Do you have these 10 colors, and have they caused you any issues? Try this video next: How to Mix Watercolors (THIS colour is essential) ruclips.net/video/D0d6OyYAIX4/видео.html
I remember you saying that Winsor and Newton Naples Yellow was the the only colour and brand that didn't go green in a gradated sky wash. A touch of black in yellow makes olive green. It took me hours to make notes on this video. So few people share their knowledge. So many display their skills. Thank you
I have heard that said but it wasn't me, unless I was mentioning that other artists had said it. I believe it's because of the pinkish hue, but I have always been skeptical that it wouldn't go green under any circumstances 🐱
Thanks Michele. There's so much more to painting than just grabbing some colours and slapping them on, but how many people actually explain that to a beginner? There is so much trial and error and mainly expensive error and a long road trying to find out why things don't work. You help us all avoid the pitfalls and explain it in an easy to understand manner with clear demonstrations. This is a great video!😃
Oh yes, all of my favorites colors that I have used in the past at one point or another in the wrong way. I learned the hard way before finding out exactly what you have stated here in this very valuable informational video. So glad you’re explaining this to beginners so they can up their painting skills. I really appreciate you explaining this! Thanks for sharing this one! As always your content is well done & easily explained with wonderful examples! 🎨💕😉
Thank you for this. I learned a lot and am saving this one to come back to! I hope you put together a watercolor pencil color mixing tutorial sometime.
When I first visited the UK, because I have spent my life in a dry country where yellows and ochres abound, your grass looked blueish to me. I eventually adjusted but that phthalo green reminded me of how I first thought your grass was coloured.
Alizarin crimson is very useful to add shadow and form to pink flowers, instead of using gray. However alizarin does make a perfect gray when mixed with viridian-it’s the true neutral gray. You didn’t mention the number one use for ultramarine: making a rich dark when mixed with burnt sienna (without using black).
Still a beginner but when first started mixing my colors just used Payne’s grey for shadows or to darken & found out it’s not the best choice as has three colors already in it! Ty!!
Omg I loved this! Bloody skin tone, I remember that in my childhood art sets. When I first started watercolour, I had SO many issues with raw umber, but now I treat it as a cousin who just pops in now and then. The granulation in so many colours is a gripe I have too…yes ultramarine I’m looking at you! I find it a beautiful colour but it doesn’t sing to me like Prussian blue or Pthalo blue. This video will save a lot of migraines for a LOT of people. Thank you Michele!
Michelle, I've been watching you ever since I started with watercolours and you're amazing in your generosity with your knowledge. I always look forward to your videos ❤
Definitely saving this video for reference. I don’t have many of these paints but for the ones I do, this is a crying saver! “Why won’t it do what I want it to do???” Now I know.
Enjoyed video found it interesting and informative im still enjoying your color posters for mixing and still refer to them often..mikelle art mom👩🎨🎨✍🇨🇦🇺🇸💛
For my first art class the teacher had me buy 10 WN colors. 6 of the colors you talked about were in the set. I never knew why I couldn’t produce what I wanted until I bought some different colors in Daniel Smith then I started producing some decent colors. Thanks.
First, you are an awesome teacher, I’ve learned so much from your free videos. 12:49 You are so generous with good information. Perhaps I missed it, but what is granular? Thank you again for you wonderful videos.
I was speaking about granulation, a natural property of some pigments that leave a little speckle or texture on the paper. It's not a bad thing, just something to be aware of.
Thanks so much for this very informative tutorial, Michele - very much appreciated! As another of your students has said, we have heard some of these points already from your previous tutorials, but it's great to have them all in one, together with great tips about other colours too. You describe everything in such a practical way and this means we can remember more of the important information whilst painting. So much to learn, and so little time to practice! But every little helps...!
Thanks so much, Michele. Some of this I kind of knew, but I need to hear this several times to get to the point where I know and can apply the information while painting. Also, I just bought Daniel Smith's Naples Yellow, knowing it was opaque, but wasn't sure how I was going to use it. The colors in your paintings are always so beautiful!
I learned SO much in this video. I can;t find the words to express my appreciation (so I sent a small sum). Thank you for sharing your knowledge, passion and creativity.
I love naples yellow too, the first time I tried it, I thought 'Oh, I need to find something that will look good painted in this colour!' Great video, thanks!
