Oh great! I was thinking about that when I made this video, that not everyone is going to want the entire set and it would be really useful to see all of the colours and pick favourites out of there to make into a smaller set. Thank you so much for your comment, and for watching!
I guess you've answered my query about colour strength from your Part 2 Watercolour Collection video. Love your swatching videos, has all the information I'm looking for. Thanks Becky!
Yay, I'm so glad it's useful! It has certainly helped me as I managed to lose the swatch card from my blue tin and I would have no idea which paint is which by now. 😂
Hello Becky. I am a recent subscriber and it seems I have found another Sennelier enthusiast ! They are manufactured just an hour drive away from where I live. They are widely available at a good price here ( about 10 Aus. dollars) but I love them for their own qualities which you spoke about so well. Thank you for sharing the chart as Sennelier's printed chart does not do them justice at all. And thank you also for the lovely and lively chat ! You are so pleasant to listen to !
Thank you so much! Oh wow, you live so close to them! Do they have a factory outlet where you can get less than perfect items for discounted prices? That'd be awesome! 😂
@@BeckyTregear Apparently not, which is a pity. But I visited their historical shop which opened in 1887 in Paris. It is just as it was then. A step back in time! ... I am watching your 2 videos on your paint collection right now. 👌
I just wanted to say that this is a very well-put together video. I'm back in my watercolor pigment research era, and I have to say that I tend to come across a lot of videos that aren't the best quality. I love the formatting and the clarity. Thank you! :)
@@BeckyTregear I’m discovering that getting some of the half pans open stock is kind of painful, at least in the US. Lots of colors seem hard to find. But yes, it’s fun!
This was so helpful. I was trying to get a feel for the different reds. hard looking at swatches. You did a great job with the descriptions and I could see the swatches really well thank you.
Red is the most difficult colour to show on camera; for some reason it always over saturates, and I've found this with photography as well. It just doesn't translate well. 😭
Good stuff, great to see all the colours together! I just have a few, but I also have a few of Jackson's watercolours, which I believe are made by Sennelier. Jackson's Bright Red is PR254 + PV19. So the Sennelier one is very probably the same. I really like the paints and found them juicy, vibrant and highly pigmented. I had bought them to fill pans in my travel palettes, but realised quite quickly that because of the honey in them (especially lemon yellow, but several others as well), they stayed runny and sticky and either didn't dry out at all, or took forever (weeks/months) before I could take them out without them running everywhere and creating sticky mayhem in my art bag! They are great for studio use though
I love them! And yes, very difficult to travel with them when they just refuse to set for ages. I had a big old mishap with a travel set; the palette went on its side and a lot of the paints ran into each other. It was a huge mess! 😂
Hi Becky, Thankyou for swatching all 98! I have Sennelier watercolours and really enjoy them. Kim Crick has done a review on Sennelier professional watercolours and mentions all but 6 of the 98 are lightfast for selling artwork, it’s worth looking up. You do a great job! Erica from SA
That's a pretty great hit rate for most of them being lightfast, yay! I know there are a few old fashioned pigments in some of them, and I've tested their PR83 Alizarin Crimson, which does fade in light over time. 😭
Nice! This helped me choose a couple of colors to replace some of the not so light fast colors that came in my set of 18… Also, I’m pretty sure I saw somewhere or heard someone else saying that the bright red is PR 112.… Anytime there isn’t a lot of information to be found on a color, I shy away from it because it’s usually slashprobably fugitive. and the brown pink is a funny one, I also learned that pink used to be called yellow or vice versa lol a long time ago… Historically, there is some reason for this but I’m not exactly positive I’m sure it can be looked up :-)
Bright reds usually aren't known for their lightfastness, that's for sure! I use a lot anyway because it's so pretty, haha. I'm glad the video was helpful! 😊
I'd just watched this a few days ago, and struggled to find it again! 😨 (RUclips AWFUL search algorithms...) I loved it because you're a FAN of Sennelier (and I tend to be as well, along with schminke) and I'm struggling to pick up a decent yellow ochre asap. THANK YOU! I guess I have naples yellow and some other (raw sienna?) in Sennelier, but immediately need a yellow ochre! As in, I'm putting a painting away until this one gets in. I have DS yellow ochre only, which is okay for a stroke here or there, but I knew there was a stronger mass tone-version and Senn. has a few so I wanted to order the right tube! I love other swatchers, don't get me wrong, but having an actual FAN of Sennelier swatch them out so you can decide between, like, the W&N ochre, or the 🤦 DS PrimaFake Goethite (which I'd already tried and given away, but it's a favorite on YT watercolours... *but I need YELLOW ochre, not the darker brown junk* in the Primafake version. Not hating on DS: I have DS Yellow Ochre, but it's just _weak._ Thanks so much ❤️ (I've hit the bell and saved this video... MAYBE youtube will bring it up in search one day).
