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Oh my! I'm a pro and skip this all the time, ill let you all into my secret save you a few hours, run it through the DISHWASHER, Voila beading gone!! If a tube gets stuck get a cup of hot water soak the stuck cap in it a few seconds and it comes loose. Love your fun video style though Margot. Mines dull in comparison.
While watching her spread the paint around with the tube screw threads, I felt there was a more efficient way to do this. So much paint wasted and such a potential mess to clean up around the top before being able to put the cap back on. A wooden toothpick works great, but I've opened out one end of a metal paper clip, which retains very little paint on it while stirring and is so easy to clean off with a paper towel before going on to the next color. In fact I keep this same opened out paper clip as part of my painting gear, for all the times I might need to stir the paint easily and cleanly. You can also use it to reach into paint tubes where the paint has gotten a little dry at the opening and stir it up a bit so that it comes out more easily. Also, if necessary, you can use it to stir the excess gum arabic back into the tube, mixing it back in with the paint.
hi Margot, Two other options for getting a new plastic pallet ready are toothpaste or baking soda. I scrub either in with an old toothbrush, then rinse well. Fast and easy. For keeping the paint from cementing the cap on, with every new tube of paint, WC, Acrylic, Oil, any screw top, I put a thin layer of petroleum jelly around the base, and screw the cap on and off a couple of times, wipe excess, and replace cap. This works for a long time before you need to apply. Love your videos.
I love the tip! Literally! I will be doing this from now on! I hated my Paul Rubens' set, because they leaked after I filled my pans... The Vaseline would have definitely kept me from this nightmare!!!! Thank you!!!!
The petroleum trick works great for glue caps. Especially shoe goo and cements. Another way to prep a palette is to rub The Masters Brush Cleaner on it and just wipe off with a cotton make up remover or cotton ball (I believe that is cotton bud if you are not from USA). A paper towel seems to not work as well. No need to rinse. I compared against using the magic eraser and there was less palette staining. Plus the same product removes palette stains.
Ooh!!! I like that! I will give it a go on my next palette. On my previous one I used the fine sand paper trick... I'm glad to know I didn't have to go traipsing down items from the garage toolbox, or get additional cleaning supplies. I had the product within my studio all this time!!!😊. Thank you!!!
Whew I am glad you finally said there are cool blues and warm blues! And every other color… so the separation isn’t really a true separation because you have cool and warm colors next to each other on each side
Marot, please, _please,_ don't get rid of the binder!! The result (for a lot of colours) is that the paint, having less binder, goes very hard on the palette and doesn't flow as well on paper. After all, the manufacturers have spent years researching the corrrect binder:paint ration, and what comes out of a separated paint tube is a lot, in volume terms, and is obviously going to alter the flow of the paint. It's wiser to use a long metal spike of some kind (eg a craft paper piercing tool or metal toothpick - a wooden one wastes more paint) and mix it in _before_ pouring. It takes time, but is worth the effort. Any residual paint on the tool. wiped off onto a brush, can be used to make happy patterns on a piece of paper, which helps to make the effort fun. 😊
LOVE your new haircut Margot. Thanks for the tips on putting these paints on the palettes. Love the glue tip to stop paints beading on the surface. The beading used to really irritate me and I used to end up putting paints straight from.the tube onto a paper plate to stop that but now I'm a lot wiser thanks to you. I'm able to get more out of my paints by putting them on the pre glued palette the right way and putting them in the fridge to dry. Thank you. Looking forward to the next video. Susan xxx ❤❤❤
I usually use a wood skewer or a little plastic dip stick from a kids Nutella dipping snack pack. The Nutella dip stick is fabulous for smoothing in particular but the skewer works great too. If I used my tube I’d likely get way too much paint on the tube screw threads and have to waste too much paint cleaning it off. With the Nutella dip stick you can wipe of the paint on the edge of the paint well so you don’t waste too much,
So great to see you back. I enjoy your voice much more without background music, my particular brain finds it very distracting. Would you consider going back to no music, it distracts from your lessons, or at least make the music much quieter? You are a great teacher and so entertaining. Your editing skills are wonderful as well. Thanks for considering.
Background music makes it more difficult for people who have hearing loss in some frequencies or are wearing hearing aids. Missing frequencies can make music sound like noise. Thx.
