Colors in My Adventure Painting Kit
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- Опубликовано: 1 мар 2023
- Exploring all the colors I currently carry in my Adventure Painting Kit! I love creating outside with watercolor, and over the last six years I curated an ultralight kit of art materials that I take on all my hikes and backpacking trips!
Part one of the video I share the other tools in the kit. And then starting at around 9 minutes I dive into the color swatches!! For each color I show what it looks like at a high and low saturation, and share thoughts about each color.
Learn to paint with me!! www.adventureartacademy.com
Here's a list with links to some of my favorite materials I carry! Some of these links are affiliate links, and I may receive a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you.
Platinum Fountain Pen: amzn.to/3vczGc9
Carbon waterproof ink: amzn.to/35ryS8I
Mechanical Pencil: amzn.to/3Rb4frT
Pentel Pocket Brush Pen: amzn.to/3hcuZXC
Paintbrush (#10 round): amzn.to/3snN9MJ
Art Toolkit Palettes: arttoolkit.com/ (use code ARTOFHIKING5 for 5% off most of their products)
Daniel Smith Watercolor Paint from Blick: bit.ly/blick-claire
UltraliteSacks: ultralitesacks.com/
Paper (Arches 140lb cold press): bit.ly/blick-claire
Black Gold large round brush: www.thebrushguys.com/shop/bla...
What I carry my paper in: Tyvek sleeve with an 11x14 in piece of gatorboard inside to give me a hard surface to work on, and to protect the paper. I also sit cross-legged on the ground with a small foam sit pad (this makes such a huge difference!!)
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I lived in Oregon for 20 years (am now in NY by the Adirondacks) your painting just took me back to some of my favorite places. Thank you for sharing your palette I appreciate your thoughtful combinations not just to have but to mix..
This video made me so happy. :) So satisfying! I'm always trying to find plein air artists that have more paints in their palette. Your palette is so well thought-out, and I love that you've thought of granulation in your mixing colours.
aw thank you for leaving a note, it means a lot! I'm pretty new to sharing things here on RUclips, so notes like yours are very appreciated!
For a long time I shied away from granulation because I just loved the blooming patterns I got from colors like Indanthrone Blue and Neutral Tint. But, when I finally started using them I was so surprised at how fun, and wonderfully unpredictable they are!
Also, I think I mention it in the video, but in most paintings I try to restrain myself to 4-5 colors (if I get more than that, it's usually because I'm adding an extra blue for a specific effect in a sky, that I may not use elsewhere in the painting). It is so tempting to use more, but I love the harmony that comes from keeping myself to a restrained number (and, when I film my Adventure Art Academy lessons outside, I am especially mindful to stick to this number of colors, or explain why I added more than normal). I feel like color choice is one of the hardest things for beginning artists (I know it certainly was for me!). Now as a teacher I love the challenge of articulating what is in many ways an intuitive process now for deciding which pigments to use.
you got my subscription, keep creating more and more art videos and build your channel
aw thank you so much for leaving the note, and the sub! As someone who is quite new to this platform, I appreciate it!
I laughed when you spoke about Phthalo blues stealing the show: so true! I like the burnt umber because it s so changeable with Indian red, English red earth, and the Quin oranges/yellows, pinks violet. A pretty shade near to potter's pink can be made with Quin pink and Indian red or slightly different, the Quin pink with English red earth.
Absolutely love your work
Thank you for the the note, I'm glad you enjoyed the video!! Reading your note reminds me I need to do more with Burnt Umber! I feel like I always forget about it, because I get so excited about mixing a brown from Quin rose, new gamboge, and ultramarine. But now I want to go try those mixes you mention!
I've never tried Quin pink! Is it similar to the quin rose? I've also never used English red earth, either! Going back to my color swatch pages from the Daniel Smith dot cards to go look at those colors right now!
Those dot cards are fantastic!! Brilliant idea for selling.
What a wonderful swatching video! Of course I'm a fan of your art and your teaching. Thank you for sharing both.
thank you for all the kind and encouraging notes, Laura!! I'm quite new to RUclips, so all the notes mean a lot :)
I love swatch videos. There are so many great colors out there. I recently heard that the pigment used to make Quin. Burnt Orange is discontinued so that color will eventually be gone, sadly. It's such a beautiful color.
thank you for the note Kari, I appreciate it! And oh my goodness I might need to stock up on Quin Burnt Orange then- it is one of my go-to colors especially for the desert. While I know Daniel Smith and other manufacturers will likely make a mix to replace the discontinued pigment, I'm still going to buy some extras :)
@@artofhiking I just found your channel, so now I'm going back & watching your dot card swatch videos now. 🙂 New subscriber here.
Love that you show your work. Bravo
thank you for the note!!
Thank you for sharing 🙏 Love your work!
thank you for watching and for the note!!
🖤 love all the colors you picked! I'm going to add a few that you have to my main palette and see how they all work together. I have too many paints for my own good 🫣🤦♀️ I love trying the combinations people use 🖤 thanks for sharing what's in your kit!
