I also love Indigo and Payne's Gray. In fact, I painted almost exclusively with Payne's Gray all morning today, lol. I finished up TWO paintings that I had already started, whew! Oooh, I do love the Forest Green needle-things and the spatters!
Oh that sounds like fun; I love days when I get multiple paintings done! Payne's Grey is so great for monochrome pieces, and is my go-to for those. I am just glad they actually set this time around, haha! 😂
Thank you for another wonderful video. Aren’t the Sennelier just wonderful? Have you ever tried a tube wringer to get all the paint out of the tube? Some folks even go so far as to cut the tubes open to get every last drop of pigment. Sennelier paint really goes far too, which is one of the many reasons that I find it a superb brand. Your palette hack is great too.
Thank you! I very much need to find a tube wringer which is why I kept the tubes so I can try and get more out in the future. I love Sennelier watercolours so much, they're really beautiful! 💜❤️
Had my eye on that palette for a year but it's expensive and I can't bring myself to pay that for a palette yet lol. I bought swatch stamps and I still can't line the blooming things up straight, love swatching but hate trying to get the boxs right!!!! Loved the painting becky very pretty
Thank you! I bought it one year with birthday money because it really is ridiculously expensive. I do really enjoy it though so I am glad to have it in my collection. My swatch stamps just arrived....I can see I am going to make a mess with those, lol!
I can imagine the aggravation from having your paints ooze around your palette. Good job cleaning it up - it looks gorgeous! Lovely painting of the Basford piece, too. 🎄
The paint explosion, yep I think a lot of us can relate to that...I have to be so careful with my M Grahams for the same reason...its always the last thing I pack for holidays and lays flat at my feet lol....Still a good recovery and a good excuse to paint with them. Lovely Thanks Becky.
Oh my, that paint spill with the original palette! I don’t know how watercolor artists manage to fill their pans with the paint from the tubes and not end up with a rainbow colored desk😂 these looked like they set nicely (i think) but I never can tell because they are so glossy! I love the Sennelier’s. I want to add greenish umber to my palette because it seems like a pretty useful color. The flowers were very pretty and Christmasy and the paper seemed to hold up well! 🍃
Haha they really do need to sit out for a few weeks to set properly. Sennelier and M.Graham especially. I kept mine under a basket so the cats wouldn't stand on them, lol. Greenish Umber is a very useful colour! I am pretty sure it is Perylene Green, and it's one I have in a few palettes from other brands. Excellent for shadows. 😊
Hi Becky👋🏼. You can try removing palette stains using white toothpaste. It has to be the white type, not the gel type. It doesn’t work on all plastic surfaces, but it did work on mine, so give it a try.
I just love how this turned out, it really came together well. I love the blue around it too and really surprised how the paper performed! Those watercolor remind me of M graham, they are also honey based and will dry but they will always remain sticky when touched. However it makes them a dream to rewet and use so that's a plus.
Thank you! Yes they are very similar to M.Graham, and rewet well but can be very naughty and not set, lol. I was so happy with how the paper held up to the paint!
Becky I’m wondering if you could use a Milton tablet with water and let it soak in the palate where it’s stained for a couple of hours and see if that brings it back to a normal colour
My sennelier Naples yellow Deep was misbehaving as well, not as much as your orange but it can be hard to tell if it had set up enough. It took almost 2 weeks before i had enough trust to add it to a plein air bag.
Haha yes certain paints defy drying at all costs. My orange looked like it was set, but it must have just been the very top, and underneath it was still runny, doh! We'd had a lot of rain that month, so humidity was a factor.
I'm glad you didn't throw the empty tube away- there's still paint! What if we have an apocalypse and can't get more! LOL 🤣 That cinerous blue looks beautiful, but I hesitate in case it's a blue similar to what I already have. Do you think you could do a video comparing colours like that across the top brands with the closest match so we could tell if it's a standalone colour worth getting? Like transparent orange Schmincke is supposed to be renowned for being a stunning version, but it's actually very close to my Daniel Smith and I feel like that happens a lot and I spend money on colours I didn't really need. 😕 On the other hand Winsor and Newton permanent rose is the clearest PV19 pink I have and worth buying. Their manganese blue hue is also unmatched in other brands I've tried so far- colour as well as the granulating behaviour ( I suspect it has their granulating medium in it). I don't have any Sennelier or M Graham, but you do..... 🙃
Thank you for your suggestion, I will have to figure out some colour comparison videos. I always seem to have such a gigantic pool of ideas and some of them tend to be forgotten but I do think this type of video could be an ongoing series. As for Cinereous Blue, it's a mix of Phthalo Blue Green Shade and Zinc White (PB15:3 & PW4) but I find it to be an excellent convenience colour and I would struggle to replicate it. I need to try I guess! 😂
@@BeckyTregear on, even that info is helpful 🙂 if takes a while to look up all the pigments, I try to take notes during swatching videos but there so much. That would be an awesome series! I can imagine there's so many videos that people want to see.
