I was in a rabbit hole of watching watercolor swatches since I want to add more colors to my palette wisely, your video is the most informative, the most visualy inspiring and the most soothing one! I've learned so much listening to your introducing all the colors, thank you so much for this video!
Smalt is one of my favourite colours. It’s a common PV15 but whatever they did to it makes it really unique on the colour wheel. Has its own spot between blue and violet. I have it on all my palettes as when mixed with Naples yellow or Naples yellow deep in the same brand (not tried with other brands Naples yellows) it creates this stunning soft unusual grey like no other. A kind of delicate pigeon gray. Try it. 🥰
Low key narrative... 10/10. No chatty bullshit... 10/10. Objectivity... 10/10. I'm off to see your website and swatch cards. It might save me making mine, or at minimum give me cues to making my own.
Great (and hilarious) analogy! However, I would have categorized W&N Pro as soft rock (unless you referred to the way they dry on the palette!), as they are more subtle than more modern lines--which of course make them perfect for realistic botanical, floral, landscape and portrait painting.
@@everartokelli You both cracked me up lol. Yeah, sadly the hard rock could be used to describe a couple of those harder to work with tubes once they dry on the palette. On the bright side their dry pans seem to re-wet properly :)
W & N is like and old friend...never disappoints. I ADORE mauve, cobalt green, windsor red deep (my absolute favourite), smalt blue, windsor blue...quinacridone gold, omg!
Thank you so much vor this in deep review! I think W&N paints are highly underrated. In Germany they cost as much as Schmincke paints. Sometimes even cheaper. I love their Magnesium Brown and their Cobalt Blue Deep. You can mix Magnesium Brown with Phtalo Blue and get amazing deep and granulating blues and greens.
Thank you so much for the mixing idea, I will have to play more with Magnesium Brown. I found it to be such a lovely unique color, definitely worthy of more experimentation. I think you're right, so underrated - they have some lovely paints :)
Winsor and Newton were my first professional brand and are still one of my favourites for their perylene colours. I got super lucky when I was first making a professional palette and found most of their range on clearance at my local art store which allowed me to try out a lot of their colours. Im currently saving to make a new winsor and newton palette this year as I had to sell my original one last year.
Love Winsor Newton, especially since I love English landscape painters and it’s hard to follow tutorials with other brands. I’m gradually switching over to WN for basic landscape colors, but you’ve given me lots of other must haves! Thanks.
Oh wow! Thank you for the detailed information in this one video. I'm glad I found you. Watching this made me reconsider my scatter gun approach to watercolour.
Hi Kim! I would love a comparison video with one single pigment/colour from several brands, like Potter’s Pink or Mars black, where you swatch each brand’s version together with other colours (like Potter’s pink together with for example a phtalo blue (non granulating) and also a separate swatch with another granulating colour like for example together with viridian), to see what the different effects will be from using the different brands (ie how the granulation looks when mixed, which brands’ version of that pigment create colour separating mixes when using it together with other paints, and just generally what the appearance every brand’s individual paint of that pigment creates). You’re a pigment goddess and you have such deep knowledge about how paints and pigments work, and I’ve spend honestly hours on your website watching the different swatch cards and reading your information about individual pigments 😅 but there’s also something special about seeing a paint “in action” in a video as it moves through the water over the paper, and I love hearing your analyses while swatching, like in this video 😊 I really like the swatches you inserted in this video where you had mixed some of these colours together; it makes it easier to understand what using that pigment from this brand would bring to a painting 😊 Thank you as always for your amazing videos! 😊
That aqua green is also in my palette and so different from any other color I’ve found from soooo many brands. I don’t stick to any one brand, so Windsor & Newton have a few of my favorites. I also love rose madder genuine and don’t care that it’s fugitive. If I start thinking “I’m gonna sell this” my work goes south in a big hurry. I have to paint for me and my love of watercolor, staying in the moment w/my piece. I get fantastic results in my sketchbook and am very happy working this way.
Thank you. Can you please provide a list of the colours you finally selected? I chose transparent yellow and Aqua green too, though the now discontinued Quin gold has even deeper mass tones. I like mixing it with Opera Rose which although slightly fugitive, creates a lovely grey like a wood pigeons breast feathers in his courtship plumage - very slightly pinkish. It's easy to tip the grey into any colour by varying quantities of the separate colours. I'm thinking of changing to use.the more predictable Winsor Blue Green Shade depending on the subject in a painting. Manganese Blue Hue and Opera Rose give the post amazing pale violets, while Quin Violet is so intense it's unparalleled and is perfect for pansies. I'm changing over from Naples yellow (eith white added) to Naples Yellow Deep and add Titanium White to suit the subject. I've just added Lightvred to my palette for earthy red roofs though I also chose Perylene Maroon. In all, I have 32 colours which is a lot. I've divided a 12 pan old Daler Rowney palette for sketching into 3s for each pan, glued with plastic dividers. That gives me upto 36 colours. TgecWinsor and Newton professional paints give me enough pigment to select half a dozen for any landscape or seascape. Cobalt Turquoise Light and Cobalt green made it in. I only have one mixed paint. 50:50 paynes grey and hookers green to give me a super dark green (i call Debs green). I'm using both colours quite a lot so that's my alternative to perylene green. I love my slip it in my pocket palette I just wish they still made this structure. It has 2 brush Wells and I use eyelash glue filled with masking fluid and a couple of shaved sides pencils.
I’ve had along 15 year Hiatus from watercolour. I’ve been quite surprised with the prices and interesting colours, Metallica, iridescents , duo-Chrome, minerals etc. The price increase is rather shocking too. When I put my paints away ... Winsor Newton watercolours were the best of the best... So I am so very pleased to see you feature W&N.. some wonderful new colours in the brand. Thank you for the swatching ... very helpful. Cheers from 🇨🇦
Be still my beating heart! 💖 This is a beautiful pallette and as a UK based artist W&N is the most readily available professional paint brand. As someone looking to upgrade to pro-grade from student, this palette very much speaks to me. Time for me to draw up a budget!
My fav W&N Pro colors are their Cerulean Blue (more turquoise and granulating than other cerulean), Winsor Violet (more subtle than other dioxazines) and their yellows tend to have a wonderful glow. I still mourn the discontinued versions of yellows, New Gamboge PY153 and Transparent Yellow PY97, both so transparent and glowing, but I still like their Winsor Yellow and Lemon Yellow. I've been wanting to try some of the colors you highlighted, like Caput Mortuum, Smalt and some of the newer colors. Thanks for sharing your impression!
Oh wow, I wish I’d thought to learn about the pigments and science behind watercolour paints print to buying my palette and additional paints. Never mind. I’m super super new. Never drawn or painted anything ever. I love watching you swatch so much that I think I’ll just swatch instead of painting things haha
Purple is my favorite color; this background is the bomb!!!! Thanks for the highlights from this brand, it's fun to try, but so expensive here in the US so this is good guidance.
Your channel is what I've needed and didn't know I needed. I've wasted so much money on pallettes that were recommended by top channels and now I realize I need a different approach after using them and being disappointed. Newbie mistakes! Thanks for the hard work you have put in from this new subscriber, I'll be sure to follow carefully along 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Nice review. At first I thought WN was kind of ho-hum, but have really come to appreciate them for their usefulness in botanical and landscape paintings. And they layer so beautifully. They may not be as flashy as Daniel Smith, But they can be wonderful.
I have brought almost every colour you have mentioned on your suggestions here and I must say most of these are my favourites. Thank you for this video. 😊
So awesome! What a gorgeous collection of colours. I love how you review paints and then do a painting. It really demonstrates how the colours can be used. ❤️
So many lovely colours!! I could easily become broke from buying so many of the pretty paints you show on your channel 😂 You show each paint’s individual strengths and suddenly I want them all! 🙈
Hi Kim, I’ve been watching watercolour reviews for years and somehow never happened upon yours. Your in-depth knowledge of the pigments is second to none. And your demonstrations are such a wonderful complement! Brings it all to life… These colours look amazing. I have very few Winsor and Newton colours but this may change! Do you mind if I ask how you amassed such an encyclopedic knowledge of pigments? This seems like a big black box to me. Hard to know how to create a framework from which to build. Thanks again.
