Thank you for your review Becky! I would like to clarify a few points. In majority of my work, I only use 8 colors out of this palette - Quinacridone Sienna, Perylene Violet, Indigo, Quinacridone Deep Gold, Alizarin Crimson, Cobalt Blue, Phthalo Blue (GS), Phthalo Green (BS). Even then, for each painting I make I usually decide on just 3-4 colors out of these I will use. That is because for me, the most important in the palette is not how the pure colors in it look, but how well they mix together. As you may have noticed, all the aforementioned colors are transparent, and the reason is twofold: First, for me the white of the sheet is like the natural sunlight that already exists in a watercolor, hence why I try to keep my watercolors very transparent and almost never use the masking fluid which is opaque to show the white spots - I plan in advance and leave those unpainted instead. Second, you can mix transparent colors as much as you want, but if you try it with the opaque ones, they will quickly mix into a bunch of dirt. The freedom to mix colors as much as I like without worrying about that is the main reason to keep them all transparent. So, while on the first sight, my travel palette only has one green in it, Phthalo Green (BS), you can mix almost any imaginable shade of green with the other colors of my palette - and this is the principle following which the palette was compiled. Thank you, again, very much for your review! PS By the way, I absolutely love Australia, and I will be coming to Perth and Cairns in late August-early September to hold workshops! Best, Michael Solovyev.
Oh my gosh, thank you so much for your wonderful comment! I've recently discovered you (from receiving the dot card, haha!) and your paintings are absolutely stunning. So much light and emotion in your portraits - you are a true Master of watercolours. Thank you for clarifying your palette as well; I'm guessing Daniel Smith required a set number of colours to be on the dot card, so it's really interesting to know which eight you use in your actual palette. I have some of these colours, or ones that are similar, so I am definitely going to try putting your palette together and painting with it. I love transparent watercolours! I really appreciate you taking time out to comment on my video, and I hope the weather will be lovely for you when you make your visit to Australia later in the year. August is usually the best month, especially for Cairns! ❤
I'm stubborn and keep alizarin crimson in my palette (among others with poor lightfast ratings). Then again, I'm not a professional and am really only doing stuff that gets closed away in a sketchbook or portfolio, so it doesn't so much matter. Everyone can just send their unwanted fugitive paints my way! 🤣
Hahaha! I will admit that pure Alizarin Crimson is an absolutely GORGEOUS red and it is very hard to replicate in the permanent versions. I think over time I have hardened my heart to it and am getting more used to using substitutes. 😭
Jane Blundell's website and blog is so, so helpful. I find pigments and mixing theory extremely interesting, so Jane's blog helped me hugely in setting up my palette. Thank you for the wonderful video.
Oh, I haven’t even watched this yet but I would definitely choose Jane Blundell. She is an expert on Daniel Smith colors and mixing. She knows her paint! I’m looking forward to watching this. Thank you Becky!
Michael, Jane and Georgia is the order I'd go in for me, I love the muted colours of Michael's choice but also love the muted ones in Jane's, and my fave painting of the three you did was Michael's too :D it's more appealing to my mind, as I was sat watching you paint it just wondering who would live in a place like that, and then I totally went down a rabbit hole with it all, (I have a very active imagination lol) the other two paintings were gorgeous also, but I didn't get the full blown interview with a vampire story in my head that Michael's painting gave me, argh I'm just a bit strange sometimes hahaha, brill video! Thank you! :D
The best palette is the one which makes you come up with an entire story! 😄 And now I'm always going to think of vampires when I see the buildings at Montsalvat, lol.
Michael Solovyev is pretty active on RUclips and he really sticks to a core palette, I don't recall seeing him often use more than 4-5 colors. He mostly sticks with Quin Sienna, Indigo, Perylene Violet, moonglow, and deep quin gold, IIRC. He does mix it up sometimes a bit but those seem to feature. Incredibly talented too. Also I'm pretty sure Jane's Grey uses the typical burnt sienna rather than raw sienna but maybe you know something I don't! ☺
I am going to have to start watching his channel, as I didn't realise he was on here! I think a lot of artists do have a core few colours that they use all of the time (even I do, to some extent!). I looked it up again; the brown pigment in Jane's Grey is PBr7, which is raw sienna but also burnt sienna, raw umber, or burnt umber....I saw raw sienna and not the other ones on that list, lol! But at least I'm not totally wrong, so I'm relieved about that. 😂
I loved this swatching video. You make them so fun and informative. Amazing how you packed 3 swatch cards and 3 art landscapes all in 21 minutes. Bravo 👏🏼
Thank you! It certainly took a lot longer than 21 minutes to film it all, heheh. Thankfully there are speed-up and timelapse options which makes things a lot less of a drag! 😂
Jane would have been my favourite too I love her use of colours, but I’d love to see a BECKY Daniel Smith palette more why not make your own for us on RUclips of 24 colours?