I did this with Renesans paints. Put them in full pans in a metal tin. They flowed into each other and jammed the lid closed. Had to prise it open and found most of the paint mixed together in the lid. Very sorry looking mess that couldn't be saved. At least it was only 5 colours I had bought to try.
Oh yes, being in a dry climate makes a huge difference! It is mostly dry here too, which is why my honey based paints usually set. But around the time we traveled, it had rained all through November so I guess the extra humidity really prevented them setting and I didn't realise it until too late, lol!!
Yeah my palette is mostly mission gold which are also honey based and I am also in Melbourne and so far haven't had any issues but I'm kinda waiting for that one day that gets too humid and something melts.
Try rubbing the stained plastic with a plastic rubber. It helps on a lot of plastic palettes, which are stained with watercolors. As for the Senneliers.. I think they'll not completely set 😁
What a pretty painting! I am impressed how well it looks on that paper. I am surprised, that some of the Sennelier paints cracked in the palette. I wouldn't think that happens with honey based paints. I have a question. I know you have a few AS watercolours as well. I bought a bunch recently and many cracked in the palette after the paint dried, although I added a drop of glycerine when I poured them into the pans. Did you experience this too?
Ah yes I have noticed some of the Sennelier paints will crack even with the honey in there. Whereas others never seem to dry, like that yellow orange, lol! I guess the pigments have some influence on that? With AS I get a lot more cracking, and so I increased the glycerine by adding 2-3 drops. That seemed to really help the ones which cracked the most so then they only crack a little bit. Yellow ochre is a shocker! That calendar paper worked amazingly well with watercolours so I guess I will be painting much of next year's calendar, haha!
I'm coming late to this discussion, Becky, but reading through the comments, I don't think it's been mentioned: that the plastic shape in the palette is the thumb rest. There are 13 full pans and one half pan, rather than a standard 12 pan + two halfs, so the thumb rest doesn't actually take up what would be standard paint space. Also, you said that you added 2 - 3 drops glycerin to each half pan to stop them cracking. Did you do this with these honey based Sennelier paints? If so, it isn't surprising they wouldn't set... I think that cracked paint is an issue only because we have this bad habit (from childhood!) of stirring and scrubbing to take up paint from the pan, instead of stroking it, and we can't do that easily with cracked paint. Just add a couple of drops of water to the cracked paint a few minutes before using it. Also, brushes last longer if you stroke the paint, and decreases the tendency for that hole in the middle of the pan... I think I've said before how much I enjoy watching your videos and the fresh enthusiasm and reality that you bring to them. This calendar page: Oooh, Becky - daring to paint outside the lines? Yes!!! And a fresh and glowing result! Thank you! Oh - yes! I enjoy indigo as a colour, too!!!
A thumb rest makes sense, but since I tend to keep it on a table then an extra pan space it shall be! I made such a mess cutting it up, haha. And no I didn’t add glycerine to these Sennelier paints. They just don’t ever fully dry due to the honey. I had poured them and left the palette to set for a couple of weeks. They looked set on the top but underneath I guess some were still juicy and they ran everywhere when travelling.😭 M Graham paints do the same thing and stay sticky. I don’t really add glycerine to many paints, just a few from other brands which crack so much they fall out of the pans, lol.
@@BeckyTregear Thanks for the reply, Becky! I was a bit worried that I sounded officious with my comment! The only paint I have the cracking problem with is Winsor and Newton burnt umber, but I use a limited 12 colour palette of W&N Professional paints. I get tempted with added extras occasionally, but these do everything I need for my work. I have all sorts of oddments picked up as freebies at art fairs or from art magazines, and thoroughly enjoy using these for play time, as there are a glorious orange and violet, as well as indigo, vermilion and a couple of blues among them. I did a fun painting like your 'wrong' hand painting with the washi tape yesterday, only adding that W&N burnt umber to those five, and it is a glorious result. I was experimenting to see how a page of a 140gsm Royal Talens Art Creation sketchbook would cope. It has yellowed ivory colour pages to add interest! With all the washi tape, it coped with a really wet painting with puddled colours! I was amazed!!! My only sadness is that I only used an A5 page, but this sketchbook is my 'play & swatches' book and I knew that the A4 Daler-Rowney that I also use for play and experiments wouldn't take the water. I think this one coped because I just dropped in the paint and let it run. :)
@@BeckyTregear so much easier on your hands! And you get so much more out more out I’ve even cut a few open qnd got way more out by B, im glad you found them !!!!