I've been painting and running lightfast tests on every set I've bought for the past decade, so there has been a ton of trial and error and slow growth of knowledge gained. It's been helpful to be dedicated to comparing the same pigments against each new brand I try over time. For those who don't want to collect a ton of pigments to do in depth evaluations, I would just start with basic info you can find online such as top recommended pigment lists or pages that list pigment numbers and if that ingredient code is fugitive. You can find stuff like that on sites like my own at kimcrick.com , handprint or art creation database. Any time you're debating a paint purchase see if someone experienced with watercolor has reviewed it, I set up a brand review page on my site for all my swatch cards and notes each time I evaluate a brand. Hope it helps, happy painting :)
Absolutely love your gradient background. Would you consider doing a tutorial on this & other gradient backgrounds? It would be eternally appreciated!❤️ Thanking you from the bottom of my heart!
Sooooo much information...will have to watch more than just a few times. I have most of these and i will have to get out to paint along...now that will be a LOT of rewinding and pausing....thank you for showing all you have found.
I hope that's a good thing lol :) As a viewer, I often feel like my time is limited and appreciate info-packed condensed videos, so I try to deliver a lot in a short amount of time for everyone. Happy painting!
Definitely a good thing..never thanked anyone for anything i wasn't thankful for...lol...i have many many questions. Will have to read your web, listen to all the videos on you tube and watch everything..some of them i am sure you will answer..bit right now i am looking for a lightfast alternative for prussian blue...one of my favorites. And by the by...that was a quick reply.....thanks...
@@marjoriejohnson6535 Do you happen to have any brand's Indanthrone Blue, sometimes called Delft Blue PB60? While not an exact match it is a very deep night sky sort of blue that you may find helpful. Is Prussian a color you like straight out of the tube, or is it for mixing a certain other color like greens?
Yes, and pb 60 is as close as i get...l have always loved prussian blue and have tried for the longest time to find a replacement.. i use it straight from tube , in mixes and it is in my 15 necessity palette. I have also tried some of the handmades trying to replace. Jasper stardust came close but is way to granulating with a limited batch lapis and riverdale has one close but no cigar and i dont have a pigment number for it. I have tried the phathalos with a touch of tint and windsor blue..both green and red shade also with a touch of tint. I guess i need to bite the bullet and either be happy with a replacement or accept the fact that the color will shift when exposed to light. At this point in life i would like to stick with lightfast so that the paintings i do for my grandchildren and great grandchildren will hold up as i am sure they will be more concerned with making a living than in preserving what GG did for them years ago.
Question...there is a youtuber that checked lightfastness for prussians. She had little fading with daVinci...going to do my own. After mixing pb60 etc...not the same. I use prussian for mixing ( love the browns and the greens) and watereddown for our grey skys in binghamton n.y. area.
What a great video and new subscriber now. I use mostly DS paints since I live near their factory and store, but I will add a couple more WN after watching this. Py 150 and Pbk31 are always on my palette. I think my most interesting personal split primary palette ever had PY129 and PY150 as my yellows. I missed having an easy to grab mid yellow, but, oh, the mixing range with those two! Off to check out more of your videos!
Thank you for this overview! Beautiful colours. Last Christmas I treated myself to one 5ml tube of W&N professional, doubted for days what colour to choose, and suddenly I picked Brown Madder. And I love it! To me it's brick colour, and now I really have to stop trying to put it in every painting I do, lol. For some unusual pigments you could take a look at Jackman's handmade watercolours in the UK. From Rembrandt I have a tube of PBr8 called umber greenish, and that's a lovely lovely colour too. A non-red umber. I played with it and phthalo blue and brown madder, and got all these thundersky colours, yay!
I found out about WN transparent orange from this video and it's sooooo good! I'm interested in Aqua as well since it also appears to be unique in the world of watercolor. It's also great advice to get pans of potter's pink and other colors that dry "rock hard" Thank you for going through all these paints in such granular detail.
Maimeriblu's phthalo turquoise (they label it PB15:4) is so similar to Aqua Green that at first I thought I made a mistake by accidentally using the same tube
Schminke introduced first that transparent orange based on pigment DPP. It is staining but is valuable to warm up a painting through a transparent wash. Schminke ref is Lasurorange 218
W&N's Winsor Lemon is a unique pigment I've only found in the hard to find Daniel Smith Lemon Yellow, and W&N's Brown Madder is also a fantastic unique color. I started with W&N tubes and have slowly been moving away to other less expensive companies except for Payne's gray, in addition to the two aforementioned colors. I just enjoy the deep navy tone of W&N's Payne's gray.
Schmincke has a lovely version of PY175 (Winsor Lemon), but they call it Chrome Yellow Lemon (hue). I haven't tried Daniel Smith's version yet, but I look forward to comparing them. I think they might be the only 3 companies to offer it right now. Thanks for pointing that rare one out :) Over time I've moved away from buying many expensive brands because of how many affordable brands there are out there, figured it was about time to break down which colors can't really be found elsewhere.
Whoops! There are more :D I just stumbled onto another PY175! I was surprised to see it in Lukas watercolor, as their Aureolin (Hue, being their lightfast replacement for old Aureolin PY40). I also noticed Holbein Imidazolone Lemon and Maimeri Perm Lemon are as well, so that brings it to 6 companies we now know carry this pigment (Schmincke, W&N, DS, Lukas, Holbein and Maimeri). Thanks for making me pay some attention to this lovely yellow. I was particularly thrown off by the Aureolin title for Lukas though, that I found at www.jacksonsart.com/en-us/lukas-1862-watercolour-paint-24ml-aureolin?___store=jacksonsart_us&acc=c0f168ce8900fa56e57789e2a2f2c9d0
Kimberly Crick Art oooo Holbein, awesome! So really quite a few artist brands have it, and all use a different name. Sennelier is notably absent, as is M Graham.
Definitely their most unique paint, I agree. Also the permanent alizarin crimson deserves a mention for its value range and transparency, which they somehow concocted from PR206
@@emilimo701 I kind of like that one, but it became a bit dull in my 4 month lightfastness test. I like their Permanent Carmine, and that one did retain a bit more vibrancy. I love their Quinacridone Gold hue for how it mixes!
I use W&N paints a lot and thought I had a good range of colours. You have introduced me to some lovely new ones and I think I may be shopping for some more soon!
Ooh, this is a fun one! I've not tried W&N yet, but I might pick up a few pans or small tubes from my local art shop - I like the look of the the perylene violet. I'm always tempted by unique pigments, too, so I'll almost certainly get the ones W&N have. I love the colors you chose for your palette! I find myself wanting very "non-standard" palettes right now, though I haven't quite figured out what that means for me yet. Some shimmers, some pastels, fun colors that aren't in your standard intro sets... I don't care if I can't mix the full colour spectrum, you know? I paint mostly loose florals and exclusively to have fun, I don't necessarily need a lot of versatility or even lightfastness right now. Also! I love how you painted your palette map/swatch card, with the three stages of dilution. Makes it easier to see the shades when they're isolated like that rather than a gradient, at least for me. I'll definitely incorporate that in my own future palette maps!