Ah yes, it's so super annoying when videos disappear! If you've liked it, you can go into your history and it should remain in Liked Videos, if that helps! I really do love Sennelier paints, they are just so luminous and beautiful. I also struggle to find yellow ochres that aren't gross. Quite often I find raw sienna to be better. I think the best ochre colour in Daniel Smith's range is the Mt Amiata Raw Sienna. That packs a punch and rewets pretty well. 🙂
I was searching for Sennelier ultramarine deep videos and this video popped up. You created an amazing swatch chart. It is incredibly useful to see all the paint swatches on one page and your paintings are lovely. Thank you!
@@BeckyTregear your welcome! I recently bought a small set of Sennelier half pans and then ordered a small set of tubes. The half pans are too perfect to use, but I will. I thought if I ever bought a set of pans of paint I wouldn’t be able to use them because unused they are perfect. I know weird logic. However, I have no resistance and I’m going to swatch them out. I have no qualms using tubes of paint. LOL. 😅🤣
@@shadowguard3578 I have pan sets of Sennelier too and it took me a while to work up the courage to use them, but once they become "imperfect" from use, it's much easier to continue with them, lol.
Surprisingly I enjoyed this swatching video as I’m normally not interested in them however I was curious about the Sennelier colours as I’ve heard quite differing opinions of them, mainly related to their seemingly low pigmentation but of course this is because they are great for layering and glazing... there were sooooo many beautiful colours some of which I’d like to buy, I am surprised that they have quite a few colours which look very similar and I’d love to know why they do that... I was really looking forward to seeing you do a painting with these colours, in particular seeing them layered/glazed... now it gives me something else to link forward to.
Thank you! I figured the video would be too long if I did a painting as well, but I am working on one now and I'm really hoping to post it up Tuesday/Wednesday if I finish in time! I really love Sennelier paints, they just handle a little differently but then they were wonderful once I got the hang of them. 🙂❤️
I actually find them to be highly pigmented when glazed/layered. And they can be watered down to be quite subtle which is so useful. I have found the various yellows, for example, create mixes in unique ways. And, when glazed, the various yellows (for example) behave differently. So the usefulness of the variations won’t be seen on a swatch chart that only uses one layer. I made a swatch chart with glazed layers and that taught me so much about how these colors work. I too aspire to have the big wooden box one day. It’s a very beautiful brand of paints, my favorite actually.
Thank you for this. That chart really is a wall piece! Amazing. I got some Sennelier pans and I am really happy with them. No way I am ever going to get them all though. :D
Massive job... really useful thanks Becky. You have a really friendly voice and I love the enthusiasm you get across non stop. One thing that I wonder about.... does RUclips on a Windows PC reproduce the colours accurately ? I am sure there are some subtle hues that are lost or simplified by the limitations of RGB colour gamut. I refer particularly to the blues... from Cerulean to French Ultra, aside from value, there is little change in hue on my TV
Thank you! I try to keep my voice upbeat and not slip into a monotone, which is easier said than done, lol. I did the best I could in video editing to make the colours as accurate as possible, but of course there will be a margin of error and monitors will show them differently depending in their colour and white balance calibration. But hopefully they are close. ☺️
I think i would personally be too scared to use them lol the case is so so lovely! On the camera some of the colours ( espeically the yellows ) look very very similiar but i guess its hard to tell thru the camera isnt it , what they really look like. I loved watching this.. .. i hope that you are okay Becky .. stay safe and well x
Thank you so much Lori! It was a little hard to mar the case's perfection, but once I dove in it was fine, haha! A lot of the yellows DO look very similar, though the yellow/orange ones didn't translate well on camera and there is a bit more of a gradient in real life. I tend to gravitate more to some colours than others, I've found.
This was great! When you put on the Indigo, it reminded me how much I loved it when I did the test of all the Indigo dot cards I had. It made my top-2 list! I loved it. Just out of curiosity, how big was this swatch chart?
