Swatching the Holbein Pastel Watercolor set!
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Hello sweet friends, today I'll be swatching the Holbein Pastel Watercolor set that was part of my Black Friday art haul and I'll also be using my new Muse - Lamp Light 100% cotton Japanese watercolour paper that I also purchased, to do so. I really hope you enjoy the video ❤️
The materials I use in the video are listed below:
Muse - Lamp Light watercolor paper block: amzn.to/3FM74Ku
Holbein Pastel Watercolor set of 12:partner.discov...
DaVinci watercolor brush: www.jacksonsar...
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My god,Lily!how I love that sketchbook spread with the Two little birds!🤗🤗🤩🥰I hope to be able to buy it soon!❤❤❤The idea of the giveaway is great,too😁
I think the darker colors (emerald green, compose blue) can be used to mix with with the lighter colors to get slightly darker pastel values. Sometimes, I feel the problem with a pastel color set is that you can't create depth or contrast and the darker green and blues may be useful for when we paint pastel florals or landscapes. It would be interesting if you could also create a color mixing chart using these pastel watercolors 😃🙏
Hi. I just bought this set as a gift to myself. 😊. Thanks so much for the swatching. I truly love all the colors. I think it's a very good mix. The paper, though. I had paper do this before and did not know that it was called sizing of the paper. I thought i was doing something wrong. Your video was very informative. ❤
That paper looks...tempermental. But the swatching was lovely to watch--the colors are delectable!
I appreciate your frank remarks regarding the paper and watercolors. Thank you. Enjoy your holiday.
Thank you Marte! Happy holidays!! ❤🎄😊
I just purchased this box, so I’m grateful I found your video to see how pretty these colors are! Thank you for the swatches ❤
Hello. Thanks for the swatches!
You’re so very welcome 😊 More paint swatches to come hopefully very soon! 😊🙌❤️
They look like gouache to me. I’m a beginner. I love all the colors. Thanks.
@@cindykirby7673 Hello! 😊They do indeed look like something inbetween gouache and watercolour, you are right! ❤😊
I am so glad this video showed on my iPhone home screen. I am one that gravitates towards the bright “in your face” colors. Artistic differences are what keep art continually fresh and new. 😊 Lily, you are such a delight to listen to and for me, the absolute highlight of this video was seeing your art work, which you showed at the very beginning of this video. I would absolutely adore seeing more of it, if that is a direction you’d like your channel to go. Thanks for sharing these yummy pastel watercolors. Wishing you a new year filled with blessings.
You are so very kind, thank you!! Hope you are having a wonderful holiday season, thank you so much for being here! ❤❤😊
Lol. I was also thinking of those green mints that look just like your swatch. I think I'll buy me a bag of them next time I'm at the store. Lol. ☺☺💖💖
It is the sizing, some people wet and stretch to remove sizing. That of course would be worth doing if they were large pieces for specific art work. As your an artist I'm positive you have your hands clean before starting, so it's not oils. I've seen this before with other papers, definitely splotching from the sizing. I do like this set. Would also love to see a lot more of your artwork.
the moment you put the compose green on the paper, I was SO excited, because I love love love LOVE minty colors, and it's the exact same shade as my weighted stuffed animal that I have for panic attacks.
Minty colours are lovely! ❤️🙌😊
Lovely lady, I just bought this set and was curious as to how they looked on paper and there you were!!!! I'm learning to mix colors so if I don't like a particular color as it is, I will try adding another color and make something new. Such fun!!! God bless you!!!
Thank you so much Diana!❤️ Enjoy your colour discovery journey!🤗❤️
This is a good video. I was curious about the colours in this set so thanks for swatching them...also I love love love how you make your swatch cards! If I was better at drawing I might give it a go, but sadly, I'm not. 😆 It has however put the idea in my mind to try out personalizing my swatch charts to make them more interesting. I think a 2022 favourites video with swatches would be fantastic...or one favourites vid and one favourites swatching vid...I would watch it/them anyways. In any case I'm looking forward to the next one. 😁
So many lovely suggestions for videos thank you!☺️❤️ I am leaning towards to creating a favourites video for before the New Year, hopefully you will enjoy it 🙌☺️♥️
@@lilymoonart looking forward to it!
yeah double sided paper is perfect fo practice, saves money too, but then the sizing problem would just get frustrating
very odd about the sizing, but its good to see it happening
Have a very blessed 😇 Christmas 💒
Thank you! ❤Have a wonderful Christmas too!! 🎄😊🙌
Instead of abandoning a colour, why not alter it a bit with another colour like I see in so many colour mixing videos? Greens are easily toned down for example & made to look more natural. I’m not a big fan of mixing colours from scratch but why not tinker a bit? Just a thought. Thank you so much for the video. Cheers from Australia.
