Watercolor Supplies That Will Make a Difference (it did for me!)
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- In this watercolor tutorial, I will share the watercolor supplies that will make a difference in your paintings. These brushes, paints, and paper made big improvements for me and my techniques, and I think they will help you too!
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00:50 - Let’s talk supplies!
00:53 - Explaining my palette (are there extra colors than what I list?)
02:28 - Colors I use, how I organize them, pro vs. student levels
10:00 - Brushes I use: brand, sizes, and quality.
11:11 - Quick story of how these brushes are made (HIGH quality!)
13:26 - What I use the different brushes for.
14:28 - Now talking paper.
14:39 - Should I use cold press or hot press?
16:14 - Cotton? GSM? Block vs. Pad?
18:28 - Paper brands: Legion vs. Arches vs. Fabriano
19:15 - Other necessary supplies…
What are some of your favorite watercolor supplies?? I'd love to hear. This video was just a section of a bigger video called "The Beginner's Guide to Watercolor" make sure to not miss it, as it covers color theory, brush techniques, a fun circle painting for practice, how to paint leaves and petals, and putting it all together for a beautiful floral wreath. You can watch it here: ua-cam.com/video/tDdfPMTX15Y/v-deo.html
Quick question. Why do you keep the colours you don't use in your palette? I love how uncomplicated your palette is. Versatile and practical. Wish I knew what I know now about colour mixing. Half of the convenience colours I bought initially, i won't really use. Watching UA-cam artists is enabling which isn't helpful but I've learned that less is best for me. Love your channel. x
I use unwanted colors in my palette for practice pages so I can use them up and put something better in there. Also I try mixing to see if I can get something I do like
Also, don't forget about estate sales. I hit the motherload a few weeks ago. 20 full size sheets of Arches and Fabriano paper along with 4 sheets of 300 Arches, 27 tubes of all big name professional paints, and 12 watercolor books for $100. I didn't even make a dent in what they had there. I am loving my Silver Black line of brushes.
Thats amazing! I would have never considered estate sales, thanks for the tip
Whoa! Score! Nice, Sara!
Oh shizzzzz. Oh snap. Oh snickerdoodle doo. Woah. Bank. I should try some estate sales.
I would so love that!🙂
What are estate sales?
Manganese blue is one of my favorites too. I would love a whole video on your favorite mixes
You’d probably like my color wheel and color chart videos! I talk all about different mixes and which ones I love. You can easily find them in my watercolor basics playlist.
@@JennaRaineyChannel it’s been awhile since I’ve watched your videos. You were my first inspiration and teacher that took me up 20 levels last year since I started in college. Like 20 years ago. I’ve flitted around learning from others and now I’m back for more. I didn’t know you had these videos! Yay!
Manganese blue has been discontinued half a decade ago. You can only buy imitations, or, occasionally, some real stuff on e-bay.
I found you on instragram and really liked your spirit and the way you talk and teach stuff. I tried watercolor in my own and .. I thought "maybe its not for me?" but i didnt give up. I had colors i didnt like and brushes that doesnt really do what i intendet. They were hard or the color wouldnt really Stick. I live in germany and artshops are nearly closed for a year now. So i coulndt feel or see the brushes live. I ordered online... and it was awful. Thank you so much for your Videos! I love your color combination and will try it soon. They are lovely. Sometimes we just need someone who can do it better to know, that its not really my lack of skills.. just material thats not ment for me. Wow, I'm so happy! ♡ the piece that I created while watching your beginners guide is gorgeous. Watercolor was my secret love for years.. and now I can start the right way and try to forget the rest which was taught by other teachers. Whoo!
Jenna, I wish I’d have listened to you a year ago. I bought Neptune brushes first and have been struggling with them. I’ve since bought the Snap brushes and didn’t like them at all. Today I just received my first Heritage brush, tried it, and I’m in love. It is exactly what I’ve needed. It’s the perfect balance between flexibility and snap. I’ll be ordering some more and look forward to the end of the struggle. Blessings to you!
Hello, Jenna. My name is Misty, I just found your channel after looking into watercolor. I've always wanted to paint but with 5 children never seemed to have the time. The kids are grown now and I really want to try watercolors....so I've been binge watching your channel. My husband is gifting me the Winsor & Newton paints for Christmas! I'm very excited to get started!
Did you try your hand at painting? 😊
You’re such an incredible watercolorist and I am very grateful for your YT videos-super informative and very helpful all around!!!😃
I’m commenting because I have a minor suggestion for those who discuss watercolor paint and the price of such...many times painters will refer to say, W&N professional paint as “high quality” and the student grade as “lower quality”. While I agree that it is far preferable to paint with really any reputable brand’s professional or artist grade product over the student grade or beginner’s level product, I am of the opinion that terminology is super important. I feel it is somewhat misclassifying the situation to define it in those terms, and I’ll explain my view here.