Thanks again for your knowledge about watercolour paints. I've probably done everything wrong at one time or another!!! Your videos are really useful and I learn something new every time. Thanks
I haven’t looked through all your videos, so not sure if you’ve already done one on the Daniel Smith ones that granulated into different colours,like Undersea Green and Cascade Green, as well as the ones that end in “-ite”. I get so lost in the dreaminess of them but I’m not always sure how to use them to their greatest effect. The definitely DO force me to be looser in my paintings. I painted a frog last night with them and a bit of Cad Yellow and Aussie Gold to create highlights and shadows (and I have some, gasp, gouache white, that i was going to use for highlighting his eyes and some black (double gasp) for the darkest areas, but you’ve terrified me😜.
Thank you for this concise information. I feel like I've been slowly figuring this all out by trial and error, but you have put it all in one place where I can get comfortable with it. Is French Ultramarine different from just plain Ultramarine?
thanks for your explanations. slowly I understand the difference between warm and cold colores in using them. and as some wrote it has to be watched a few times. but the picture, the painting, your swatching helps a lot to get it into my brain. 😊
Thank you! I keep trying to use Alizarin Crimson and every time I do, I just get irritated. I prefer perm. rose and quin pink. Thanks to you, I will put this in my neutral palette and forget about it, lol. I feel so much better. I literally tried using it again last night, and it was discouraging because I mix on the page. I thought it was me, not the paint. I feel so much better. Thank you! 🥰
Hi Michelle, I very much enjoyed your video and learned a great deal, However, there was something you said that saddened me quite a bit. You were talking about White and Black and to please not comment about them not being colors, and you said, “This is the only thing I’m good at”. You put yourself down and this saddens me. You are talented with your art. You do a wonderful job of teaching it to us AND your video, which I know take a great deal of time, are put together quite well. These are just 3 areas that I can say that you ARE very good at! Gaining confidence in ourselves can be difficult, especially if we’ve had someone or “others” that have taken delight in tearing us down. I can tell you, as a follower of Jesus, that He must think you are very special…so SPECIAL that He suffered and died for you and that’s pretty spectacular! I think you are probably very good in a number of ways, because I know you are really good in the three areas I mentioned. Blessings to you Michele Webber and thank you for blessing me with your teaching on watercolors!❤️
Thanks so much Janice, I guess there's a few things I am good at, they are all creative things, I am very bad at stuff like maths. It's hard to assess your own skills, I appreciate you taking the time out to write such a lovely message :-)
I got a Cotman set a while back (mainly for the box, but I won't be throwing out the colours). It includes 6 single-pigment colours: Ultramarine, Viridan Hue (read: pthalo green), Alizarin Crimson Hue (read: quin maroon), Burnt Sienna, Chinese White and Yellow ochre. Three Cadmium hues (mixed), a mixed(!) burnt umber, a sap green and then the one colour I might throw out: Cobalt Blue Hue. Why do I loathe the Cobalt Blue Hue? because it's a mix between Chinese White (in palette) and Ultramarine (also in palette). Couldn't they have given me another, more useful blue rather than one that i can pretty much mix myself? >.< (also, I don't disagree with you on your points--some I knew was coming in fact--but I do find it funny that most of these colours are ones that I have and love to use =) Main exception being paynes Gray, which I never got around to get)
Your videos are so informative. I find myself taking notes all the time. This one will be especially useful because I have used these colors in the wrong way. Thank you!
I've learned such a lot from this video Michele, as like you, I love colour and have all of these! It's nice to know that I'm using at least some in the right way😂 Thank you😊
I do love your color videos. As a newb, I'm making every mistake you call out.. Before I catch a video on it, of course! I bought an artist curated Daniel Smith set at the start, wanting to have some professional quality paints. I didn't really know what the heck I was doing, so the choice was rather random.. Clearly I need some other yellows.
At my local art shop a few weeks ago I stuck up a conversation with an older gentleman who had taken up painting. (and was actually very good for someone only a year or so in) He showed me a few of his works he had on him... he loves painting trains. In a shadowed area of one of his trains he had used some zinc white to represent some metal work. I actually asked him what paint he used. You know sometimes you have to love beginners and fresh eyes.... he gave me such a innocent WHY? look when I told him I hadn't ever used a white watercolor. It does have some uses no doubt and I felt a little bad sounding like some sort of paint snob. lol Agreed though zinc white should never be in a beginner set... to many new water color painters use it to mix, as that is a pretty standard use for white in basically every other painting medium.
