Cobalt Blue Comparison - Winsor & Newton - Holbein - Schmincke - Roman Szmal - Rembrandt.
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- After swatching and comparing my Ultramarine Blue watercolors in my last video I thought it might be interesting to do a comparison with my Cobalt Blues.
Materials used in this video:
Baohong Academy Watercolor Paper Cold Pressed 300gsm bit.ly/3iPHCcZ
Escoda Perla Round Size 10 bit.ly/2VOjP4t
Rembrandt Cobalt Blue bit.ly/3AJjT4i
Mijello Mission Gold Cobalt Blue No.2 bit.ly/3xNw3qH
Holbein Cobalt Blue bit.ly/3LdwHWz
Winsor & Newton Professional Cobalt Blue bit.ly/3GZZ7ku
Da Vinci Cobalt Blue
Cotman Cobalt Blue Hue bit.ly/2YuSe9v
Camlin Cobalt Blue
Van Gogh Cobalt Blue (Ultramarine)
Schmincke Horadam Cobalt Blue Deep bit.ly/3EttoHt
Roman Szmal Aquarius Cobalt Blue Deep bit.ly/33EENGC
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You should narrate bedtime stories. Or some adult sleep calm app. Your voice is so calming. Maybe do a remake of the magic roundabout.
Haha! I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing 😂
The Holbein PB28 is my favorite. It is much less likely to granulate which I prefer. Both PB74 are so similar and I also like them. But I purchased a PB72 from Roman Szmal and I really like it too. It is called Aquarius Cobalt Blue and it is less granulating than PB74 and more green - closer to PB28.
It would have been interesting to see Schmincke's Kobalt Blue Light PB28 in the top row. Personally, I like it. A lovely blue for sky washes and mixes well. Granulation is just about right for me, my go to mid blue. I use VG in my small sketching palette and find their Kobalt Blue Hue to be a good colour for such purposes, again for sky washes and mixing. I wouldn't put it in my studio palette though, Schmincke definitely has my vote for that. Great vid by the way, really interesting seeing the various brands swatched out like this. Never seen the PB74 swatched before, so that was really useful info. But I think I'll stick with Schmincke's FUM PB29. Granulates like a pebble beach and produces very interesting effects in mixes.
I use Daniel Smith cobalt blue and like it for midday skies (mixed with a bit of DS ultramarine for flow. It also makes a lovely ocean color, mixed with ultramarine or cobalt turquoise. Thanks so much for these comparisons. I really like the WN version.
You're very welcome 🙏 Thank you for the mixing tips. I've not tried any Daniel Smith blues yet.
Wow, the Mjello one is intense! I love it
It's great value here in Asia too.
@@JayNathanWatercolor Indeed.
Really liking the Rembrandt (first one), at least by the even flow and granulation demonstrated. As for the PB74 examples, reall i would be just fine with ultramarine.
I can understand that. I do quite like the PB74 though. I need to try some mixing with it to see what it can do.
I must be a pigment miser. I don’t believe I actually have any cobalt blues in my palette, the cost always made me scared to try it 😁 I have always just stuck with the old ultramarine and pthalo. Cobalt is really pretty unique though!
I have been using Winsor & Newton‘a Cobalt Blue for a number of years now and it’s a favourite of mine. The Schmincke & Roman Szmal Cobalt Deep are interesting hues. This was great!
Thanks. I think it's my favourite now too ☺️
I’ve used Jackson’s and love mixing it with manganese blue hue, which I use more often on its own anyway. I like W&N best here.
It’s like I grew up with a Winsor Newton Cobalt Blue Hue. My favourites, 1. WinsorNewton Cobalt Blue PB28, 2. Da Vinci Cobalt Blue. Though, I use a White Nights Cobalt Blue in my paintings. Oh! I was tempted to buy the Rembrandt Ultramarine because of your last video. 😂 Very nice swatching 👍🏼
Thank you 🙏 Sorry if my videos are tempting you to spend money 🤣
I have the Holbein Cobalt Blue W290 PB28 and it has a much deeper hue/pigment than your sample swatch. Of course, I tend to do my swatches with deeper mass tones and glazing. Actually, the PB74's remind me of Qor's Yin Min Blue PB18.