I put my yellow in 3x. One to mix with reds and one to mix with blues, but also one to use pure. I have a similar palette. Almost the same apart from 5 slightly larger wells at the bottom of the left side (with the thumb grip). Got some student paints to start and played with many colours to find the ones and the types I liked. I LOVE THE BLUES, so in my first ever palette going from the same order as you started. Left, top-down: Black, grey, white gouache! ,browns, yellow, greens, blues. Continuing right side from bottom to top: Purples, pinks, reds, oranges, yellow Then I got professional quality paints (w&n, sennelier and my favourite maimeri blu (italian). I still keep my 3x yellow rule, but have gone to have Yellow, Red, Blue AND Yellow, Magenta, Cyaan. Just to get better at mixing. Although I do plan to add some colours that I just love a lot and dont' want to mix all the time ^^
Glue -- who knew! Like your new hair - bangs suit you and it's a less harsh look (says a woman who often pulls her hair totally back, but I've been tempted to cut bangs) :)
Mindblown! A simple hack to flatten the watercolour in the well first, rather than leaving it as a rounded glob - wish I learnt this earlier! Thank you for this tip!
Well, since you asked….I like your bangs and haircut. Very flattering! Haven’t tried the glue trick; use a Mr. Clean white melamine sponge, when I can find it under the sink, haha.
My art teacher in college, many years ago, suggested using Comet or Bars Keep on a new plastic palette to remove the coating. It’s worked great for me. Just found your channel and I love it! Now to view more of them.
So nice to see you on here again! I hope you had a good summer. I was just opening a small order that included a blue from Daniel Smith so this was great timing😊
Thank you so much for this video. The use of gall stuff or purple Elmer's glue for prepping the palette is totally new information to me. I've had the paint bead up, but did not know the cause or the fix. Your new do looks great!
Oh wait! I forgot to say.....so I'm a goth and I have the "same" haircut as you, only with the thicker Betty Page bangs. I definitely think you should do that, those nice thick bangs, you could definitely pull it off. It's not going to suddenly turn you goth, many "normal" people have it too, but trust me, it just does something.
Hullo Margot, Thanks for this lovely video. I have used just about ever method for filling wells. I have discovered that If I put a bead across the back of the well, then bringing a bead of paint down one side smearing them together with a thin film of paint between them. Rather like a capital "L" switching sides as I fill well down the sides of the well. I use a palette knife to do this and not my tubes, I use the paint left on the knife to make my swatches. I get that area in the well for a lighter concentration of color when I do not want to gush the color out into the main mixing area. I have found a larger well to be better for brushes and those half pans used for most travel palettes not so good. Better to use full pans in travel palettes and fewer colors to prolong the life of my good travel brushes, which most times cost more than very good studio brushes! This is when I get to choose my pan size and not when I buy a set with half pans. OH! I use tooth paste as my cleaning agent, I never thought to use school glue, I sometimes use a green scrubber to clean off mixing areas. I find those more commonly about the house than the Mr. Clean pads. I find the tooth paste gets most everything off of the surface of the plastic palettes, but the scrubber does give a courser tooth to the mixing areas.
@@rakisk8r Are used regular Crest toothpaste, I imagine any type of toothpaste would do maybe even gel just the ones that have a little grit and you clean your teeth with it.
Super excited, you have me at explaining in detail as only a Virgo could do!!! September birthday here too! I started teaching Watercolor this year at our homeschool group and it's opening my eyes to all the deep type A Virgo part of my personality. So far everyone is class seems to be happy and having fun.
Thank you, Margot. Another helpful video! I look forward to your next instalment - but in your own time (real life must always come first!). Love the haircut too 💙💜
Welcome back, Great to see you and the NEW Do too!!! Missed you over the Summer, though so great to see you are back and sharing your MAGICK with the all of us. Thanks for the VIRGO plug, you know how we LOVE to share information and being ORGANIZED. Happy Belated, BTW! Seeing this whole video just made me feel a sense of CALM, so thank you!!! Great instruction for anyone beginning or in the game already. Always brilliant content!!🧡✨🧡
I am so stoked about the warm/cool colour video coming up!! love your tips as always. I gave up on my plastic palette, prefering now a good ol' ceramic plate
Absolutely loved the information in this video. I've been thinking about making a video like this, because I've been putting together so many palettes (1 per each family member 4) for our family painting lessons. This semester, we are working out of Dana Fox's forest book! Last semester, we were working out of Jenna Rainey's book, and I felt there was a better way of explaining it, and you hit the nail on the head, with this video! Thank you!
