I love my granulating watercolors, I probably use those more than any I have. The colored pencil was an awesome idea. I think I would use it more than the fluid. I love to watch the vultures fly, they just glide and swoop….ahhh. I have a thing for crows….not because I’m an old crow (I am), but they are cool birds and very smart. This was a great video as always Pete. 👍
The W&N Granulating Medium can be a bit tricky and often misses the mark because folks dont use it correctly...You used it the correct method!!! Amazon just had a great sale on the Medium and I was able to grab a few more bottles! Another technique is to use a granulating paint ie Lunar Black by DS and mix it with another non granulating paint to create a totally new granulating paint! Or you can mix Ultramarine Blue with another non granulating paint to create a new color! Again thank you so much Pete! You Rock! ...Rus from Pennsylvania 🤓🖌🎨❤️
I believe “Mars Black” is the name the other brands use for that granulating black. Also, cobalt colors granulate and I believe if they are mixed with the “smooth” colors they will granulate the batch but I’ve never actually tried it.
I used to use the lunar black but I found it made a lot of the lighter colors look dirty. I do enjoy mixing other granulating colors into non-granulating colors. Glad I could help. 👍🏻
Good lesson on making non-granulating paints granulate! As a kid, when drawing and coloring dragons, the last step was always to take the page and a contrasting color out to the sidewalk and put it down so you could slide a crayon along the dragon’s skin to make it pebbly. Fun stuff, pebbles and granulations!😅
Thank you so much Pete!!! And my dog "Jordy" thanks you too !!! Also people with the name Peter must like granulating paints too...My middle name is Peter and my Dad always use to call me "Pete"...🤓...Thank you again for another great video! You're the best!...God bless, Rus aka " Russell Peter" from Pennsylvania...❤️🎨🖌🤓
These birds are great. I'm a farmer and they alert me to a problem in my fields. There's either an animal in distress or a death happening when you see them circling around your pasture. They're our sanitation department of nature. They're also tough as nails. Imagine the bacteria they eat without getting sick! There's probably something useful in their blood that we could use if we don't already. I love granulation and by golly I do have a dog! 😂
I think I love raptors because they're pretty much flying dinosaurs. Check out the bearded vulture! As far as granulating paint goes, yes I like them, but I also like mixed media, so enjoy layering with other materials, like you did with the pencil.
I _love_ birds and I'm a big fan of the corvid family (crows, ravens, magpies) personally, and was talking to someone about them just last week and they mentioned how raptors are used to keep like rodents and small animals from getting on the tarmac at airports and I was like raptors? HUH? I had never known that was a term used for the bird of prey species in that way lol but I do love owls and falcons as well and find them fascinating. I would love to do falconry at some point in my life cause I think it's one of the coolest things ever. I also forgot to mention that at the previous home I lived in, our house butt up against a canyon. Like we had the backyard and beyond it was a canyon and so we had glass fencing around the yard so we could see the canyon and city view even beyond that. ANYWAYS one day we had a turkey vulture land on our glass fencing and I was shocked out how large they are, like so much bigger than you think when you see them flying around. especially when it took off from the glass, the wingspan was massive. Such a rad thing to witness up close in the wild lol
I enjoy corvids as well. They have such big personalities and they can be very funny sometimes. A lot of farmers use the raptors to scare off other birds and rodents from their crops. Even if they don't use them a lot doing that right before the harvest saves a lot of animal lives because so many make their homes in crop fields. You have to try falconry. It is my favorite thing to do outside of art and music. If I had more time to dedicate to it I would get my license. Unfortunately for now, I'll need to go to flying events. 👍🏻
This was cool and I appreciate your experimentation with granulation. I just love granulating colors and have spent far too much $ on DS Primetek paints. Now that I see I can make it myself with a colored pencil, that is just fantastic! And I’ve used granulation medium before, but it never seemed to work. However, the artist I was following said to brush it on top of your other paints, NOT to use it as water like you did here. So effective! Thanks Pete, and the video of the vulture was cool. My first time finding your channel, I plan on watching many more!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed this. The granulating medium was very good, just unpredictable. So if that doesn't matter, then it's the easiest way without needing to think about it.
"mediocre talent at best" LOL LOL I love this!!! I offer the title: "Cosmic Vulture Hatching" (Nope, not wasting my money.) LOL Thanks so much for the lovely Monday wake-up.
Organic non-granulating paints with very small particle size may give 'anti-granulation' texture, that is, travel up the hills of the paper texture, opposite to settling down in the valleys. This happens if you soak your arches torchon paper in water and paint wet on wet with pigments like quinacridones, perylenes or indanthrone blue (never tried it with phthalos, but it should also work). If the wash stays wet long enough, and starts drying on tops of the hills, they pull water from the body of the paper with some pigment particles, and the very tops of the paper texture dry with dark dots.