Of the PB28 samples you presented I like the Winsor and Newton the best.
hmm i still quite like rembrandt's out of the lot. the purpose of my cobalt blue is usually to be a 'softer' version of ultramarine blue. thanks for the comparison, very insightful!
You're very welcome 🙏 I like the Rembrandt too. I use it in pretty much every painting ☺️
Going to have to get myself some of that PB74. And I love the granulation in the Rembrandt PB28 ✨👍🏼✨
PB74 is very nice. I think it's going to take some getting use to though. It granulates a lot.
EXCELLENT video. there's a real lack of covering cobalt blue and manganese blue (and hues) in comparisons. not sure why. so thank you for making them.
I have Holbein and Mijello pure pigment. The PB74 are lovely though.
I enjoy all your swatching videos. Thanks you.
This is such a beautiful color and they are all pretty similar until you get to the lower row. I am imagining using a tiny spoon to take the same amount of paint from each brand for even swatching. 😂 The PB74s are beautiful too and granulate very well. TFS😀
Haha! Even swatching proved impossible with dry, semi dry pans and others straight from the tube 🤣
I like the PB74 lots. Just have to practice using it.
@@JayNathanWatercolor Im pretty sure there is no way to win the Watercolor Swatch game.😂😂😂😂 We will all keep trying anyway. 😉
I prefer Cobalt to Ultramarine so I don't typically use any Ultramarine's. I use both DS & M. Graham Cobalt which a both PB28. I love them both but the M. Graham is easier to rewet and a bit creamier to use because of the addition of honey in it.
I love the variety of grays/blacks I can achieve but my favorite is Cobalt with Trans Red Oxide.
I'm the same as you. I don't often have ultramarine in my palette.
I prefer the Winsor and Newton Cobalt Blue PB28
I have the Winsor & Newton and Daniel Smith in cobalt blue and they are so much alike it's difficult to pick a fav. Of your bunch the W&N wins. I do like the Da Vinci as well. The Van Gogh has a nice color, but I try to avoid most multiple pigment paints because I have enough trouble mixing the color I want without making mud. 😂
I've never tried the Daniel Smith version. I'm sure it's very good 😊
Migelo surprise me...really smooth.
Mijello are great value paints 😊
I haven't used much cobalt blue, although I own a few. However, for some reason I really like the Cotman hue.
I love PB74, but don`t use it as much. Schmincke`s still looks the warmest, on screen, to me.
It depends what you use Ultramarine for, but they are not so similar, as the hue might suggest.
Ultramarine is an organic pigment and cobalt a mineral. Both are granulating, but ultramarine is very fluid and less staining. Cobalt is a heavy pigment, more opaque, won`t spread as much and it`s harder to lift.
Ah yes ☺️ Thank you for the info. 🙏
I believe Loki and I talked about PB74 a few months back. I had to pick some up and enjoy there being a different shade of blue out there.
The only PB28 I have are Holbein and Turner. Holbein granulates a lot more and is a deeper blue. But I enjoy painting with both.
Tfs.
The Holbein is very nice. I've not tried any Turner paints yet.
I only have one. so can't say, which one I like more. but I can say, most of the time, I don't use cobalt for skies. first of all, the real cobalts are expensive and I am still exercising a lot. I need cheaper options. and apart from mediteranian sky motives and such, the tone does not always look realistic. I mean, for middle and north-european skies - where I live and put the landscape in. the ultramarines look a bit more realistic, even if the sky is more or less an imagined sky, when I try to paint one. I can't recreate from pictues. :-) when I want to paint a very bright and let's say Indian Ocean type of skyscape I even use a more kitshy blue. I dear to use cerulean blue :-D the cobald I did use here and there in a mix, when I wanted to distinct the sea a bit more from the sky. most likely not necessary. However, I do and like to use cobalt in mountains. and there the granulation is even better. but mountains are so hard for me. so I hardly use it to be honest
Thanks!!!!!! Learning!!
Winsor & Newton looks quite good. It looks like it is more pigmented. I'd say better than the Daniel Smith PB28 that I have. I'm not that happy with it but I have to use up this tube before I'll place an order.