Their indigo mix is lovely! I used a bit more than half of a large single sheet of watercolour paper (the ones you can buy individually from those big racks that art shops usually have. The leftover piece was used for the Disney Castle 😁
Thank you for showing all the senneliers! The sennelier colors seem to have more softness compared to what I’ve seen so far from other brands, I don’t know if "soft" is even the right word to describe this because they are as bright as others. Is this because they were made with honey or could this be just an effect from the camera? Or does this depend more on the paper? I never had any senneliers but I’m curious to try them :)
They really are quite unique paints, and have a luminous quality to them that I've never seen in other watercolours. Like you say, it's hard to describe their beauty and softness! Part of it is due to the honey, but even then they are still different to M.Graham watercolours which also contain a honey binder. I recommend Sennelier - they're my favourite paints!
@@BeckyTregear Thank you for your reply 💞 I hesitated to buy because they have no dot cards to test. From what I saw from videos they will be uniquely wonderful for flowers and plants, which I love to paint :)
@@rosawolke2788 They’re great for botanical paintings! 😊 Actually now I think about it, I have a video Painting Pansies with the Sennelier paints, somewhere in my collection. Made in 2021 I think.
Hi Becky, Thanks for sharing the swatching of your Sennelier paints. I also have the box set. I bought it at Jacksons when it was around $260 US dollars. I have seen it as high as $1300 in places. My only thing is, I bought it when I was just starting out and didn't know much about anything. I'm still a newbie. I have only been painting for 2 years. I actually never have used any of the paint from the box. I began to collect watercolor paints and just got swept up with Daniel Smith and QOR paints to just name a few and I never got around to even swatching it. There are some great colors! I think your video may have just sparked something in me! I think I might have to re-visit my box of Sennelier! I just bought some Art Spectrum paints and the NEEF box from your collection video. I bought them on Senior Art site. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! We have a lot in common, we both have an immense collection of watercolor paint! I am trying to get friends interested in watercolor and tell them I will create a custom palette for them because literally, I don't think I will out live my stash of paints!
Hi Marisa, thank you so much for your lovely comment! The box is definitely amazing value from Jackson's and is insanely expensive in Australia, at the one place I saw it online for $1500. Oh you definitely have to try them! They are quite different to both Qor and Daniel Smith, which tend to be really vibrant immediately. Sennelier are a little more delicate and subtle, but as I mentioned in the video, they build up beautifully in layers, and have an amazing transparent/luminous quality to them. They're quite similar to Schmincke, if you've ever tried those. I hope you enjoy the Art Spectrum paints, I'll be curious to know what you think of them. And the Neef paint box! Senior Art is the only place I know who sells them, and I like to visit their stores when I can, especially when they have paint sales. None of my friends in real life understand my obsession for watercolours, so it's lovely to find like-minded people online, and I am definitely in the same boat where I'll never use up all of my paints, though I do try, haha! 😂❤
@@BeckyTregear Yes, I am trying to convert people who don't really want to learn to paint! It's an uphill battle. I have tried Sennelier, they actually were my first paint, and I do love them, but I have realized my style is more what I think is called A la Prima. I don't spend countless hours on paintings. I get in and get out. So many times I'm doing an abstract landscape and I just need to get the most vibrant color or intense saturation because I'm not going to do any layering. I think they can be a little weak if your not glazing. I have taught myself pretty much and with that I don't really follow any rules! lol. I have very limited time to paint. I am a graphic designer in Connecticut. I have my own business and work part time for a non-profit as well. I probably work 70 hours on average a week. Watercolor has become a stress reliever for me. I certainly have a ton of stress, so if I can lose myself in a painting for 15 or 20 minutes, it helps to rejuvenate my brain cells! So far I really like the Art Spectrum paints. They do seem to be a little dry, but I do love the colors. Quite the opposite of Sennelier with the honey! I'm glad you started your you tube channel. I have often thought of doing that too, but I just don't have the time. If you need any paints we can always do a swap. I can make you a custom palette with some of my favorite paints!