Mix with another granulating paint: there’s a reason a certain super-granulating company uses a LOT of PY159 (volcano yellow; a bit less granulating version is winsor Newton, lemon yellow deep (I think that’s the PY159). I try and make my own dupes of paints like Rockwell Paint’s “Charms” series..stunning paints with a much too high shipping to the US (from Canada). It’s currently almost 7am, I’ve been up all night playing with new paints and pigments (I mull some of my own 😁), some of which I got specifically to try and get Rockwell’s Charms 3, Blue Iris…PV23, PV19 & PB36. I keep trying…but trying to find the right PV19 & PB36 is proving to be a BIT of a challenge. Going to nap whilst my latest attempts dry; but I think the much more granulating PB36 I got yesterday is doing the trick! Also, just fyi, there are some EXCELLENT, VERY affordable handmade paints, many of which are granulating, on Etsy. In fact that’s the other reason I was up…got my new goodies from Kourtney at KOZ Paints! All I’ve done so far are swatches and a mixing chart; but I’m hoping to put them to good use later today, finishing a portrait of my precious Dr Kitty Leela…it ain’t JUST doggy slaves who love granulation and separation! Her Highness is calling me…she wants her moosic back on for our nap. 😁
I use the granulation medium separately and do a premix in a small palette. I never thought of using it as the "water" itself. Me results weren't so good either ...
Maybe it is my art style but i am not really into granulating colours, if it granulate it is ok but i dont really seek it out. I did got some granulating paint to try but haven't try them yet. Thank you for the techniques. Living in Belize i am usually limited with the type of sketchbooks so i learn to do bookbinding to make the sketchbook i want with the paper i want. Have you ever tried bookbinding or making your own watercolour paints?
@@IllustrationsByPete paint making is fun and it is take very long to make especially if you are doing it by hand like i did. One colour can took me 4 hours to make but finer pigments can take up an hour or two. Paint making gave me a greater understanding of watercolour paints and appreciation. I also tried paper making once.
I enjoyed this but I must be strange because I love dogs but I would like a video on how to stop certain colors from granulating 😂 I try to avoid the granulating paints
Lol. I don't think I can do that. 😂 A lot of people don't like them. I probably wouldn't use them if I did realism, especially of people or certain subjects.
@@IllustrationsByPete if you're interested I accidentally found a way to cause granulation, do a wet wash and put a handful of oatmeal on top, let it dry and brush it off. Looks a bit like crunchy snow because of the granulation.
I grew up with one, then my wife and I had one for about 20 yrs. Don't want another one. I don't dislike them as animals but I never want to own another one.
most of my color mixes end up being granulating because I have about half granulating half not granulating colors I make. When you mix one with the other it will granulate even better. If you want a super easy way just add mars/lunar/whatever brand you want to go with black. the mars/lunar etc planatary name type black will granulate.
I love granulating watercolors and I have a cat that acts like a dog, and a parrot that barks like a dog, so there’s that. Lol
That's a great combo! 😂
@@IllustrationsByPete 😂🥰😎
“People who like dogs like granulating paints.” Just found your channel. I’m hooked!😂😂😂
Welcome to the channel! I'm glad you enjoyed this. 🙂
Hi Ann! Also just found him! 😁
@@elaineg60Hi Elaine!! Pete makes me smile❤ Enjoy!
@elaineg60 welcome to the channel! 🙂
I love my granulating watercolors, I probably use those more than any I have. The colored pencil was an awesome idea. I think I would use it more than the fluid.
I love to watch the vultures fly, they just glide and swoop….ahhh. I have a thing for crows….not because I’m an old crow (I am), but they are cool birds and very smart. This was a great video as always Pete. 👍
Thank you, Denise! I love granulating paints too! They just seem to create their own art. 🙂
The W&N Granulating Medium can be a bit tricky and often misses the mark because folks dont use it correctly...You used it the correct method!!! Amazon just had a great sale on the Medium and I was able to grab a few more bottles! Another technique is to use a granulating paint ie Lunar Black by DS and mix it with another non granulating paint to create a totally new granulating paint! Or you can mix Ultramarine Blue with another non granulating paint to create a new color! Again thank you so much Pete! You Rock! ...Rus from Pennsylvania 🤓🖌🎨❤️
I believe “Mars Black” is the name the other brands use for that granulating black. Also, cobalt colors granulate and I believe if they are mixed with the “smooth” colors they will granulate the batch but I’ve never actually tried it.