I sometimes use a tiny speck of Chinese white (i think that's zinc?) to mix in a color.......it can give the color a little more presence, or body, or make the color a bit more vibrant, without being opaque. It's hardly even semi-transparent, but that little change can make a difference. I have a half pan of Cotman that just sits open on my desk for when a color might need a bit of something.
Thanks Michele. Ultramarine is still one of my favorite colors. Depending on the time of year it is the sky color in my neck of the woods. Usually winter clear days and spring. Summer is more cobalt mixed with sennelier cinnerous blue which I think is a phthalo mixed with white. It's dead on for hot summer skies. Though talens Rembrandt cerulean is one of my favorite blue's.
I began by not having a black in my palette, and it is fairly useless for nature painting. But for natural environments where people have been, and for more urban environments, it can be essential. Humans just like to make black things! Sometimes they can be a red-black, blue-black, etc, but mostly they're just black. I always have lamp black with me, just in case. I've now added nickel titanate yellow to my list. I do a surprising amount of florals (it surprises me!), but I don't think I've ever seen it swatched out so clearly before. Thanks. Anyone starting out shouldn't be afraid of having at least a couple of opaque colours (you can take my buff titanium when I'm dead 😄)
I wish I'd learned about UMB's challenges much sooner than I did. ... great to hear confirmation .... I am kind of realizing that many DSmith colors granulate more than other brands for better and for worse... I only buy them if I want that amount of texture..... W&N Neutral Tint is useful because it contains their Windsor Blue instead of UMBlue - so much less granulation. Look nearly identical to me.
Nickel Titanate is a new colour to me, I've not heard of it before. Can you say which brands do it? I hope it's not just Daniel Smith's - I can't afford him.
Most brands do a version, including Jackmans Art Materials in the UK who I work with. The name may vary sometimes, for instance it might be called Titanium lemon, Or yellow titanate etc. You are looking for pigment PY53
I tried mixing a skin tone out of potter’s pink and gold ochre in my latest portrait - big mistake! It wasn't a flattering skin color at all, and layering shadows over it didn't make it any better. I'm going back to my tried & true ochre + quin. magenta mix for light skin. I don't know yet how to make use of potter's pink in portraits since it's not a realistic hue, but it has a nice texture.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber The weird thing is some folks do recommend it for skin tones because supposedly the granulation can imitate pores and freckles and thus provide a more naturalistic appearance, but I'm not impressed! Thanks, I'll look it up. I have some favorite skin tone formulas, but I'm always open to learning new ones.
Check the video description, there's a link to a video I made showing you the options. I can't put links here, or search my name and darken watercolors.
Jane's Grey is a custom mix by artist Jane Blundell (google her and see her amazing color mixing and swatches), and it is different than Payne's Grey (which itself is different between brands) Her mix ix Ultramarine Blue, and Burnt Sienna. Daniel Smith has many, many greys created by today's artists, and I don't think any other brand does this. So, that's not a typo :-)
I find your videos interesting, but I often also find them difficult to watch due to the angle at which you film yourself painting. It’s not a natural angle and it feels unpleasant. Many people may not care, but I am not the only one who almost can’t bear it.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber I see, but how do others do it? Fortunately for me most drawing and painting videos on yt don’t have this issue. Maybe they film a bit from the side? The problem is, if I watch this for too long it causes nausea or dizziness. And as far as I have learned, I am not the only one.
Do you have these 10 colors, and have they caused you any issues? Try this video next: How to Mix Watercolors (THIS colour is essential) ruclips.net/video/D0d6OyYAIX4/видео.html
I remember you saying that Winsor and Newton Naples Yellow was the the only colour and brand that didn't go green in a gradated sky wash. A touch of black in yellow makes olive green. It took me hours to make notes on this video. So few people share their knowledge. So many display their skills. Thank you
I have heard that said but it wasn't me, unless I was mentioning that other artists had said it. I believe it's because of the pinkish hue, but I have always been skeptical that it wouldn't go green under any circumstances 🐱
Any warm yellow won't go green. Learn color theory and you won't need to spend hours writing notes! It's quite easy, I promise.