@@madpug01 Wow, that's a lot of hours! I was about to start looking for a part time job when I'd finished my exhibition, and literally days later we went into lockdown and so I have been painting and drawing and making videos, and now I am hoping to make it into a full time thing so that I can just keep going with this. It's REALLY hard building and maintaining a RUclips channel, but it has been such a godsend for my sanity, in that I can stay focused and motivated during this really strange year. I've learned a lot about videography and editing, and like my art, everything is self taught. Like you I tend not to follow rules, and just do my own thing. Agreed that other brands are way more suitable for quick work. I save my Senneliers for projects that I want to spend more time on. My next video, if I get the painting finished in time, is going to be using these. It's a big painting. And it's taking ages, lol. I hope you're staying safe and well. I know the USA is having a very tough time of things right now, and my heart goes out to you all.
It's funny you've asked that as I have had other requests for different supplies too! It is quite a time consuming thing doing large swatch sheets, but I am considering maybe offering this service soon, if I can work out a way to make multiple ones to sell in a smaller more efficient way. But do please contact me on my email (in the description) if you'd like and I can probably sort something out. 😊
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Woah! That's a lot of work, but absolutely stunning. It's on my dream list... someday. 💜
A good dream to have! Thank you for watching. 🙂
I've been wanting to try out some Sennelier on a tube-by-tube basis. This is so helpful. And lovely to watch, too. :)
Oh great! I was thinking about that when I made this video, that not everyone is going to want the entire set and it would be really useful to see all of the colours and pick favourites out of there to make into a smaller set. Thank you so much for your comment, and for watching!
I guess you've answered my query about colour strength from your Part 2 Watercolour Collection video. Love your swatching videos, has all the information I'm looking for. Thanks Becky!
@@heathersherlock I'm glad I had another video there to answer your question; I've been out all day and am only just reading your comments now! 🥴
this was extremely helpful, thank you so much for sharing this becky! i'm sure this will be a great reference source for many years to come :D
Yay, I'm so glad it's useful! It has certainly helped me as I managed to lose the swatch card from my blue tin and I would have no idea which paint is which by now. 😂
Soooo jealous! Oh they are so lovely 😍! I have wanted this set for a long time!! Enjoy them for me too!
Hello Becky. I am a recent subscriber and it seems I have found another Sennelier enthusiast ! They are manufactured just an hour drive away from where I live. They are widely available at a good price here ( about 10 Aus. dollars) but I love them for their own qualities which you spoke about so well. Thank you for sharing the chart as Sennelier's printed chart does not do them justice at all.
And thank you also for the lovely and lively chat ! You are so pleasant to listen to !
Thank you so much! Oh wow, you live so close to them! Do they have a factory outlet where you can get less than perfect items for discounted prices? That'd be awesome! 😂
@@BeckyTregear Apparently not, which is a pity. But I visited their historical shop which opened in 1887 in Paris. It is just as it was then. A step back in time!
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I am watching your 2 videos on your paint collection right now. 👌
@@FrL659 I would LOVE to visit that store! 💜
Thank you for your video Becky! I love Sennelier, and this has been super helpful! Also your paintings are stunning! You are a wonderful artist!
Thank you so much! 😊💕
Holy tomoly so many colors.........So much beauty in one box. Fantastic job swatching them all. You make me want them. lol
I looked recently and the wooden box set has become a lot more expensive than when I bought them in 2018. Such as the way of everything these days! 😭
I just wanted to say that this is a very well-put together video. I'm back in my watercolor pigment research era, and I have to say that I tend to come across a lot of videos that aren't the best quality. I love the formatting and the clarity. Thank you! :)
Thank you, I'm glad it was helpful, and I tried to make it so the colours were lit up as well as possible to see them accurately.
This is so helpful. I am building my custom Sennelier palette and you really helped me with my choices.
I'm so glad! I hope you have fun building your palette, and painting with them! ❤
@@BeckyTregear I’m discovering that getting some of the half pans open stock is kind of painful, at least in the US. Lots of colors seem hard to find. But yes, it’s fun!
beautiful demo and swatch work..lovin it!
This was so helpful. I was trying to get a feel for the different reds. hard looking at swatches. You did a great job with the descriptions and I could see the swatches really well thank you.