Hi! Thank you for the note, and I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I hope you liked your new colors, and I'd love to hear what you think of them if you wanted to share.
Such a feeling of peace and pleasure watching this …progression of lovely color.
Aw I’m glad you enjoyed it Christine!!!!
Wow those mountains. Wow you did one hell of a job. Beautiful
Thanks!!
Your paintings are wonderful!
thank you so much!!
Great ideas for a travelling paint kit…as well as fir plein air. Thank you!😊
I'm glad you enjoyed the video and found it useful. Happy artist heart over here!
GREAT video. My husband and I recently fell in love with backpacking and camping. I was so excited to find your channel as I'm also a painter. This video was SO helpful!
aw thank you so so much for leaving a note, it made my day!! (and apologies for the super slow reply, I missed some comments when I was backpacking this summer!). I hope you have many amazing hiking / backpacking adventures ahead! Also, if you would like to learn more about my painting process, i share step-by-step instruction in my online Adventure Art Academy watercolor classes. I mention it because I love teaching the classes (which are filmed outside on hiking adventures!!) and there is currently a wonderful group of folks who are in the community, and a number of them are new hiking/painting folks and it's been so fun to see them bring their new techniques and skills outside! (It's optional to share work or not, but it is always so fun, and I love supporting the creative journeys of everyone!).
Thanks for this video! I love Daniel Smith colors and loved seeing your set up! Beautiful!
thank you for the note, and I'm glad you enjoyed it!! :)
So happy I found your channel! My husband and travel a couple times of year have been to several national parks ( though not to crater lake) I like to do watercolors from photos we have (beginner so not great), and I love your advice what to pack in a travel kit! We have been to Utah a couple of times - love to see red rocks! Looking forward to your future videos!
Thank you so much for the kind note, I really appreciate it. Painting from photos us such an amazing way to explore the medium and reconnect with favorite places (my photos from summer trips are what get me through the grey Seattle winters, I swear).
Utah is one of my favorite places to hike, and now paint! I try to go back at least once a year, and even filmed some Adventure Art Academy classes there! (I just released one last month of Delicate Arch! I got so lucky and found a small flat spot above the crowds to film, which I was so excited about). I have so much fun creating the classes and supporting the creative journeys of my students, so I tell everyone about them, and hope you might check them out if some step-by-step guidance for landscapes is of interest.. www.adventureartacademy.com. No expectations, however, and you are more than welcome to reach out with supplies questions either way!
Thanks so much for the tip about using a white eraser to clean the Art Toolkit mixing areas!! Much appreciated. Great video.
I'm glad it was helpful!!
This is an awesome video; it's so cool that you went so into depth about your kit and your supplies! 😍😍Thank you for sharing this!
:) Thank you! Art Toolkit palettes are my favorites. I still have the original one I got from Maria way back in 2011 (or thereabouts!).
Indeed a cool video!
Your intro having painting along with beautiful scenery as backdrop, for some reason, made me reflect on my life and urged me to go out for an adventure.
thank you for the note! And glad I might be able to provide a little bit of inspiration!
Just found your channel, Claire, really glad I did. Love your work.
Favourite colours: sodalite, cobalt teal, quin rose
💜💙♥
Aw thank you so much for being here and for leaving a note, too! As a newbie to RUclips I really appreciate it. And I'm stoked so many folks are finding the video useful!
Your favorite colors are absolutely gorgeous! Now I want to to play with combining cobalt teal and sodalite! eee paint experiments are so fun (and how I procrastinate on other work nowadays! :)
As a non-minimalist person 😊, I appreciate seeing how you gave yourself many options in a compact way. Informative video, thanks for sharing. I do wish the specific pigment numbers had been mentioned or written down, but I know where to find them and still learned lots. Also, beautiful work and nice examples you shared. Subscribed!
Hi! Thank you for stopping by, and for the comment. I appreciate it, and I love the idea of listing the pigment numbers! I'll have to make a blog post with all that info and link to it in the description.
I’m so happy to have found this video. I love hiking and one day I would love to start plain air painting and your palette setup seems so lightweight. Thank you for sharing!
Yay!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!! The palette really is so light, and because of that I can carry many more colors than I otherwise would have. I did take many years to work up to that many colors, however (because of cost, and because I often got overwhelmed when I had too many options at first!). Feel free to ask follow up questions about materials if you have them!
And, I hope you might check out my Adventure Art Academy classes, as the very first videos I filmed were for an introductory series for folks new to watercolor (or folks who wanted to preview some of my techniques before diving into a full lesson). Regardless of whether you take a look or not, I'm happy to be a resource here!
- Claire
@@artofhiking not really new to watercolor so I have a few favorites already but I understand what you mean since most of my watercolors I bought in pans. So it will probably take a while before I have a collection of watercolors in tubes.
I might do that. Even though your style is not my style of painting I really need to work on my landscapes in order to get where I want to be in my painting journey and you got to start somewhere😅
I have the same pen - love it - use it all the time.