I love having that masstone to diluted range in swatches, sometimes I have a hard time visualizing all those values when I do color charts without it. I'm right there with you in the desire for creating some non-standard fun palettes. I want to just play with all the unique fun stuff, I think I'll do this for more brands just to see what I find :D
W&N have different grades of their paints. cotman is their student grade and it differs from their professional grade. for the best experience try the professional grade from W&N 😊. in case you didn't knew. if knew forget my comment 🤭
@@BrendaArtist I did know, but thank you anyway! I'd rather be told one time too many than accidentally buy a less suitable product because I didn't know better ❤️
what a beautiful painting. you truly captured how pretty budgies are, reminds me of my own hehe. such good review, I actually got some of my Roman Szmal selections bec of you, thanks for what you do
I'm a beginner... and when I bought the DS and WNP Dot cards I compared and swatched 'em all... I'm in love with Aqua Green, greens, ph. Turquoise... shades of blue... Winsor Blue ( green shade) poppy Winsor red... Cobalt green deep..Prussian Blue - Ultramarine... DS's Ph. Turquoise, Ph. Green, Quinacridone Gold, Q. Lilac, Q. Pink, Sennelier Magenta and for a new try at florals with Dr. Martens INKS ... Q. Magenta, yellow, violet, and iridescent Jade... beautiful color... wish I could find an equivalent watercolor that is closest to the jade. I think it's a Sennelier shade... Just found your site and loved your insight on WNP. I see other paints you previewed!!! AWESOME. I have a lot to learn... but just love watching artists create amazing works. Bless you for sharing, a California gramma ❄❄❄💕
I have smalt. Every time I see it in person it makes me gasp. One of the nicest colours I’ve ever seen. Annoyingly I’m also in love with rose madder genuine, which is not lightfast and has no substitute I’ve yet found. Paint price shouldn’t be used entirely to judge quality, it varies so much depending on your location. I try and assume all professional brands are similar in quality, it just comes down to local availability and cost.
If I buy winsor and newton watercolor tubes to pour into pans, I ALWAYS add a few drops of glycerin to it in the pan and sir it in with one of my bookbinding needles. They rewet like any schmincke watercolor poured would. If I put winsors potter pink or Viridian into pans... I add an extra drop. Now when I say drops, I don't mean a big drop straight from the glycerin bottle lol. Plus I only do full pans, but I use very small drops from a 1ml pipe. Anyway, have a great one 🙂
You can't really beat how good of a deal Mission Gold and White Nights are, but it was fun to see which colors were the most unique from Winsor & Newton. I look forward to exploring that for other brands as well, I'll be sure to touch on the awesomeness of that pure pigment set from Mijello for sure :)
When swatching my W&N full dotcard yesterday, I found some reeeeeally nice colors among them. I already own a couple of W&N colors, one pan, the rest in tubes, because thats usually way cheaper. Sadly there's that whole issue with the different formulation of pan and tube colors. A real big bummer for me! Regardless, I'll be getting the Rose Dore, Rose Madder Gen, Smalt and cobalt green for sure, they are marvelous and pretty special colors imo. 🤩🤩 I really gotta add them to my collection, but I am unsure yet if I'll be getting them in tubes or pans.
I’m glad I’m not the only one totally smitten with their Rose Dore! I know it’s just a weak version of two paints, I already have, mixed together... but it is total perfection😍🙌💭
Thanks for such an informative video! I just ordered a few of my first W& N pigments and I tried to pick ones that were unique.(or hard to find available in other brands right now like potters pink) Happy to see my picks were in your list! I am hoping the transparent orange will be lightfast as I really loved the look and qualities if that color.
Very helpful video. I too noticed they have some really nice colors that are better bthannin other brands, cobalt teal light being on of them, also green gold. I'm love to see them compared to White Nights. I just bought their Caput Mortum and Perylene violet. So it would be great to know which colors you recommend from one or the other brands where they both carry them, having that White Nights are much cheaper.
Thank you for being so detailed! I feel like I've learned so much from this one video. Jackson's are having a W&N sale at the moment so I was looking to get one of these, both to try an artist-grade paint (as my current 12-set is student-grade) and also to expand my colours. I might go for that lovely Cobalt Turquoise Light! I agree with what you said as I've really struggled to mix something like that with the colours I have. I can get a colour in the general region of it but nothing near as bright/clear. Thanks again, this was really helpful :)
Kim you are an invaluable resource, not just your paint testing! May I ask what you use for your rubber swatch stamps? As in is it an ink or a paint? I see that it doesn't move when you paint over it. Haha, I didn't know paint swatching could be ASMR! Very calming and enjoyable.
@@KimberlyCrick Thank you, I appreciate the response. I actually really like your swatch cards, they are a bit ASMR to me, mostly because I just love color! Also I've been bragging about your site all over, wherever I can basically. 😄
Impressed! I don't own any W&N as I had heard they were difficult to re-wet (compared to M. Graham and Daniel Smith). However, I have admired / thought about purchasing Caput Moruum for some time. Didn't realize W&N had so many granulating colours (which I like). Would enjoy knowing more about W&N Van Dyke Brown - another I've considered.
W&N used to have a different formula for pans and tubes, sometimes resulting in the DIY drying being harder to re-wet than the pre-made pan formula designed for that. A good thing to keep in mind is that M.Graham and similar paints like Sennelier or White Nights have honey in the binder which performs as a humectant, so they retain more moisture than other brands. Some pigments are hard to re-wet in any brand, Cerulean, Viridian and Cobalt Violet for example. I am not a fan of their Van Dyke Brown since it's a mixture of two common pigments, a smooth red iron oxide PR101 and a smooth black PBk6 so I haven't found a good use for it. Happy painting :)
You surprised me with a couple of those colors! I consider myself a total pigment nerd and there were a couple colors that weren't on my radar. I'm not a huge fan of Winsor and Newton, mainly because I think they are overpriced and rely far too much on their long history in the UK. And then there's the issue of the cadmium-free colors not giving pigment information. That's NOT okay. In addition I find it silly that they don't want you using their tube colors in dry form, since that is what the rest of the world does--that's bitten me more than once. One of which was PV14--an incredible color--but a rock when dried from tube paint. All told, I only buy Winsor and Newton when they have a color or a version of a color I can't get anywhere else. Otherwise I avoid them. All that said, I'm always up for watching you paint swatches and then a painting. As usual, you knock my socks off with your skills. And I truly don't think there is such a thing as too much granulation. Just saying! Love your work! And I guess I should confess that after seeing how easily your full pan of PV14 activated, that I'm considering investing in a pan of it for myself. That color is just so special!
Exactly my sentiments, overall I have ignored this brand for a while because of how many lower cost alternatives there are. While working on a pigment database I realized how much I love finding unique colors regardless of brand though, and I'm glad I took the time to re-visit Winsor and Newton. They did bother me with that whole cadmium free color fiasco and not properly labeling some things as "hues". I'm glad I became aware of their pan vs tubes differences before getting those 4 pan colors, because they do work amazingly well compared to the tubes. I appreciate you watching even though W&N has let us down before, I was happy to find a few hidden gems within this line. LOL I love granulation, but I have totally overdone it before to a point that even my eyes didn't know where to be drawn looking at my own art :D Maybe one day I'll master the art of balancing granulating-everything!
@@KimberlyCrick LOL. I think that's an awesome thing to take the time to do. And I was really pleasantly surprised by some of these colors--enough that I just watched this video through a second time, pausing to look at each swatch carefully. I may or may not have made some notes. Heh. I think there are a few hidden gems there, as you say, and they may find their way into my palettes. Thanks again for all you do!
W &N are only over priced in the US.If you shop wisely here in the UK they are HALF the price of Daniel Smith which never seem to have offers. I put my watercolours in pans...had not read until today that I was not supposed to...and have not had any trouble re-wetting them. My two Horadam colours are lovely but the caps are difficult to get back on and I end up with a twisted tube. I have only tried a couple of the special DS shades (Moonglow and Cascade Green) lovely but of limited use.