Red is the most difficult colour to show on camera; for some reason it always over saturates, and I've found this with photography as well. It just doesn't translate well. 😭
Good stuff, great to see all the colours together! I just have a few, but I also have a few of Jackson's watercolours, which I believe are made by Sennelier. Jackson's Bright Red is PR254 + PV19. So the Sennelier one is very probably the same. I really like the paints and found them juicy, vibrant and highly pigmented. I had bought them to fill pans in my travel palettes, but realised quite quickly that because of the honey in them (especially lemon yellow, but several others as well), they stayed runny and sticky and either didn't dry out at all, or took forever (weeks/months) before I could take them out without them running everywhere and creating sticky mayhem in my art bag! They are great for studio use though
I love them! And yes, very difficult to travel with them when they just refuse to set for ages. I had a big old mishap with a travel set; the palette went on its side and a lot of the paints ran into each other. It was a huge mess! 😂
Hi Becky, Thankyou for swatching all 98! I have Sennelier watercolours and really enjoy them. Kim Crick has done a review on Sennelier professional watercolours and mentions all but 6 of the 98 are lightfast for selling artwork, it’s worth looking up. You do a great job!
Erica from SA
That's a pretty great hit rate for most of them being lightfast, yay! I know there are a few old fashioned pigments in some of them, and I've tested their PR83 Alizarin Crimson, which does fade in light over time. 😭
A lovely, lovely swatching video, Becky. Enjoyed every minute.
Thank you, I enjoyed swatching this huge chart so much! 😆
Nice! This helped me choose a couple of colors to replace some of the not so light fast colors that came in my set of 18… Also, I’m pretty sure I saw somewhere or heard someone else saying that the bright red is PR 112.… Anytime there isn’t a lot of information to be found on a color, I shy away from it because it’s usually slashprobably fugitive. and the brown pink is a funny one, I also learned that pink used to be called yellow or vice versa lol a long time ago… Historically, there is some reason for this but I’m not exactly positive I’m sure it can be looked up :-)
Bright reds usually aren't known for their lightfastness, that's for sure! I use a lot anyway because it's so pretty, haha. I'm glad the video was helpful! 😊
Thank you for this lovely and informative video. Wonderful to watch you paint these swatches as you discuss the properties of each color.
Thank you, I glad you enjoyed it! 😊
You are amazing to be able to do this,amazing !!!!❤❤
Thank you, it took a while to put it all together, haha!
I'd just watched this a few days ago, and struggled to find it again! 😨 (RUclips AWFUL search algorithms...) I loved it because you're a FAN of Sennelier (and I tend to be as well, along with schminke) and I'm struggling to pick up a decent yellow ochre asap. THANK YOU! I guess I have naples yellow and some other (raw sienna?) in Sennelier, but immediately need a yellow ochre! As in, I'm putting a painting away until this one gets in. I have DS yellow ochre only, which is okay for a stroke here or there, but I knew there was a stronger mass tone-version and Senn. has a few so I wanted to order the right tube!
I love other swatchers, don't get me wrong, but having an actual FAN of Sennelier swatch them out so you can decide between, like, the W&N ochre, or the 🤦 DS PrimaFake Goethite (which I'd already tried and given away, but it's a favorite on YT watercolours... *but I need YELLOW ochre, not the darker brown junk* in the Primafake version. Not hating on DS: I have DS Yellow Ochre, but it's just _weak._
Thanks so much ❤️ (I've hit the bell and saved this video... MAYBE youtube will bring it up in search one day).
Ah yes, it's so super annoying when videos disappear! If you've liked it, you can go into your history and it should remain in Liked Videos, if that helps! I really do love Sennelier paints, they are just so luminous and beautiful. I also struggle to find yellow ochres that aren't gross. Quite often I find raw sienna to be better. I think the best ochre colour in Daniel Smith's range is the Mt Amiata Raw Sienna. That packs a punch and rewets pretty well. 🙂
Thank you! Informative and entertaining
Glad you enjoyed it! 😊
I was searching for Sennelier ultramarine deep videos and this video popped up. You created an amazing swatch chart. It is incredibly useful to see all the paint swatches on one page and your paintings are lovely. Thank you!
Thank you, it was a fun video to make and I loved swatching them all out. 😊
@@BeckyTregear your welcome! I recently bought a small set of Sennelier half pans and then ordered a small set of tubes. The half pans are too perfect to use, but I will. I thought if I ever bought a set of pans of paint I wouldn’t be able to use them because unused they are perfect. I know weird logic. However, I have no resistance and I’m going to swatch them out. I have no qualms using tubes of paint. LOL. 😅🤣
@@shadowguard3578 I have pan sets of Sennelier too and it took me a while to work up the courage to use them, but once they become "imperfect" from use, it's much easier to continue with them, lol.