I was so happy to finally find one that I liked, too!
wow what beautiful paintings! i am new to watercolour painting and have been looking to buy some daniel smith colours. This way of swatching then showing us how you used them is very helpful to me. It is hard to know what to buy when you cant see them used first so thankyou
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Lee! Thank you for watching, and feel free to ask about specific colors if you think of more questions!
Also, if you are interested in painting landscapes, I have so much fun creating my Adventure Art Academy classes, so I tell everyone about them! The classes include an introductory series on basic techniques for watercolor, too :)
These are really cool mini-palettes. I find that the paper/sketchbook, and something to work on(so you don't have to hold it) are the things that end up being the bulkiest to carry. I have 3 different set ups depending on how mobile I need to be.
I forgot to show info about my painting surface!! I’ll have to add a note to the description, because you are so right!! I use an 11x14 in piece of gator board (Aka Coroplast, the stuff political signs are made of- I bought a clear piece at a plastics supplier). That provides a good sized rigid surface, and I put it inside a tyvek sleeve, so I can store all my paper in there too! Really minimal, and then I just sit cross legged on the ground on a little foam pad. I’m lucky and my hips/ back tolerate sitting like that well, so I don’t bring any standing easels or chairs.
I’d love to hear about your setups!!!
@@artofhiking Very cool, that sounds really light and compact, good call! I have a setup for dog-walking that's basically just a sketchbook and pens for ink wash drawings. Sometimes I add a mini-palette to that. A little more involved setup I have for hikes, since I usually bring a small backback anyway, is basically an old small cigar box which I made into a pochade box/gurney easel type thing, which I can use with or without a tripod. I dunno, I'm still working on it, it's a bit of a frankenstein's monster! but it gets me excited to get out and use it.
@@randominternetuser2 that's awesome! It is always so fun to hear how folks carry and work with their materials outside. Thanks for replying!
Enjoyed seeing your selection of paints and tools for sketching outdoors. Some great tips. Thank you.
M Graham’s Anthraquinone Blue PG60 is a fav of mine because it doesn’t dull down as much why dry as other paint brands.
thank you for watching and for the note! And thanks for sharing the tip about the M. Graham paint! I haven't tried those paints because I'm worried they may not dry out as well in my palette (with the honey as part of the binder), but they do look so luscious and beautiful!!
Fun video, it was enjoyable to watch. The nice thing about these Art Toolkit palettes is that they are compact but can fit a lot of colors. Nice color selections. Take care and looking forward to more videos.
Hi! Thank you so much for the note, and the kind words! After a video making hiatus for the summer, (I was filming, but my focus was on recording my Adventure Art Academy watercolor classes :) I have lots of ideas that I can't wait to share with folks here, including some favorite color mixing triads.
Loved this video. Really enjoyed explanation of where and how you use the colour.
Hi! Sorry this reply is so late, I missed your message when I was in Alaska! But I wanted to still hop on here and say thank you for the kind note :)
thank you for sharing and explaining so well.
I am also an artist and I like watercolor ❤️
thank you for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
Really enjoyed watching this Claire! I recently bought an art-tool-kit palette that I've been trying to decide which colors to put into for painting on location and this was a great help. I also LOVE that you aren't limiting yourself to 8 or 12 colors like many others recommend. When painting outdoors NOT having to mix every color I'd like is a time and mixing-space saver, I think! I wanted to mention that a couple artists I follow have also mentioned how DS burnt sienna to be somewhat weak, and they taught me to mix greys or other usually B Sienna mixes with a blue and Transparent Rediron Oxide. Have you tried that? I also mix some interesting greys/browns/earthy colors with Trans Pyrol Orange and even Burnt Umber and blue instead of Burnt Sienna. All of which I find better than using BS. Makes room in the palette for another color to try. ;)
I have been wanting to try Quin Burnt Orange.... I wonder what it would do in typical Burnt Sienna mixes?!
I discovered I have a tube of quin sienna, which is similar to quin burnt orange (which was rather weak on my DS dot card, because it was an extra tiny dot) it's actually redder than the burnt orange, and richer I think. Just made some gorgeous Grey's and browns by mixing it with ultramarine blue. A nice swap for burnt sienna, or quin burnt orange, I think!
Amazing video, very wonderful place and beautiful landscape painting😍😍
aw thank you so much for the kind note! As a relative newbie to RUclips, the notes from folks here mean a lot!
You’ve made some beautiful paintings and I really enjoyed the color palette discussion. I’m a color nerd and really love finding single pigment colors to put in my palettes! Thank you for making this! ClaudiaSJI
Excellent video. I love Sodalite !
thank you so much! I continue to love sodalite more and more!
As soon as I saw that cobalt teal blue (which I've never used myself!) I thought of Blanca Lake.
oh my gosh it would be perfect for that location!!