Thanks Michele. There's so much more to painting than just grabbing some colours and slapping them on, but how many people actually explain that to a beginner? There is so much trial and error and mainly expensive error and a long road trying to find out why things don't work. You help us all avoid the pitfalls and explain it in an easy to understand manner with clear demonstrations. This is a great video!😃
Thanks Susan!
I remember my first watercolor set with 48 colors. The set had about 10 greens none of which were usable. Great video!
Oh wow!
Oh yes, all of my favorites colors that I have used in the past at one point or another in the wrong way. I learned the hard way before finding out exactly what you have stated here in this very valuable informational video. So glad you’re explaining this to beginners so they can up their painting skills. I really appreciate you explaining this! Thanks for sharing this one!
As always your content is well done & easily explained with wonderful examples! 🎨💕😉
We learn the hard way, at least I did! Thanks for watching Colleen :-)
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Yes we did, I did until I started watching your channel over 2 years ago.
I really love alizarin crimson, I know it’s not super bright but it can be really useful for skin tones as it is a little more muted 😊
My Daniel Smith raw umber is much darker and one of my favorites!
Thank you Michele for your time and dedication. You are so knowledgeable and I just love watching and learning from your videos
Thank you!
As a professional watercolorist of 35 years, this is the most useful video on color I'v ever watched. thanks so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this. I learned a lot and am saving this one to come back to!
I hope you put together a watercolor pencil color mixing tutorial sometime.
Great suggestion!
I like the comparison & explanation of various colours. As always interesting! Thanks
Thank you! Cheers!
I thought about getting Phtalo Green PG7 but I swatched it for the incredibly beautiful Viridian PG18 and never regretted it.
Great tutorial. I'm going to save this one for future reference. Thank you.
When I first visited the UK, because I have spent my life in a dry country where yellows and ochres abound, your grass looked blueish to me. I eventually adjusted but that phthalo green reminded me of how I first thought your grass was coloured.
I was told that phthalo green was a modern vibrant color and encouraged to use it in a class. It almost ruined 2 paintings. Thanks for discussing it.
Thank you Michelle Very helpful to a newbie!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, Michele.
I love Antwerp blue for skies.
Great idea to mix ultramarine with that’ll.
Thalo that is.
Alizarin crimson is very useful to add shadow and form to pink flowers, instead of using gray. However alizarin does make a perfect gray when mixed with viridian-it’s the true neutral gray.
You didn’t mention the number one use for ultramarine: making a rich dark when mixed with burnt sienna (without using black).
Yes, lots of uses for all colours :-)
Love both of those combinations! Also, quin Rose and viridian are lovely together.
Great teaching as always
Great info. I'm just beginning water colors. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Still a beginner but when first started mixing my colors just used Payne’s grey for shadows or to darken & found out it’s not the best choice as has three colors already in it! Ty!!
Love your descriptions and explanations ❤Your voice is great btw😊
So nice of you
This video is so helpful! Thank you!
Omg I loved this! Bloody skin tone, I remember that in my childhood art sets. When I first started watercolour, I had SO many issues with raw umber, but now I treat it as a cousin who just pops in now and then. The granulation in so many colours is a gripe I have too…yes ultramarine I’m looking at you! I find it a beautiful colour but it doesn’t sing to me like Prussian blue or Pthalo blue. This video will save a lot of migraines for a LOT of people. Thank you Michele!
You are most welcome!
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As always, a most enjoyable and informative video explaining not just why but how. Thankyou very much for sharing your expertise
Most welcome :-)
Nickel Azo Yellow? I stick it in everything! 🤪
Michelle, I've been watching you ever since I started with watercolours and you're amazing in your generosity with your knowledge. I always look forward to your videos ❤
Thank you so much!
Definitely saving this video for reference. I don’t have many of these paints but for the ones I do, this is a crying saver! “Why won’t it do what I want it to do???” Now I know.
So glad it helped!
I have to say, this video was VERY helpful!
Thank you!
"Direct them to Mr. Turner's watercolors"! Perfect!!!
Enjoyed video found it interesting and informative im still enjoying your color posters for mixing and still refer to them often..mikelle art mom👩🎨🎨✍🇨🇦🇺🇸💛
Awesome, thank you!