Watching again now, a year later (!). Did you ever find out anything about the pigments in the bright red?
Alas no, that one is still very much a mystery! 😵💫
Sennelier layers well
They really do! ❤️
Surprisingly I enjoyed this swatching video as I’m normally not interested in them however I was curious about the Sennelier colours as I’ve heard quite differing opinions of them, mainly related to their seemingly low pigmentation but of course this is because they are great for layering and glazing... there were sooooo many beautiful colours some of which I’d like to buy, I am surprised that they have quite a few colours which look very similar and I’d love to know why they do that... I was really looking forward to seeing you do a painting with these colours, in particular seeing them layered/glazed... now it gives me something else to link forward to.
Thank you! I figured the video would be too long if I did a painting as well, but I am working on one now and I'm really hoping to post it up Tuesday/Wednesday if I finish in time! I really love Sennelier paints, they just handle a little differently but then they were wonderful once I got the hang of them. 🙂❤️
I actually find them to be highly pigmented when glazed/layered. And they can be watered down to be quite subtle which is so useful. I have found the various yellows, for example, create mixes in unique ways. And, when glazed, the various yellows (for example) behave differently. So the usefulness of the variations won’t be seen on a swatch chart that only uses one layer. I made a swatch chart with glazed layers and that taught me so much about how these colors work. I too aspire to have the big wooden box one day. It’s a very beautiful brand of paints, my favorite actually.
Thank you for this. That chart really is a wall piece! Amazing. I got some Sennelier pans and I am really happy with them. No way I am ever going to get them all though. :D
Thank you! At the time the price was too good to pass up. 😁
You're amazing! Thank you.
Thank you for watching! 😊
Massive job... really useful thanks Becky. You have a really friendly voice and I love the enthusiasm you get across non stop. One thing that I wonder about.... does RUclips on a Windows PC reproduce the colours accurately ? I am sure there are some subtle hues that are lost or simplified by the limitations of RGB colour gamut. I refer particularly to the blues... from Cerulean to French Ultra, aside from value, there is little change in hue on my TV
Thank you! I try to keep my voice upbeat and not slip into a monotone, which is easier said than done, lol. I did the best I could in video editing to make the colours as accurate as possible, but of course there will be a margin of error and monitors will show them differently depending in their colour and white balance calibration. But hopefully they are close. ☺️
I think i would personally be too scared to use them lol the case is so so lovely! On the camera some of the colours ( espeically the yellows ) look very very similiar but i guess its hard to tell thru the camera isnt it , what they really look like. I loved watching this.. .. i hope that you are okay Becky .. stay safe and well x
Thank you so much Lori! It was a little hard to mar the case's perfection, but once I dove in it was fine, haha! A lot of the yellows DO look very similar, though the yellow/orange ones didn't translate well on camera and there is a bit more of a gradient in real life. I tend to gravitate more to some colours than others, I've found.
Many of the yellows show their usefulness through either glazing or when mixing. I like having the range of various transparencies too.
I think I REALLY need these 😍. Are these still your favourites?
Yes, I still love them. 😊❤️
This was great! When you put on the Indigo, it reminded me how much I loved it when I did the test of all the Indigo dot cards I had. It made my top-2 list! I loved it. Just out of curiosity, how big was this swatch chart?
Their indigo mix is lovely! I used a bit more than half of a large single sheet of watercolour paper (the ones you can buy individually from those big racks that art shops usually have. The leftover piece was used for the Disney Castle 😁
Thank you for showing all the senneliers!
The sennelier colors seem to have more softness compared to what I’ve seen so far from other brands, I don’t know if "soft" is even the right word to describe this because they are as bright as others. Is this because they were made with honey or could this be just an effect from the camera? Or does this depend more on the paper? I never had any senneliers but I’m curious to try them :)
They really are quite unique paints, and have a luminous quality to them that I've never seen in other watercolours. Like you say, it's hard to describe their beauty and softness! Part of it is due to the honey, but even then they are still different to M.Graham watercolours which also contain a honey binder. I recommend Sennelier - they're my favourite paints!
@@BeckyTregear Thank you for your reply 💞 I hesitated to buy because they have no dot cards to test. From what I saw from videos they will be uniquely wonderful for flowers and plants, which I love to paint :)
@@rosawolke2788 They’re great for botanical paintings! 😊 Actually now I think about it, I have a video Painting Pansies with the Sennelier paints, somewhere in my collection. Made in 2021 I think.