For example, at least when looking at a reputable, or well -known brand, such as W&N or say Daniel Smith etc...they do make “quality” student grade paints. They are not say, “lower QUALITY” IMO. Rather, they contain as I understand it, less pigments and a larger percentage of the mixture will then be things like binders and gums, “fillers”/stuff other than pigment, thereby allowing them to be created and sold for less money.
This is (again IMO) not so much a “quality” issue as rather an issue of merely ratio of the high quality pigment to the high quality binders and such. This is purposeful and regulated, and will do the job, only with less vibrancy, perhaps making the experience a different one from painting with artist grade paint.
Comparing this scenario with say an off brand, inexpensive watercolor kit with those chalky round cakes of watercolor dyes I think (vs pigments), those paints contain low quality pigments if any at all and low quality dyes and therefore are not merely a varied ratio of high quality ingredients but basically unregulated, non-uniform lower value dyes and possibly some pigments and therefore they perform far less like a watercolor paint and more like an Easter egg dye kit I’ve heard it described rather accurately IMO.
Despite these facts they are sold to the user as “watercolors” with minimal reference to indicate professional vs. beginner/student grade etc...because they ARE made using LOW QUALITY ingredients and are purposely the cheapest products to make. As such, they will not allow the painter to use them to LEARN wet on wet, pulling and pushing etc...as the paints are largely binders and dyes which behave differently than pigments, especially when mixed with binders that don’t behave as watercolor binders do.
I am curious if you or others agree with this concept of classification between defining “quality, yet more affordable, STUDENT GRADE paints” vs “low quality watercolor paints” and those being essentially two different animals.
God bless you and thank you for all you do!!!!
***ETA 😂😂sooo, you kinda just explained ALL of this 🙈oops! 🙈
Jenna! After over a year of using my regular paint, I invested and treated myself to professional WN paint. WOW 🤩 I see what you mean! Thanks for sharing your knowledge! You make painting fun 🙌🏼
This video is very timely! I have been diligent about buying better quality supplies and following your footsteps thru your Everyday Watercolor book as well as these videos. I was working on the last set of wild flowers and I was using cheaper paper. My flowers were so good (compared) but then the sizing in the paper caused the colors to act strange! Learned another lesson.... thanks for letting me learn vicariously through your work. It continues to be inspiring.
So glad this is helpful and you’re getting inspired by my videos. Thanks for all the support and love, Sherri!
Thanks for sharing! I have used Winsor Newton professional grade watercolors for many years, and enjoy them. I have been getting a few Daniel Smith watercolors, and really like them, but as you mentioned, paint is so expensive. I "hord" brushes as well. One of my favorites is Silver Black Velvet brushes. They are a combination of natural and synthetic and I just think they are incredible for a soft brush. I am definitely an Arches paper fan. I tell my students that the paper is the most important thing, so it is worth the extra $$ so you do have to deal with pilling or tearing.
I enjoy my colors organized in a chromatic wheel way. From yellows to greens and then earth tones last
I never really thought about arranging the palette by cold and warm. Great points!! I’m using just primary colors now since I’m super beginner. I’m also starting to notice I use yellow a lot more than other colors. I am type A (lol) and “messing” my yellows really gets to me. But your idea of having yellows set aside for warm and cold sides of your palette is just genius!! Win-win!! Thanks for pointing out all these little details. I also just picked up both your books from the library! Looking forward to finishing the rests of the beginner guide 🥰
Great advice. I truly love your palette of colors. Makes me feel happy. Thanks so much! 💜🙏🏻
Thank YOU Colleen for your continued support! Glad this was helpful for ya! ❤️
Amazing video! thank you so much for sharing. I just placed my amazon order.
This is really a helpful video. I've tried watercolor before and have alot of issues. Like the paper "shedding" from the brushes and big bubbles in the paper. I am ordering the pirniceton brushes, and can't wait to start painting again!
So glad this was helpful! Enjoy those brushes and happy painting!! ❤️
I didn’t know about cadmium when I saw your other videos I actually got the cadmium orange from one of your beginning water color classes ….. with the ebook and the email list. I’m glad I saw this one! I’m not gonna use it. I’m gonna use rose and yellow or scarlet lake to make orange.