So eco friendly to have refillable pens. The snoop person in me likes the art bag reveal. Like to see people's paint choices and the tool choices
ahahha I'm glad I'm not the only one who loves seeing what other gear folks carry!! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I am trying to learn how to use water colour and have not felt inspired by much TBH since a traumatic loss in my family. Thankyou I can't wait to give it a try with tips from tutorials like yours I have found.
Thanks for being here, and for leaving a note. I'm pretty new to RUclips, so each comment is appreciated so much. I'm so sorry to read of your loss- I hope you and your family are doing ok.
If you are looking for some more in-depth instruction I hope you might check out my Adventure Art Academy classes, if that ever feels like a good fit for you. I love supporting the creative journeys of my students, and always hope that the classes can be a place of fun, peace, exploration, and no pressure. I'm always telling myself (and students) that we "aren't always going to poop out a masterpiece, so we might as well have some fun along the way!"
Thinking of you and your family.
@@artofhiking That's very sweet of you, it has been watching your content and others that has sparked my "artistic juices". I am so pleased as in the thick of things I would never have thought I would feel inspired again. So I am just waiting for my art materials to come together. Then I will be having a go at your tutorials and tips and try and use them to sketch some doorways, houses and rural scenes in my local area near Durham City in England . Thx again
@@axelusul I'm just happy to hear that I could be part of inspiring some creativity, and hopefully a little joy, in a hard time. Feel free to ask any questions you have about materials!
would've been nice to have the color names for the last line before ending the video.. :)
oh no! Apologies for that! If something was missing, this blog post has all the colors currently in my palette listed! (note, a few might have changed since I made the video!) - www.theartofhiking.com/blog/current-watercolors
Thanks for sharing your hiking art supplies, and for the lovely swatching chat. Since this video was posted 6 months ago, someone probably already said this, but try Transparent Red Oxide as a replacement for Burnt Sienna.
ooohhh thank you so much for the suggestion! I recently got the color after a few folks left a similar note, and am excited to try it out more soon. I often forget about the new colors in my palette when I'm in the field, so I am looking forward to experimenting more this fall/ winter while I am home and in the studio more.
With so many blues on your palette (the travel one at that) you have given me permission to get as many blues as I desire 😂. I was instructed on watercolor by a traditionalist landscaper who only had me use a limited pallet of 7 colors. In the last year I have begun branching out into trying new colors and am absolutely in love with pthalo green which both of my former teachers hated because they as you said very easily “steal the show” (though I haven’t fully figured out how it fits into landscapes).
Thanks for watching and for the note! And YES ALL THE BLUES :) Hahah. I certainly don't use them all in the same painting, but I will often use 2 or three, especially for NW and snowy landscapes. I find it so much more fun, and easier, to have a variety of blues to start from, instead of trying to shift just one or two in the direction I want. I leave that more finnicky color mixing for the rest of the painting. And that is so neat that you've found a color you love! I keep a wee little pan of Phthalo green in my palette just for things like alpine lakes, or when I want a really spectacular teal, and to mix with Quinacridone Rose for absolutely stunning purples!!
Just in case it's of interest, if you are looking for some less traditional instruction, I film my ongoing series of watercolor classes outside and on-site, and I focus on landscapes from around the west (from Alaska, to Utah, and a lot from Washington!). www.adventureartacademy.com
Love a good swatch! Surprised there's no Payne's grey but I love the other deep blue and grey options you have that could substitute it! Found some new cool colors :D
thanks for watching!! And I feel like I need to try payne's grey again. Do you have on that is your favorite? I had a tube of it for a while (I think it absconded to my sisters house a while ago, however), but I have been increasingly curious about it again after my recent enjoyment of Sodalite. For a long time I shied away from Payne's because I was so enthralled with the blooms I could make with Neutral tint (a favorite painting mixture was just neutral tint and phthalo blue green shade for entire paintings). But, in the last year I also started exploring adding granulation to more paintings and seeing how that shifted the blooming patterns. So, perhaps a payne's grey needs to be added back to the palette!!
Thanks for following along, and for the note!!
Do you have any current favorite colors?
@@artofhiking The Natural Tint and Sodalite are the ones I added to my list since I love what I can do with paynes - shadows rocks etc, but love that those look a little less intense. I use a Winsor and Newton Professional Payne's and its rich! Definitely adding Quinacridone Burnt Orange for desert paintings :D
Yellow Ocher is a go to and I love a good pink for alpenglow/sunsets, so Opera Rose has always been a favorite and mixing that with Naples Yellow makes a dreamy coral. I started playing with some tubes of Holbein pastels last year and fell in love with the shell pink.
First….love ArtToolKit folio boxes. The configurations you can make with it are awesome. I do wonder how you keep from destroying your brush tip in the bag?