@@annefisher5381 Agreed. In the UK W&N is much cheaper than DS and others. A professional set of 24 W&N can be purchased for less than £60 and a 12 set of Cotman can be purchased for £10. I have panned my W&N tubes and a quick spray a few minutes before painting solves any issue of rewetting. I like DS paints but was disappointed when I panned them as 4 of the colours shrunk considerably with one of them shrinking to brittle fragments. Given the DS price tag I won’t be purchasing them again. Currently playing with a Holbein test set and liking them though it will be a while before I can afford those.
@@Kyomiibrown The Daniel Smith shrinking issue is just one more thing their rabid fans choose to ignore. I was shocked when I panned mine. It's excessive and I too had some crumble or fall out.
I have to say that I personally didn't think you over-granulated the painting. I paid really close attention during the painting part of the video because of your concerns. I'll bet if you took a subbie poll, you find that most of us think the painting was lovely as it is. Full Disclosure: The fact that I ADORE PURPLE, may have some bearing on my assessment. You know what? F*ck That! I think it's great painting and that's all she wrote! So there! 😄😄😄😄😄 Oh yeah, I agree with you about W&N too. I don't use them much because of the prices and difficulty finding pigment info on their site and dot cards. Rather than worrying about corporate espionage they should spend their time improving their Cotman line. Just sayin.
Thank you so much! I have had the same frustrations with W&N, and Cotman has some weird quirks they should definitely improve. LOL I love that Ultramarine Violet so much, it makes me want to do dramatic granulating monochromatic studies with it since it goes to such a deep purple :D
Such an interesting palette. I've been wanting to create a nice granulation palette but I just never got around to it. I can definitely add a few of the ones here to that project and still have a beautiful unique colour. I never thought of doing this before - Are you going to do one for Daniel Smith's watercolour paints? I tfeel like that would be an amazing idea! :D
The only Winsor and Newton I have is a small sketch palette of Cotman, it was so cheap and small (like 13 euros) that it was ideal for me to take to the beach as I know it will get full of sand and it would pain me for this to happen to my other paints. There is a lot of divided opinions on Cotman as they are not professional but all I can say is that they are very pigmented and work fine for sketching in a sketchbook. As for their professional paints like the ones you have here, I appreciate seeing them, there are some nice colours and I really want to try their cobalt violet at some point, the aqua green looks nice too though similar to others I already have. I'm not sure what it is, but as I've said before, they just don't excite me enough to pay all that money for them and I would prefer to spend it on Schmincke or Daniel Smith
It's likely I'll do this for Schmincke next, I've been putting of Daniel Smith a bit because their catalog is over 250 colors and it seems so overwhelming lol. I'll get there :D
I have most of these, i think i picked up at least 5 when they did a re-release of discontinued colors. I really like the cobalt violet, maybe i got lucky but my panned tube rewets beautifully. I also notice that some of the same colors look and react differently from tube to tube, its a bit concerning.
That sometimes happens with the more natural granulating colors, I've seen batch to batch variances in my paints from Daniel Smith too. Often it's because the ingredients came from a whole new mine/area the mineral was dug up.
Thank you for that tip about pans. I have particularly wanted to try WN's Potter's Pink and Cobalt Violet since many people prefer it to Daniel Smith's (which is what I have)
W&N's pan version of Cobalt Violet (PV14) is amazing! There is definitely a difference between that one and the one in the tube. If you prefer filling your pans/palettes from tubes I would instead recommend Rembrandt's PV14, they are pretty much identical in hue and it seems to rewet well, also you're supposed to be able to find that one in 20ml tubes. I just got it, so I'm not sure how I will like it over time. For now I still prefer my W&N PV14 (for some reason), but that might just be that I'm biased since I already love it. I guess I'll see. ☺️
3:12 could you refer a resource for art terms in watercolor like "earth tones" here? one wouldn't think blue is considered an earth tone, which means im missing criteria when it comes to this definition in this context. ty 🌟
I've discovered I have a weak spot for the deep shades like sepia, indigo, payne's grey etc so the Perylenes are calling me... but I think I will try to mix something similar first. I got the dot cards with the intention of using them as a reference but haven't played with it yet. WN professional is the only artist quality paint I have local to me in individual tubes and even then only about 60 shades.. the only other being Grumbacher Academy. Anything else I have to order online. The WN price (some are $11 for only a 5ml tube) is very high though so I don't see myself buying many of them.
So strange these are so expensive in the USA. A 5ml tube of W&N costs about or less than two White Nights pans here, around the equivalent of 5$ or so. I think you made a great selection of their colours. Even though I don't usually use sap green, I find theirs to be the best premade out there, absolutely great for portraiture. I am also very fond of their newly released Perm. carmine which uses only PV19 and is a perfect alizarin alternative, their cobalt green deep is unnecessary but very fun, and their pb16 is a staple for me (though it would be completely redundant in your palette that already uses aqua blue). Oh, and their pr264 is easily the best version of this colours I could find, much less dull than other makes.
Yeah, crazy expensive here, with many of the tubes higher priced than even Daniel Smith. I assume because of the high cost of importing them. I had hoped to be able to get them for less through Jackson's, but they say they have a trade agreement and can't ship them here. Agreed about the PB16, which is actually one of my favorite colors, but I have it in other brands and thought Aqua Green may be a better choice as something only W&N carries. Thank you for your favorites list, I'll take another look at those colors :)
Love your product reviews, for me mostly have DS, but I do have a few of the W&N Pro. Would love to order from your site, but unfortunately I live overseas. 😩
I was in a rabbit hole of watching watercolor swatches since I want to add more colors to my palette wisely, your video is the most informative, the most visualy inspiring and the most soothing one! I've learned so much listening to your introducing all the colors, thank you so much for this video!
Smalt is one of my favourite colours. It’s a common PV15 but whatever they did to it makes it really unique on the colour wheel. Has its own spot between blue and violet. I have it on all my palettes as when mixed with Naples yellow or Naples yellow deep in the same brand (not tried with other brands Naples yellows) it creates this stunning soft unusual grey like no other. A kind of delicate pigeon gray. Try it. 🥰
Exactly! My favorite is smalt and Rose Dore from W&N ❤
Low key narrative... 10/10. No chatty bullshit... 10/10. Objectivity... 10/10. I'm off to see your website and swatch cards. It might save me making mine, or at minimum give me cues to making my own.
For me, Winsor and Newton is hard rock, Schmincke is classic, and Daniel Smith is jazz.
Every brand is unique and beautiful.
Great (and hilarious) analogy! However, I would have categorized W&N Pro as soft rock (unless you referred to the way they dry on the palette!), as they are more subtle than more modern lines--which of course make them perfect for realistic botanical, floral, landscape and portrait painting.
@@everartokelli You both cracked me up lol. Yeah, sadly the hard rock could be used to describe a couple of those harder to work with tubes once they dry on the palette. On the bright side their dry pans seem to re-wet properly :)
For me, W&N pro is classic, Schmincke is jazz and DS is hard rock.
@@everartokelli Agreed, W&N pro have a more realistic tonal range for the subjects you mention. Their subtlety is their strength.
@@everartokelli soft rock! you beat me to it
W & N is like and old friend...never disappoints. I ADORE mauve, cobalt green, windsor red deep (my absolute favourite), smalt blue, windsor blue...quinacridone gold, omg!
This video was a ton of fun to watch and useful. I also really enjoy your own personal voice over style.
Thank you so much vor this in deep review! I think W&N paints are highly underrated. In Germany they cost as much as Schmincke paints. Sometimes even cheaper. I love their Magnesium Brown and their Cobalt Blue Deep. You can mix Magnesium Brown with Phtalo Blue and get amazing deep and granulating blues and greens.