❤️❤️❤️ Thank you for making this video, it was very helpful ! I am just getting started with watercolor. After trying several other mediums, this is my favorite.
Fun video. I was actually reconsidering my pallet. I thought I might put opaque colors to one side as I am too forgetful to remember which ones are actually opaque. Now I need to reconsider my reconsideration.
I love you new hair cut!! Its awesome. Makes you look more Sophisticated. Thank you for the palette set up and guess what? I did it correctly. How about that . Yeah. Can't wait for the next video!
12:39 wait, so, it’s ok to get rid of the excess binder? I always thought this was the binder separating from the pigment, and that if I removed it, my paint would be too dry/ dry faster in the tube, and eventually making the paint unusable (due to having hardened inside the tube). Whenever I have a tube with too much binder at the top, I try to poke a toothpick carefully and mix it with the paint as much as possible. And yes, it’s a very messy ordeal 😂. If you or anyone else could share their experiences below, that would be greatly appreciated 😊
Great information. I will use a tooth pick to help spread but I agree don’t use a ball of color in your palette it’s hard to activate and when it falls out it rolls around making a big mess if flat it doesn’t roll off the table . Also good point about it being hard on your brush . That is why I dislike smaller 1/4 pans or very small palettes that you have dig into . My last few plastic palettes have stained. My qor paints took two weeks to dry . Which is so frustrating because when I try wet on wet they dry so fast and I need the add the qor drops to give me extra drops .
Thank you Margot for these great tips! If i may add, please do our best to not wash paints (even wc) down sink as to protect the creatures in our waterways 🐟 i use old towels that i cut/rip in half and use those & i don’t wash them, i just use until they’re unusable then toss. PS: Love your bangs! Remind me of a mod go-go dancer from the British Invasion days! Cheers!!
i;ve found that i only need to clean the palettes off real good with the magic eraser cleaners and that works well for me. don't need to do the elmers glue step at least for the plastic palettes i've encountered
Great to see you! I’ve tried both the glue stick and the scrubber multiple times. Two of my colors still won’t stick. Every time I open my palette those two colors have popped off. The rest are great! No problems on the mixing sections. So, I just don’t use those sections for paint. But I really love this palette style!
24 hours to wait for watercolor paint from a tube to dry ? ... I had to wait for full 4 WEEKS this summer for my Daniel Smith watercolors to fully curate :') ... That should tell people something about how humid the weather here in Iceland really is ;)
Noooo…. I had no idea!! I didn’t mention it in the video but a quick way to speed up curing time is to put them in the freezer. Just make sure the palette is in a ziplock bag first. That should cut some time out
@@Pointebrush I have been using the freezer trick for the first 24 hours after pouring, but I haven't tried it with a ziplock bag before, thanks for the tip, I'm going to try it next 😉
@@Pointebrush I have been using the freezer trick for the first 24 hours after pouring, but I haven't tried it with a ziplock bag before, thanks for the tip, I'm going to try that next 😉
When drying my pallets I put them in the microwave or oven to dry because I have pets and it’s always easy for dog hair to get into my paint for some reason
Hi, sorry, newbie here. I started watercolor with the small half bin dried paint. But instead of buying new colors, is it possible to mix the colors from the tubes until we have the one we’d like to use more often and to let it dry like any primary color ?
O wow! Where can I buy that large palette from the Craftsy commercial that was round but had small removable cups for the paints?! Does anyone know? Also - great info and lovely hair!
Please give us a source for the palette…I want one! I use a toothpick to spread the paint and a flimsy rubber type thing that helps open jars to open stuck watercolor lids. Most of my paints have a large lid, easy to grip and turn.
At the beginning you said you put your warm colors on one side and cool colors on the other side. So reds, yellows, oranges/browns on one side and blues, greens, and purples on the other. That confuses me because you then have pyrrol red and quin rose both on the warm side. But quin rose is a cool red.