Hi! Sorry for the slow reply here! My paintbrushes wear out in 3-6 months, depending on how many paintings and field days I am doing. I am pretty hard on them (I don't pre-wet my palette so they get scrubbed around in the colors quite a bit, which likely accounts for a lot of the wear), and stuffing them in the bag probably doesn't help! But, I've never had any bristles get permanently bent or anything- the brushes sit on the bottom of the little baggie, which was custom made to my size specifications, so the brushes don't have much extra length to slide around in, and the other stuff in the bag keeps them quite well pinned at the bottom. Sometimes they will dry a little bowed, but getting it wet fixes that right up.
All of these are reasons that I use cheaper synthetic brushes, as they are more easy for me to replace, and that way I don't worry about them :) I have a few nicer natural hair brushes that stay home, but honestly I rarely use them because I really like the line variety and control of the golden taklon synthetic fibers.
This was fun to watch. Have you tried the primatek colors? I have several that I love. They add something to my paintings you just can’t get in any other way.
It was great to see examples of how you use the colors by showing us a painting or two. Thank you!
Hi! Until last year I had never tried any of the Primateks! But, after trying out some of the colors using the dot cards from Daniel Smith, I found one that I LOVE! Sodalite! It is this lovely blue-grey color, and I agree with you, that it makes effects that none of my other granulating paints quite match, and I'm so glad i found it.
I'm also currently playing with Jadeite, but keep forgetting I have it when I'm painting outside because I always fall back on the old reliables!
What are your favorites??
@@artofhiking I love the hematites but especially just hematite genuine. Green apatite genuine is the most amazing green ever! I also love serpentine. And jadeite is my go to color for the cypress trees in Italy. It works perfectly. I love burnt tigers eye genuine, also tigers eye genuine but it’s the weaker of the two. Piemontite is beautiful and all of these colors granulate so gorgeously. I’m hoping that I can get them all. 😂 I find they just make my landscapes, rocks, and trees look so good. My foliage and trees also.
@@loveandlife4222 this is so interesting!! I've heard that Green apatite is wonderful, so I'm adding it to my list of colors to try out soon! How do Apatite and serpentine compare, in your experience, especially if I was only to get one of them? When I was playing with the colors on the Daniel Smith dot cards I wish they had made the Primatek dots a bit bigger, because I felt like those colors were hard to appreciate at their full beauty from a too-small sample!
Thank you. Would you please show us some of your favorite mixes?
oh that is a wonderful idea for a new video!! Added it to my list :)))
Hi there! I'm hunting around for a complete list of the paint colors in your palette but don't see it provided in information provided ( the video). Do you have a cheat-sheet of the colors you mention here? Thanks! (Love your videos -- thank you for all you do!)
Hello! Apologies for the slow reply, I was super busy running a five week online ink sketching class, and am slowly catching up on everything here now that the live class is wrapped up!
I just made a blog post, linked below, that has all of the color info for my palette :) Thank you for asking!
www.theartofhiking.com/blog/current-watercolors
Just a correction on quinacridone gold- they ran out of the pigment. It was exhausted as they could get no more! Therefore they worked to come up with a mix. It had NOTHING to do with falling out of fashion.
Hi! I learned about quinacridone gold from Jane Blundell's website, where she writes "This year (2017) saw the end of the world's PO49 supply that Daniel Smith bought up about 17 years ago, when the car industry lost interest in the beautiful pigment and production ceased." To my understanding, this means that Daniel smith and other paint producers rain out of pigment because the companies that created it no longer had enough demand to sustain production. The pigment fell out of fashion/ regular use with the car industry, which is one of the big industries that drives paint production because they order in vastly larger quantities than paint manufacturers. They could keep manufacturing it, but sadly paint makers do not provide enough demand alone for suppliers to continue making the pigment, something that continues to happen with other colors. In 2001 Daniel Smith was given the opportunity to purchase the last batches of the pigment, which sustained their production until 2017
However, if you read a different version of events I'm always psyched to learn more about pigments, so I can share the most accurate information I can.
here's the Jane Blundell blog post I referenced-
janeblundellart.blogspot.com/2017/12/quinacridone-gold-hues.html
Thanks for the showing of each color! I checked out some of your links, for the carbon waterproof I k its a bottle, how do you get it into a cartridge?
good question! I use a blunt tipped syringe to refill the cartridge. I actually just made a little short video yesterday showing how to refill my fountain pen and brush pen using this method which I'll share soon. I prefer this method to using the twist or pump refill cartridges, as it is cheaper and for me it keeps the pen a lot cleaner! After the pen is separated, I just carefully fill the empty or close to empty cartridge with the syringe until it is just about all the way full, stick it back on firmly, and voila! Works super well and this way only the syringe gets ink on it.
Enjoyed, Claire! BTW, what is the brush you used for the swatching? An oval?
Hi Mary! Thanks for the note, and apologies for the super slow reply!!! The brush is a SUPER old Daniel Smith watercolor brush, I think a Filbert is the shape name. Mine is very well loved, so it is a bit more rounded than it was when I first got it, I think.
What size pouch do you have? What size large bag do you use to? I can not figure out what size to purchase. Thanks for your help!
