the colours you use it's anatural creative progression,so revising a plalette is a new step forward on your creative journey. I have to say the A Gallo antique gold is a staple in my metallic palettes now,I love the subtley of it,and it's actually a good mixing colour too,I sometimes add it to regular colours to get tinted metallics.It's always lovely to see you swatch in real time and speak further about the colours you have chosen and the added surprise bonus of seeing some finished new pieces of your stunning artwork as well.I enjoy researching when revising my palettes too and I know you do as well,I find the process of revising a palette a lovely thing to do as well and it's also really inspiring as well and sort of meditative. I am sure this new main palette will change your artwork in a new way as you paint with it,add a new element. Hope to see finished pieces from this new revison of colours.(matt) P.S omg. how many times can I say the word palette in one comment!! and the nail poish is a great colour too an almosst art deco looking colour. I think I couldn't be without buff titanium as a mixing colour.
I'm so glad that you think it was worth the wait, Matt! Thank you. I feel like I'm already using this palette more since I changed it around. It's so important to follow our instincts with colours! There seem to be so many rules in art, and sometimes they actually feel uninspiring and can stop us from creating our best work. Only *we* know which colours work best for us or inspire us. Have fun revising and making your palettes! The dark palette sounds particularly intriguing. Happy bank holiday Monday! :)
Love the Holbein Davy's Grey! I can't live without some shade of indigo in my palette. Thank you for the swatching video! Lovely!
It’s lovely to come across someone else who has absolutely no use for all those bright reds, pinks and oranges. I was joking the other day that i am moving towards a complete palette of nothing but grey-blue-greens, and honestly i could die happy with your bottom two rows and nothing else. And that Daniel Smith Blue Apatite is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen!
I think the one colour that I would always need is PY129. It is such a versatile pigment and a very beautiful on its own. I’ve never tired it but I have mixed a hue of it.
This is a nearly perfect (because I know you will change it again) palette. The muted substitutions make it more cohesive overall. I love it partly because I have all of these colors, but also because it is so versatile. I have really grown to appreciate subtle, muted, greys from watching your videos. Thank you for sharing your process and how you use your palette in your artwork.
Thank you! :)
Lovely palette Natasha. Quite a few new ones there for me do drool over! My favourite I think is Tundra Pink. I use it a lot and it always seems to look different. I like to mix it too. The colour I cannot do without in my palette is schmincke quinacridone gold. Just adore it for mixing and on its own.
Really enjoyed seeing how the paints laid down and mixed. Lovely flowers as well. Would like to know what you thought of the paper.
Hello! As someone who is just learning about watercolor and trying to figure out the color numbers and swatching, etc, this is very helpful. Can you please tell me what your lines are for at the bottom of the page? I enjoy watching your swatching videos quite. Bit! Thanks!! 🙏🏻
*big sigh* always relaxing to hear your voice and see your color choices while I work.
I have a more vivid palette, a typical mixing color palette by default, but I like to pull out certain colors for certain paintings. And currently, I'm in love with Vivianite, I discovered the existence of blue ochre in Australia and have been scoring the webs to find it. I'm so close to trying to make my own watercolor just because of that pigment (it can be quite blue), but no time for that right now, maybe next year :)
Thank you, Stephanie! If you do make your own watercolour from the Vivianite Blue Ochre I'd love to see it. :)
This is stunning! I’ve NEEDED to change my main large palette for so long and this is the inspiration I needed. There are some colors in here I need in my main, and luckily I own most, but so excited to buy a few new ones based on this video. Thank you as always for sharing ❤
I absolutely love the idea of a palette that is solely based upon hues used as-is. That would remove a bulk of the stress of choosing your color scheme because it pairs it down and consists of colors that all match well with each other.
I have found that mixing any brighter shade with Neutral Tint will turn it into a deep, moody hue, so perhaps that may help you in your mixing palettes.
Thanks so much for sharing your palette and swatches! 🙏😍
That's a great tip, thank you!
Loved watching you share your pallet colors and the swatching, really helped and inspired me. Thank you.😊
Thank you so much, Susan. That's nice to hear!
Thanks Natasha. Beautiful palette and I like that you have the brighter pink in there. I'm watching this a second time, on this occasion your calm voice is helping me get some work done 🙏 with some glances at the nice colours along the way.
Oh, how lovely. Thank you!