Yes, Kizzykat! I understand your confuson! 😊 And Hansa Yellow is a cool yellow... great for mixing fresh greens, while eg Cad yellow (warm yellow) is ideal for mixing the warmer mature greens. French Ultramarine is a warm blue... great for mixing rich purples with warm reds - eg permanent Alizarin crimson, and midsummer / autumn greens with eg Cad yellow (warm yellow) , whereas eg Cerulean Blue is a cool blue, great for mixing fresh greens eg with Hansa Yellow (cool yellow), but also good for mixing muted violets with warm reds, eg Alizarin Crimson... Permanent Alizarin Crimson, being a warm red will make lovely autumnal, muted oranges with eg Cad red (warm red) whereas Permanent Rose (Quin rose, cool red) with Hansa Yellow for clean, fresh orange. and a beautiful violet with French Ultramarine. And all this is why the artists of old used oval palettes, to mimic the colour wheel, not oblong. And also why I have a palette of only 12 colours, because I can mix an infinite number of colours from each of these (a minimum of 144, each one mixed with each of the others), and constant practice and usage has made those mixes fast and instinctive. Therein lies the key: _constant practice and usage has made those mixes fast and instinctive._ It is great fun to spend time,e specially as a beginner, exploring the "What if.." of colour mixing, and then sitting back amazed at the infinity of the results. My other five colours (I've mentioned three reds ^^^) are raw sienna (yellow), burnt umber (yellow) burnt sienna (red) Prussian blue (makes superb fresh greens and glorious violets) and cobalt blue, which is a neutral blue, which makes good mixes with most other colours.
Red is still a warm colour on the spectrum though, that's why it's in with the yellows and oranges. Each individual colour falls within warm or cool according to the colour wheel, but each individual colour itself can lean either warm or cool - hence your Quin Rose being a cool red as it's nearer to the blue side of the colour wheel.
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Oh my! I'm a pro and skip this all the time, ill let you all into my secret save you a few hours, run it through the DISHWASHER, Voila beading gone!! If a tube gets stuck get a cup of hot water soak the stuck cap in it a few seconds and it comes loose. Love your fun video style though Margot. Mines dull in comparison.
While watching her spread the paint around with the tube screw threads, I felt there was a more efficient way to do this. So much paint wasted and such a potential mess to clean up around the top before being able to put the cap back on. A wooden toothpick works great, but I've opened out one end of a metal paper clip, which retains very little paint on it while stirring and is so easy to clean off with a paper towel before going on to the next color. In fact I keep this same opened out paper clip as part of my painting gear, for all the times I might need to stir the paint easily and cleanly. You can also use it to reach into paint tubes where the paint has gotten a little dry at the opening and stir it up a bit so that it comes out more easily. Also, if necessary, you can use it to stir the excess gum arabic back into the tube, mixing it back in with the paint.
hi Margot,
Two other options for getting a new plastic pallet ready are toothpaste or baking soda. I scrub either in with an old toothbrush, then rinse well. Fast and easy. For keeping the paint from cementing the cap on, with every new tube of paint, WC, Acrylic, Oil, any screw top, I put a thin layer of petroleum jelly around the base, and screw the cap on and off a couple of times, wipe excess, and replace cap. This works for a long time before you need to apply. Love your videos.
I love the tip! Literally! I will be doing this from now on! I hated my Paul Rubens' set, because they leaked after I filled my pans... The Vaseline would have definitely kept me from this nightmare!!!! Thank you!!!!
The petroleum trick works great for glue caps. Especially shoe goo and cements. Another way to prep a palette is to rub The Masters Brush Cleaner on it and just wipe off with a cotton make up remover or cotton ball (I believe that is cotton bud if you are not from USA). A paper towel seems to not work as well. No need to rinse. I compared against using the magic eraser and there was less palette staining. Plus the same product removes palette stains.
Ooh!!! I like that! I will give it a go on my next palette. On my previous one I used the fine sand paper trick... I'm glad to know I didn't have to go traipsing down items from the garage toolbox, or get additional cleaning supplies. I had the product within my studio all this time!!!😊. Thank you!!!