I used to use the lunar black but I found it made a lot of the lighter colors look dirty. I do enjoy mixing other granulating colors into non-granulating colors. Glad I could help. 👍🏻
Good lesson on making non-granulating paints granulate! As a kid, when drawing and coloring dragons, the last step was always to take the page and a contrasting color out to the sidewalk and put it down so you could slide a crayon along the dragon’s skin to make it pebbly. Fun stuff, pebbles and granulations!😅
That's a great way to do it. Kids are so much more inventive. 🙂
6:22 Granulating Rust Stains sounds like an awesome punk band 😁
I'd go see them. 😂
Thank you so much Pete!!! And my dog "Jordy" thanks you too !!! Also people with the name Peter must like granulating paints too...My middle name is Peter and my Dad always use to call me "Pete"...🤓...Thank you again for another great video! You're the best!...God bless, Rus aka " Russell Peter" from Pennsylvania...❤️🎨🖌🤓
I'm glad I could give you some ideas. And thank you very much for the support! 🙂
These birds are great. I'm a farmer and they alert me to a problem in my fields. There's either an animal in distress or a death happening when you see them circling around your pasture. They're our sanitation department of nature. They're also tough as nails. Imagine the bacteria they eat without getting sick! There's probably something useful in their blood that we could use if we don't already.
I love granulation and by golly I do have a dog! 😂
I agree, they are very underappreciated. That's a good possibility.
I'm telling you, it's gotta be a dog thing. 😂
I think I love raptors because they're pretty much flying dinosaurs. Check out the bearded vulture!
As far as granulating paint goes, yes I like them, but I also like mixed media, so enjoy layering with other materials, like you did with the pencil.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed this. 🙂
Really enjoyed this. May get this medium and try for myself. Thanks for the video.
Thank you! Glad I could help. 🙂
Love this information, thank you!! 🙏🏼 I’ll definitely be sharing this video
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed this. 🙂
I _love_ birds and I'm a big fan of the corvid family (crows, ravens, magpies) personally, and was talking to someone about them just last week and they mentioned how raptors are used to keep like rodents and small animals from getting on the tarmac at airports and I was like raptors? HUH? I had never known that was a term used for the bird of prey species in that way lol but I do love owls and falcons as well and find them fascinating. I would love to do falconry at some point in my life cause I think it's one of the coolest things ever.
I also forgot to mention that at the previous home I lived in, our house butt up against a canyon. Like we had the backyard and beyond it was a canyon and so we had glass fencing around the yard so we could see the canyon and city view even beyond that. ANYWAYS one day we had a turkey vulture land on our glass fencing and I was shocked out how large they are, like so much bigger than you think when you see them flying around. especially when it took off from the glass, the wingspan was massive. Such a rad thing to witness up close in the wild lol
I enjoy corvids as well. They have such big personalities and they can be very funny sometimes. A lot of farmers use the raptors to scare off other birds and rodents from their crops. Even if they don't use them a lot doing that right before the harvest saves a lot of animal lives because so many make their homes in crop fields. You have to try falconry. It is my favorite thing to do outside of art and music. If I had more time to dedicate to it I would get my license. Unfortunately for now, I'll need to go to flying events. 👍🏻
I’ve always wanted to try granulating medium. Looks like it’s going on my next supply order.
I'm glad I could help. 🙂
This was cool and I appreciate your experimentation with granulation. I just love granulating colors and have spent far too much $ on DS Primetek paints. Now that I see I can make it myself with a colored pencil, that is just fantastic! And I’ve used granulation medium before, but it never seemed to work. However, the artist I was following said to brush it on top of your other paints, NOT to use it as water like you did here. So effective! Thanks Pete, and the video of the vulture was cool. My first time finding your channel, I plan on watching many more!
Thank you! Welcome to the channel! I'm glad you enjoyed this. 🙂
Most of my watercolor paints are granulating. Of the methods I would choose the granulating medium. Love vultures and your sense of humor!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed this. The granulating medium was very good, just unpredictable. So if that doesn't matter, then it's the easiest way without needing to think about it.
"mediocre talent at best" LOL LOL I love this!!! I offer the title: "Cosmic Vulture Hatching"
(Nope, not wasting my money.) LOL Thanks so much for the lovely Monday wake-up.
I'm glad you enjoyed this, Linda! I like the title too! 👍🏻
This was absolutely wonderful thank you so much. Great information incredible ideas and always such a funny presentation.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed this. 🙂
Love the piece ❤ very cool
Thank you! Gotta give these birds more love. 🙂
I use an eye dropper to transfer the granulating medium to the paint on my mixing palette.
That's a great idea! 👍🏻
I love vultures too!