Thank you so much for the mixing idea, I will have to play more with Magnesium Brown. I found it to be such a lovely unique color, definitely worthy of more experimentation. I think you're right, so underrated - they have some lovely paints :)
Winsor and Newton were my first professional brand and are still one of my favourites for their perylene colours. I got super lucky when I was first making a professional palette and found most of their range on clearance at my local art store which allowed me to try out a lot of their colours. Im currently saving to make a new winsor and newton palette this year as I had to sell my original one last year.
Love Winsor Newton, especially since I love English landscape painters and it’s hard to follow tutorials with other brands. I’m gradually switching over to WN for basic landscape colors, but you’ve given me lots of other must haves! Thanks.
Oh wow! Thank you for the detailed information in this one video. I'm glad I found you.
Watching this made me reconsider my scatter gun approach to watercolour.
Hi Kim! I would love a comparison video with one single pigment/colour from several brands, like Potter’s Pink or Mars black, where you swatch each brand’s version together with other colours (like Potter’s pink together with for example a phtalo blue (non granulating) and also a separate swatch with another granulating colour like for example together with viridian), to see what the different effects will be from using the different brands (ie how the granulation looks when mixed, which brands’ version of that pigment create colour separating mixes when using it together with other paints, and just generally what the appearance every brand’s individual paint of that pigment creates).
You’re a pigment goddess and you have such deep knowledge about how paints and pigments work, and I’ve spend honestly hours on your website watching the different swatch cards and reading your information about individual pigments 😅 but there’s also something special about seeing a paint “in action” in a video as it moves through the water over the paper, and I love hearing your analyses while swatching, like in this video 😊 I really like the swatches you inserted in this video where you had mixed some of these colours together; it makes it easier to understand what using that pigment from this brand would bring to a painting 😊
Thank you as always for your amazing videos! 😊
That aqua green is also in my palette and so different from any other color I’ve found from soooo many brands. I don’t stick to any one brand, so Windsor & Newton have a few of my favorites. I also love rose madder genuine and don’t care that it’s fugitive. If I start thinking “I’m gonna sell this” my work goes south in a big hurry. I have to paint for me and my love of watercolor, staying in the moment w/my piece. I get fantastic results in my sketchbook and am very happy working this way.
Thank you. Can you please provide a list of the colours you finally selected? I chose transparent yellow and Aqua green too, though the now discontinued Quin gold has even deeper mass tones. I like mixing it with Opera Rose which although slightly fugitive, creates a lovely grey like a wood pigeons breast feathers in his courtship plumage - very slightly pinkish. It's easy to tip the grey into any colour by varying quantities of the separate colours. I'm thinking of changing to use.the more predictable Winsor Blue Green Shade depending on the subject in a painting. Manganese Blue Hue and Opera Rose give the post amazing pale violets, while Quin Violet is so intense it's unparalleled and is perfect for pansies. I'm changing over from Naples yellow (eith white added) to Naples Yellow Deep and add Titanium White to suit the subject. I've just added Lightvred to my palette for earthy red roofs though I also chose Perylene Maroon. In all, I have 32 colours which is a lot. I've divided a 12 pan old Daler Rowney palette for sketching into 3s for each pan, glued with plastic dividers. That gives me upto 36 colours. TgecWinsor and Newton professional paints give me enough pigment to select half a dozen for any landscape or seascape. Cobalt Turquoise Light and Cobalt green made it in. I only have one mixed paint. 50:50 paynes grey and hookers green to give me a super dark green (i call Debs green). I'm using both colours quite a lot so that's my alternative to perylene green.
I love my slip it in my pocket palette I just wish they still made this structure. It has 2 brush Wells and I use eyelash glue filled with masking fluid and a couple of shaved sides pencils.
I’ve had along 15 year Hiatus from watercolour. I’ve been quite surprised with the prices and interesting colours, Metallica, iridescents , duo-Chrome, minerals etc. The price increase is rather shocking too. When I put my paints away ... Winsor Newton watercolours were the best of the best...
So I am so very pleased to see you feature W&N.. some wonderful new colours in the brand. Thank you for the swatching ... very helpful. Cheers from 🇨🇦
Be still my beating heart! 💖 This is a beautiful pallette and as a UK based artist W&N is the most readily available professional paint brand.
As someone looking to upgrade to pro-grade from student, this palette very much speaks to me. Time for me to draw up a budget!
I noticed your reviews on amazon (and was even motivated by them to buy some sets) but these video reviews are amazing! so much depth
My fav W&N Pro colors are their Cerulean Blue (more turquoise and granulating than other cerulean), Winsor Violet (more subtle than other dioxazines) and their yellows tend to have a wonderful glow. I still mourn the discontinued versions of yellows, New Gamboge PY153 and Transparent Yellow PY97, both so transparent and glowing, but I still like their Winsor Yellow and Lemon Yellow. I've been wanting to try some of the colors you highlighted, like Caput Mortuum, Smalt and some of the newer colors. Thanks for sharing your impression!
Oh wow, I wish I’d thought to learn about the pigments and science behind watercolour paints print to buying my palette and additional paints. Never mind. I’m super super new. Never drawn or painted anything ever. I love watching you swatch so much that I think I’ll just swatch instead of painting things haha
Purple is my favorite color; this background is the bomb!!!! Thanks for the highlights from this brand, it's fun to try, but so expensive here in the US so this is good guidance.
Again love your in-depth approach. Also hadn’t thought about establishing a primary trio when trying a new brand, makes lots of sense! Thanks
Your channel is what I've needed and didn't know I needed. I've wasted so much money on pallettes that were recommended by top channels and now I realize I need a different approach after using them and being disappointed. Newbie mistakes! Thanks for the hard work you have put in from this new subscriber, I'll be sure to follow carefully along 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Nice review. At first I thought WN was kind of ho-hum, but have really come to appreciate them for their usefulness in botanical and landscape paintings. And they layer so beautifully. They may not be as flashy as Daniel Smith, But they can be wonderful.
I’m o e of those people who only have a few tubes or pans of W&N, so I appreciate this look at some of their more unique paints. Thank you!
I have brought almost every colour you have mentioned on your suggestions here and I must say most of these are my favourites. Thank you for this video. 😊
I love their rose dore and their Payne’s Gray.
So awesome! What a gorgeous collection of colours. I love how you review paints and then do a painting. It really demonstrates how the colours can be used. ❤️
Love your review; more information about pigments than expected and that was a delight.
So many lovely colours!! I could easily become broke from buying so many of the pretty paints you show on your channel 😂 You show each paint’s individual strengths and suddenly I want them all! 🙈
Hi Kim, I’ve been watching watercolour reviews for years and somehow never happened upon yours. Your in-depth knowledge of the pigments is second to none. And your demonstrations are such a wonderful complement! Brings it all to life… These colours look amazing. I have very few Winsor and Newton colours but this may change! Do you mind if I ask how you amassed such an encyclopedic knowledge of pigments? This seems like a big black box to me. Hard to know how to create a framework from which to build. Thanks again.
I've been painting and running lightfast tests on every set I've bought for the past decade, so there has been a ton of trial and error and slow growth of knowledge gained. It's been helpful to be dedicated to comparing the same pigments against each new brand I try over time. For those who don't want to collect a ton of pigments to do in depth evaluations, I would just start with basic info you can find online such as top recommended pigment lists or pages that list pigment numbers and if that ingredient code is fugitive. You can find stuff like that on sites like my own at kimcrick.com , handprint or art creation database. Any time you're debating a paint purchase see if someone experienced with watercolor has reviewed it, I set up a brand review page on my site for all my swatch cards and notes each time I evaluate a brand. Hope it helps, happy painting :)
Your switching vids are the BEST!! I will definitely be getting the Cobalt Green Deep to try out. Thanks so much! 🙏😊
Absolutely love your gradient background. Would you consider doing a tutorial on this & other gradient backgrounds? It would be eternally appreciated!❤️ Thanking you from the bottom of my heart!
thank you
Sooooo much information...will have to watch more than just a few times. I have most of these and i will have to get out to paint along...now that will be a LOT of rewinding and pausing....thank you for showing all you have found.