Hi! Apologies for the SUPER slow reply here, ah! I fell very behind on replying to comments here the last few weeks as I led a five week online sketching class. Now that the live class is over, I can slowly catch up here!
Pouch sizes:
- I started with the rectangular purple one (cube ditty bag) in size Regular (9 in long, but the cube shape allows it to carry my larger brushes easier). This was my go-to for day hikes and art residencies when I wanted extra space to carry more things!
- the blue one was used only for backpacking trips when I wanted to go as small as possible! It is the Zippered pouch, in size Large (9x5 inches). This size barely held my two brushes, palette, water tin, and reusable paper towels.
- last year the kind folks at Ultralitesacks made me a custom zippered pouch that is 10 inches long (a bit over 5 in tall, too) and this is now my go-to, replacing both the purple cube one and the smaller blue pouch. The inch of extra length really helped make it overall a lot bigger!
Hope that helps!
Interesting...you've never had issues with the platinum carbon ink pen leaking at elevation? I live near Mt Rainier and mine leaked rather profusely above about 6,000 ft in elevation so I'm back to Microns (although I prefer the line made by the Platinum pen and ink).
oh no I'm sorry to hear that your pen leaked for you! gah that must have been so frustrating! So far I have not had any issues, knock on wood, and mine's been on some rather huge elevation swings (frequent hikes to 7,000 feet, and a tiny plane in the Yukon up to 9-10k feet in the Wrangell mountains. Maybe I just got lucky with mine, but this does make me worried! I do keep it in a waterproof baggie made by Ultralite Sacks in the eventuality of a leak (and the sack also keeps paint from the palette and paper towels from getting on my other gear, too!).
Oh, and cobalt, cadmium, vermilion, etc paints are not toxic in anyway, shape or form. It was tick for the manufacturers 100 years ago, but it is perfectly safe for the user
I want to add some nuance here: When supplies containing these pigments are used in the manner recommended by the manufacturer, yes, they are non-toxic. In addition, over the last 30 years or so, manufacturers also made a lot of progress in creating pigments that are much less soluble in the human body. it is still not recommended, and definitely not an approved use, to ingest any kind of paint even with this progress. In addition, cadmium paints ARE still toxic if the particles are inhaled, which is why many paint manufactures still have health warnings on these pigments. Any artists sanding or doing other surface alterations that generate dust to paintings containing cadmium should always wear a good respirator.
Lastly, I always recommend that anyone who is working with pigments does their own research on toxicity to determine their own comfort levels. Personally, I do not use any cadmium based paints because there are so many really wonderful alternatives now.
I use a few of the cobalts, as I love the colors and I don't plan on eating my paints anytime soon :) If folks have young kids the safest bet is still to avoid cobalt and cadmium, as the dried paint often is confused with candy.
Lastly, as an artist who sometimes works alongside scientists, I always ask them if any of my paints contain compounds they are monitoring. For example, a few years ago when I was an artist in residence at a scientific research site in Oregon I didn't use cobalt when I was in their area because if I were to lose a bit of the paint, their instruments were sensitive enough to find it, and I didn't want to skew any results!
@@artofhiking Well said!
Orange? Love it with manganese blue & permanent green. Tropical vibe.-
I'm currently playing with two more "true" oranges right now- Transparent Pyrrol orange (the winner so far), and permanent orange (both Daniel Smith, as that's the brand I know the best). I need to experiment more with the Permanent Orange, but for now feel like it is a color I could probably mix with my yellows and reds. The T. Pyrrol orange is a lot more unique, and has some interesting dispersion patterns. I used it a few times in the desert and loved it, but need to be more daring and try it in some NW landscape mixes!
Do you have a favorite orange?
@@artofhiking could just add opera pink!? DS Opera Pink + Cadmium Yellow deep makes a beautiful translucent clear orange. pretty purples too. Holbien is quality Japanese color sensibility.
@@jant4741 thanks for the recommendation! So far I've been loving the orange I get from hansa yellow medium and quinacridone pink, but your mixture sounds like a lovely perhaps darker orange!
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Can you use refills for the Pentel pocket brush pens instead of using a jar and a syringe?
yes! They do sell refill cartridges, and the Pentel pocket refills are a waterproof ink, as well (just make sure it has time to fully dry!). I only switched to refilling the cartridges that came with the pen when I was doing an ink sketch every day for 100 days, and I was using a TON of ink, so it ended up being much cheaper to refill in the long run when I was sketching that much. Prior to that activity, the little refill cartridges lasted me a long time!
@@artofhiking thank you!
Sorry, what is the smaller round brush? (W blue stripe). I’m looking for a decent quality Round #4-6 short handle that I can fit either in my longer/narrow palette I just got OR even just my small art bag-same size as yours
good question! That little one is a super cheap brush, I think made by "artist's loft" that I picked up at a Michaels store a few years ago for workshop students to use. It came in a set, and I ended up pillaging it after my normal Grumbacher brush got too dull/worn. It has synthetic fibers that feel the same to me as the synthetic bristles of the Grumbacher brush, too. But, it is a much cheaper brush so it has fallen apart a few times (the metal part separated from the handle and had to be glued back on). The handle says it's a #6, and once this little buddy wears out I'll just get a Grumbacher or Princeton one of the same size! Most of the time I just replace my #10 so I have a fine point, but sometimes the smaller brush is just easier, so I cave and go smaller!
