I’m enjoying all of your videos immensely, Jane! Thank you so much for making these. BTW 😂, little things like getting half pans (or smaller) out of my palette are impossible for my fat fingers. This includes getting the last drops 💧 of paint out of a tube, and removing fruit flies out of paint. So I got some old dental tools and some syringes 💉 😮. No more slipping and sticking a finger into PV 23 or worse!!
These tiny palettes are great until you need to choose between sap and raw umber. My world tilts off its axis at the thought of a palette without raw umber:)
Hi jane, i have seen your watercolor lightfast test while trying to understand the situation with daniel smith... In other tests some color, like anthra red, perm red deep and moonglow, have been shown to be prone to fading, but that did not happen to your test... I can see that all the test are equally reliable so i wanted to ask directly to you what you think about this situation and if i should trust the company... Also, you are not the only one who says that anthra red is lightfast, so I just can't wrap my head around, my supposition is that this tests are only good to build an opinion but aren't really relevant because different people give out different results... Thank you and i subscribed to your channel❤
I try to work with the lightfast information given through the ASTM as they are very helpful. Individual companies also often do their own tests, replicating conditions to test for over 100 years. However pigments are create in, and sourced from, many places so may not all be identical. in I did my own out of curiosity, but they were very extreme as I placed the samples on a north-facing window. Australian sun is savage! I ended up using Pyrrol crimson ‘just in case’ it was more lightfast than the anthraquinoid red I tested. In the end you have to make your own choices based on the information that is available. We are fortunate that there is a lot more available than there once was, and Daniel Smith were, as far as I know, the first to start putting that information on their tubes (and later, their websites).
@@janeblundellart so at this point is better to just trust the brand and take what I see online with a Gran of salt or do my own lightfast test right? To me it feels like people only wanna make drama out of this lightfast controversy tbh, since the information online gives us so many different results... Also I didn't know Daniel Smith was the first brand to introduce lightfastness info on their product damn... This brand is amazing.
Such an elegant little setup. Love it!
I love your palette ideas that you share! That is one fancy matchbox!
I’m enjoying all of your videos immensely, Jane! Thank you so much for making these.
BTW 😂, little things like getting half pans (or smaller) out of my palette are impossible for my fat fingers. This includes getting the last drops 💧 of paint out of a tube, and removing fruit flies out of paint. So I got some old dental tools and some syringes 💉 😮. No more slipping and sticking a finger into PV 23 or worse!!
Very cute, indeed
People who do not have sticky dots can use BluTack. You can use the rest of the BluTack as a kneadable eraser 😊.
These tiny palettes are great until you need to choose between sap and raw umber. My world tilts off its axis at the thought of a palette without raw umber:)
Hi jane, i have seen your watercolor lightfast test while trying to understand the situation with daniel smith...
In other tests some color, like anthra red, perm red deep and moonglow, have been shown to be prone to fading, but that did not happen to your test...
I can see that all the test are equally reliable so i wanted to ask directly to you what you think about this situation and if i should trust the company...
Also, you are not the only one who says that anthra red is lightfast, so I just can't wrap my head around, my supposition is that this tests are only good to build an opinion but aren't really relevant because different people give out different results...
Thank you and i subscribed to your channel❤
I try to work with the lightfast information given through the ASTM as they are very helpful. Individual companies also often do their own tests, replicating conditions to test for over 100 years. However pigments are create in, and sourced from, many places so may not all be identical.
in I did my own out of curiosity, but they were very extreme as I placed the samples on a north-facing window. Australian sun is savage!
I ended up using Pyrrol crimson ‘just in case’ it was more lightfast than the anthraquinoid red I tested.
In the end you have to make your own choices based on the information that is available. We are fortunate that there is a lot more available than there once was, and Daniel Smith were, as far as I know, the first to start putting that information on their tubes (and later, their websites).
@@janeblundellart so at this point is better to just trust the brand and take what I see online with a Gran of salt or do my own lightfast test right? To me it feels like people only wanna make drama out of this lightfast controversy tbh, since the information online gives us so many different results...
Also I didn't know Daniel Smith was the first brand to introduce lightfastness info on their product damn... This brand is amazing.
Just enjoy painting!
@@janeblundellart thank you dear, enjoy your painting as well❤️
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