I just HATE mixing browns! I always underestimate how much I'll need, and then I can never quite get it back! I LOVE my convenience browns! Also, that Windsor & Newton dark brown almost looks like you're painting with hot cocoa!
Hullo Denise, I am so glad you got this series wrapped up! I have replaced most of my watercolors with DaVinci Paints, Quality and Price being my big motivators! I am excited to see your still brand agnostic! Finding colors from any brand that excites a person to paint is grand! I saw a comment praising your swatches and saying that they are artworks in and of themselves, I agree! I am looking forward to seeing your new videos and watching your evolution as an Artist, thank you for continuing to create content for all of us. Learning from you and your videos has become a true joy for me and so many others! Please take care, be safe and thank you for simply being yourself.
This is here you always do me in. But this year I'm in good shape. Have all the DaVinci's (of course). Don't do Schmincke or Winsor Newton. Will search for similar colors. I have a small supplemental Earth Color palette. Now I know it's the perfect place for Stormy & Denise's Grey.
I can mix greens and purples all day but I SWEAR by convenience browns and earth tones. Plus there’s so many amazing and beautiful earth colors that why WOULDNT I use them?! If I see a caput mortum, burnt Sienna or an earthy red or a brown then chances are I’m going to buy and try it lol
You are soo right about raw umber! At first I tought it was bland but it's really useful. And about the use of black and brown, if I do any mini palette I have to include at least a brown because it's difficult to mix the exact color without mudying up the whole palette just to mix it. I've got to love the earth tones they are especially great for food illustrations too ✨ I'm glad you shared your color choices I love to hear about it 💖
Thank you! I got tired of having to reiterate to viewers who hadn't come across my Pride videos that I am indeed queer, and I won't separate that from my art for their benefit. Now, no excuses for not knowing. It's right up front 😆💜
I loved hearing your "different" or replacement choices for some standards and your reasons and descriptions. I learned about some new colours and pigments. I am intrigued by Stoneground colours you included. Living in Canada, I can buy this brand locally--seems like a good enough reason to maybe get one or two?? Love the earthy orange DaVinci Terracotta, the M Graham Azo Green, and the DV PR101 violet iron oxide. So happy to have new colour info to file away. Your descriptions are so helpful in understanding new colours and determining whether they might be a perfect addition to the family. Finally, it often takes me too long to mix neutrals and I loved your beautiful recommendations for that whole group. Thanks for an awesome series!
I love this series and I have way to many browns of schmincke; but one I highly recommend is lazure sienna from schmincke and their burnt umber aswell as the burnt umber from white nights; both I adore for dark autumn and winter branches and darken greens or greys thanks for ajusting the technical stuff; the first video kept having hickups and I thought it was my slow internet connection:) as for my favorite current red; rembrandt napthol red.
I have senneliers version of indenthrone blue; and cant do without it; but would love to know if someone knows a dupe in a tube for roman smal's misty morning.
Denise's grey lives on all of my palettes these days. It is a lovely grey. I tend to add either cerulean or the venetian red to it to sway it one way or the other. But it works well for storm clouds and snow scenes
This was such a fun series!! I’ve learned so much from your paint choices over the years and while I’m Not looking to buy anymore paint, I’m in the midst of curating my own ideal palette from my existing paint collection which has been a really fun project. My favourite colours have to be schmincke’s paynes blue grey and delft blue, roman szmal’s azo red, and either a nickel azo yellow or a lemon yellow. I’ve also been recently surprised by how much I like cobalt teal and, shockingly, opera pink
I love your stormy blue. I purchased a tube of this color and prefer it to most mixed indigoes since most of those use the questionable lightfast Prussian Blue. Thanks for coming up with this blue. I love it!
I was happy to see your inclusion of Winsor and Newton's Payne's Grey. I only used Winsor and Newton for many years, and I remember how disappointed I was after I bought another brand's Payne's grey for the first time. I love the greenish blue cast, perfect for stormy skies, and it makes a nice deep green when mixed with yellow. Other Payne's greys looks more black. I would buy black if that's what I wanted!
Paynes Grey from Winsor and Newton has been one of my all time favourites since I got it years ago! It was my first professional tube of paint and I fell in love!
love the opaque watercolors and I LOVE denise’s gray. I have your embrace opacity color and the palette is gorgeous, and I love how the pigments spread in water and how some mixes separate out when mixed together, it adds so much character to a painting. you have such a great eye for palettes and for fun mixes!
Juhu!!🎉 You made it through all 48 colors! Amazing selection Denise! I need to watch everything again and note down my favorites. But as always it has been inspiring to see your selection and be enticed to try out some new colors!