For my first art class the teacher had me buy 10 WN colors. 6 of the colors you talked about were in the set. I never knew why I couldn’t produce what I wanted until I bought some different colors in Daniel Smith then I started producing some decent colors. Thanks.
No problem!
Very workable VDO !
Thank you very much!
So much incredibly valuable information. What an amazing treasure.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for your helpful video
First, you are an awesome teacher, I’ve learned so much from your free videos. 12:49 You are so generous with good information. Perhaps I missed it, but what is granular? Thank you again for you wonderful videos.
I was speaking about granulation, a natural property of some pigments that leave a little speckle or texture on the paper. It's not a bad thing, just something to be aware of.
Thanks so much for this very informative tutorial, Michele - very much appreciated! As another of your students has said, we have heard some of these points already from your previous tutorials, but it's great to have them all in one, together with great tips about other colours too. You describe everything in such a practical way and this means we can remember more of the important information whilst painting. So much to learn, and so little time to practice! But every little helps...!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you 🥰
This video has excellent tips Michele. Thx as always. 🥰
:-)
Thank you so much.
Thanks!
Thanks so much, Michele. Some of this I kind of knew, but I need to hear this several times to get to the point where I know and can apply the information while painting. Also, I just bought Daniel Smith's Naples Yellow, knowing it was opaque, but wasn't sure how I was going to use it. The colors in your paintings are always so beautiful!
Thank you!
I learned SO much in this video. I can;t find the words to express my appreciation (so I sent a small sum). Thank you for sharing your knowledge, passion and creativity.
Thanks so much 🙏 I appreciate it 😊
🥰 I love mixing with watercolors! 😍
Thank you Michelle 🙏🌷 great tutorial as usual 👏👏👏
Thanks so much 😊
Thank you for helping me with this video, I thought it was me.. with ultra marine blue. Etc. I love your teachings ❤️🎨
Not just you, it's a main colour in beginners' sets so many naturally use it for skies!
Thank you so much for all this information! I'll be watching it a few more times!!! And then a few more!
I learn so much from you!
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You're welcome :-)
what a highly informative and most excellent video. i knew some of this but i tend to forget things so will be keeping this in my tips Playlist!!
Glad you liked it!
So much helpful information...Thank you🥰
Thanks Joyce!
I love naples yellow too, the first time I tried it, I thought 'Oh, I need to find something that will look good painted in this colour!' Great video, thanks!
Thank you!
Thanks again for your knowledge about watercolour paints. I've probably done everything wrong at one time or another!!! Your videos are really useful and I learn something new every time. Thanks
No problem!
This was such a helpful video. I am going to watch it again and take notes.
Glad you liked it Tina!
I haven’t looked through all your videos, so not sure if you’ve already done one on the Daniel Smith ones that granulated into different colours,like Undersea Green and Cascade Green, as well as the ones that end in “-ite”. I get so lost in the dreaminess of them but I’m not always sure how to use them to their greatest effect. The definitely DO force me to be looser in my paintings. I painted a frog last night with them and a bit of Cad Yellow and Aussie Gold to create highlights and shadows (and I have some, gasp, gouache white, that i was going to use for highlighting his eyes and some black (double gasp) for the darkest areas, but you’ve terrified me😜.
Thank you for this concise information. I feel like I've been slowly figuring this all out by trial and error, but you have put it all in one place where I can get comfortable with it. Is French Ultramarine different from just plain Ultramarine?
French Ultramarine usually tends more towards the purple (it's slight though and may vary from brand to brand)
Very informative
Glad you liked it
thanks for your explanations. slowly I understand the difference between warm and cold colores in using them. and as some wrote it has to be watched a few times. but the picture, the painting, your swatching helps a lot to get it into my brain. 😊
You're very welcome!
Thank you! I keep trying to use Alizarin Crimson and every time I do, I just get irritated. I prefer perm. rose and quin pink. Thanks to you, I will put this in my neutral palette and forget about it, lol. I feel so much better. I literally tried using it again last night, and it was discouraging because I mix on the page. I thought it was me, not the paint. I feel so much better. Thank you! 🥰
It can be useful alone for roses and such, or sometimes you can make a moody purple with it.
Very useful video
Thanks!
