It's time to reveal my new watercolour palette and swatch the 47 colours I've chosen! This is a long, chatty video - perfect for you to put on in the background while you work on your own projects. I'd love to hear which colours you like the most, and which colours you couldn't live without in your own palette!
This was incredibly relaxing to watch. I only now realise that swatching this way seems just so right. Beautiful colours shouldn’t be boxed in. I like big palettes and I cannot lie! 😊
I love your sticker! It makes me smile every time I see it. :) The greyish-violet with the slight pearlescent is Sugilite - such a unique. and beautiful colour! I've been planning for months to make a sketchbook palette with the non-lightfast paints and had actually put a little tin aside and labelled it for this exact purpose - I just need to finish putting it together now! Great minds think alike. ;) The colours are too lovely not to use.
I love the way you swatch in this video. The swatches look like pebbles on a magical beach. Very pleasing to the eye. 😊 Ps I like big palettes and I cannot lie!
I love huge large palette where you can put ALL your favorite colours. I live in Japan btw. I find your work very inspiring 😊So huge thanks for your effort and time 🎉🎉❤❤❤
I like big palettes and I cannot lie! Lol I would love to build another palette but i live in New Zealand and its difficult choosing without swatching 😅 so glad you take the time to swatch as it’s a great resource for me!
Had to comment again, I am so obsessed with how you swatch. From your perfect circles a while ago, to the rectangles, to these shapes, I am obsessed :)
First thing: the color selection for your palette is gorgeous! Second thing: you’re too right about the “rules” of art and how freeing it is to break them. It’s really nice to hear it verbalized, and even better to see the proof in the form of how beautiful it can be (e.g. in this case, to have a palette that is a “rule-breaker.”). And do you know what? You have inspired me to give my own palette a little shake-up. I currently have 2 separate ones (granulating and non-granulating), but there are colors on there I never use. I think I’m going to steal a move from your book and make a palette only of colors I absolutely love! Thank your for the inspiration!
I have lots of colours! I have been filling empty half and full pans and use multiple pallets. I have been enjoying spreading them out all around me and pre-wetting them. Mixing watercolour and gouache. I have also been pre-mixing custom mixes and primarily investing in tubes after pigment research erring on the side of lightfast and best for custom mixes. Since I have been doing this I've been easily and quickly painting more and more and I have looked at it and am up to triple the paintings in 1/3 the time! This Was double when I was at round half the pre prepared paints; but has moved up to triple more recently as I have so many pre prepared half pans! I have separate swatch cards (in order) that fit the shape for each pallet and additional notes on the colours/mixes and different tests and notes for many paper types (continuing to research the papers as I go forward; as things work differently on different papers!) I am continuing forward this way as I've already been enjoying painting WAY more and as I said I now have Triple the total output and I've been working 2-3 time faster as well! I've lately been experimenting with adding a touch of pure honey to some as well (I plan to re-pour a couple of the harder to re wet ones and add a touch of honey for example soon). Anyways another piece of advice I'll share is to buy various cheap make up brushes from the dollar store and use them with watercolours and gouache paints! (Also Acrylic paint...) They are amazing and allow special techniques that help you 1) blend softly 2) gradients 3) large areas of soft washes 4) use watercolours better on cheaper papers 5) use a mix of watercolours + gouache better! I think I need to make a RUclips video about some of these things myself soon! I think some of my faves specifically are: Quinacridone (Red, coral and Rose), Pthalo blue, terquoise and green, DS Perylene Green, DS Aussie Red gold, DS Quinacridone Gold, Quinacridone burnt orange, M. Graham Anthraquinone Blue + Terra Rosa (seprately and mixed as a super deep 'vibrant' black, Senellier ultramarine deep, Van gogh: Carmine, rose, neutral tint, davy's grey and Azo yellow deep. I love all colours to one extent or another and change pallets (I don't use all colours in each painting!) often. I have least favorites yet have already even used all of them this year! More is more for me. Some of my other favs are custom pre made mixes I created after research in empty half pans using tube paint and/or hydrus. including my lightfast moonglow mix (dupe), mineral violet mix, shadow violet mix (1,2 +3), vibrant black, Lunar blue mix, prussian green, rose dore and cascade green. Some are to save buying too many expensive separate tubes (most) while some art to improve or 'original' inventions (not avialable in tubes. I have more than the examples here as well! Long comment over Fun video, thanks.