Any suggestions for a cool to midtone brown- non granulating brown that can get dark but also tone down fairly light as well?? Need it to be non-granulating which I’m struggling with… I was thinking about Schmincke’s Burnt Umber based on blicks swatches but I wasn’t sure…
Opacity in general. The more opaque the color, the more "body" it has as it covers what's undernath as well as your light. During the Victorian era of watercolor "bodycolour" indicated a pigment mixed with chinese white to produce an opaque watercolour (gouache) that was used to "finish" a painting adding the last strokes or details.
Thank you for this series Denise, I always love seeing your favorites and learning from you! I enjoy your embrace opacity palette so much, it was the perfect palette for capturing the stormy PNW coast recently! ❤
Indeed! I use it as a descriptor. I might refer to a transparent color as light or luminous or airy. In contrast, I could describe heavily opaque colors as having a lot of body or weight, like being comfortably grounded :)
"we are living in a dystopian world and I have not got the patience" was a joy to hear haha
I will not stand for gatekeeping in this timeline 😆
I just HATE mixing browns! I always underestimate how much I'll need, and then I can never quite get it back! I LOVE my convenience browns!
Also, that Windsor & Newton dark brown almost looks like you're painting with hot cocoa!
Ooh this was meant to be because I JUST rewatched the first three videos last night. Denise is a good/bad influence on my watercolor habit 😂😂😂
Haha! Yay for the timing 🥰
Hullo Denise, I am so glad you got this series wrapped up! I have replaced most of my watercolors with DaVinci Paints, Quality and Price being my big motivators! I am excited to see your still brand agnostic! Finding colors from any brand that excites a person to paint is grand! I saw a comment praising your swatches and saying that they are artworks in and of themselves, I agree! I am looking forward to seeing your new videos and watching your evolution as an Artist, thank you for continuing to create content for all of us. Learning from you and your videos has become a true joy for me and so many others! Please take care, be safe and thank you for simply being yourself.
This is here you always do me in. But this year I'm in good shape. Have all the DaVinci's (of course). Don't do Schmincke or Winsor Newton. Will search for similar colors. I have a small supplemental Earth Color palette. Now I know it's the perfect place for Stormy & Denise's Grey.
Mahogany brown I can’t live w it hour!!!❤
PY164 is also available from Maimeri Blu (Sepia). It's absolutely lovely to work with!
YES YES YES YES about the blacks! Life is too short to continuously mix blacks or dark neutrals when there are so many pre-mixed versions available!
Those final 3 are my faves! I also love sennelier paynes gray. Cool neutrals are my jam lol
I can mix greens and purples all day but I SWEAR by convenience browns and earth tones. Plus there’s so many amazing and beautiful earth colors that why WOULDNT I use them?! If I see a caput mortum, burnt Sienna or an earthy red or a brown then chances are I’m going to buy and try it lol
Exactly! I know we caaaaan mix earth tones, but why would I deprive myself of all that beauty!
I'm addicted to these kind of videos 😅 I'm a newbie pigment nerd and love to see what other artists use
Never been a fun of raw umber as well but since discovering the greenish version (PBr8) it has basically become a staple on my palette as well.
You are soo right about raw umber! At first I tought it was bland but it's really useful. And about the use of black and brown, if I do any mini palette I have to include at least a brown because it's difficult to mix the exact color without mudying up the whole palette just to mix it.
I've got to love the earth tones they are especially great for food illustrations too ✨ I'm glad you shared your color choices I love to hear about it 💖
Totally unrelated to the video itself, but love the little addition to the title screen!
(This has also been a lovely series!)
Thank you! I got tired of having to reiterate to viewers who hadn't come across my Pride videos that I am indeed queer, and I won't separate that from my art for their benefit. Now, no excuses for not knowing. It's right up front 😆💜
I loved hearing your "different" or replacement choices for some standards and your reasons and descriptions. I learned about some new colours and pigments. I am intrigued by Stoneground colours you included. Living in Canada, I can buy this brand locally--seems like a good enough reason to maybe get one or two?? Love the earthy orange DaVinci Terracotta, the M Graham Azo Green, and the DV PR101 violet iron oxide. So happy to have new colour info to file away. Your descriptions are so helpful in understanding new colours and determining whether they might be a perfect addition to the family. Finally, it often takes me too long to mix neutrals and I loved your beautiful recommendations for that whole group. Thanks for an awesome series!
Thank you so much for your kind words. I'm so glad the series was helpful!