Michael Solovyev has his own RUclips channel as well. It's fascinating to watch because he has such a light touch and captures so much light. I like watching people do things I'd never be able to do 😊
@@BeckyTregear He does some of his simpler ones for his channel against the clock. If he keeps them simple he can be ridiculously fast! I love his Travel By Art series, where followers send him images from around the world and he chooses which to paint. It's a winter thing for when he can't get to locations.
This was a great video! I loved seeing the paintings from swatch cards, so fun to actually USE the dot cards and not just look at boxes of colours ❤❤. I would order the palettes in the same way you did with Jane’s first and Michael’s second. I really like the muted, earthiness of Michael’s (not going to attempt spelling his full name😅). I actually purchased Jane Blundell’s 24 half-pan Daniel Smith palette AND her 24 full-pan Roman Szmal palette. I love having green convenience colours. I wonder why her DS dot card only has 20 colours and those colours are actually different from the 24 colours in the Daniel Smith half pan set? It’s very close/similar, but there are differences. Dot card has hansa yellow med, but the half-pan set has Hansa yellow lt and hansa yellow deep instead. The half-pan set also includes permanent alizarin crimson. I believe most of the blues and the greens are the same between the dot card and half-pan set. I actually love Geothite for beaches and buildings (it also looks really nice when used with potter’s pink), so I’m glad it’s in the half-pan set. The half pan set also has yellow ochre, which is another colour I like to have on hand.
Oh I didn't realise that the actual half pan set is slightly different to the dot card! 😱 Jane Blundell has some great palettes out there! If I didn't already have a large tube collection with most of the colours, I'd probably get the pan set. 😊
@@BeckyTregear I got the DS Jane Blundell pan set pretty early in my watercolour days as a way to try out a lot of colours, without investing in all the tubes straight away. After reading about her set, it just seemed to have colours I needed for tutorials I was attempting to follow at the time. It was definitely helpful in deciding the colours I’d want to buy in tube form, plus she has so much mixing advice on her website based on those colours. I was surprised when I saw the dot card didn’t have 24 colours, so it made me dig out my set to compare!
@@BeckyTregear Also back when I purchased it, I was able to find it on sale for $93 Canadian which made it so reasonable for a 24-pan set of Daniel Smith paint!
Oddly enough I would get the Manser, I think its a very good cohesive color scheme. I also think about five of the colors are not needed as if I got just the main colors I could then just tint to get the others for a work. Thanks Becky love your channel you always show interesting things.
Hi Becky, it’s your art Aussie friend I just wanted to let you know I’ve heard on some other recent RUclips channels that Daniel Smiths undersea green is going to be discontinued soon so I would go and get myself a tube as soon as possible.
Michael used to make the greatest watercolor sketchbooks I ever used. I still have one I haven't filled. $20.00usd for 36 100%cotton Saunders Waterford paper in a professionally bound book. Not 36 from and back but 36 pages altogether. If one counted front and back it would be 72 pages. Man I loved his sketchbooks. Even after I used them they still sit flat on the shelves. No buckling, no weird strings holding it together. One cannot tell his sketchbook from Shakespeare on the shelf. Which I love. I also love him as an artist. Truly amazing painter
I've started following him on here and other platforms; his paintings are masterful and his capture of light is incredible. Now I want one of those sketchbooks! 😱
Perylene green is my favourite colour. I recently got it from Daniel Smith and is exactly the green that I've always been mixing for years ❤ love all of your paintings 😊
Oh Becky you just opened up a treasure trove of artist's palette cards to me. 😀 It's introduced me to loads of watercolor artist's I hadn't heard of before. When you follow the link you left for their dot cards it takes you to their card and has "next" written down the bottom on the right side. So many other artist's dot cards in there 🤩 I'm a new painter myself and I'm just transitioning out of student paints but really overwhelmed with choices in the Daniel Smith range. I don't want to buy a premade half pan palette because I don't like all the colors in any of them and I think that buying tubes will work out cheaper in the long run providing I can decide on which tubes lol. I paint mostly urban scenes and landscapes and only occasionally flowers or garden scenes so at the moment I'm looking through the landscape artist's palettes and taking note of the colors that overlap between them. So having so many more palettes to compare is really helping to narrow things down a lot. I've saved this video as a favorite. Thank you 🤗
I'm glad it has helped a bit, and I totally understand how overwhelming it is trying to choose a palette! I spent many hours choosing my first Daniel Smith colours, and I still had regrets on a few that I "should have picked others" but I just ended up with more tubes over time, and now my palette is a big old mess of colours, haha! The little dot cards do help quite a lot though, so if you can find some it might be worth picking up a few to compare colours etc. 🙂
At first, I think I would have chosen the Michael Solovyev palette, but knowing how much I love and use greens in my work, I believe the Jane Blundell palette might take first place for me, even though so many greens can be mixed with the Michael palette. They're both wonderful, though, in their own ways!