Oh my…….this is addictive! I will be up all night! Oh well headed for a cup of tea!
Green Gold is my favorite watercolor paint, hands down! It makes its way into almost every palette I make. I have to work hard to make a palette without it! 😅 It’s so pretty!
Loved this video as I do all of your videos. I learn so much each time & your voice and delivery is so soothing for me. I love the DS Blue Apatite (I use it often) & love the DS Cobalt Green Turquoise , & SH Cobalt Green Dark. I think these 3 colors would make a beautiful sea. I really love the Isaro powdery pink as well. Thank you for all of the time you dedicate to these videos- it’s greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much. I appreciate you too!
Interesting choices. I have watched twice and will watch a few more times. The pinks fascinate me. Shell pink is a favorite. But I love color in general. Happy to have so many choices.
Thank you!
All great colours, I like the Winsor and Newton Payne's grey.
Thanks Jon!
Hi Natasha, Hope you have had a lovely Easter 🐣 oh my goodness how I love your choice of colour’s for your 2023 palette 🎨 just so beautiful and will definitely be trying to do a palette like this my favourite’s out of all of them are the greys and blues, pinks, dark reds just beautiful. Thankyou for sharing xxx 💗
Hi Louise! I've had a working Easter, but we're hoping to take a day off and go on an adventure later in the week. :) I hope that you've had a lovely few days with some sunshine too! xxx
This is such a nice comforting video. I'll have to purchase some of these colors because I also love your color selection, though I'm having a good time using the DS shiny semi-precious gem colors.
Wonderful colours😊 and what a great idea to make a palette with just your most inspirational colours. I try so hard to make the “perfect” palette so I can mix all the colours and paint anything but then I find I never use it. Also, Winsor and Newton’s Paynes gray is my favourite too. It was the first paynes grey I ever used and the one that made me fall in love with the colour.
What you've said is so relatable! I now only follow my own rules, which basically means if it inspires me and makes me want to paint, then it must be the right colour for me!
I totally understand that you've thrown out the shimmery colors. I have a few and love them while swatching but in paintings I do not use them as often...sadly.
I love to use a mix of fuchsite genuine and red fuchsite genuine. It's a beautiful grey for a moon or snowy/icy parts of a landscape.
Thanks for sharing your palette with us. ❤
That Fuchsite mix sounds lovely!
Beautiful colors. They are so peaceful.
Can’t live without Schminke Horadam Helio Turquoise!
So many new colors I’m interested in!! That white nights paint is so opaque!
My favourite’s the Isard Nordmann green, so beautiful! They all look lovely though.x
Natasha's Grey. Love this pallete. 💚🌟✨️💫💛
This palette is so so gorgeous 🥰
Your handwriting is print like, I love it
Gorgeous palette 😊 Can’t wait to see the paintings that you create!
Thank you, Wendy!
I bought the schmincke random grey 2022 and I really love it. It’s so nice for painting stone or heathered fabric. I think the color on my palette that I couldn’t live with out is nickel Azo yellow. It’s just such a happy color.
Love your palette. I'm adding yo my palette Jackson's Naples yellow and Holbein shell pink. I share several you have. I adore many. Roman szmal misty morning is a favorite
I was having a really rough day health wise and this was just what I needed. I could not pick a favourite but I did find a couple I want to add to my collection (happens almost every times you swatch!). As for a colour I could not do without - buff titanium for sure. Oh...you might want to check out Roman Szmal's potter's pink. It is a little more pink leaning than the other and granulates beautifully.
Ooh, I have that Potter's Pink in a much smaller palette! It's beautiful. Buff Titanium is truly an essential colour, isn't it? I'm so sorry that you haven't been well, and hope you're feeling much better soon. x
@@NatashaNewtonArt thank you. I'm sure I will. Ups and downs of chronic illness :)
I love your videos. Recently I have been looking at the A Gallo Naturale set and made me think of the colors you tend to like. Also, some of the Primatek reminded me of you. Awesome and inspiring work, as always.
Thank you! I actually have one of the A Gallo Naturale sets. They're right up my street!
Love the pinks and green gold
This is everything. Your voice is so soothing. I can’t pick one. I love Shell Pink, perylene violet (which I just ordered a couple weeks ago from Jackson’s), the powdery pink, and the random grey. I love how that grey looks in your landscape. So many colors.