That is why I don’t use honey based paints in my travel palette. Daniel smith dries fast and doesn’t run!, I have some m graham cobalt teal explode all aver my bag once.. never again..
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I also love Indigo and Payne's Gray. In fact, I painted almost exclusively with Payne's Gray all morning today, lol. I finished up TWO paintings that I had already started, whew! Oooh, I do love the Forest Green needle-things and the spatters!
Oh that sounds like fun; I love days when I get multiple paintings done! Payne's Grey is so great for monochrome pieces, and is my go-to for those. I am just glad they actually set this time around, haha! 😂
I love this palette and I have some Sennelier Watercolors but I have yet to try them out.
Oh you must....I am such a fan of them, they are lovely paints! ❤
I’ve been watching all of your sorting videos again lately Becky! Your personality is so lovely 💖💖 I love your vids ❤
Aww thank you! I’m planning to sort my watercolour cabinet soon, hopefully in this next month. It desperately needs it! 😂
Becky, I really loved the music choices in this video - and, of course, the artwork!! BEAUTIFUL!!!! Thank-you so much for sharing this with us! 🤗🤗❤❤
Thank you! Picking music is probably my most favourite bit of editing, lol.
Thank you for another wonderful video. Aren’t the Sennelier just wonderful? Have you ever tried a tube wringer to get all the paint out of the tube? Some folks even go so far as to cut the tubes open to get every last drop of pigment. Sennelier paint really goes far too, which is one of the many reasons that I find it a superb brand. Your palette hack is great too.
Thank you! I very much need to find a tube wringer which is why I kept the tubes so I can try and get more out in the future. I love Sennelier watercolours so much, they're really beautiful! 💜❤️
Wipe palette mixing trays with a magic erasure and they'll come clean. Magic erasure sponge is made of glass so it will clean out no problem.
I've tried the magic eraser and find they do nothing and disintergrate after you've scrubbed a few times!!!!
Had my eye on that palette for a year but it's expensive and I can't bring myself to pay that for a palette yet lol. I bought swatch stamps and I still can't line the blooming things up straight, love swatching but hate trying to get the boxs right!!!! Loved the painting becky very pretty
Thank you! I bought it one year with birthday money because it really is ridiculously expensive. I do really enjoy it though so I am glad to have it in my collection. My swatch stamps just arrived....I can see I am going to make a mess with those, lol!
@@BeckyTregear I’d love to see you swatch stamps in action. I love swatching videos 😀
I can imagine the aggravation from having your paints ooze around your palette. Good job cleaning it up - it looks gorgeous! Lovely painting of the Basford piece, too. 🎄
After I got over my initial shock I was laughing how how much of a mess it made. So thankful I had the palette knife with me at the time! 😂
Try using Milton, or a magic eraser to get most of the colour of the plastic it can work.
The paint explosion, yep I think a lot of us can relate to that...I have to be so careful with my M Grahams for the same reason...its always the last thing I pack for holidays and lays flat at my feet lol....Still a good recovery and a good excuse to paint with them. Lovely Thanks Becky.
Thank you, and I've definitely learned that lesson now! 😂
Oh my, that paint spill with the original palette! I don’t know how watercolor artists manage to fill their pans with the paint from the tubes and not end up with a rainbow colored desk😂 these looked like they set nicely (i think) but I never can tell because they are so glossy! I love the Sennelier’s. I want to add greenish umber to my palette because it seems like a pretty useful color. The flowers were very pretty and Christmasy and the paper seemed to hold up well! 🍃
Haha they really do need to sit out for a few weeks to set properly. Sennelier and M.Graham especially. I kept mine under a basket so the cats wouldn't stand on them, lol. Greenish Umber is a very useful colour! I am pretty sure it is Perylene Green, and it's one I have in a few palettes from other brands. Excellent for shadows. 😊
Hi Becky👋🏼. You can try removing palette stains using white toothpaste. It has to be the white type, not the gel type. It doesn’t work on all plastic surfaces, but it did work on mine, so give it a try.
Thank you! A great suggestion. 💜
I just love how this turned out, it really came together well. I love the blue around it too and really surprised how the paper performed! Those watercolor remind me of M graham, they are also honey based and will dry but they will always remain sticky when touched. However it makes them a dream to rewet and use so that's a plus.