Wonderful swatching video! I find watching you swatch, unwrap art hauls or highlight areas you have visited are all so soothing to me. Thank you for your very conversational videos. Love your new palette. You have shown me quite a few new paints that I am rushing to add to my wish list. Three colors I love are from Cheap Joes in the US- Pat’s Coastal Blue (a beautiful soft blue/grey/green), Blue Stone (a lovely medium bluish grey ) and June Bug (a darker very pretty greenish blue). I like big palettes & I can not lie! Thank you.
I love big palettes and I cannot lie :) looking forward to more videos - thank you for all the time you put into making them. They are very calming but also jam packed with inspiration
I like big palettes and I cannot lie! Lol!! This was so therapeutic and relaxing, thank you. I love all of the colours you've chosen, but those blues, violets, greens, the granulating colours on the bottom half, oh they bring me so much joy and make my heart sing!!!!! They do look like pebbles 💟😊🤗 a pebble video and a colour mixing video would be great. Xxx
I like big palettes and I can not lie. I love the tundra pink and my favourite colour is one I made myself from leftover soap making ingredients from activated charcoal, ultramarine and red clay. It's like Sodalite from Daniel Smith. Love your palette. Thank you 🌞
I LOVE your videos and I love the larger swatches. I really wished (in the end) you had labeled the colors. I loved some of them so much and I couldn't tell which was what color!
I like big palettes and I can not lie! I'm new to art/drawing and I so enjoy watching your creativity and process. Thank you for introducing me to handmade watercolor paints - I didn't even know such a thing existed! I love all your colors so I can't pick one. What I do like and you might find fun are colors with a bit of shimmer. I think used in a judicious way they add a beautiful unexpected accent.
The DS Sodalite and SH Tundra Pink grab my eye over and over again in this video but honestly the entire bottom half of that page is just so me.... I *LOVE* all of them!! Thanks for this video!
I Do like big palettes and I cannot lie!! This looks so inspiring. I'm sure you're having lots of fun putting this palette thru it's paces in new artwork! My favourites are all the Blues and Greens - I'm always over-buying those colours. Can never have enough variety with those!!💗
Oh my... I can not lie.. I love this big palette! My favorites are rose dore, tundra pink and omg that ocean grey..!! In my palette I currently love madder brown by Schmincke, goethite and lunar blue ))
What a lovely palette, and video!! 😊 There are so many beautiful colours that I can't choose. But I really like Daniel Smith's and Schmincke's granulating colours. The one colour that I wouldn't be able to live without is definitely and of course, paynes grey! 😋 I like big palettes and I cannot lie!
I really believe that watercolor palettes activate our serotonin, it works for me.🥳Those colors are all beautiful, I loved the cobalt blue teal, the sodalite, tundra pink and potter's pink. I couldn't live without my french ultramarine blue. I enjoyed watching your swatch. Thanks !
I’ve always felt like rules in art exist (and are important to know and learn) to help the artist better achieve their vision, and they’re broken for the exact same reason 😂 p.s. I like big palettes and I cannot lie
Omgosh, what was that “I love big palettes and I cannot lie?” Or “I’m putting myself on a watercolor BAN!!” What I loved most was listening to you literally smile through the whole video of swatching your colors!! I’m working on building my Robax pallet… it’s “One Pallet to rule them all.” (Cheesy movie quote) but it’s true. It’s 85 wells of spinning dreamy colors. And I’m tortured by having to narrow it down to just 85!! I have all different brands and even a few that are in your pallet (szmal). I also have themed palettes with Qor, cobalts, fav mixed pigments, etc, but alas all 85 colors for Robax will be single pigment translucent. I noticed that you really love opaque pigments and how clear your painting style shows with your palette. It was so fun listening to you whilst working on my own. I truly enjoy hearing artist’ choices for the colors they pick, especially when you can tell it’s uniquely their OWN!! I absolutely loved this, even though it’s very different from my own. That’s what makes art so amazing, 🤩 total opposites can appreciate each other as there’s no wrong or right. Ohh, have you tried szmal Ocean Blue? It’s a very moody, deep blue green. Deeper than another fav of mine aqua green by W&N. They remind me of the deepest darkest bits of the ocean 🌊
I love the color of the Daniel Smith Aussie Red Gold, myself. It's just the kind of color that makes me want to do something with it everytime I put it to paper.
This switching video has really inspired me to start creating! The granulation rssulting in the pebble look? Chef's kiss! I like big pallets and I cannot lie (that was fun)
I cannot lie I love big palettes too, Natasha! There are so many beautiful shades. I particularly liked the Phthalo Turquoise...I've been searching for a shade of blue green for a painting I want to do. I'm trying to match colors with an uhpolstered piece. I think you've gotten me fairly close! 🙂 Excellent job! Thanks!