However, in my palettes, I’m so different and I love that you address this. I cannot be without Opera Rose in some form. Schminke’s Brilliant Opera Rose is my favorite, but like you with your favorites, I have it in other brands and use it for various purposes. I will also never be without DS Green Apatite. Hands down my favorite green and it mixes so interesting with more vibrant colors, especially phthalo green. I also LOVE Schminke’s Desert Green. It’s so unique. Finally, I’m with you and won’t be without bloodstone genuine. I mix it with DS phthalo blue(green shade) and it makes such a beautiful color.
Thanks for all the work you do with these videos. I look forward to every video you put out!
What a wonderful and interesting comment! Thank you, Mandy. :)
How lovely. What watercolor sketchbook do you use? I need a book like that to map swatches in a cute book!😊
As well, your colors are so pretty. I like darker, moody colors and our palette choices are similar but not that similar. I’m trying to find more moody, dark, staining, transparent colors so I can paint glazes without the colors lifting. I always like my palettes looking like a person from the 60s did it. Vibrant but not vibrant really at all.👍
I really love your pink choices.
Thank you! It's the Etchr Everyday watercolour sketchbook. :)
Beautiful 🤗💖😊 I couldn't be without zoisite xxx
That's a lovely colour! I have it in my Greens Palette. x
Thx for sharing.. seems like a lot of redundant and similar colors but I guess for a non-travel palette - if you have the room and the tubes, might as well add them!
Each colour has earned its place in this palette! :)
Lovely video. Love the colours you chose. I just love Roman Szmal Przybysz’s Grey. Ah you should try if you haven’t already
This is a very pleasant palette, and it was nice to be inspired by some colors to possubly try them out. I also like paynes grey - I use the Renesans one, great for stormclouds. As for my palette - a lot of Rembrandt, some Renesans, some White Nights and a couple Art Philosophy - it is heavy on purples and earth tones, couldn't go without... probably Indigo, but Naples Yellow reddish, Burnt Siena and English red (yeah, love those oxides) are probably just as important.
Thank you! I haven't tried Renesans paints - the Payne's Grey sounds lovely!
I used this video on my breaks while doing pomodoros. I took screenshots so I can check what I’ve got and what I might need. So many gorgeous colors. I’d been hesitant about the random grey, but now I’m sold (if I can find it still!). Thanks!
Edited to add-have you tried DS Undersea Green? I also love Greenleaf Blueberry magnetite-that is a super interesting black!
I love DS Undersea Green! Greenleaf & Blueberry Magnetite sounds like an amazing colour. :)
Just catching up as wanted plenty of time to watch and make notes of colours I may wish to get. Beautiful palette as always, I love the look of the grey titanium and the dusk yellow. I couldn’t like without a Paynes grey and going with Windsor & Newton Paynes grey. X
Thanks Sarah! x
HI Natasha. Wonderful video. I find it to be very peaceful and relaxing. I've watched it several times. Love your palette. I can't find Isaro's powdery pink anywhere for sale. Do you know if it's been discontinued? Thank you!
They still have it on the Jackson’s website!
Dear Natasha,
Try a painting with only RS Misty Morning, but let it loose in the paddock, with a lot of water and leave some Etchr paper colour for her contrasting friend. My favourite grey.
In kindred spirit,
Eliza
Dulwich Hill, Australia x
12 Noon; 10th of April 2023
I say this all the time, but I LOVE your swatching videos. I'm in the middle of re-doing my own palette. So hard to pick favorites, but Sennelier Greenish Umber, Holbein Davy's Grey, and Schminke Potter's Pink are sure to remain. I have DS green gold, but I may want to try another brand before it stays in my palette. Holbein Shell Pink has been on my wishlist for a while. I really like the Roman Szmal Lazurite and Viviante you swatched. They are now on my wishlist. I ordered the A Gallo Viviante and antique gold. It's being delivered tomorrow. I'm so excited to get it! They have a couple new colors that were released recently. I am trying them for the first time. Buckthorn Berry and Indigo green. I think I'm going to try the Jackson's Naples Yellow. I only have that color in Schminke. Your swatch looked more buttery. It's a pretty color for sure. Thank you for showing your new palette!
Indigo Green?! This sounds like it would be such a beautiful colour, I'm going to check it out!
Beautiful and precise, and asmr-y! Happy to see a couple of Sennelier in there, but sad to see no Winsor and Newton. x Nell.