Thanks so much for this video. Great information! You have great teaching skills, Jenna! 💖🙏🏻
Thank you so much for this great video, but mostly because you are promoting cruelty-free brushes and isnt scared to talk about it and start a conversation. I had no idea when I started to paint a few months about how uncommon good synthetic brush use is. It also made me so sad, that even the great artists who paint nature use animal hair brushes. Thank you for being a cruelty-free artist. x
So glad to be here for this! Thanks so much for the great share! TS
This has been so helpful. I am new and wish I had found you sooner. I have been catching up with many of your previous videos. Thank you!
Thank you for this video. I’ll show this to my dad who just started to paint with watercolors.
I have been so surprised at the quality of the new synthetic brushes The Mimik brand from Jerry's and The Aqua Elite from Princeton are really good! (I have a few real sable brushes from my Gran but I seldom use them anymore). I have recently discovered DaVinci paints of California and if your in the USA these are the BEST professional paints available! Yeah personal opinions and all of that but I would put them against any brand even the popular Dan Smith! I was using Grumbacher Academy in school, but their professional Finest line before that, I had been given wonderful paint from my Gran growing up but after starting school teachers had class requirements and I bought those. I am an Arches paper guy but there are many 100% cotton papers are sweet the new Fabriano papers are good. I am enjoying your videos and am a new subscriber. Thank you for your quality videos!
I love your videos they’re so helpful!
Great explanation especially since I am a beginner. I understand paper better!
I love Windsor Newton tubes. I have a pan similar to yours without a hole for the finger. I go through a lot of white & yellow, and ultramarine blue.
I was just looking at supplies on Blick's site and they have a set of your 4 favorite brushes. It mentions your name in the description. Hope you authorized that... ;)
Love your videos!!
Thanks for looking out, Amy! Yes, I do have a set of brushes at Blick.
Excellent video! Thank you, I am just getting into watercolor and I found this video so insightful.
-Sarah
So glad it’s helpful for you!
Hot pressed paper is used more commonly for illustrations because of its smoothness. 😊
High-quality synthetics. :) It reminded me of a commercial I have seen some time ago: "Hand-cut exquisite cubic zirconia." :)
LOL ‘pearl clutchy’ I’m using this term from now on it made me laugh. I do enjoy sable brushes and black velvet brushes but I had an existential crisis before I purchased a brush that used natural hair... I couldn’t find a synthetic brush that behaved like I wanted. I will definitely be trying the size 6 soon!
Great! Thanks, Terri S.
Thanks for this video! I am switching to the Legion cold pressed paper. We've had a heat wave, this past week, here on the central coast of California, and the hot pressed paper kept drying out! This has been so helpful. I am going to purchase a #6 Princeton Heritage brush also.
Thank you soo much, this was soo much help
Thank you. It is valuable advise with your vast experience.
I absolutely love and appreciate you guys! Just a tiny viewer suggestion. Maybe change your e book list to cadmium free orange? I love all of your videos and appreciate you guys. I got the cadmium one but will mix up an orange instead. I’ll buy cadmium free next order. Thanks again.
Thanks for sharing all these info! This is v comprehensive 😊
Hi!!😊 You are really great tutor😊😊🤟🏼
My Mother's Day gift: Three pro. paints, 1 Arches paper, and three Princeton brushes. (PLus 60 sheets of Canson cold press because I am a paper waster. Look out world!
Great vid. so informative
Love this video! I'm curious, what do you think of the Princeton Aqua Elite brushes in comparison to the Heritage, or have you tried them?
I've used both. I started with the aqua elite. They are wonderful brushes but are harder to control at least for me as they hold lots of water and is a softer brush. I noticed the heritage holds just a bit less water than the aqua elite and holds its form better. I have also used the snap brush. A little too firm and doesn't quite hold enough water. So I guess the heritage is just right
Huh...Another W&N user. I'm trying to find out why most of the artists I watch use W&N over something like Holbein. The only Holbein user I've found in fact has been Kristy Rice. I started with watching her and ended up investing in a 60 set of Holbein but now I"m wondering if I made the wrong decision because it seems everyone else uses W&N. I wonder what is it that you love so much about it? Have you tried Holbein and if so, what do you like more about the W&N? Sorry if I'm not asking this is a clear way...I might consider investing in a few W&N as well. I have some cotmans but they didn't impress me.
I just switched! I have two recent videos sharing about how I have switched to MaimeriBlu
It all depends how you style is for how long a tube of 15ml last . For the most part I paint for practice in 9x12 or 10x14 and a bit larger sometimes a tube of 15 ml last me the most 7 months
Do you know how your beloved Princeton heritage brushes compare against the Princeton Neptune line?
Princeton Neptune brushes are synthetic squirrel. The have no snap. They are VERY soft. Princeton Heritage has more snap. The Princeton Aqua Elite are synthetic sable and have some snap; they are softer than Heritage but more snap than Neptune. Princeton Neptune is the softest of the 3 and has very little snap at all.