Which colours did you get duplicates of in the 98 set?
Yellow Sophie and Blue Sennelier, I think.
Is sennelier one of your favorite brands?
Yes, it still is! 😊
Hi Becky, Thanks for sharing the swatching of your Sennelier paints. I also have the box set. I bought it at Jacksons when it was around $260 US dollars. I have seen it as high as $1300 in places. My only thing is, I bought it when I was just starting out and didn't know much about anything. I'm still a newbie. I have only been painting for 2 years. I actually never have used any of the paint from the box. I began to collect watercolor paints and just got swept up with Daniel Smith and QOR paints to just name a few and I never got around to even swatching it. There are some great colors! I think your video may have just sparked something in me! I think I might have to re-visit my box of Sennelier! I just bought some Art Spectrum paints and the NEEF box from your collection video. I bought them on Senior Art site. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! We have a lot in common, we both have an immense collection of watercolor paint! I am trying to get friends interested in watercolor and tell them I will create a custom palette for them because literally, I don't think I will out live my stash of paints!
Hi Marisa, thank you so much for your lovely comment! The box is definitely amazing value from Jackson's and is insanely expensive in Australia, at the one place I saw it online for $1500. Oh you definitely have to try them! They are quite different to both Qor and Daniel Smith, which tend to be really vibrant immediately. Sennelier are a little more delicate and subtle, but as I mentioned in the video, they build up beautifully in layers, and have an amazing transparent/luminous quality to them. They're quite similar to Schmincke, if you've ever tried those. I hope you enjoy the Art Spectrum paints, I'll be curious to know what you think of them. And the Neef paint box! Senior Art is the only place I know who sells them, and I like to visit their stores when I can, especially when they have paint sales. None of my friends in real life understand my obsession for watercolours, so it's lovely to find like-minded people online, and I am definitely in the same boat where I'll never use up all of my paints, though I do try, haha! 😂❤
@@BeckyTregear Yes, I am trying to convert people who don't really want to learn to paint! It's an uphill battle. I have tried Sennelier, they actually were my first paint, and I do love them, but I have realized my style is more what I think is called A la Prima. I don't spend countless hours on paintings. I get in and get out. So many times I'm doing an abstract landscape and I just need to get the most vibrant color or intense saturation because I'm not going to do any layering. I think they can be a little weak if your not glazing. I have taught myself pretty much and with that I don't really follow any rules! lol. I have very limited time to paint. I am a graphic designer in Connecticut. I have my own business and work part time for a non-profit as well. I probably work 70 hours on average a week. Watercolor has become a stress reliever for me. I certainly have a ton of stress, so if I can lose myself in a painting for 15 or 20 minutes, it helps to rejuvenate my brain cells! So far I really like the Art Spectrum paints. They do seem to be a little dry, but I do love the colors. Quite the opposite of Sennelier with the honey! I'm glad you started your you tube channel. I have often thought of doing that too, but I just don't have the time. If you need any paints we can always do a swap. I can make you a custom palette with some of my favorite paints!
@@madpug01 Wow, that's a lot of hours! I was about to start looking for a part time job when I'd finished my exhibition, and literally days later we went into lockdown and so I have been painting and drawing and making videos, and now I am hoping to make it into a full time thing so that I can just keep going with this. It's REALLY hard building and maintaining a RUclips channel, but it has been such a godsend for my sanity, in that I can stay focused and motivated during this really strange year. I've learned a lot about videography and editing, and like my art, everything is self taught. Like you I tend not to follow rules, and just do my own thing. Agreed that other brands are way more suitable for quick work. I save my Senneliers for projects that I want to spend more time on. My next video, if I get the painting finished in time, is going to be using these. It's a big painting. And it's taking ages, lol. I hope you're staying safe and well. I know the USA is having a very tough time of things right now, and my heart goes out to you all.
Becky Tregear Art thank you! It has been a very strange and difficult time! Stay safe and well too!
Becky would you be willing to swatch out all 98 once more and sell it to me? I would LOVE a real swatch of their full line! Kate
It's funny you've asked that as I have had other requests for different supplies too! It is quite a time consuming thing doing large swatch sheets, but I am considering maybe offering this service soon, if I can work out a way to make multiple ones to sell in a smaller more efficient way. But do please contact me on my email (in the description) if you'd like and I can probably sort something out. 😊