Whew I am glad you finally said there are cool blues and warm blues! And every other color… so the separation isn’t really a true separation because you have cool and warm colors next to each other on each side
I love that you go into so much detail explaining why we do things! It helps so much. And the comments always have good tips too!
Marot, please, _please,_ don't get rid of the binder!! The result (for a lot of colours) is that the paint, having less binder, goes very hard on the palette and doesn't flow as well on paper. After all, the manufacturers have spent years researching the corrrect binder:paint ration, and what comes out of a separated paint tube is a lot, in volume terms, and is obviously going to alter the flow of the paint.
It's wiser to use a long metal spike of some kind (eg a craft paper piercing tool or metal toothpick - a wooden one wastes more paint) and mix it in _before_ pouring. It takes time, but is worth the effort. Any residual paint on the tool. wiped off onto a brush, can be used to make happy patterns on a piece of paper, which helps to make the effort fun. 😊
Love the bangs!
GREAT HAIR!! Seriously, it looks terrific. You always have some great tips on how to do things and they are appreciated. Love and miss you too.
I learn something so helpful from your videos EVERY SINGLE TIME!!! ♥️❤️♥️
Love your haircut. You're looking younger than ever.
I love your new do!!! ❤️❤️❤️👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
YOU ARE SO ADORABLE 😊 you have been my teacher for sooo long! I appreciate everything you have taught me! ❤
Welcome back, Margot, it’s good to see you. 😊
LOVE your new haircut Margot. Thanks for the tips on putting these paints on the palettes. Love the glue tip to stop paints beading on the surface. The beading used to really irritate me and I used to end up putting paints straight from.the tube onto a paper plate to stop that but now I'm a lot wiser thanks to you. I'm able to get more out of my paints by putting them on the pre glued palette the right way and putting them in the fridge to dry. Thank you. Looking forward to the next video. Susan xxx ❤❤❤
I usually use a wood skewer or a little plastic dip stick from a kids Nutella dipping snack pack. The Nutella dip stick is fabulous for smoothing in particular but the skewer works great too. If I used my tube I’d likely get way too much paint on the tube screw threads and have to waste too much paint cleaning it off. With the Nutella dip stick you can wipe of the paint on the edge of the paint well so you don’t waste too much,
So great to see you back. I enjoy your voice much more without background music, my particular brain finds it very distracting. Would you consider going back to no music, it distracts from your lessons, or at least make the music much quieter? You are a great teacher and so entertaining. Your editing skills are wonderful as well. Thanks for considering.
Background music makes it more difficult for people who have hearing loss in some frequencies or are wearing hearing aids. Missing frequencies can make music sound like noise. Thx.
Your hair is lovely ❤ it really suits you. 😁
Delighted by your return. And we'll wait. :) Love the hair. And all the tips. And your Lego Palettes. Gee, are you a Mom?!!
I put my yellow in 3x. One to mix with reds and one to mix with blues, but also one to use pure.
I have a similar palette. Almost the same apart from 5 slightly larger wells at the bottom of the left side (with the thumb grip). Got some student paints to start and played with many colours to find the ones and the types I liked. I LOVE THE BLUES, so in my first ever palette going from the same order as you started.
Left, top-down: Black, grey, white gouache! ,browns, yellow, greens, blues.
Continuing right side from bottom to top: Purples, pinks, reds, oranges, yellow
Then I got professional quality paints (w&n, sennelier and my favourite maimeri blu (italian).
I still keep my 3x yellow rule, but have gone to have Yellow, Red, Blue AND Yellow, Magenta, Cyaan. Just to get better at mixing. Although I do plan to add some colours that I just love a lot and dont' want to mix all the time ^^
Glue -- who knew! Like your new hair - bangs suit you and it's a less harsh look (says a woman who often pulls her hair totally back, but I've been tempted to cut bangs) :)
I like your hair cut! 😊
Mindblown! A simple hack to flatten the watercolour in the well first, rather than leaving it as a rounded glob - wish I learnt this earlier! Thank you for this tip!
Unbelievably helpful. I am a self taught artist.I was wondering why it kept doing that so I just will go back to my old pallets that I never wash off
Cleaning a new Plastic Palette with Dishsoap before using it also does wonders,
Love the bangs :)
Your hair is beautiful, and so are you.
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Thank you, you explain things wonderfully!
I used an emery board to remove the finish. Works great!