Michael left a comment, which I pinned! I was so surprised he saw it, and then I remembered that we are on RUclips and our videos can be seen by all, lol. 😂
I have all their palettes and one uses that goethite much more often than one might think. It's like buff titanium. One says they don't like white in a water color palette yet they'll use buff titanium until the cows come home. It is a white. It's actuality a pigment white. We use it more than we'd think and the goethite is equally that way. I used it in amidst every painting I made while traveling the continental divide.
Buff titanium is the raw, unbleached version and so I would consider it as cream or off-white; it can be used on its own and still be visible in paintings. I love it for sand and light on footpaths etc. Pure white is less useful to me, when working on white paper. I'm glad to hear someone is using Goethite; I guess I have other browns so I wouldn't be rushing out to add it to my collection.
Thank you, dot cards are a great way to try out different colors! They're all missing my favorite yellow though: nickel azo yellow, transparent and versatile in a limited palette.
@@BeckyTregear oh. Light fastness is something I’m still learning about. Right now I’m still trying to figure out useful colors instead of just going for all the colors I’m drawn too. Oh I do have Undersea Green if you’ll like me to send you a half pan. It’s a pretty color. 🙂
Jane Blundell palette for the win; so beautiful and one that I try to emulate! Love this palette in Roman Szmal colors. The Mansur palette would be one i'd want to try but yes the palette card is CHAOS! ha. I couldn't with the middle palette as I need REDS! :)
It’s likely a little difficult to get outside of the U.S. but I’d love to hear your opinion on Da Vinci paints. I’ve watched a lot of your videos/updates on your M. Graham palette. Do you prefer that brand over Daniel Smith?
I don't know that I've ever seen the Da Vinci paints here, only Van Gogh. I'd like to try them, if I ever manage to find a set. I love both M.Graham and Daniel Smith. I think Daniel Smith paints are much more practical to travel with, as they dry really well in pans and don't run everywhere, haha! But M.Graham have some insanely bright colours which I adore as well! I think they're both great but I'd go Daniel Smith for travel purposes.
Maddy I actually prefer M. Graham and DaVinci to Daniel Smith (mostly cause I'm kinda mad at DS). M. Graham has so much personality because of the honey - I found them unpleasantly sticky at first -- but they are so easy to get fully saturated colors on the first wash (which is, to me, a plus) that I eventually fell in love with them. I adore DaVinci too (and not to lead you away from Becky's channel!) but there's a great video Irit Landgraf did on some DaVinci colors I sent her, she did it just about a month ago. I wrote a long comment with all the details of the brand that someone might want to know before trying!
Not a scarlet in any of them! But they love their oranges! The first one had no convenience greens whatsoever, and three cool reds, although I must say I do like some of the more unusual colors she included like the lavender, Naples Yellow, Aussie Red Gold (a fave!) and phthalo turquoise. The first two had an odd selection of blues, and too many darks. I agree with your observations. I'd go with Jane Blundell's all the way!
@@BeckyTregear I'm a huge fan of Quin Red PR209 as well, and can get away with just the red and rose if need be! Mixing those two with Nickel Azo... heaven!!
Super fun. I do miss sodalite (although the indigo is a nice substitute), Quin Burnt Orange and Diopside Genuine in the dot cards. This was a super fun idea. I would pick Jane's card as well. Seems great for almost anything. Maybe a red-footed booby from the Galapagos, although you might need a little gouache for some of the beak colors.
I like colours from each palette but do not have a favourite, I always prefer to make my own choices, the Carbazole Violet and Sap Green are now on my list to buy. I have a few Daniel Smiths colours, my favourites are Shadow Violet, Indigo, Undersea Green, Lavender and Aussie Red Gold, which I bought after I saw you mention it on a previous video. Thank you for another interesting video.
They have so many lovely colours - their sap green is my absolute favourite of any brand I think! I need to get another tube as mine is starting to run low. I might pick up an Undersea Green as well, because everyone loves it, and I have FOMO haha!