I hope that's a good thing lol :) As a viewer, I often feel like my time is limited and appreciate info-packed condensed videos, so I try to deliver a lot in a short amount of time for everyone. Happy painting!
Definitely a good thing..never thanked anyone for anything i wasn't thankful for...lol...i have many many questions. Will have to read your web, listen to all the videos on you tube and watch everything..some of them i am sure you will answer..bit right now i am looking for a lightfast alternative for prussian blue...one of my favorites. And by the by...that was a quick reply.....thanks...
@@marjoriejohnson6535 Do you happen to have any brand's Indanthrone Blue, sometimes called Delft Blue PB60? While not an exact match it is a very deep night sky sort of blue that you may find helpful. Is Prussian a color you like straight out of the tube, or is it for mixing a certain other color like greens?
Yes, and pb 60 is as close as i get...l have always loved prussian blue and have tried for the longest time to find a replacement.. i use it straight from tube , in mixes and it is in my 15 necessity palette. I have also tried some of the handmades trying to replace. Jasper stardust came close but is way to granulating with a limited batch lapis and riverdale has one close but no cigar and i dont have a pigment number for it. I have tried the phathalos with a touch of tint and windsor blue..both green and red shade also with a touch of tint. I guess i need to bite the bullet and either be happy with a replacement or accept the fact that the color will shift when exposed to light. At this point in life i would like to stick with lightfast so that the paintings i do for my grandchildren and great grandchildren will hold up as i am sure they will be more concerned with making a living than in preserving what GG did for them years ago.
Question...there is a youtuber that checked lightfastness for prussians. She had little fading with daVinci...going to do my own. After mixing pb60 etc...not the same. I use prussian for mixing ( love the browns and the greens) and watereddown for our grey skys in binghamton n.y. area.
This was such an interesting and informative video. Thank you for all the pigment information and swatches - so helpful!
What a great video and new subscriber now. I use mostly DS paints since I live near their factory and store, but I will add a couple more WN after watching this. Py 150 and Pbk31 are always on my palette. I think my most interesting personal split primary palette ever had PY129 and PY150 as my yellows. I missed having an easy to grab mid yellow, but, oh, the mixing range with those two! Off to check out more of your videos!
Thanks, great review & saved me $$$! Will definitely get some of these special pigments!
I’m putting together my first professional grade watercolor palette and this was invaluable, thank you.
Thank you for this overview! Beautiful colours.
Last Christmas I treated myself to one 5ml tube of W&N professional, doubted for days what colour to choose, and suddenly I picked Brown Madder. And I love it! To me it's brick colour, and now I really have to stop trying to put it in every painting I do, lol.
For some unusual pigments you could take a look at Jackman's handmade watercolours in the UK. From Rembrandt I have a tube of PBr8 called umber greenish, and that's a lovely lovely colour too. A non-red umber. I played with it and phthalo blue and brown madder, and got all these thundersky colours, yay!
Kimberly I just loved the tutorial on water colors. Thank you so much. Love Terri Simmers.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it :D
I just started painting and went with Winsor and Newton professional watercolors. I absolutely love your selections, this is a beautiful palette.
I can't get enough of your channel! Thank you for all that you do for us learning folk! Xx
Beautifully explained video. Thank you so much! Most helpful as my favorite brand of watercolors is W&N.❤️
I loved watching you paint the parakeet!
Ah, I really miss your videos! I truly hoe you are well, Kim ♥
Thank you for your technical analysis... add a new facette to my new hobby!
WN is my fav. They were some of the first I bought 30+ years ago and they are still the majority of my watercolors. I like their history & tradition.
Lovely video! I use Windsor & Newton pans. I feel this was easy to follow and very helpful. Loved the illustration! Much appreciated!
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What a wonderful presentation of Color's, Congratulations 💜🌺💐🌹
Another wonderful video!💗That madder brown is so pretty!
I found out about WN transparent orange from this video and it's sooooo good! I'm interested in Aqua as well since it also appears to be unique in the world of watercolor. It's also great advice to get pans of potter's pink and other colors that dry "rock hard" Thank you for going through all these paints in such granular detail.
Maimeriblu's phthalo turquoise (they label it PB15:4) is so similar to Aqua Green that at first I thought I made a mistake by accidentally using the same tube
Schminke introduced first that transparent orange based on pigment DPP. It is staining but is valuable to warm up a painting through a transparent wash. Schminke ref is Lasurorange 218
W&N's Winsor Lemon is a unique pigment I've only found in the hard to find Daniel Smith Lemon Yellow, and W&N's Brown Madder is also a fantastic unique color. I started with W&N tubes and have slowly been moving away to other less expensive companies except for Payne's gray, in addition to the two aforementioned colors. I just enjoy the deep navy tone of W&N's Payne's gray.
Schmincke has a lovely version of PY175 (Winsor Lemon), but they call it Chrome Yellow Lemon (hue). I haven't tried Daniel Smith's version yet, but I look forward to comparing them. I think they might be the only 3 companies to offer it right now. Thanks for pointing that rare one out :) Over time I've moved away from buying many expensive brands because of how many affordable brands there are out there, figured it was about time to break down which colors can't really be found elsewhere.
Kimberly Crick Art ah thanks for the tip, I didn’t realize Schmincke has it too!
Whoops! There are more :D I just stumbled onto another PY175! I was surprised to see it in Lukas watercolor, as their Aureolin (Hue, being their lightfast replacement for old Aureolin PY40). I also noticed Holbein Imidazolone Lemon and Maimeri Perm Lemon are as well, so that brings it to 6 companies we now know carry this pigment (Schmincke, W&N, DS, Lukas, Holbein and Maimeri). Thanks for making me pay some attention to this lovely yellow. I was particularly thrown off by the Aureolin title for Lukas though, that I found at www.jacksonsart.com/en-us/lukas-1862-watercolour-paint-24ml-aureolin?___store=jacksonsart_us&acc=c0f168ce8900fa56e57789e2a2f2c9d0
Kimberly Crick Art oooo Holbein, awesome! So really quite a few artist brands have it, and all use a different name. Sennelier is notably absent, as is M Graham.
Also, I really like their granulating Lemon Yellow Deep!
Definitely their most unique paint, I agree. Also the permanent alizarin crimson deserves a mention for its value range and transparency, which they somehow concocted from PR206
@@emilimo701 I kind of like that one, but it became a bit dull in my 4 month lightfastness test. I like their Permanent Carmine, and that one did retain a bit more vibrancy. I love their Quinacridone Gold hue for how it mixes!
I use W&N paints a lot and thought I had a good range of colours. You have introduced me to some lovely new ones and I think I may be shopping for some more soon!
this is very helpful, some really beautiful colors you chose. That color wheel pallette is great
Ooh, this is a fun one! I've not tried W&N yet, but I might pick up a few pans or small tubes from my local art shop - I like the look of the the perylene violet. I'm always tempted by unique pigments, too, so I'll almost certainly get the ones W&N have.
I love the colors you chose for your palette! I find myself wanting very "non-standard" palettes right now, though I haven't quite figured out what that means for me yet. Some shimmers, some pastels, fun colors that aren't in your standard intro sets... I don't care if I can't mix the full colour spectrum, you know? I paint mostly loose florals and exclusively to have fun, I don't necessarily need a lot of versatility or even lightfastness right now.
Also! I love how you painted your palette map/swatch card, with the three stages of dilution. Makes it easier to see the shades when they're isolated like that rather than a gradient, at least for me. I'll definitely incorporate that in my own future palette maps!