A great question paintboxplayer, thank you for asking! ☺I think the reason I steer away from some colors completely is not only because of their hue, but because of other characteristics they carry, like for example being too staining or having too much white in them. Pthalos for example stain quite a lot, and I avoid them mostly as i work slowly on paper and like to have time to move the paint around, and no amount of mixing a pthalo is going to take that staining ability away. A paint having too much white in it, from experience is going to most likely not handle mixing very well, as it results in muddiness. So what I am trying to say i guess is I take into consideration not just the hue when I see a color but all its other qualities as well. ☺ I hope this kind of explained my reasoning! Thank you so much for watching!! ❤
I forgot to use Patty instead of Patricia. Oops!
I wonder if stretching this paper prior to use would help with the sizing issues
I really like your borders for swatching. Is that a stamp or freehand? Another wonderful demonstration 🎉 on the water paper and watercolors ❤
I draw all the borders, I'm so glad you like them!❤️☺️❤️
Thank you for this swatching video. Like you, I only like a few of the colors. As far as the paper, too much sizing is the reason I don't use Fabriano paper. Arches is my favorite. Merry Christmas to you!
Arches, hot pressed is my favorite paper to work on too! 😊🙌 Merry Christmas to you too! ❤🎄
Lovely paint and swatches. Great explanation on the paper. I wonder if the Japanese paper would work better with Japanese Gansai paint?
I was wondering the same thing too! I'll try using my Gansai paint on them to see what happens! 😊🙌❤️
It looks to be more of the oils from your hand, rather than the sizing. You only had beading problems where you rested your hand to paint. So you never had a problem with the circles, but you always had a problem with the diamonds. That is where you rested your hand. You first noticed it in the Naples Yellow, which is where your hand was resting as you painted the pinks. I knew if you had any problems with the Compose Green diamond- it would be because you had to paint more of the Naples Yellow to combat the beading (that's where you rested your hand).
that is possible, that's what happens to me sometimes.. the thing about "expired" paper is they go bad in some parts more quickly than the others lol.and it is usually because of handling and storage..and of course where you live (humidity). I had a watercolor paper book and it started on the corners, understandable. I've had sheets that went bad some parts in the center... too bad there's no way to know if the sizing has gone bad until you soak the paper. Some soak the entire sheet and hold it up against the light, you'd see the parts that gone bad, parts that have become too waxy and reject water and parts that have become too soft like ordinary copy paper..
It is possible! I have just never had this happen before while resting my hand on the paper when I paint so that's why I assumed it was the sizing! Thank you so much for the feedback, it will be something I will consider as possible cause for this sort of paper behavior if it ever happens again. 🙌😊
Ok I’m new at watercolors and I see that this set has a couple with cadmium in them. Do you use any precautions when using watercolors with this?
I don't know much about paper sizing, but it seemed to me the beading was caused by a bit of oil, perhaps from the people who handled it at the factory??
Possible! Will try the other pages to see how they perform and if the problem repeats. Happy holidays!! 😊❤
Giveaway! I’d love to paint robin’s eggs with the horizon blue.
Oh no I was having high expectations of the paper💔 maybe try and put a wash of water and let it dry before you use it, just not to let it go to waste. Love the paint btw 😍 giveaway sounds great! But if it's too much trouble maybe donating might be easier
Yes, the paper does seem to have really good potential but I think I need to figure out its quirks first! ❤️😊 Happy holidays!!!
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Just the video I was looking for, thank you. Im thinking of buying a set of the pastels but Im not sure about it. Im still learning about watercolours and use W&N mainly, transparent. I like to paint realistic looking flowers with layers, glazing and dropping in colour etc for a soft look. Im wondering if these would work for that technique due to the added white paint. ???? I hope you answer me. :-) thank you. Watching from Australia.