So happy you’re back, missed your videos! Such a cute haircut! Great content as always with a touch of humor; you’re a great teacher.
Well, since you asked….I like your bangs and haircut. Very flattering! Haven’t tried the glue trick; use a Mr. Clean white melamine sponge, when I can find it under the sink, haha.
I love your haircut!!
Welcome back Margot!! I've missed your videos. Your channel is one of the best art channels out there ! :)
Missed you so much! Nobody else makes videos like yours! The style, the fun, the amazing editing, all so great
My art teacher in college, many years ago, suggested using Comet or Bars Keep on a new plastic palette to remove the coating. It’s worked great for me. Just found your channel and I love it! Now to view more of them.
So nice to see you on here again! I hope you had a good summer. I was just opening a small order that included a blue from Daniel Smith so this was great timing😊
Love the haircut😂 Also, good info. Tx.
Thank you so much for this video. The use of gall stuff or purple Elmer's glue for prepping the palette is totally new information to me. I've had the paint bead up, but did not know the cause or the fix. Your new do looks great!
I absolutely love your haircut. Absolutely beautiful!
Oh wait! I forgot to say.....so I'm a goth and I have the "same" haircut as you, only with the thicker Betty Page bangs. I definitely think you should do that, those nice thick bangs, you could definitely pull it off. It's not going to suddenly turn you goth, many "normal" people have it too, but trust me, it just does something.
Hullo Margot, Thanks for this lovely video. I have used just about ever method for filling wells. I have discovered that If I put a bead across the back of the well, then bringing a bead of paint down one side smearing them together with a thin film of paint between them. Rather like a capital "L" switching sides as I fill well down the sides of the well. I use a palette knife to do this and not my tubes, I use the paint left on the knife to make my swatches. I get that area in the well for a lighter concentration of color when I do not want to gush the color out into the main mixing area. I have found a larger well to be better for brushes and those half pans used for most travel palettes not so good. Better to use full pans in travel palettes and fewer colors to prolong the life of my good travel brushes, which most times cost more than very good studio brushes! This is when I get to choose my pan size and not when I buy a set with half pans. OH! I use tooth paste as my cleaning agent, I never thought to use school glue, I sometimes use a green scrubber to clean off mixing areas. I find those more commonly about the house than the Mr. Clean pads. I find the tooth paste gets most everything off of the surface of the plastic palettes, but the scrubber does give a courser tooth to the mixing areas.
Do you use gel toothpaste or white toothpaste? Thank you!
@@rakisk8r Are used regular Crest toothpaste, I imagine any type of toothpaste would do maybe even gel just the ones that have a little grit and you clean your teeth with it.
I use a fine grain rectangular sandpaper block to prevent the beading.
Super excited, you have me at explaining in detail as only a Virgo could do!!! September birthday here too! I started teaching Watercolor this year at our homeschool group and it's opening my eyes to all the deep type A Virgo part of my personality. So far everyone is class seems to be happy and having fun.
Embrace it! It’s a superpower especially for teaching! Sounds like your students love it! 🔥💪
Thanks for this info, Margot…it’s very helpful. The new haircut looks fabulous btw. Love all of your videos, they’re awesome. Have a great weekend!😊
Thank you, Margot. Another helpful video! I look forward to your next instalment - but in your own time (real life must always come first!).
Love the haircut too 💙💜
signed up for the trial membership for Craftsy. thank you i'm excited!
Ok but your hair cut is so cute
Welcome back, Great to see you and the NEW Do too!!!
Missed you over the Summer, though so great to see you are back and sharing your MAGICK with the all of us.
Thanks for the VIRGO plug, you know how we LOVE to share information and being ORGANIZED. Happy Belated, BTW!
Seeing this whole video just made me feel a sense of CALM, so thank you!!! Great instruction for anyone beginning or in the game already.
Always brilliant content!!🧡✨🧡
I am so stoked about the warm/cool colour video coming up!! love your tips as always. I gave up on my plastic palette, prefering now a good ol' ceramic plate
Actually very cute haircut😊
Thank you.