All three paintings turned out pretty, but the middle one is my favorite! I like Jane’s palette as well but Michael’s palette is just as shadowy as I like😂 I think Georgia’s palette might be easier to use if you made your own ordered swatch. I would buy Becky’s grey, I can never have too many dark colors🥴
I ended up being a bit too lazy to reorder that particular palette, though it did cross my mind.😄 The shadow colours on Michael's palette are all gorgeous, and ones I like to use as well. I think I'd end up going with Becky's Black over Grey; it's way more alliterative....and metal! 🤘
I don’t know which to choose. To be honest, I am not sure any would suite me. On the plus side, though, I am in the middle of putting together a limited palette for myself. It is such fun!
It can be so hard to pick! I honestly don't know which ones I'd end up choosing overall, though it would be about half of the Jane Blundell palette at least, lol. It's very fun choosing a limited palette! Exasperating as well, haha!
@@BeckyTregear I am taking my limited palette one step at a time, so it is not so exacerbating for me 🙂. I don’t think I would ever buy an artist’s palette; I just find that they do not suite me at all. Plus, without seeing the artists use them I find myself lost as to how to use them. It’s a pity that manufacturers don’t upload mixing videos on RUclips. Seeing the artists use the palettes in different situations would really open our eye to beautiful pigment combinations we never thought of before.
I like Jane B's picks, but if I could rearrange Georgia M's colors, I'd prefer hers. Phthalo Turquoise, Transp. Red Oxide, Aussie Red Gold, and Rich Green Gold are among my favorites. What's up with the Crimsons though? I'd lose them and add Pyrrol Red or Quinacridone Red.
Enjoyed video found it interesting and informative i like color order also it sooths my art color eye when colors are mishmash it throws me off my wanting to paint as i feel im always looking for certain color.....mikelle art mom 🎨👩🎨👩🎨💛🇨🇦🇺🇸
That ‘wrong order’ is really frustrating! It would make me less likely to buy the pallet or paints if I’m honest it would bother me. I use fugitives but it’s important to know when they are and avoid for art you are selling. But some hues (such as neons/opera) there is no substitute for accuracy if trying to paint neon. It will fade but then I’m take it off my own wall and put up a new hand made artwork! As well as in sketchbooks.
I really struggle when colours are out of order; it disrupts the Feng Shui of the palette! 😂 You're definitely right in that nothing even comes close to Opera Rose with that fluorescent quality. I use it quite a lot, not too bothered with lightfastness as there are ways to prevent fading (like scanning pictures, sketchbooks etc).
What I dont understand: that daniel smith watercolor sets always has 10 different colours max! But on this watercolour palettes that you have there are much more colour dots! ?
This is their entire range of watercolours, and actually since then they've introduced more, so I think there are around 266 colours now! The sets they put out would be "curated palettes", so a small sample of colours that go together into specific groups, such as for landscapes etc. Or you can buy individual tubes of the colours you like the best and make your own custom palette - that's what I did with mine. If you have no idea where to start, then one of their ten colours is a good way to go, and build from there.
Technically yes - raw or unbleached titanium, so it is more of a cream colour. I also do have a tube of bright Titanium White, as I do sometimes use it for mixing etc, but I prefer the buff version. 🙂
Thank you for your review Becky!
I would like to clarify a few points. In majority of my work, I only use 8 colors out of this palette - Quinacridone Sienna, Perylene Violet, Indigo, Quinacridone Deep Gold, Alizarin Crimson, Cobalt Blue, Phthalo Blue (GS), Phthalo Green (BS). Even then, for each painting I make I usually decide on just 3-4 colors out of these I will use.
That is because for me, the most important in the palette is not how the pure colors in it look, but how well they mix together. As you may have noticed, all the aforementioned colors are transparent, and the reason is twofold:
First, for me the white of the sheet is like the natural sunlight that already exists in a watercolor, hence why I try to keep my watercolors very transparent and almost never use the masking fluid which is opaque to show the white spots - I plan in advance and leave those unpainted instead.
Second, you can mix transparent colors as much as you want, but if you try it with the opaque ones, they will quickly mix into a bunch of dirt. The freedom to mix colors as much as I like without worrying about that is the main reason to keep them all transparent.
So, while on the first sight, my travel palette only has one green in it, Phthalo Green (BS), you can mix almost any imaginable shade of green with the other colors of my palette - and this is the principle following which the palette was compiled.
Thank you, again, very much for your review!
PS By the way, I absolutely love Australia, and I will be coming to Perth and Cairns in late August-early September to hold workshops!
Best,
Michael Solovyev.