@@melissaturner4157 Thank you for the description. Now I know why I am having trouble with my Neptunes. I see some shopping in my future.
Yup! She’s absolutely right! I just received my first Heritage brush and it’s completely different from the Neptune. I’ve been struggling on and off for a year with the Neptune brushes. I just need the snap the Heritage offers. I’ll be ordering some more of the Heritage in the near future.
I have been using Neptune as a beginner and don't find that it comes to the nice point that Jenna speaks about. The tip gets bent over a bit during use. I have purchased some Heritage that arrived today and am looking forward to trying them out. On the Princeton website it say Neptune is in the 'best' category while Heritage is 'better'. I guess it all depends on what you are looking for.
I keep buying colors that I find beautiful and like to look at a lot and the way they look when they spread etc but then I don't know where to use them or what colors to mix them with or maybe their mixes with other colors aren't as pretty as the color by itself and they end up abandoned in my palette for my eyes to look at ( still pleasing though lol)
Thank you Jenna. So I have Winsor and Newton Cotman pans, and I’m wondering…if I purchase their professional tubes one at a time, as I can afford them, can I use them with the cotman or will they not blend together? 🤔 thanks
I could use some paper help. I go through a lot of paper. I'm really not good enough, haven't found myself in watercolor to justify the cost of 15 page blocks or pads. Is there anything available that can handle a liitle bit of torture as I learn about this wonderful medium and myself? I want to experiment more than 15 pages lets me. Is there paper good enough that I can afford to use, to make mistakes on, to work with, grow with? Is this an impossible wish and I need to just buck up and lay out the cash? Your help and thoughts and opinions are gratefully appreciated, regardless of what you might tell me.
Have you tried the Cadmium Free Orange?
What are some beginner brushes you would recommend for someone who’s starting out and doesn’t have enough money to get the Princeton ones?
But one good brush!
Princeton snap brushes. The heritage brush is really worth the purchase. Strokes I was really struggling with are easier with the heritage brushes.
never tried goauche but lol to it turning into a solid blue rock
Which papers do you recommend to do really watery blended colour landscapes and sunset?
Is your peach the lemon yellow deep and opera?
Can this paper be painted on both sides?
Can you just purchase the primary colors and mix your own? What is the advantage of buying so many different colors?
I'm so curious...why is cobalt blue only for special occasions!? :)
Is it better to buy a one sided palette as opposed to a two sided palette? I'm concerned about the watercolors dripping onto the other colors when you close the palette for travel. Please advise. Thank you
Hi Yolanda! I prefer the two sided palette because I can keep my mixing wells separate (cool vs. warm). BUT, if I am going to close it, I just have to wait for the paints to dry because they will drip together.
@@JennaRaineyChannel How about a hair dryer on low just to form a skin on the paints before closing the two sided palette?
Yes, a craft heat tool works well to set watercolours/dry them off... better than a hairdryer which will work in a pinch but “blows” hot air (and therefore the water) more than a heat tool
how come you dont have a color swatch made
Is there a more affordable budget friendly brand that is almost as good as winsor& newton?
Have you used a waterbrush pen
I use gouache for calligraphy, but they can be used even when the tube is hard. I used to throw them away til I realised I could still use hardened colors.
Hi am I firstt?
i just got tossed out of a fb watercolor group because i said something about animals being harmed for the sake of a paint brush.
I guess the idea upset a few people
Colbalt is toxic also.
Seems silly for anyone to be fanatical about a brush of any kind (so ignore those people, they need more assistance than you can legally offer ;-)
Please stop referring to mixes that result in brown colors as "mud." They are frequently the same color as people's skin. Thanks.
So... What color is mud?
@@JennaRaineyChannel ooh I know! Brown! 😁
@@JennaRaineyChannel The same color as my skin which I refer to as Brown, Sepia, Chocolate and not Mud. If one has difficulty in accepting that issue just ask yourself whether the only time you use those referenced colors is when you are painting wet dirt. If not, consider making a change. Thanks for asking.
Clearly I was referencing paint colors mixing together to create a muddy effect/color. This is a term that’s been used by artists for an incredibly long time. You should google it! To make it into something it’s not is a waste of energy. I won’t be commenting any further on this because I believe both of our energies are better spent elsewhere. Have a great day!
@@JennaRaineyChannel I was interested in your channel because I am artistically untrained and, therefore, new to the medium of watercolor. I don't claim to be knowledgeable about the nomenclature associated with color theory. However, I am not sure why longstanding habits that are not inclusive or respectful of others must be preserved. Talk it over with a person of color if you know anyone. Peace.