So glad you’re back! X
Absolutely loved the information in this video. I've been thinking about making a video like this, because I've been putting together so many palettes (1 per each family member 4) for our family painting lessons. This semester, we are working out of Dana Fox's forest book! Last semester, we were working out of Jenna Rainey's book, and I felt there was a better way of explaining it, and you hit the nail on the head, with this video! Thank you!
❤️❤️❤️ Thank you for making this video, it was very helpful ! I am just getting started with watercolor. After trying several other mediums, this is my favorite.
OMG!! i truly had to double take !! it is cool af, and you dropped prob 10 - 15 years!!! LOVE IT!!
First thing I noticed. Love the look!
Cute. I like the bangs 😊
Fun video. I was actually reconsidering my pallet. I thought I might put opaque colors to one side as I am too forgetful to remember which ones are actually opaque.
Now I need to reconsider my reconsideration.
LOL. Been there sone that :D
Paul, I think your idea makes good sense, and if it works for you, do it! 😊
I’m learning to make sourdough starter. Mine is 15 days young. Anxious to make some bread. Cute haircut !
Margot, thank you for such a great video. I always learn so much from you. You’re an amazing teacher. Thank you.
I'm thrilled about palette primer, I hate the beading on new plastic palettes. Thank you.
The video I was waiting for! Thanks, Margot!
Love your hair!
I love you new hair cut!! Its awesome. Makes you look more Sophisticated. Thank you for the palette set up and guess what? I did it correctly. How about that . Yeah. Can't wait for the next video!
Amazing video!! thank you!!
please cover cool and warm of each color. That also matters when mixing. Cute haircut too. I've been a member of SkillShare since it began. Great fun
Definitely plan on covering it when we get to mixing! Thanks for watching!
Thank you❣️❣️. I’m new to watercolors so thiswasveryhelpful💜
12:39 wait, so, it’s ok to get rid of the excess binder? I always thought this was the binder separating from the pigment, and that if I removed it, my paint would be too dry/ dry faster in the tube, and eventually making the paint unusable (due to having hardened inside the tube). Whenever I have a tube with too much binder at the top, I try to poke a toothpick carefully and mix it with the paint as much as possible. And yes, it’s a very messy ordeal 😂. If you or anyone else could share their experiences below, that would be greatly appreciated 😊
Always nice to see a video from you 😊. I really enjoyed this one.
Can I say your hairstyle is so pretty ~ thanks for the tips btw❤️✝️🙏🏻
Love the hair!!!
Great information. I will use a tooth pick to help spread but I agree don’t use a ball of color in your palette it’s hard to activate and when it falls out it rolls around making a big mess if flat it doesn’t roll off the table . Also good point about it being hard on your brush . That is why I dislike smaller 1/4 pans or very small palettes that you have dig into . My last few plastic palettes have stained. My qor paints took two weeks to dry . Which is so frustrating because when I try wet on wet they dry so fast and I need the add the qor drops to give me extra drops .
Thank you Margot for these great tips! If i may add, please do our best to not wash paints (even wc) down sink as to protect the creatures in our waterways 🐟 i use old towels that i cut/rip in half and use those & i don’t wash them, i just use until they’re unusable then toss. PS: Love your bangs! Remind me of a mod go-go dancer from the British Invasion days! Cheers!!
I love the haircut!
I love your hair! I recent had bangs cut also 😄
Your haircut is giving! Love it ❤
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Just what I needed!
i;ve found that i only need to clean the palettes off real good with the magic eraser cleaners and that works well for me. don't need to do the elmers glue step at least for the plastic palettes i've encountered
Excellent tips, many of which I wish I had known when setting up my palettes. Still learning...
I’m glad it was helpful! 🙏
Super cute haircut!
Great to see you! I’ve tried both the glue stick and the scrubber multiple times. Two of my colors still won’t stick. Every time I open my palette those two colors have popped off. The rest are great! No problems on the mixing sections. So, I just don’t use those sections for paint. But I really love this palette style!
Are they blues? I have a 2 blues that always fall out. 😂
Love your videos!
great video!!
❤ thank you so much.
Great info. Thanks!