Oh my gosh, thank you so much for your wonderful comment! I've recently discovered you (from receiving the dot card, haha!) and your paintings are absolutely stunning. So much light and emotion in your portraits - you are a true Master of watercolours. Thank you for clarifying your palette as well; I'm guessing Daniel Smith required a set number of colours to be on the dot card, so it's really interesting to know which eight you use in your actual palette. I have some of these colours, or ones that are similar, so I am definitely going to try putting your palette together and painting with it. I love transparent watercolours! I really appreciate you taking time out to comment on my video, and I hope the weather will be lovely for you when you make your visit to Australia later in the year. August is usually the best month, especially for Cairns! ❤
I would prefer Becky Yellow oder Becky Red, because you make the days brighter with your videos and your voice. 🙂
Aww thank you! Maybe a blue as well to have a primary palette, lol.
I'm stubborn and keep alizarin crimson in my palette (among others with poor lightfast ratings). Then again, I'm not a professional and am really only doing stuff that gets closed away in a sketchbook or portfolio, so it doesn't so much matter. Everyone can just send their unwanted fugitive paints my way! 🤣
Hahaha! I will admit that pure Alizarin Crimson is an absolutely GORGEOUS red and it is very hard to replicate in the permanent versions. I think over time I have hardened my heart to it and am getting more used to using substitutes. 😭
Jane Blundell's website and blog is so, so helpful. I find pigments and mixing theory extremely interesting, so Jane's blog helped me hugely in setting up my palette. Thank you for the wonderful video.
I've used her website many times to help me choose colours! It was especially helpful when I was looking at M.Graham paints.
Oh, I haven’t even watched this yet but I would definitely choose Jane Blundell. She is an expert on Daniel Smith colors and mixing. She knows her paint! I’m looking forward to watching this. Thank you Becky!
Michael, Jane and Georgia is the order I'd go in for me, I love the muted colours of Michael's choice but also love the muted ones in Jane's, and my fave painting of the three you did was Michael's too :D it's more appealing to my mind, as I was sat watching you paint it just wondering who would live in a place like that, and then I totally went down a rabbit hole with it all, (I have a very active imagination lol) the other two paintings were gorgeous also, but I didn't get the full blown interview with a vampire story in my head that Michael's painting gave me, argh I'm just a bit strange sometimes hahaha, brill video! Thank you! :D
The best palette is the one which makes you come up with an entire story! 😄 And now I'm always going to think of vampires when I see the buildings at Montsalvat, lol.
Each one has colors I like, so may be I’d choose all three of them!
Make one gigantic palette with them all! Sounds like an excellent idea, haha.
@@BeckyTregear 🥳🎉🤩
Michael Solovyev is pretty active on RUclips and he really sticks to a core palette, I don't recall seeing him often use more than 4-5 colors. He mostly sticks with Quin Sienna, Indigo, Perylene Violet, moonglow, and deep quin gold, IIRC. He does mix it up sometimes a bit but those seem to feature. Incredibly talented too. Also I'm pretty sure Jane's Grey uses the typical burnt sienna rather than raw sienna but maybe you know something I don't! ☺
I am going to have to start watching his channel, as I didn't realise he was on here! I think a lot of artists do have a core few colours that they use all of the time (even I do, to some extent!). I looked it up again; the brown pigment in Jane's Grey is PBr7, which is raw sienna but also burnt sienna, raw umber, or burnt umber....I saw raw sienna and not the other ones on that list, lol! But at least I'm not totally wrong, so I'm relieved about that. 😂
@@BeckyTregear Yes, she uses burnt sienna. 😉
I loved this swatching video. You make them so fun and informative. Amazing how you packed 3 swatch cards and 3 art landscapes all in 21 minutes. Bravo 👏🏼
Thank you! It certainly took a lot longer than 21 minutes to film it all, heheh. Thankfully there are speed-up and timelapse options which makes things a lot less of a drag! 😂
Jane would have been my favourite too I love her use of colours, but I’d love to see a BECKY Daniel Smith palette more why not make your own for us on RUclips of 24 colours?
I would like to do that one day! Hopefully later in the year I can make a curated palette. 😊
Michael Solovyev has his own RUclips channel as well. It's fascinating to watch because he has such a light touch and captures so much light. I like watching people do things I'd never be able to do 😊
I'll have to check it out! I was looking at some of his paintings online...they're really beautiful! ❤️
@@BeckyTregear He does some of his simpler ones for his channel against the clock. If he keeps them simple he can be ridiculously fast! I love his Travel By Art series, where followers send him images from around the world and he chooses which to paint. It's a winter thing for when he can't get to locations.
This was a great video! I loved seeing the paintings from swatch cards, so fun to actually USE the dot cards and not just look at boxes of colours ❤❤. I would order the palettes in the same way you did with Jane’s first and Michael’s second. I really like the muted, earthiness of Michael’s (not going to attempt spelling his full name😅).