Thank you! Yes they are very similar to M.Graham, and rewet well but can be very naughty and not set, lol. I was so happy with how the paper held up to the paint!
Becky I’m wondering if you could use a Milton tablet with water and let it soak in the palate where it’s stained for a couple of hours and see if that brings it back to a normal colour
It would certainly sterilise it! 😂
My sennelier Naples yellow Deep was misbehaving as well, not as much as your orange but it can be hard to tell if it had set up enough. It took almost 2 weeks before i had enough trust to add it to a plein air bag.
Haha yes certain paints defy drying at all costs. My orange looked like it was set, but it must have just been the very top, and underneath it was still runny, doh! We'd had a lot of rain that month, so humidity was a factor.
I have the tubes too and it took months for them to set and I am in a dry climate in Colorado
I only let them "dry" for maybe around a week, which is no doubt why they ran! 😂
Think of using clear watercolor ground over those heavy card stock pictures
I’ve used rubbing alcohol in the past to remove staining on my pallets. Little bit on a cotton pad or paper towel.
Great tip, thank you! 💜
yeah painting all the leave detail would be a lot of work, looks great and festive 😀 havent tried those paints, another i keep meaning too tho
I hope you get a chance to try them....I love 'em! ❤️
I'm glad you didn't throw the empty tube away- there's still paint! What if we have an apocalypse and can't get more! LOL 🤣 That cinerous blue looks beautiful, but I hesitate in case it's a blue similar to what I already have. Do you think you could do a video comparing colours like that across the top brands with the closest match so we could tell if it's a standalone colour worth getting? Like transparent orange Schmincke is supposed to be renowned for being a stunning version, but it's actually very close to my Daniel Smith and I feel like that happens a lot and I spend money on colours I didn't really need. 😕 On the other hand Winsor and Newton permanent rose is the clearest PV19 pink I have and worth buying. Their manganese blue hue is also unmatched in other brands I've tried so far- colour as well as the granulating behaviour ( I suspect it has their granulating medium in it). I don't have any Sennelier or M Graham, but you do..... 🙃
Thank you for your suggestion, I will have to figure out some colour comparison videos. I always seem to have such a gigantic pool of ideas and some of them tend to be forgotten but I do think this type of video could be an ongoing series. As for Cinereous Blue, it's a mix of Phthalo Blue Green Shade and Zinc White (PB15:3 & PW4) but I find it to be an excellent convenience colour and I would struggle to replicate it. I need to try I guess! 😂
@@BeckyTregear on, even that info is helpful 🙂 if takes a while to look up all the pigments, I try to take notes during swatching videos but there so much. That would be an awesome series! I can imagine there's so many videos that people want to see.
I really like watching the pouring and swatching... So relaxing ...
And your choices are always on point which make a great painting as always :)
It's relaxing doing the actual pouring and swatching too! Well, except for making a big old mess...but that's part of the fun too, haha!
I did this with Renesans paints. Put them in full pans in a metal tin. They flowed into each other and jammed the lid closed. Had to prise it open and found most of the paint mixed together in the lid. Very sorry looking mess that couldn't be saved. At least it was only 5 colours I had bought to try.
Oh that's heartbreaking! 😭💔
I have quite a few M Graham and thankfully have never had that issue! (I live in the states-Colorado which is notoriously dry..maybe that helps?)
Oh yes, being in a dry climate makes a huge difference! It is mostly dry here too, which is why my honey based paints usually set. But around the time we traveled, it had rained all through November so I guess the extra humidity really prevented them setting and I didn't realise it until too late, lol!!
Yeah my palette is mostly mission gold which are also honey based and I am also in Melbourne and so far haven't had any issues but I'm kinda waiting for that one day that gets too humid and something melts.
@@georgecooper9766 That huge deluge of rain in November is what did this palette in! 😂
The staining on a plastic palette can be removed by erasing it with a regular eraser, works like a charm, even on stained enamel palettes!
Thank you, I will give that a try! 😊
Thanks for that tip, I had the same issue with a metal palette, looks better now.
6:42 “Shall I swatch them?”
The answer is always .... and will always be....
“Yes, Becky, YES!”
As if I wouldn’t! 😂
Try rubbing the stained plastic with a plastic rubber. It helps on a lot of plastic palettes, which are stained with watercolors. As for the Senneliers.. I think they'll not completely set 😁
Thank you, I'll try that! I'm aiming to keep the box upright for as long as possible...I've learned my lesson on that! 🤣🤣
What a pretty painting! I am impressed how well it looks on that paper.
I am surprised, that some of the Sennelier paints cracked in the palette. I wouldn't think that happens with honey based paints.