I love this series and I have way to many browns of schmincke; but one I highly recommend is lazure sienna from schmincke and their burnt umber aswell as the burnt umber from white nights; both I adore for dark autumn and winter branches and darken greens or greys thanks for ajusting the technical stuff; the first video kept having hickups and I thought it was my slow internet connection:) as for my favorite current red; rembrandt napthol red.
I have senneliers version of indenthrone blue; and cant do without it; but would love to know if someone knows a dupe in a tube for roman smal's misty morning.
Denise's grey lives on all of my palettes these days. It is a lovely grey. I tend to add either cerulean or the venetian red to it to sway it one way or the other. But it works well for storm clouds and snow scenes
Denise’s Gray goes triple platinum in my house along with Stormy Blue 🥰
@@themightierpencil I love the stormy blue as well, I just don't use it nearly as often as Denise's grey
Aw thank you both so much!! I'm so glad you're enjoying them 🥰
This was such a fun series!! I’ve learned so much from your paint choices over the years and while I’m Not looking to buy anymore paint, I’m in the midst of curating my own ideal palette from my existing paint collection which has been a really fun project.
My favourite colours have to be schmincke’s paynes blue grey and delft blue, roman szmal’s azo red, and either a nickel azo yellow or a lemon yellow. I’ve also been recently surprised by how much I like cobalt teal and, shockingly, opera pink
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I love "shopping" my own supplies to make curated palettes! It's nice to settle into our comfort picks 🥰
That was fun to watch...as always.
Some interesting colors worth checking out.
Thank you very much and all the best.
Violet Iron Oxide my best friend Violet Iron Oxide
Thank you so much! 💜
I love your stormy blue. I purchased a tube of this color and prefer it to most mixed indigoes since most of those use the questionable lightfast Prussian Blue. Thanks for coming up with this blue. I love it!
I was happy to see your inclusion of Winsor and Newton's Payne's Grey. I only used Winsor and Newton for many years, and I remember how disappointed I was after I bought another brand's Payne's grey for the first time. I love the greenish blue cast, perfect for stormy skies, and it makes a nice deep green when mixed with yellow. Other Payne's greys looks more black. I would buy black if that's what I wanted!
I always love seeing what colours you pick out! there's so many here I don't have and now I'm tempted 👀
Paynes Grey from Winsor and Newton has been one of my all time favourites since I got it years ago! It was my first professional tube of paint and I fell in love!
What a beautiful collection of colors ❤❤❤
I was just rewatching some of your videos!
Love that lion print!
love the opaque watercolors and I LOVE denise’s gray. I have your embrace opacity color and the palette is gorgeous, and I love how the pigments spread in water and how some mixes separate out when mixed together, it adds so much character to a painting. you have such a great eye for palettes and for fun mixes!
I'm so glad to hear you're enjoying them!!
Beautiful video once again, thank you!
Thanks for this series, Denise!
Juhu!!🎉 You made it through all 48 colors! Amazing selection Denise! I need to watch everything again and note down my favorites. But as always it has been inspiring to see your selection and be enticed to try out some new colors!
Joining you in the Schmincke Mars Brown/Mahogany Brown cheering section. Absolutely gorgeous.
Thanks Denise!❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
I always love a Payne's grey and Indanthrone Blue. Will have to check out the perylene green. Thank you.
I love the colors you made with davinci! so beautiful to paint with
Love this palette!! Denise even your swatches are works of art!!!
Thank you so much! I really loved painting these swatches 🥰
❤
Any suggestions for a cool to midtone brown- non granulating brown that can get dark but also tone down fairly light as well??
Need it to be non-granulating which I’m struggling with… I was thinking about Schmincke’s Burnt Umber based on blicks swatches but I wasn’t sure…
What are good equivalent to violet iron oxide as i don't have access to Da Vinci paint where i live
MaimeriBlu offers PY164, but I can’t remember its name.
Sepia
@@monsoon_magic2874 Thanks 🙏
@@monsoon_magic2874 Thanks!
What is meant by "body" of the colour? Thank you.
Opacity in general. The more opaque the color, the more "body" it has as it covers what's undernath as well as your light. During the Victorian era of watercolor "bodycolour" indicated a pigment mixed with chinese white to produce an opaque watercolour (gouache) that was used to "finish" a painting adding the last strokes or details.
Thank you for this series Denise, I always love seeing your favorites and learning from you! I enjoy your embrace opacity palette so much, it was the perfect palette for capturing the stormy PNW coast recently! ❤
Indeed! I use it as a descriptor. I might refer to a transparent color as light or luminous or airy. In contrast, I could describe heavily opaque colors as having a lot of body or weight, like being comfortably grounded :)