Hi Michelle, I very much enjoyed your video and learned a great deal, However, there was something you said that saddened me quite a bit. You were talking about White and Black and to please not comment about them not being colors, and you said, “This is the only thing I’m good at”. You put yourself down and this saddens me. You are talented with your art. You do a wonderful job of teaching it to us AND your video, which I know take a great deal of time, are put together quite well. These are just 3 areas that I can say that you ARE very good at! Gaining confidence in ourselves can be difficult, especially if we’ve had someone or “others” that have taken delight in tearing us down. I can tell you, as a follower of Jesus, that He must think you are very special…so SPECIAL that He suffered and died for you and that’s pretty spectacular! I think you are probably very good in a number of ways, because I know you are really good in the three areas I mentioned. Blessings to you Michele Webber and thank you for blessing me with your teaching on watercolors!❤️
Thanks so much Janice, I guess there's a few things I am good at, they are all creative things, I am very bad at stuff like maths. It's hard to assess your own skills, I appreciate you taking the time out to write such a lovely message :-)
This is such an awesome video. It's so educational and it's made me so, so glad I don't even try to paint realistically.😂❤
Glad you liked it!!
I got a Cotman set a while back (mainly for the box, but I won't be throwing out the colours). It includes 6 single-pigment colours: Ultramarine, Viridan Hue (read: pthalo green), Alizarin Crimson Hue (read: quin maroon), Burnt Sienna, Chinese White and Yellow ochre. Three Cadmium hues (mixed), a mixed(!) burnt umber, a sap green and then the one colour I might throw out: Cobalt Blue Hue.
Why do I loathe the Cobalt Blue Hue? because it's a mix between Chinese White (in palette) and Ultramarine (also in palette). Couldn't they have given me another, more useful blue rather than one that i can pretty much mix myself? >.<
(also, I don't disagree with you on your points--some I knew was coming in fact--but I do find it funny that most of these colours are ones that I have and love to use =) Main exception being paynes Gray, which I never got around to get)
Excellent and so helpful tutorial for me
Michele. Thank you.
Your videos are so informative. I find myself taking notes all the time. This one will be especially useful because I have used these colors in the wrong way. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I've learned such a lot from this video Michele, as like you, I love colour and have all of these! It's nice to know that I'm using at least some in the right way😂 Thank you😊
Thank you for watching!
I do love your color videos. As a newb, I'm making every mistake you call out.. Before I catch a video on it, of course! I bought an artist curated Daniel Smith set at the start, wanting to have some professional quality paints. I didn't really know what the heck I was doing, so the choice was rather random.. Clearly I need some other yellows.
Thank you for the informative video. Woul love to know more about mixing Naples Yellow with other colours, especially blues and paynes grey
Great suggestion!
At my local art shop a few weeks ago I stuck up a conversation with an older gentleman who had taken up painting. (and was actually very good for someone only a year or so in) He showed me a few of his works he had on him... he loves painting trains. In a shadowed area of one of his trains he had used some zinc white to represent some metal work. I actually asked him what paint he used. You know sometimes you have to love beginners and fresh eyes.... he gave me such a innocent WHY? look when I told him I hadn't ever used a white watercolor. It does have some uses no doubt and I felt a little bad sounding like some sort of paint snob. lol Agreed though zinc white should never be in a beginner set... to many new water color painters use it to mix, as that is a pretty standard use for white in basically every other painting medium.
Thank you Michele. I really enjoyed this video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I sometimes use a tiny speck of Chinese white (i think that's zinc?) to mix in a color.......it can give the color a little more presence, or body, or make the color a bit more vibrant, without being opaque. It's hardly even semi-transparent, but that little change can make a difference. I have a half pan of Cotman that just sits open on my desk for when a color might need a bit of something.
Yes Chinese white is zinc white :-)
Thanks Michele. Ultramarine is still one of my favorite colors. Depending on the time of year it is the sky color in my neck of the woods. Usually winter clear days and spring. Summer is more cobalt mixed with sennelier cinnerous blue which I think is a phthalo mixed with white. It's dead on for hot summer skies. Though talens Rembrandt cerulean is one of my favorite blue's.
I love that cerulean and even more than the DS one!
Thank you Michele, a great video and very helpful😊
Glad it was helpful!