I have a question. I know you have a few AS watercolours as well. I bought a bunch recently and many cracked in the palette after the paint dried, although I added a drop of glycerine when I poured them into the pans. Did you experience this too?
Ah yes I have noticed some of the Sennelier paints will crack even with the honey in there. Whereas others never seem to dry, like that yellow orange, lol! I guess the pigments have some influence on that? With AS I get a lot more cracking, and so I increased the glycerine by adding 2-3 drops. That seemed to really help the ones which cracked the most so then they only crack a little bit. Yellow ochre is a shocker! That calendar paper worked amazingly well with watercolours so I guess I will be painting much of next year's calendar, haha!
@@BeckyTregear do you mean 2-3 drops per half pan? I will have to try that.
@@Bonnie10au yes, per half pan. 😊
@@BeckyTregear thank you so much!
I'm coming late to this discussion, Becky, but reading through the comments, I don't think it's been mentioned: that the plastic shape in the palette is the thumb rest. There are 13 full pans and one half pan, rather than a standard 12 pan + two halfs, so the thumb rest doesn't actually take up what would be standard paint space.
Also, you said that you added 2 - 3 drops glycerin to each half pan to stop them cracking. Did you do this with these honey based Sennelier paints? If so, it isn't surprising they wouldn't set...
I think that cracked paint is an issue only because we have this bad habit (from childhood!) of stirring and scrubbing to take up paint from the pan, instead of stroking it, and we can't do that easily with cracked paint. Just add a couple of drops of water to the cracked paint a few minutes before using it. Also, brushes last longer if you stroke the paint, and decreases the tendency for that hole in the middle of the pan...
I think I've said before how much I enjoy watching your videos and the fresh enthusiasm and reality that you bring to them. This calendar page: Oooh, Becky - daring to paint outside the lines? Yes!!! And a fresh and glowing result! Thank you!
Oh - yes! I enjoy indigo as a colour, too!!!
A thumb rest makes sense, but since I tend to keep it on a table then an extra pan space it shall be! I made such a mess cutting it up, haha. And no I didn’t add glycerine to these Sennelier paints. They just don’t ever fully dry due to the honey. I had poured them and left the palette to set for a couple of weeks. They looked set on the top but underneath I guess some were still juicy and they ran everywhere when travelling.😭 M Graham paints do the same thing and stay sticky. I don’t really add glycerine to many paints, just a few from other brands which crack so much they fall out of the pans, lol.
@@BeckyTregear Thanks for the reply, Becky! I was a bit worried that I sounded officious with my comment!
The only paint I have the cracking problem with is Winsor and Newton burnt umber, but I use a limited 12 colour palette of W&N Professional paints. I get tempted with added extras occasionally, but these do everything I need for my work. I have all sorts of oddments picked up as freebies at art fairs or from art magazines, and thoroughly enjoy using these for play time, as there are a glorious orange and violet, as well as indigo, vermilion and a couple of blues among them.
I did a fun painting like your 'wrong' hand painting with the washi tape yesterday, only adding that W&N burnt umber to those five, and it is a glorious result. I was experimenting to see how a page of a 140gsm Royal Talens Art Creation sketchbook would cope. It has yellowed ivory colour pages to add interest! With all the washi tape, it coped with a really wet painting with puddled colours! I was amazed!!!
My only sadness is that I only used an A5 page, but this sketchbook is my 'play & swatches' book and I knew that the A4 Daler-Rowney that I also use for play and experiments wouldn't take the water. I think this one coped because I just dropped in the paint and let it run. :)
I can't throw my tubes away either...even with a tube squeezer...
It's too difficult because the paints were so expensive! 😭
Hi Becky, how are things going? 😥 sad you live so far we could exchange paint. I am investing in few Roman Szmal, what have your experience been like?
I love the Roman Szmal paints in the set I got recently; they're really lovely to work with and high quality. I am sure you will enjoy them too! 😊💜
How do u not have keys to get all u can out of tubes on amazon they’re like 20 or 30 for a little over 12$
I'll have to look those up!
Ok I didn't even know such things existed, and I've just found them online! I guess I'll be getting some of those. 😂
@@BeckyTregear so much easier on your hands! And you get so much more out more out I’ve even cut a few open qnd got way more out by B, im glad you found them !!!!
That is why I don’t use honey based paints in my travel palette. Daniel smith dries fast and doesn’t run!, I have some m graham cobalt teal explode all aver my bag once.. never again..
Il you really want to clean a stained palette, juste use a rubber (or an eraser if you speak US English 😊)
Thank you! 😊