I prefer synthetic and more affordable brushes (I always buy mine on sale), because I am just hard on the brushes. They get stuffed back in my little travel pouches still wet on hikes and stay that way for days. And, I don't pre-wet my palette, so the brush tip gets a lot of scrubbing in the paint wells (I paint a lot in the PNW, and I try to minimize the amount of water pooled in the little paint pans, because sometimes it isn't warm enough or sunny enough to dry the paint and I hate putting it away super wet - the paints get a wee bit mushy overnight and then I have to deal with that for a whole trip until the sun comes out!
@@artofhiking I have been learning Traditional Chinese Brush Painting for 9 years, off and on. After my brilliant son passed a little over a year ago, I got back into it, but my best friend, daughter and I decided to try fusing western & eastern WC, as a tribute to my son who was always trying to bring people together & educate about other cultures.
The ONE Western tool I just can’t get used to is brushes. My bestie gave me a set of neptunes..they HAVE to be the hardest I’ve ever tried to paint with..not to mention, I bought new tweezers just so I could carefully pick out all the hairs falling out of them and some sable brushes I have. My son spent 2 days with a traditional brush maker in China, showing how the REAL brush makers (NOT the copycat factories outside China) have had a reciprocal relationship with farmers, ranchers and other carers. The only bristles coming from deceased critters are rat whisker brushes from purges in the cities. (It’s an Intangible Cultural Heritage art, closely regulated and overseen…in one case of a pop-up factory hurting animals to make brushes…well, the people protested the owners be skinned alive, the Govt put most of the family behind bars for life..2 got worst, but only because they attempted to flee and start again in a neighboring country). Anyways, my favorite brushes come from the artist my Son stayed with, and after my first tutor had her stroke at age 92, about 5yrs ago, her granddaughter, a friend of my sons, sent me much of her brush, ink and paint chip collection. I also have an ink stone that’s over 200yrs old from her.
Back to brushes…I’m finding for smaller works, using the tiny half pans of western paint; I to am switching to all cheap synthetic western brushes. My favorite so far? Creative mark polar flow. Haven’t lost a single bristles and have put their flat brush through….I’ve been rough on it, to put it mildly. But the only round I have from them is like a 10 or 12. I need a smaller one that actually keeps its point for more than one painting. Mostly, I’m sticking to my Chinese brushes, mainly because I know them. I’m just afraid some Western mediums in paints have been known to destroy them pretty quickly
@@elaineg60 thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge! And, I am so sorry to read of your son's passing. Your creative pursuit sounds like a really thoughtful and beautiful tribute to him.
I had the same experience with natural hair brushes, in that they were losing hairs and not working well for me. So, I switched to synthetic, and realized that I also just seem to prefer the "stiffer" feel of the synthetic brush.
I do have a few sumi ink brushes though, which I love! I got my first one from the original Daniel Smith store in Seattle years ago (now closed) and it did lose hairs (and still does, I think it's made from wool), but I still love it. SO much more affordable than a big "watercolor" brush. I also recently bought some sumi brushes from an online store called Oriental Art Supply co. They seemed to have good prices, and some of the brushes definitely shed more than others, but it might be a place where you could get some sumi brushes for cheap if you wanted to reduce the wear on your amazing sounding ones!!
Lastly, I will say that the way I work (often from dry pans of paint, and on cold press paper), I did notice a lot of wear on one of the smaller sumi ink brushes. Now, I am careful to use an old synthetic to mix up my color, and then just dip the sumi brush into the puddle to save it the wear :) Although it was cheap enough it wasn't a big deal!
Great video! Subscribed. I am curious how you, or anyone for that matter, keeps your different colors CLEAN when you go from color, to mixing area, then to say another color. Will some color not transfer to the different paint colors? I am actually waiting on my watercolors to be delivered as I have decided to take up urban sketching and color with watercolor! I realize this is probably a silly question, but, I've watched a lot of people painting lately and it just seems that the colors would get all mixed together when selecting colors.
Hi Ryan! Thank you the subscribing, and for the awesome question! To be honest, my palette was freshly cleaned or this video so folks could see the colors better (and so the swatches would be accurate). Most of the time, my palette is a lovely mess that I clean out as I go.
Because I often paint quite quickly, I don't worry about getting the palette dirty!! I am way too impatient to use different brushes for the different families of color, so I just dive in and move from one color to another and make a lovely mess of most paints, especially the yellows. Often, I will try to have one half of the little paint pans be the most contaminated area, and leave a little clean 1/2 or 1/3 of the pan. This is easier to do with smaller paintings, or paintings where I am using less water, and seems to work pretty well. Then, when a little pan gets too dirty all over, I just use a damp brush to wipe it (might take a few swipes from pan to paper towel to water and back). This does take off a wee bit of paint, but not much! And since I fill my pans from tubes losing a little bit isn't a big deal.