They are so underrated! 👍🏻
Organic non-granulating paints with very small particle size may give 'anti-granulation' texture, that is, travel up the hills of the paper texture, opposite to settling down in the valleys. This happens if you soak your arches torchon paper in water and paint wet on wet with pigments like quinacridones, perylenes or indanthrone blue (never tried it with phthalos, but it should also work). If the wash stays wet long enough, and starts drying on tops of the hills, they pull water from the body of the paper with some pigment particles, and the very tops of the paper texture dry with dark dots.
Thank you for the info. 👍🏻
Mix with another granulating paint: there’s a reason a certain super-granulating company uses a LOT of PY159 (volcano yellow; a bit less granulating version is winsor Newton, lemon yellow deep (I think that’s the PY159). I try and make my own dupes of paints like Rockwell Paint’s “Charms” series..stunning paints with a much too high shipping to the US (from Canada). It’s currently almost 7am, I’ve been up all night playing with new paints and pigments (I mull some of my own 😁), some of which I got specifically to try and get Rockwell’s Charms 3, Blue Iris…PV23, PV19 & PB36. I keep trying…but trying to find the right PV19 & PB36 is proving to be a BIT of a challenge. Going to nap whilst my latest attempts dry; but I think the much more granulating PB36 I got yesterday is doing the trick!
Also, just fyi, there are some EXCELLENT, VERY affordable handmade paints, many of which are granulating, on Etsy. In fact that’s the other reason I was up…got my new goodies from Kourtney at KOZ Paints! All I’ve done so far are swatches and a mixing chart; but I’m hoping to put them to good use later today, finishing a portrait of my precious Dr Kitty Leela…it ain’t JUST doggy slaves who love granulation and separation! Her Highness is calling me…she wants her moosic back on for our nap. 😁
That's another great way to do it. Thanks! 👍🏻
Oh man, that lady in the hat is the "laughing stock"!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
The chances are, she will never see this, but if she does... 😂
Suggestion. It would have been useful to have the actual granulation paint specimens for comparison.
Note taken. I appreciate the feedback. 👍🏻
I use the granulation medium separately and do a premix in a small palette. I never thought of using it as the "water" itself. Me results weren't so good either ...
Give it a try. It was fun but unpredictable. 👍🏻
Maybe it is my art style but i am not really into granulating colours, if it granulate it is ok but i dont really seek it out. I did got some granulating paint to try but haven't try them yet. Thank you for the techniques. Living in Belize i am usually limited with the type of sketchbooks so i learn to do bookbinding to make the sketchbook i want with the paper i want. Have you ever tried bookbinding or making your own watercolour paints?
I've never tried making my own paints but I have bound some sketchbooks. I prefer to have the paper I enjoy in my book. 👍🏻
@@IllustrationsByPete paint making is fun and it is take very long to make especially if you are doing it by hand like i did. One colour can took me 4 hours to make but finer pigments can take up an hour or two. Paint making gave me a greater understanding of watercolour paints and appreciation. I also tried paper making once.
That sounds like a lot of work but I'm sure it's rewarding. 🙂
I enjoyed this but I must be strange because I love dogs but I would like a video on how to stop certain colors from granulating 😂 I try to avoid the granulating paints
Lol. I don't think I can do that. 😂 A lot of people don't like them. I probably wouldn't use them if I did realism, especially of people or certain subjects.
@@IllustrationsByPete if you're interested I accidentally found a way to cause granulation, do a wet wash and put a handful of oatmeal on top, let it dry and brush it off. Looks a bit like crunchy snow because of the granulation.
Thank you! That will go in my next "cooking with watercolor" episode. 👍🏻
Get a cat.
I grew up with one, then my wife and I had one for about 20 yrs. Don't want another one. I don't dislike them as animals but I never want to own another one.
most of my color mixes end up being granulating because I have about half granulating half not granulating colors I make. When you mix one with the other it will granulate even better. If you want a super easy way just add mars/lunar/whatever brand you want to go with black. the mars/lunar etc planatary name type black will granulate.
I did that for a while with lunar black from DS but some of the brighter colors seem to look dirty that way. Mixing is a good idea. 👍🏻
LOL. GO HOME LADY😂😂😂😂
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Not gonna lie - I thought you were going to bring the table salt back into action for the granulating effect 😅😆
Some people do that but I can't stand how that looks. Cooking with watercolor 2 will be coming up in the near future. 😂
@@IllustrationsByPete Looking forward to see that! 😄
Yes!!! I don't like dogs. Cat person here. And guess how I feel about gran haha
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Thanks!
Thank you so much! It is very appreciated. I'm glad I could help. 🙂