I've not tried the Daniel Smith but I'm definitely a fan of the W&N.
@@JayNathanWatercolor Daniel Smith is not my favorite in this case... I think, it's quite flat when painted out. You don't miss anything, really.
Jay will you join my Cobalt Blue fan club? :p
So surprised to see the Camlin included as well. On cobalts, do you have the Lukas pb28? It flows great and stuff but feels a bit milky. My white nights cobalt seems way more intense and (ultramariney).
Haha! Everyone should be in the cobalt Blue fanclub 😂
No I've not tried the Lukas Cobalt Blue yet. I'm sure I'll get it sometime in the future though. ☺️
I was just waiting for this comparison. ^^ A question: as you used more water in the Rembrandt's swatch and more paint in the W&N one, I wonder if and how much they differ in terms of pigmentation. I only have Van Gogh's CB and I'm considering an artist grade replacement. Those two brands, besides Maimeri Blu and White Nights, are the ones I can find where I live. Thanks for the video! 🙌
Haha yes the comparison wasn't terribly scientific sorry about that 🤣 I would say the W&N is more pigmented of the two and feels much nicer to me. I like the Rembrandt one too though as it's available for much much cheaper than W&N here.
@@JayNathanWatercolor No worries, haha. I have and enjoy the few Rembrandt paints I've got, but I haven't tried any W&N, yet. It seems less granulating and more intense, for what I find it overall more interesting (especially for skies, as you mentioned yourself). Thank you so much for sharing and helping us out. All the best and happy painting!🙌
When you have the chance try the M. graham cobalt blue. It is one of the best ones IMO!
Thanks for the recommendation 🙏☺️
@@JayNathanWatercolor Cheers! W&N looks so nice too, as da Vinci also. Good PB28’s are expensive though, eg W&N.
Have a few tubes but I don’t use them🤷🏽♂️
Nice paint but …
I guess because it’s close to an Ultramarine. Some Ultramarine blues are close enough in hue to a cobalt that with a bit of water it’ll look like a cobalt.
Don’t know.😅
Haha. I can never get my ultramarines to look like cobalts. They're always too red for me.
I’d like to try PB28 one day. If I ever get to buy Sennelier paints then I might buy their PB28; it’s transparent, which suites me more. Ultramarine is nice, but for some reason I’m no longer interested in it. I find cobalt blue PB28 to be a more authentic blue hue.
Sennelier was the first cobalt blue PB28 I'd ever tried and I absolutely loved it.
I agree with you about Ultramarine. I keep removing it from my palette, as I get so bored with it, but then I end up putting it back in again because it's so useful as a mixing color.
If cobalt blue can be make from mixing ultramarine & white, what 'blue' considered as primary color? Is it cerulean?
I always thought that a phthalo blue would be considered as the primary. At least in a CMYK palette. I know some brands name their phthalo blue as 'Primary'
@@JayNathanWatercolor
Thank you for your answer, I was confused which blue I should buy for primary 😁
Great content, thanks.
I might go get a PB74! Looks great :-)
Yay! Let me know if you like it ☺️
I own a Turner Cobalt Blue but it’s Pb36. Why?
I don't know. I guess that's just the pigment they decided to go with for some reason.
@@JayNathanWatercolor I checked and Pb36 is cerulean blue but it doesn’t look like cerulean though. Is cobalt chromium the same as cobalt?
Migello.
Get schminke cobalt blue as well.
One day maybe 😊
@@JayNathanWatercolor Is winsor newton and schminke the only ones producing turners 216 yellow? I don't see daniel smith has it.
I think White Nights has a couple of PY216 paints. Naples yellow and Naples orange I think.
First to comment!
As always 🤣
Where is mission gold W542 Cobalt Blue hue no 1🥲🙁
I forgot about that one. Is it one of your favourites?
@@JayNathanWatercolor actually I'm thinking to buy good (branded) basic colors for my composition other than Camlin .so I'm confused btwn winsor n Newton professional and mission gold
I guess it depends on what you like to paint and how much your budget is? W&N Professional is a lot more expensive than Mijello.