During the height of summer painting season I will clean and refill individual pans as I go, usually when one gets too depleted. If I reach the point of needing to deep clean (usually after about 2 weeks of daily field painting) I will clean each little pan (I'm working on a video showing how :) which for my larger palette takes 30-ish minutes.
A few months ago I got a bigger palette for my studio space so I don't have to clean the travel one as often!
I'm just starting out with watercolor and have wondered the same. I bet it will become less of a worry as I get used to painting and actually using my supplies. One thing that helps is using a wrist sweatband on my wrist to wipe off excess paint when I am changing colors, before putting the brush into water. Using a swatch chart that maps out and names where your colors are in the palette helps as they become used. One art teacher once told me that the contamination of colors can be thought of as unifying them a bit with each other, the way they are in nature. But, of course that depends on how bright and pure you want certain colors to remain as you go. All these thought processes add to the meditative state of flow that feels so good when things start to become second-nature, I guess!
Claire, I bought what I thought was the #4 round mentioned in your video, following the link (took me to a general brush page). What I received was a very small brush, not the large one you recommended. Do you have a direct link?
Hi Mary! I was just looking at that site a few days ago, and I think what might has happened was that you got a #4 round, instead of the larger #4 quill round brush I was using. The direct link is below! As of yesterday they had some in stock, and you can sign up for notifications if it isn't in stock. The company might also accept returns or help you out if you reach out to them!
The brush is the Black Gold 311 QUILL #4 brush. Item number DYN12029 - www.thebrushguys.com/shop/black-gold-by-dynasty/
I hope that helps!
@@artofhiking thanks, Claire! I added it to my cart.
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hi! are these paints all daniel smith? thanks!
Hi! Everything is daniel smith except for the white gouache which is made by Schmincke!
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Must not be much green stuff growing up there.
I live west of the cascade mountains, so I am actually surrounded by and painting landscapes with green most of the time! I just prefer to mix my greens using one of my yellows, blues, and often a bit of red or pink, as mixing it gives me more control over the color, and helps the green harmonize with the rest of my painting better. This is personal preference, and I know a lot of artists love colors like Sap green! I just found that when I had that color I often had more boring paintings, because when I mix greens so much unexpected mixes can happen, which to me is a lot of fun!
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Very thoughtful video about traveling small. I have a few very tiny kits and I love Arttoolkit palettes.
I was wondering if you might think about changing your language and not calling everything a “guy”… you are a woman and changing the default to “ gals” would be SO refreshing, I am sure you are so smart you can change what you say. Thanks very much..
Thank you for the feedback, Eileen! I appreciate it, and look forward to exploring some more creative terms for my supplies, which is more fun anyway!
I have a genuine question so I hope nobody gets mad at me or jumps down my throat, but I often hear people say if it’s got heavy metals like cobalt or lead or cadmium in the paint when you’re using it. Don’t throw out your paint water if you’re outside painting, but my question is doesn’t all this stuff. Come from nature originally anyway and the small amount you’re using surely wouldn’t cause that much damage. If you’re in a forest or something. I can understand not putting it in waterways or a pond or something you’re near, but just on the ground, considering all our waste and that ends up Back in the planet anyway I can’t understand the reasoning behind it. It’s not like it’s in mass amount however if someone does have a reason or knows why could they please tell me so that I can be responsible.
Why should a replacement for Indian red be found when it's from a culture that was named that long before white people went to America and wrongly named the indigenous people this too. The ancient culture should come before a recent screw up .anyone with any common knowledge knows that it has nothing to do with indigenous people. Suggestions like this is really taking PC culture too far, noone has the right to change the name given by such an ancient country just because some maybe ignorant of its origins. I guess ignorance is pretty common in America, if it's common to make such an obvious mistake. People need to take more interest in the world's history, not just what's in their own backyard.
Hi! I appreciate the note and thoughts. I will admit that a year ago I didn't know the origin of the pigment name, so going forward I plan to address it more simply by saying it is a pigment named after the country of origin :)
@@artofhiking yes I think that's better, simply adding the history of the pigment would definitely be better than saying to change the name. Respect the ancient Indian (country) who created this wonderful colour, you can't just wipe out a countries history just because they are called Indian. I will say I thought everyone stopped using Indian for indigenous peoples of America years ago as it was seen as a derogatory term,and as such ,today at least I don't know a company that hasn't changed its branding if using this old terminology regarding indigenous American's.
You’ve made some beautiful paintings and I really enjoyed the color palette discussion. I’m a color nerd and really love finding single pigment colors to put in my palettes! Thank you for making this! ClaudiaSJI
thank you for watching, and for the kind note, Claudia! I appreciate it!