I actually purchased Jane Blundell’s 24 half-pan Daniel Smith palette AND her 24 full-pan Roman Szmal palette. I love having green convenience colours. I wonder why her DS dot card only has 20 colours and those colours are actually different from the 24 colours in the Daniel Smith half pan set? It’s very close/similar, but there are differences.
Dot card has hansa yellow med, but the half-pan set has Hansa yellow lt and hansa yellow deep instead. The half-pan set also includes permanent alizarin crimson. I believe most of the blues and the greens are the same between the dot card and half-pan set. I actually love Geothite for beaches and buildings (it also looks really nice when used with potter’s pink), so I’m glad it’s in the half-pan set. The half pan set also has yellow ochre, which is another colour I like to have on hand.
Oh I didn't realise that the actual half pan set is slightly different to the dot card! 😱 Jane Blundell has some great palettes out there! If I didn't already have a large tube collection with most of the colours, I'd probably get the pan set. 😊
@@BeckyTregear I got the DS Jane Blundell pan set pretty early in my watercolour days as a way to try out a lot of colours, without investing in all the tubes straight away. After reading about her set, it just seemed to have colours I needed for tutorials I was attempting to follow at the time. It was definitely helpful in deciding the colours I’d want to buy in tube form, plus she has so much mixing advice on her website based on those colours. I was surprised when I saw the dot card didn’t have 24 colours, so it made me dig out my set to compare!
@@BeckyTregear Also back when I purchased it, I was able to find it on sale for $93 Canadian which made it so reasonable for a 24-pan set of Daniel Smith paint!
Oddly enough I would get the Manser, I think its a very good cohesive color scheme. I also think about five of the colors are not needed as if I got just the main colors I could then just tint to get the others for a work. Thanks Becky love your channel you always show interesting things.
Thank you, and I like your thoughts!
Hi Becky, it’s your art Aussie friend I just wanted to let you know I’ve heard on some other recent RUclips channels that Daniel Smiths undersea green is going to be discontinued soon so I would go and get myself a tube as soon as possible.
Yes I am considering picking up a few new tubes with that discontinued orange pigment. I want another sap green!
Michael used to make the greatest watercolor sketchbooks I ever used. I still have one I haven't filled. $20.00usd for 36 100%cotton Saunders Waterford paper in a professionally bound book. Not 36 from and back but 36 pages altogether. If one counted front and back it would be 72 pages. Man I loved his sketchbooks. Even after I used them they still sit flat on the shelves. No buckling, no weird strings holding it together. One cannot tell his sketchbook from Shakespeare on the shelf. Which I love.
I also love him as an artist. Truly amazing painter
I've started following him on here and other platforms; his paintings are masterful and his capture of light is incredible. Now I want one of those sketchbooks! 😱
Hi, Becky. Looking forward to watching this later - it sounds really interesting!!!
I too like Jane Blundell's palette.
Perylene green is my favourite colour. I recently got it from Daniel Smith and is exactly the green that I've always been mixing for years ❤ love all of your paintings 😊
I also have Perylene Green in my palette, and I agree that it is most excellent! 😊💚
Etta I completely agree, it's the very best green and mixes the blackest blacks with a lot of colors! Perelyne Maroon or Violet or Diox Violet....
Oh Becky you just opened up a treasure trove of artist's palette cards to me. 😀 It's introduced me to loads of watercolor artist's I hadn't heard of before. When you follow the link you left for their dot cards it takes you to their card and has "next" written down the bottom on the right side. So many other artist's dot cards in there 🤩 I'm a new painter myself and I'm just transitioning out of student paints but really overwhelmed with choices in the Daniel Smith range. I don't want to buy a premade half pan palette because I don't like all the colors in any of them and I think that buying tubes will work out cheaper in the long run providing I can decide on which tubes lol. I paint mostly urban scenes and landscapes and only occasionally flowers or garden scenes so at the moment I'm looking through the landscape artist's palettes and taking note of the colors that overlap between them. So having so many more palettes to compare is really helping to narrow things down a lot. I've saved this video as a favorite. Thank you 🤗
I'm glad it has helped a bit, and I totally understand how overwhelming it is trying to choose a palette! I spent many hours choosing my first Daniel Smith colours, and I still had regrets on a few that I "should have picked others" but I just ended up with more tubes over time, and now my palette is a big old mess of colours, haha! The little dot cards do help quite a lot though, so if you can find some it might be worth picking up a few to compare colours etc. 🙂
@@BeckyTregear I was thinking of picking up some dot cards after seeing your video. Thanks for your help 😃
I second your choice of palette. Beautiful paints. I would add moonglow, though. Love your paintings. Have a great weekend Becky.