I love having that masstone to diluted range in swatches, sometimes I have a hard time visualizing all those values when I do color charts without it. I'm right there with you in the desire for creating some non-standard fun palettes. I want to just play with all the unique fun stuff, I think I'll do this for more brands just to see what I find :D
W&N have different grades of their paints. cotman is their student grade and it differs from their professional grade. for the best experience try the professional grade from W&N 😊. in case you didn't knew. if knew forget my comment 🤭
@@BrendaArtist I did know, but thank you anyway! I'd rather be told one time too many than accidentally buy a less suitable product because I didn't know better ❤️
what a beautiful painting. you truly captured how pretty budgies are, reminds me of my own hehe. such good review, I actually got some of my Roman Szmal selections bec of you, thanks for what you do
Wonderful new find. I really enjoy how you review.
Thank you for your kind comment, I'm glad the video was enjoyable! Happy painting :)
I'm a beginner... and when I bought the DS and WNP Dot cards I compared and swatched 'em all... I'm in love with Aqua Green, greens, ph. Turquoise... shades of blue... Winsor Blue ( green shade) poppy Winsor red... Cobalt green deep..Prussian Blue - Ultramarine... DS's Ph. Turquoise, Ph. Green, Quinacridone Gold, Q. Lilac, Q. Pink, Sennelier Magenta and for a new try at florals with Dr. Martens INKS ... Q. Magenta, yellow, violet, and iridescent Jade... beautiful color... wish I could find an equivalent watercolor that is closest to the jade. I think it's a Sennelier shade...
Just found your site and loved your insight on WNP. I see other paints you previewed!!! AWESOME. I have a lot to learn... but just love watching artists create amazing works. Bless you for sharing, a California gramma ❄❄❄💕
Winsor and Newton are my favourite, love that Cobalt Blue Deep, thank you for the helpful video
I have smalt. Every time I see it in person it makes me gasp. One of the nicest colours I’ve ever seen. Annoyingly I’m also in love with rose madder genuine, which is not lightfast and has no substitute I’ve yet found.
Paint price shouldn’t be used entirely to judge quality, it varies so much depending on your location. I try and assume all professional brands are similar in quality, it just comes down to local availability and cost.
I appreciate your knowledge and sharing it with us.
If I buy winsor and newton watercolor tubes to pour into pans, I ALWAYS add a few drops of glycerin to it in the pan and sir it in with one of my bookbinding needles. They rewet like any schmincke watercolor poured would. If I put winsors potter pink or Viridian into pans... I add an extra drop. Now when I say drops, I don't mean a big drop straight from the glycerin bottle lol. Plus I only do full pans, but I use very small drops from a 1ml pipe. Anyway, have a great one 🙂
I think I’ll just stick to my mejello and white nights. The watercolors are beautiful though. I love your primary choices!
You can't really beat how good of a deal Mission Gold and White Nights are, but it was fun to see which colors were the most unique from Winsor & Newton. I look forward to exploring that for other brands as well, I'll be sure to touch on the awesomeness of that pure pigment set from Mijello for sure :)
When swatching my W&N full dotcard yesterday, I found some reeeeeally nice colors among them. I already own a couple of W&N colors, one pan, the rest in tubes, because thats usually way cheaper. Sadly there's that whole issue with the different formulation of pan and tube colors. A real big bummer for me!
Regardless, I'll be getting the Rose Dore, Rose Madder Gen, Smalt and cobalt green for sure, they are marvelous and pretty special colors imo. 🤩🤩
I really gotta add them to my collection, but I am unsure yet if I'll be getting them in tubes or pans.
I’m glad I’m not the only one totally smitten with their Rose Dore! I know it’s just a weak version of two paints, I already have, mixed together... but it is total perfection😍🙌💭
I only recently found that Smalt by W&N and I absolutely love it. Great selection of colours. Thanks for sharing 👍🏼
Smalt is equivalent to Schminke ultramarine violet. W&N ultramarine violet is more reddish
What a beautiful little parrot
Extremely helpful, thanks!
Beautiful! Thank you for this very informative video. I swore to myself that I won’t buy anymore paint, but your video has convinced me otherwise. 😉
I tell myself the same thing sometimes, but then I find such interesting pigments :)
Thanks for such an informative video! I just ordered a few of my first W& N pigments and I tried to pick ones that were unique.(or hard to find available in other brands right now like potters pink) Happy to see my picks were in your list! I am hoping the transparent orange will be lightfast as I really loved the look and qualities if that color.
You'll be happy to hear that their transparent orange is very lightfast, in fact one of the most lightfast orange pigments I've ever tested :D
Very helpful video. I too noticed they have some really nice colors that are better bthannin other brands, cobalt teal light being on of them, also green gold. I'm love to see them compared to White Nights. I just bought their Caput Mortum and Perylene violet. So it would be great to know which colors you recommend from one or the other brands where they both carry them, having that White Nights are much cheaper.
Thanks. This is the best review. Color chart is the best!
Thank you for being so detailed! I feel like I've learned so much from this one video. Jackson's are having a W&N sale at the moment so I was looking to get one of these, both to try an artist-grade paint (as my current 12-set is student-grade) and also to expand my colours. I might go for that lovely Cobalt Turquoise Light! I agree with what you said as I've really struggled to mix something like that with the colours I have. I can get a colour in the general region of it but nothing near as bright/clear. Thanks again, this was really helpful :)
Kim you are an invaluable resource, not just your paint testing! May I ask what you use for your rubber swatch stamps? As in is it an ink or a paint? I see that it doesn't move when you paint over it.
Haha, I didn't know paint swatching could be ASMR! Very calming and enjoyable.
I use archival ink pad, a waterproof black ink made for rubber stamping. It dries super fast too, I can watercolor over it within a few minutes.
@@KimberlyCrick Thank you, I appreciate the response. I actually really like your swatch cards, they are a bit ASMR to me, mostly because I just love color! Also I've been bragging about your site all over, wherever I can basically. 😄
Impressed! I don't own any W&N as I had heard they were difficult to re-wet (compared to M. Graham and Daniel Smith). However, I have admired / thought about purchasing Caput Moruum for some time. Didn't realize W&N had so many granulating colours (which I like). Would enjoy knowing more about W&N Van Dyke Brown - another I've considered.
W&N used to have a different formula for pans and tubes, sometimes resulting in the DIY drying being harder to re-wet than the pre-made pan formula designed for that. A good thing to keep in mind is that M.Graham and similar paints like Sennelier or White Nights have honey in the binder which performs as a humectant, so they retain more moisture than other brands. Some pigments are hard to re-wet in any brand, Cerulean, Viridian and Cobalt Violet for example. I am not a fan of their Van Dyke Brown since it's a mixture of two common pigments, a smooth red iron oxide PR101 and a smooth black PBk6 so I haven't found a good use for it. Happy painting :)
Lovely budgerigar!
You surprised me with a couple of those colors! I consider myself a total pigment nerd and there were a couple colors that weren't on my radar. I'm not a huge fan of Winsor and Newton, mainly because I think they are overpriced and rely far too much on their long history in the UK. And then there's the issue of the cadmium-free colors not giving pigment information. That's NOT okay. In addition I find it silly that they don't want you using their tube colors in dry form, since that is what the rest of the world does--that's bitten me more than once. One of which was PV14--an incredible color--but a rock when dried from tube paint. All told, I only buy Winsor and Newton when they have a color or a version of a color I can't get anywhere else. Otherwise I avoid them. All that said, I'm always up for watching you paint swatches and then a painting. As usual, you knock my socks off with your skills. And I truly don't think there is such a thing as too much granulation. Just saying! Love your work! And I guess I should confess that after seeing how easily your full pan of PV14 activated, that I'm considering investing in a pan of it for myself. That color is just so special!