24 hours to wait for watercolor paint from a tube to dry ? ... I had to wait for full 4 WEEKS this summer for my Daniel Smith watercolors to fully curate :') ... That should tell people something about how humid the weather here in Iceland really is ;)
Noooo…. I had no idea!! I didn’t mention it in the video but a quick way to speed up curing time is to put them in the freezer. Just make sure the palette is in a ziplock bag first. That should cut some time out
@@Pointebrush I have been using the freezer trick for the first 24 hours after pouring, but I haven't tried it with a ziplock bag before, thanks for the tip, I'm going to try it next 😉
@@Pointebrush I have been using the freezer trick for the first 24 hours after pouring, but I haven't tried it with a ziplock bag before, thanks for the tip, I'm going to try that next 😉
I bought my watercolour tubes & palettes (one ceramic, one plastic) last December and it took over a week for them to dry. I’m in Atlantic Canada.
you can put in a hot car too!
Great tip
When drying my pallets I put them in the microwave or oven to dry because I have pets and it’s always easy for dog hair to get into my paint for some reason
Hi, sorry, newbie here. I started watercolor with the small half bin dried paint. But instead of buying new colors, is it possible to mix the colors from the tubes until we have the one we’d like to use more often and to let it dry like any primary color ?
Hey hottie with the cute haircut! 😍 This fellow Virgo is happy to see you back. ❤
Virgos unite! 😜 Thanks for watching!
Hi Margot ;) Always enjoyed your videos ❣️Hope to see you soon 😊Great video BTW as always
i do a fine grit sandpaper not the glue trick, sorry if u mentioned that i have a short attention span today😂
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Love the haircut……
O wow! Where can I buy that large palette from the Craftsy commercial that was round but had small removable cups for the paints?! Does anyone know? Also - great info and lovely hair!
Robax palette? Google search Robax palette. You buy direct from them.
It’s a Robax palette. Google search to find the website.
@@suel4269 Yes! Found it! Thanks :)
I like to use cheap white ceramic plates from a thrift store.
Please give us a source for the palette…I want one! I use a toothpick to spread the paint and a flimsy rubber type thing that helps open jars to open stuck watercolor lids. Most of my paints have a large lid, easy to grip and turn.
Acetone works too fingernail polish remover with 100% acetone
11:46 you about gave me a fit with the cap in the paint so much! 😂😂😂 i am always sooo careful to not get any on the tube
At the beginning you said you put your warm colors on one side and cool colors on the other side. So reds, yellows, oranges/browns on one side and blues, greens, and purples on the other. That confuses me because you then have pyrrol red and quin rose both on the warm side. But quin rose is a cool red.
Yes, Kizzykat! I understand your confuson! 😊
And Hansa Yellow is a cool yellow... great for mixing fresh greens, while eg Cad yellow (warm yellow) is ideal for mixing the warmer mature greens.
French Ultramarine is a warm blue... great for mixing rich purples with warm reds - eg permanent Alizarin crimson, and midsummer / autumn greens with eg Cad yellow (warm yellow) , whereas eg Cerulean Blue is a cool blue, great for mixing fresh greens eg with Hansa Yellow (cool yellow), but also good for mixing muted violets with warm reds, eg Alizarin Crimson...
Permanent Alizarin Crimson, being a warm red will make lovely autumnal, muted oranges with eg Cad red (warm red) whereas Permanent Rose (Quin rose, cool red) with Hansa Yellow for clean, fresh orange. and a beautiful violet with French Ultramarine.
And all this is why the artists of old used oval palettes, to mimic the colour wheel, not oblong. And also why I have a palette of only 12 colours, because I can mix an infinite number of colours from each of these (a minimum of 144, each one mixed with each of the others), and constant practice and usage has made those mixes fast and instinctive.
Therein lies the key: _constant practice and usage has made those mixes fast and instinctive._ It is great fun to spend time,e specially as a beginner, exploring the "What if.." of colour mixing, and then sitting back amazed at the infinity of the results.
My other five colours (I've mentioned three reds ^^^) are raw sienna (yellow), burnt umber (yellow) burnt sienna (red) Prussian blue (makes superb fresh greens and glorious violets) and cobalt blue, which is a neutral blue, which makes good mixes with most other colours.
Red is still a warm colour on the spectrum though, that's why it's in with the yellows and oranges. Each individual colour falls within warm or cool according to the colour wheel, but each individual colour itself can lean either warm or cool - hence your Quin Rose being a cool red as it's nearer to the blue side of the colour wheel.