Moonglow is a great colour, I have that one in my main palette. Enjoy your weekend as well!
At first, I think I would have chosen the Michael Solovyev palette, but knowing how much I love and use greens in my work, I believe the Jane Blundell palette might take first place for me, even though so many greens can be mixed with the Michael palette. They're both wonderful, though, in their own ways!
Michael left a comment, which I pinned! I was so surprised he saw it, and then I remembered that we are on RUclips and our videos can be seen by all, lol. 😂
Hi Becky, I love your paintings. I do not know which palette is my favorite, but i do like them all. Maybe having all of the colors would be good.😊
Thank you! When in doubt, pick allll the colours. 😂
I have all their palettes and one uses that goethite much more often than one might think. It's like buff titanium. One says they don't like white in a water color palette yet they'll use buff titanium until the cows come home. It is a white. It's actuality a pigment white. We use it more than we'd think and the goethite is equally that way. I used it in amidst every painting I made while traveling the continental divide.
Buff titanium is the raw, unbleached version and so I would consider it as cream or off-white; it can be used on its own and still be visible in paintings. I love it for sand and light on footpaths etc. Pure white is less useful to me, when working on white paper. I'm glad to hear someone is using Goethite; I guess I have other browns so I wouldn't be rushing out to add it to my collection.
Thank you, dot cards are a great way to try out different colors! They're all missing my favorite yellow though: nickel azo yellow, transparent and versatile in a limited palette.
I now have Nickel Azo Yellow in my palette, after I discovered how gorgeous it is! 💛
The Georgia colors are a lot of fugitive or NR for the light fastness. That was surprising.
I think there are more "traditional" pigments in her palette, which can be hit and miss with their lightfastness.
@@BeckyTregear oh. Light fastness is something I’m still learning about. Right now I’m still trying to figure out useful colors instead of just going for all the colors I’m drawn too. Oh I do have Undersea Green if you’ll like me to send you a half pan. It’s a pretty color. 🙂
Jane Blundell palette for the win; so beautiful and one that I try to emulate! Love this palette in Roman Szmal colors. The Mansur palette would be one i'd want to try but yes the palette card is CHAOS! ha. I couldn't with the middle palette as I need REDS! :)
Haha it was pure chaos! But the colours on there have grown on me a lot - I really want that gorgeous orange!
It’s likely a little difficult to get outside of the U.S. but I’d love to hear your opinion on Da Vinci paints. I’ve watched a lot of your videos/updates on your M. Graham palette. Do you prefer that brand over Daniel Smith?
I don't know that I've ever seen the Da Vinci paints here, only Van Gogh. I'd like to try them, if I ever manage to find a set. I love both M.Graham and Daniel Smith. I think Daniel Smith paints are much more practical to travel with, as they dry really well in pans and don't run everywhere, haha! But M.Graham have some insanely bright colours which I adore as well! I think they're both great but I'd go Daniel Smith for travel purposes.
Maddy I actually prefer M. Graham and DaVinci to Daniel Smith (mostly cause I'm kinda mad at DS). M. Graham has so much personality because of the honey - I found them unpleasantly sticky at first -- but they are so easy to get fully saturated colors on the first wash (which is, to me, a plus) that I eventually fell in love with them. I adore DaVinci too (and not to lead you away from Becky's channel!) but there's a great video Irit Landgraf did on some DaVinci colors I sent her, she did it just about a month ago. I wrote a long comment with all the details of the brand that someone might want to know before trying!
Not a scarlet in any of them! But they love their oranges!
The first one had no convenience greens whatsoever, and three cool reds, although I must say I do like some of the more unusual colors she included like the lavender, Naples Yellow, Aussie Red Gold (a fave!) and phthalo turquoise. The first two had an odd selection of blues, and too many darks. I agree with your observations. I'd go with Jane Blundell's all the way!
I'd have more reds too! I usually have Permanent Alizarin Crimson, Pyrrol Red and Quin Rose in any given palette, if I can fit them all.
@@BeckyTregear I'm a huge fan of Quin Red PR209 as well, and can get away with just the red and rose if need be! Mixing those two with Nickel Azo... heaven!!
Super fun. I do miss sodalite (although the indigo is a nice substitute), Quin Burnt Orange and Diopside Genuine in the dot cards. This was a super fun idea. I would pick Jane's card as well. Seems great for almost anything. Maybe a red-footed booby from the Galapagos, although you might need a little gouache for some of the beak colors.