Exactly my sentiments, overall I have ignored this brand for a while because of how many lower cost alternatives there are. While working on a pigment database I realized how much I love finding unique colors regardless of brand though, and I'm glad I took the time to re-visit Winsor and Newton. They did bother me with that whole cadmium free color fiasco and not properly labeling some things as "hues". I'm glad I became aware of their pan vs tubes differences before getting those 4 pan colors, because they do work amazingly well compared to the tubes. I appreciate you watching even though W&N has let us down before, I was happy to find a few hidden gems within this line. LOL I love granulation, but I have totally overdone it before to a point that even my eyes didn't know where to be drawn looking at my own art :D Maybe one day I'll master the art of balancing granulating-everything!
@@KimberlyCrick LOL. I think that's an awesome thing to take the time to do. And I was really pleasantly surprised by some of these colors--enough that I just watched this video through a second time, pausing to look at each swatch carefully. I may or may not have made some notes. Heh. I think there are a few hidden gems there, as you say, and they may find their way into my palettes. Thanks again for all you do!
W &N are only over priced in the US.If you shop wisely here in the UK they are HALF the price of Daniel Smith which never seem to have offers. I put my watercolours in pans...had not read until today that I was not supposed to...and have not had any trouble re-wetting them. My two Horadam colours are lovely but the caps are difficult to get back on and I end up with a twisted tube. I have only tried a couple of the special DS shades (Moonglow and Cascade Green) lovely but of limited use.
@@annefisher5381 Agreed. In the UK W&N is much cheaper than DS and others. A professional set of 24 W&N can be purchased for less than £60 and a 12 set of Cotman can be purchased for £10. I have panned my W&N tubes and a quick spray a few minutes before painting solves any issue of rewetting. I like DS paints but was disappointed when I panned them as 4 of the colours shrunk considerably with one of them shrinking to brittle fragments. Given the DS price tag I won’t be purchasing them again. Currently playing with a Holbein test set and liking them though it will be a while before I can afford those.
@@Kyomiibrown The Daniel Smith shrinking issue is just one more thing their rabid fans choose to ignore. I was shocked when I panned mine. It's excessive and I too had some crumble or fall out.
Amazing video. Thank you for sharing
I have to say that I personally didn't think you over-granulated the painting. I paid really close attention during the painting part of the video because of your concerns. I'll bet if you took a subbie poll, you find that most of us think the painting was lovely as it is. Full Disclosure: The fact that I ADORE PURPLE, may have some bearing on my assessment. You know what? F*ck That! I think it's great painting and that's all she wrote! So there! 😄😄😄😄😄
Oh yeah, I agree with you about W&N too. I don't use them much because of the prices and difficulty finding pigment info on their site and dot cards. Rather than worrying about corporate espionage they should spend their time improving their Cotman line. Just sayin.
Thank you so much! I have had the same frustrations with W&N, and Cotman has some weird quirks they should definitely improve. LOL I love that Ultramarine Violet so much, it makes me want to do dramatic granulating monochromatic studies with it since it goes to such a deep purple :D
Such an interesting palette. I've been wanting to create a nice granulation palette but I just never got around to it. I can definitely add a few of the ones here to that project and still have a beautiful unique colour. I never thought of doing this before - Are you going to do one for Daniel Smith's watercolour paints? I tfeel like that would be an amazing idea! :D
I plan to do a full range swatch and favorites palette set up for Schmincke, Sennelier and Daniel Smith in the near future :D
Fantastic review! You've intrigued me with some of these!
The only Winsor and Newton I have is a small sketch palette of Cotman, it was so cheap and small (like 13 euros) that it was ideal for me to take to the beach as I know it will get full of sand and it would pain me for this to happen to my other paints. There is a lot of divided opinions on Cotman as they are not professional but all I can say is that they are very pigmented and work fine for sketching in a sketchbook. As for their professional paints like the ones you have here, I appreciate seeing them, there are some nice colours and I really want to try their cobalt violet at some point, the aqua green looks nice too though similar to others I already have. I'm not sure what it is, but as I've said before, they just don't excite me enough to pay all that money for them and I would prefer to spend it on Schmincke or Daniel Smith
It's likely I'll do this for Schmincke next, I've been putting of Daniel Smith a bit because their catalog is over 250 colors and it seems so overwhelming lol. I'll get there :D
@@KimberlyCrick I'll look forward to seeing that!
I have most of these, i think i picked up at least 5 when they did a re-release of discontinued colors. I really like the cobalt violet, maybe i got lucky but my panned tube rewets beautifully. I also notice that some of the same colors look and react differently from tube to tube, its a bit concerning.
That sometimes happens with the more natural granulating colors, I've seen batch to batch variances in my paints from Daniel Smith too. Often it's because the ingredients came from a whole new mine/area the mineral was dug up.
Thank you for that tip about pans. I have particularly wanted to try WN's Potter's Pink and Cobalt Violet since many people prefer it to Daniel Smith's (which is what I have)
W&N...way more rewettable than DS...love it...hope you get it one day soon!
Schmincke Pottpers Pink...very nice and rewets well...I love it better than WN
thank you doing this. of course now I need a few more colours, LOL Thanks again, be well. P.S. Love your art and videos
W&N's pan version of Cobalt Violet (PV14) is amazing! There is definitely a difference between that one and the one in the tube. If you prefer filling your pans/palettes from tubes I would instead recommend Rembrandt's PV14, they are pretty much identical in hue and it seems to rewet well, also you're supposed to be able to find that one in 20ml tubes. I just got it, so I'm not sure how I will like it over time. For now I still prefer my W&N PV14 (for some reason), but that might just be that I'm biased since I already love it. I guess I'll see. ☺️
@@alisonb3850 That's awesome! Thank you for sharing that! I'm so excited to explore it! 😄
I love this video. Hopeful for other brands :)
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Thankyou for the tutorial winsor is the best
I love your colour wheel, but I live in the UK ! This would be so useful.
3:12 could you refer a resource for art terms in watercolor like "earth tones" here? one wouldn't think blue is considered an earth tone, which means im missing criteria when it comes to this definition in this context.
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I've discovered I have a weak spot for the deep shades like sepia, indigo, payne's grey etc so the Perylenes are calling me... but I think I will try to mix something similar first. I got the dot cards with the intention of using them as a reference but haven't played with it yet. WN professional is the only artist quality paint I have local to me in individual tubes and even then only about 60 shades.. the only other being Grumbacher Academy. Anything else I have to order online. The WN price (some are $11 for only a 5ml tube) is very high though so I don't see myself buying many of them.
Thank you for sharing. It's really helpful.
Also, are you planning on doing a Winsor and Newton Lightfast Video?
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So strange these are so expensive in the USA. A 5ml tube of W&N costs about or less than two White Nights pans here, around the equivalent of 5$ or so.
I think you made a great selection of their colours. Even though I don't usually use sap green, I find theirs to be the best premade out there, absolutely great for portraiture. I am also very fond of their newly released Perm. carmine which uses only PV19 and is a perfect alizarin alternative, their cobalt green deep is unnecessary but very fun, and their pb16 is a staple for me (though it would be completely redundant in your palette that already uses aqua blue). Oh, and their pr264 is easily the best version of this colours I could find, much less dull than other makes.
Yeah, crazy expensive here, with many of the tubes higher priced than even Daniel Smith. I assume because of the high cost of importing them. I had hoped to be able to get them for less through Jackson's, but they say they have a trade agreement and can't ship them here. Agreed about the PB16, which is actually one of my favorite colors, but I have it in other brands and thought Aqua Green may be a better choice as something only W&N carries. Thank you for your favorites list, I'll take another look at those colors :)
@@KimberlyCrick W&N maintains also a website where you can place orders. It might be worth checking out.
Mesmerizing
Love your product reviews, for me mostly have DS, but I do have a few of the W&N Pro. Would love to order from your site, but unfortunately I live overseas. 😩
Beautiful
Does the Manganese Blue have the glow in the dark under a blacklight qualities?
This is great! Thx for sharing