Unboxing new Watercolor | Michael Harding Swatching and Sketching
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- In today's video, I am unboxing and swatching Michael Harding watercolors. Timestamps below in case you want to skip the swatching and go straight to the sketch:
00:00 Unboxing
02:03 Label Contents
02:21 Swatching
15:55 Swatch Tape Peel
17:02 Painting
[ Supplies ]
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- Etchr Sketchbook
- Michael Harding Watercolor: www.michaelharding.co.uk/
- Sakura Gelly Roll Pen (White)
- Tintoretto 1407, Princeton VelveTouch brushes
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Thank you for showing us a painting, I’m so sick of looking for reviews and just finding swatching videos labelled reviews. You came a lot closer. It was helpful to see how it handled for you.
Thank you. Yeah, I came across entirely too many videos that were just unboxing massive hauls and never using the products and I'm not a fan.
I love the colours you chose 😍 esp the quinacridone gold and those browns :D And YES to oil painting video!
Thank you! Yesss PR101s are life (and Quinacridones) 🙂
Plus, he and his wife are SUPER nice people and support learning events such as Plein Air South in person.
Aww, that sounds amazing. I didn't know anything about them personally but yay for supporting good people who support others 🥰
Bri confirmed not a Hammers fan (this will make no sense outside the UK but their colours are claret and blue)
I could watch you swatch forever and hang them as art themselves 💖
Excited to see how you use and how compare to your others! You have much understanding of difference between paints that I am too head empty to notice myself so greatly appreciate your opinions always!
I am not a hammers fan, I'm sorry 😆 A lot of what I think on paints is very gut feel and personal preference. Like logically I know M Graham is a fantastic brand, but my heart remembers how Terra Rosa soup got everywhere and I hold a grudge 🙃
I shall mail you swatches one day! 🩵
These are beautiful! I just received my baker’s dozen and find them to be exceptional. You’ve given me a few more I must add to my list ❤
Oh no, I'm enabling 😆 I'll need to look up the baker's dozen set!
Weeelllll it was actually the Wonderland set with a couple more I decided I couldn't live without@@briwidmerart
@@DependsWhatDay oh that one has a gorgeous array of colors!
I have a bunch of these. Cerulean blue is my favorite of any of my paints!
It's such a pretty color 🩵
PG 18 (viridian) is one of my favorite colors to play with. I love to mix granulating, color separating mixes and this is one of the best. Try mixing it with potter's pink, or cerulean, or any of the cobalts. Stunning!
I'm an M Graham person, but I bought some MH to round out the limited palette that M Graham offers. buff titanium, potter's pink, perylene green, etc. I love his cinquasia maroon (PR209) a lot of artists use it to mix skintones, but it's been discontinued also. Ordered another tube to keep some backstock of it. Thanks for sharing!
I will have to do that! This cerulean is a bit a typical but I do have it and potter's pink in Daniel Smith.. I bet they do make gorgeous mixes. I'm so bummed about the PR209 discontinuation.. any pigment discontinuations, really..
I love the colors you picked 😍 I never tried viridian but I noticed that I use it a lot in mixing when it comes to acrylic gouache, so I might get some in a watercolor tube. The painting turned out so vibrant! I love how you rendered the hair 🥰
Thank you! I think I got in the habit of trying to mix my own greens because I had to learn how to... green. Greens are super difficult for me (i should paint fields until I get over it 😅). But it's quite a lovely color on its own and perhaps I should do some mixing charts with it!
@@briwidmerart we all have that one challenging color 😅 I love mixing purples with phthalo green so I think I'll enjoy mixing it with viridian 🤔
"Definitely did not need to buy these" has never stopped me in the past!
Also, when that swatch brush loses it's water, it's *quick*.
Next time you come by, bring an empty palette. Have some paint 😆
I really appreciate the painting with the review. ❤
Thank you!