Hi Lindy! If I am using a layering technique I usually stick to transparent watercolours as they allow the white from the paper to reflect the light which makes the colours glow. 😊With colours that have been already mixed with white, layering can be difficult, you can dilute the colour heavily which helps but there are only so many layers you can build up. Personally, I would stick to transparent colours and not ones which have white added, just to play it safe. Hope this info helps with your decision!! Thank you so much for being here, sending lots of love to Australia! ❤
@@lilymoonart Thank you so much. I thought that might be your reply. I really love the pastels, but looks like I wont be buying them. Thanks again. Australia sends love right back to you. :-)
Is it possible that where your hand/fingers are resting on the paper as you swatch is where the paper is acting differently? It could maybe be just some natural skin oils? Pardon me if you aren’t actually touching the paper, it’s difficult to tell if you are resting your hand all the way on the paper. I’ve had this happen, so just a thought. I enjoyed the video very much and am subscribing for sure.
Hi! It could be a possibility, though I haven't had that happen on another watercolor paper before. I think more experimenting with the paper is absolutely necessary, which I'll be doing for sure! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and thank you so much for subscribing! 😊😊❤❤
@@lilymoonart good luck!
@@PamelaStrobhar Thank you! 😊Happy Holidays!!! 🎄😊❤
@@lilymoonart aww! Thank you! Happy Holidays to you as well!☃️
I would be tempted to just rinse that paper under the faucet to remove the sizing
Whatever works for you is fine. I love all of the colors but I live too far to participate in the giveaway. Thank you for sharing. I will put this set in my wish list. I hope your throat gets better.
Patty, when I do a giveaway I'll be shipping worldwide, so I'm sure you could eneter if you wish! 🙌😊Thank you for your kind wishes, wishing you and your loved ones the merriest of holidays!! ❤️🙌💗
Seems like the paper is bad. I always figure out how to best use different papers but if it’s not good, it sometimes just isn’t. Worth checking with different materials/techniques and such but also you can decide it’s sub par and just Don’t buy it again. Could also be a bad batch. This set could also have been better more curated and cohesive. Seems more like picking from what they already had to make a forced pastel set rather than created as a cohesive set. There is a difference. I make my own custom mixes using white and buff titanium for ‘vintage’ pastels. The intensity needs to be factored in.
Then again someone else might love the paper or have a technique to use it perfectly.
I’d say it’s a decent pastel set but could be better. Could have been a more useful pastel rainbow overall. I think emerald and compose blue for example are NOT pastel at all. And there is no pastel brown for example, etc. as for including a darker tone that works with pastels a neutral mid dark to dark grey or beige would work best or a warm grey or greyish brown.
I like variety and collect and make custom premixed paints. I use transparent and opaque watercolours as well as gouache and mix them.
I’d say get individual pastels from Brands you have access to and get white and buff titanium and premix your own custom pastels after doing tests. You can get empty half/full pans on Amazon and/or empty pallets and mix your own more cohesive pallet along with using some brand shave available from the tube.
That Jaune brilliant is nice as is shell pink, compose green, lavender. So get the exact tube and also make custom mixes and create your own actual good pastel pallet!
Thank you so much for your thoughtful recommendations 😊I'm hoping I can somehow make use of the paper - fingers crossed the rest of the pages on the block I've purchased won't have the same issues! ❤️ Happy holidays! 🎄😊
@@lilymoonart I hope the rest of the block works better. Happy Holidays.
@@valasafantastic1055 Happy Holidays to you too!!
I love all your swatching videos but I’d like to see your painting with the paints! There are no real paintings videos.
I gotta say, not a great selection, as far as full palettes go. First of all, 3-4 of the colors in this palette are too saturated to be pastels and to blend well with the other less saturated color (a palette needs to have the same intensity for the pastel colors to work well together). Also, the two pinks are too identical (one of them should have been the orange-red-y "salmon" color), and so there is the two greens (one of them should have been the "mint" cool color). The blues are doing a better job at being more differentiated. Also, there is no brown. In pastel, there is a toffee color brown which is pastel-colored. Additionally, they didn't include a dark gray color (I'm against black color in pastel paintings because they take away the pastel feel, but a dark gray is definitely needed). This set is a selection put together by Holbein as an afterthought, based on the colors they already had in their catalog. It takes more than that to make a good palette that it covers most of the pastel color wheel after mixing. It takes intention to fill in the gaps in color. I'd personally suggest the handmade KMSWatercolor brand (click Shop and then Matte Individuals -- I'm not affiliated btw) to pick good pastel colors that fill in all the mixing gaps. Another good option is Derwent's pastel palette, White Night's 18-color pastel palette, and Prima's Vintage Pastels palette (look at the new video by Sandra Mejia here on YT). Just remove the black and put in there a dark grey, add a toffee brown from White Nights or some handmade brand, and you're in business.