Sodalite is so awesome, I haven't used it for a while and I need to reinstate it into a palette I think! I love painting birds, so I like your idea. 🙂
The Becky palette does sound good to me 😊 For now I agree with your choices
The Becky Palette is something I need to make! Though knowing me I'd change my mind a thousand times on which colours to include, lol.
I like colours from each palette but do not have a favourite, I always prefer to make my own choices, the Carbazole Violet and Sap Green are now on my list to buy. I have a few Daniel Smiths colours, my favourites are Shadow Violet, Indigo, Undersea Green, Lavender and Aussie Red Gold, which I bought after I saw you mention it on a previous video. Thank you for another interesting video.
They have so many lovely colours - their sap green is my absolute favourite of any brand I think! I need to get another tube as mine is starting to run low. I might pick up an Undersea Green as well, because everyone loves it, and I have FOMO haha!
@@BeckyTregear I know what you mean, you definitely need Undersea Green, I need Sap Green.
Hi Becky, love your videos. Donna
All three paintings turned out pretty, but the middle one is my favorite! I like Jane’s palette as well but Michael’s palette is just as shadowy as I like😂 I think Georgia’s palette might be easier to use if you made your own ordered swatch. I would buy Becky’s grey, I can never have too many dark colors🥴
I ended up being a bit too lazy to reorder that particular palette, though it did cross my mind.😄 The shadow colours on Michael's palette are all gorgeous, and ones I like to use as well. I think I'd end up going with Becky's Black over Grey; it's way more alliterative....and metal! 🤘
The muddled colour order frustrates me too!
Mansur’s palette is the most appealing to me.
I don’t know which to choose. To be honest, I am not sure any would suite me. On the plus side, though, I am in the middle of putting together a limited palette for myself. It is such fun!
It can be so hard to pick! I honestly don't know which ones I'd end up choosing overall, though it would be about half of the Jane Blundell palette at least, lol. It's very fun choosing a limited palette! Exasperating as well, haha!
@@BeckyTregear I am taking my limited palette one step at a time, so it is not so exacerbating for me 🙂. I don’t think I would ever buy an artist’s palette; I just find that they do not suite me at all. Plus, without seeing the artists use them I find myself lost as to how to use them. It’s a pity that manufacturers don’t upload mixing videos on RUclips. Seeing the artists use the palettes in different situations would really open our eye to beautiful pigment combinations we never thought of before.
I like Jane B's picks, but if I could rearrange Georgia M's colors, I'd prefer hers. Phthalo Turquoise, Transp. Red Oxide, Aussie Red Gold, and Rich Green Gold are among my favorites. What's up with the Crimsons though? I'd lose them and add Pyrrol Red or Quinacridone Red.
I like your choices, and those reds! ❤️
Enjoyed video found it interesting and informative i like color order also it sooths my art color eye when colors are mishmash it throws me off my wanting to paint as i feel im always looking for certain color.....mikelle art mom 🎨👩🎨👩🎨💛🇨🇦🇺🇸
Ah yes, I feel the same way!
That ‘wrong order’ is really frustrating! It would make me less likely to buy the pallet or paints if I’m honest it would bother me. I use fugitives but it’s important to know when they are and avoid for art you are selling. But some hues (such as neons/opera) there is no substitute for accuracy if trying to paint neon. It will fade but then I’m take it off my own wall and put up a new hand made artwork! As well as in sketchbooks.
I really struggle when colours are out of order; it disrupts the Feng Shui of the palette! 😂 You're definitely right in that nothing even comes close to Opera Rose with that fluorescent quality. I use it quite a lot, not too bothered with lightfastness as there are ways to prevent fading (like scanning pictures, sketchbooks etc).
What I dont understand: that daniel smith watercolor sets always has 10 different colours max! But on this watercolour palettes that you have there are much more colour dots! ?
This is their entire range of watercolours, and actually since then they've introduced more, so I think there are around 266 colours now! The sets they put out would be "curated palettes", so a small sample of colours that go together into specific groups, such as for landscapes etc. Or you can buy individual tubes of the colours you like the best and make your own custom palette - that's what I did with mine. If you have no idea where to start, then one of their ten colours is a good way to go, and build from there.
Now that's how a RUclipsr swatches a dot card. Swatches tells artists nothing. Seeing them in action is where it's at.
They always work differently in paintings! 😂
That first pallet is really hard to look at, out of order colours is really annoying 😵
Do like the second one love the muted colours. 😊
Yes, I like/need my colours in order, haha.
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Buff titanium is white lol
Technically yes - raw or unbleached titanium, so it is more of a cream colour. I also do have a tube of bright Titanium White, as I do sometimes use it for mixing etc, but I prefer the buff version. 🙂
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