What a beautiful portrait. skin is so lifelike. Would love more portraits if you are so inclined. Thank you for sharing ❤😊❤
Thank you! I have various portraits on my channel and will do more in the future 😊
Congratulation on pretty colors. To me consistensy of watercolors is importaint and I like to choose different brands for different drawings. I only have 5 brands and only 2 kinda proffesional. I still want to get more that work differently. Let's say Gansai Tambi is different from QoR. At the same time I don't feel like I need to collect all the colors of specific brand.
Yeah, I can't imagine trying to collect whole lineups 😆 This is true, it's hard to tell what you like without sampling a few and they absolutely have different effects. QoR has such beautiful flow and vibrancy, but Gansai Tambi is so smooth and opaque.
Hi 👋🏼. I love your advice about not having to buy new art supplies; thanks for mentioning that. I’m kept in check by the prices, fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it 😂).
It's so easy to feel like you *have* to buy all the shiny new things that everyone else is using. But yeah, at the same time, I wish good art supplies were a bit more accessible (price-wise).
@@briwidmerart I know what you mean! But then if art supply prices become more accessible, we loose the only barrier that is stopping us (me) from hoarding 😂.
@awatercolourist 😆 true and I'd be worse
@@briwidmerart 😂😂😂
I tried three tubes. Just curious. I think it’s kind of gouachey.
I didn't get that feeling with the paint I bought, but every pigment has different opacities and I'm not used to honey-based gouache (like M. Graham), which may be a better comparison.. 🤔
yay! free paints! 🥰 the colours are nice, but ouch at the price
Seriously! They are $$$. I consider myself very fortunate here because free is best 💜
I am very confused with your swatches because they look too rich and vibrant compared to the swatches on Michael Harding website. For example, the Herculane Red is a brown (as expected from PR101) but in the video, it looks bright red orange.
I did my best to color match the swatches to my page during editing but it could be a difference in monitors. Pulling out the handy swatch book...
I do find that PR101s in that family lean orange (differentiating from the Indian Red side that lean purple), but Herculane Red is a cooler orange than the sienna ones in my collection (more akin to the Venetian red from Roman Szmal or Schmincke, though a but more vibrant). Looking back at their site, it does look far more brown than my swatch card.. the listing on the Blick site is more orange (Jerry's is far more brown too).
Okay you're right - this is confusing! It's possible that they changed the color or just.. PR101 inconsistencies got them in an unstable place. I'm not sure. Sorry 😅
@@briwidmerart Thanks for replying! If your Herculane red looks exactly as what I see in your video, then you got a very nice red. Last night I was watching reviewings of various watercolor brands to choose a version of PV19, and I saw your video. When I saw that herculane red, I immediately went to jerry to order one, but looking at their swatch and the swatch on Michael Harding website, I canceled. I really like PR101 in oil paints, but PR101 in watercolor can never look as vibrant as in oil. That's why when I saw your swatch, my jaw dropped :D
I am new to oils so I don't have much room for comparison, but the watercolor paints made with honey like Michael Harding and M Graham do have some real punchy PR101s (I've only used Terra Rosa from M Graham though - more of the Indian Red side of PR101)
No way in hell I'd pay that price for watercolors. Not when we can get the exact same thing for a fraction of the price. Just what the world needed. Another paint maker. Cracks me up. Oh and there is no such thing as a vegan product. No such thing.
That's fine, you do you. I'm not sponsored and I flagged the price because it is abnormally high, making it a major "con" for the brand. While I do like these paints, I also do not feel they provide substantial bang for the buck when compared to other professional brands. I am not trying to convince anyone to spend this amount.
I feel the need to clarify on two points though for anyone who does stop by later.
1. Michael Harding is hardly a new paint maker. While only recently making his watercolor line available, he's been making oils for over 40 years and has been building his watercolor line for quite some time.
2. Vegan simply means no animal product. Watercolor can be made from just pigment, gum arabic (a tree sap), and water. Pigments can absolutely be vegan, made synthetically or coming from natural sources like rock or soil. Watercolors typically cease being vegan due to non-vegan pigments or the use of honey or oxgall.