I began by not having a black in my palette, and it is fairly useless for nature painting. But for natural environments where people have been, and for more urban environments, it can be essential. Humans just like to make black things! Sometimes they can be a red-black, blue-black, etc, but mostly they're just black. I always have lamp black with me, just in case.
I've now added nickel titanate yellow to my list. I do a surprising amount of florals (it surprises me!), but I don't think I've ever seen it swatched out so clearly before. Thanks.
Anyone starting out shouldn't be afraid of having at least a couple of opaque colours (you can take my buff titanium when I'm dead 😄)
Oh I love buff titanium!!
Such valuable information! Thank you!
You are so welcome!
I wish I'd learned about UMB's challenges much sooner than I did. ... great to hear confirmation .... I am kind of realizing that many DSmith colors granulate more than other brands for better and for worse... I only buy them if I want that amount of texture.....
W&N Neutral Tint is useful because it contains their Windsor Blue instead of UMBlue - so much less granulation. Look nearly identical to me.
Yes DS have a lot of granulating colours
As always, great tips.
Thank you!
So helpful! Thank you!
You are welcome!
Thanks 💖
You're welcome 😊
Nickel Titanate is a new colour to me, I've not heard of it before. Can you say which brands do it? I hope it's not just Daniel Smith's - I can't afford him.
Most brands do a version, including Jackmans Art Materials in the UK who I work with. The name may vary sometimes, for instance it might be called Titanium lemon, Or yellow titanate etc. You are looking for pigment PY53
Would you considering doing a watercolor tutorial of a WHITE BIRD OF PARADISE
Great idea, I didn't know such a thing existed!
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber The colors seem to be creams, beige, purples, blues.
Is cotmans cerulean blue good?
Haven't tried it but Cotman is my least favourite students brand. If you need a lower price then White Nights are good value 🙂
I tried mixing a skin tone out of potter’s pink and gold ochre in my latest portrait - big mistake! It wasn't a flattering skin color at all, and layering shadows over it didn't make it any better. I'm going back to my tried & true ochre + quin. magenta mix for light skin. I don't know yet how to make use of potter's pink in portraits since it's not a realistic hue, but it has a nice texture.
I'm not sure Potters pink is great for portraits, I can't put links here but if you put it in the search bar I have a video on mixing skin tones.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber The weird thing is some folks do recommend it for skin tones because supposedly the granulation can imitate pores and freckles and thus provide a more naturalistic appearance, but I'm not impressed!
Thanks, I'll look it up. I have some favorite skin tone formulas, but I'm always open to learning new ones.
What do you use to darken colors if not black? I’m a newbie.
Check the video description, there's a link to a video I made showing you the options. I can't put links here, or search my name and darken watercolors.
I’m asking myself why I didn’t know this information 5 years ago? My go to sky color is usually UM blue. 🙈
Try cerulean, watered down phthalo, or daniel smith does a lovely manganese blue hue. Sometimes a little payne's grey or prussian can work too :-)
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You say you are using Payne's Grey, yet in my Daniel Smith colour palette I bought it calls it Jane's Grey. Is this a typo in my palette colour chart?
Jane's Grey is a different colour, invented by Jane Blundell I believe in collaboration with Daniel Smith. I assume they carry both in their range.
Jane's Grey is a custom mix by artist Jane Blundell (google her and see her amazing color mixing and swatches), and it is different than Payne's Grey (which itself is different between brands) Her mix ix Ultramarine Blue, and Burnt Sienna.
Daniel Smith has many, many greys created by today's artists, and I don't think any other brand does this.
So, that's not a typo :-)
@@OhJodi69 Thank you
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Thank you
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I find your videos interesting, but I often also find them difficult to watch due to the angle at which you film yourself painting. It’s not a natural angle and it feels unpleasant. Many people may not care, but I am not the only one who almost can’t bear it.
Sorry Sylvia, there are no easy solutions. A directly overhead camera means my head gets in the way.
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber I see, but how do others do it? Fortunately for me most drawing and painting videos on yt don’t have this issue. Maybe they film a bit from the side? The problem is, if I watch this for too long it causes nausea or dizziness. And as far as I have learned, I am not the only one.
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No problem! Thanks I appreciate it!
Great video about color. So helpful. Thank you so much.
You are so welcome!