Winsor & Newton Payne's Grey was in there! :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt oh yay! My apologies Natasha. I don't know how I missed it! x Nell
Love this! Bit of a random question but which pencil sharpener do you recommend to get a nice sharp point? I noticed your pencils are always impeccable 😊❤
It's a Mitsubishi desk sharpener with a handle!
Yeah so... I just wanted to say thanks for the enabling. I've now ordered like twenty new watercolors. If hubby asks any questions I will just direct him to your channel. Okay, bye now. 😅
Oops! Ha ha.
My favorite colors from this selection are Potter's Pink PR233 (love the one from Maimeri Blu) and Cobalt Green Dark PG26 from Schmincke. They are so beautiful mixed together and I love mixing them each with Schmincke's Mahogany Brown made from the rare PBr33 pigment. The granulation is gorgeous! ❤ The Random gray is pretty but I prefer to mix my own from the leftover paint on my palette. That way I'm not wasting any paint and don't have to pay for another tube of watercolor.
Thank you for letting me know about Schmincke's Mahogany Brown! I've added it to my wish list as it sounds right up my street. I'd love to try mixing with it. :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt I second the recommendation on Mahogany Brown!
Fabulous palette Natasha (-: Marion
Thank you, Marion!
Thank you Natasha! Is it more affordable to purchase DS (or other) one tube at a time, or in various sets, or in half or full pans? I absolutely love your videos! Many thanks, kari in Canada
Hi again Kari! It's probably more affordable to purchase sets rather than individual colours, but you may end up with several colours in a set that you don't really use. I prefer to buy tubes individually and curate my own palettes. :)
I have a slightly unrelated question lol- How fast do you fill sketchbooks? I was just wondering lol, it takes me a long time to finish sketchbooks, so it's nice to hear how long it takes others to fill one.
It takes me forever, because most of my work is done outside of a sketchbook! I don't have enough time to work in my sketchbooks regularly, even though I try.
I have some of the Schmincke cobalt green and didn't really like it, but maybe thinking of it as a moody "Natasha colour" will give it new life for me.
The random grey looks really interesting. I've always avoided it, as I might love it and then it will run out...
I had this anxiety about the Random Grey too! I wonder if they'll bring out a 2023 version? Do you have the Cobalt Green Dark, as mine's the dark version?
@@NatashaNewtonArt Had to go check. Actually it's the 510 the Cobalt green turquoise PB36. Still, I'll think of it as a Natasha-ish colour and give it another try. ;-)
Tundra pink is my favourite
I stick to 18 colors max in my primary palette because I love to mix and forces me to learn color theory. I get overwhelmed with too many colors
It's nice that we're all different!
Thanks
Do you have a written list of the colours of your new palette? Or a high quality download of your swatch chart? I’d love to get some of these colours, the muted palette is more my style too
I mention all the brands and names of the colours throughout the video and hold each page up to the camera for a while once it's dry, so that you can pause the video and jot them down!
Patty-I don't have a self-curated pallette as of yet. The one color I would not like to be without is Burnt Sienna. I've lived that cold since I was a child with my Burnt Sienna Crayola Crayons. I wouldn't like to be without a vibrant blue, a warm buttery yellow, or a red violet. I wonder what type of pallette I will have once I discover my style? :0)
Will be watching this tomorrow... can't wait. Quick question - do you know if you will be adding more spots to your swatching tier in the future on Patreon? X
Hi Gail! I hope you enjoy it tomorrow. :) I might add more spots if I'm able to process more dot cards each month - though I may be at my limit with 40! Although if anyone unsubscribes from that tier, spaces will become available. Please check on the 1st of the month each month. Thanks so much! x
I will definitely keep an eye out. Thank you for guiding me to the Rembrandt dusk colours…I bought Dusk yellow after watching one of your videos and it is one of my faves now. X
Wow, 47. I couldn't pick more than 18 if I had to.
But there are so many beautiful colours out there, Gray! ;)
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Hey, how did you get your palette to not bead??? Thanks a lot :)
Just using it over time - gradually the beading stops. :)
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I wouldn't use any Russisn paint at the moment! Rosa paints from Ukraine will probably have something similar.
some HUGE HOLES...of colours...that you do not like to use...no magenta colour......very basic muted palette...rusts and grays...with some naples yellow...find some blue in the grays....very limited palette you have there Natascha...all the best to your joy you find in using these not bright...not saturated...MUTED colours