I always take out the insert use magnets to fit almost double intended amount, I just ordered all my Christmas presents, for my daughter ex hubby , her husband and grand daughter and of course I bought me stuff! Caran d ache museum aquarelle, full set I can’t wait to get them, 4 pencil cases, 27 luminance, upon which I will build every month , buying a few at a time
I love big palettes and I cannot lie? I also love my Daniel Smith Cascade Green, Sodalite Gen, and QOR Quinacridone Violet. I do think I have to finally pick up that Tundra Pink and the Misty morning. They have been in my cart for awhile. So beautiful. Thank you for the swatch fix!
Dear Natasha, I do believe you are proud of this AMAZING palette 💜 Just looking at the swatches you made has inspired me so much to take out my paints again. Thank you very much! And ..."I love big palettes and I cannot lie" (I absolutely do, I mean, why can't we have like two more hands to paint with so many beautiful colors?😂) I do not have a "main palette", I'd rather keep all my watercolors organized by color family in dedicated palettes. But honestly I am reconsidering this system because I can see how useful is a main selection, in order to get to know your favourite paints. My fav picks by your pebbles swatch chart are Tundra Pink, Lunar Red Rock and Schmincke's new released Ocean Gray. Thank you for sharing with us, I love the chatting-type videos😊 I would like to recommend you some colors I really love, I hope you will find some interesting ones among these💜: •perylene maroon (I have Mijello, but I know W&N and DS make it for sure); •quinacridone burnt orange; •mahogany brown and spinell brown(both Schmincke); •"magnesium brown" (by W&N, the same pigment as DS "Lunar Earth"); •"Sennelier's gray" and warm gray (kinda like a buff titanium but slightly more intense), both by Sennelier ; •Naphtamide maroon (DS); •phtalo turquoise (Maimeri Blu, the single pigment version with PB16) •nickel azo yellow (PY150 by any brand), one of my absolute favourite colours. And I have to end it here because I could just go on and on! Lol Love 💜
I had so much anxiety watching your swatches get bigger and bigger haha! Was so worried you wouldn't fit all the paints on for some reason. Beautiful colours!
Me too! I felt like watching a nature document: Lady in a sweet voice "I think we should not really go closer to that lion family" (taking more and more steps closer...) Wonderful video, and she handled the lions. I enjoyed very much. Subscribed. Greetings from Finland!
I think mixing colours between brands is a good practice because there are certain hues and pigment composition found in just certain brands that appeals to me the most. My own custom palette is a mix of qor, sennelier, white nights and daniel smith and I feel like they go really well together.
Thanks for sharing your fabulous new palette with us, Natasha! While I have a pretty large collection of watercolors, I often use a very restricted palette. My must-have colors are (Daniel Smith) ultramarine, burnt umber, Azo yellow, and Permanent Red. My larger palette is a bit idiosyncratic because I’m using techniques I learned from Jeanne Vodden which use staining colors. Thanks again for another fun video! Lots of hugs from Oregon! -Tara Kate
A bit late to this video, but I own the cobalt green dark from Schmincke and that certainly was an eye opener for myself, it does so well in green mixes. I might need to get my hands on the forest blue as well. "Sodalite" looks beautiful from your palette and I'm certainly more drawn to the moody blues and greens on your palette.
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! The most soothing and wonderful video ever. I'm recovering from a surgery, couldn't sleep and just watched your videos, the most amazing thing to do :))))
I love the french ultramarine, what a fun colour! And your moody blues are so lovely. Also loved your review of the granulated schmincke! Will be getting some for sure. I haven't painted with watercolours for a while but now dabbling back! My absolute favourite colours are light lavender from holbein acryla gouache and dark forest green at the moment! :)
Hi Viktorija! It's lovely to hear from you! ♡. I'm so sorry that you've just had surgery and I'm sending loads of good wishes for a quick recovery. I'm a little bit obsessed with watercolours at the moment! They're so beautiful and there are often unexpected results, which I quite like. :)
I like big palettes and I cannot lie! Too many colours to choose a favourite but I particularly love the granulators and all those darker ones. Thank you very much, Natasha - as far as I'm concerned, you could never make a video that was too long!
I like big palettes and I cannot lie! haha I love watching all of your haul and swatching videos, so calming and informative! Thank you for sharing. :)
So nice to see all the colours swatched out! My favorites are Forest Blue and Ocean Grey, they are stunning. And I like big palettes and I cannot lie ^^
I have recently acquired buff titanium after watching one of your videos. It's a surprisingly useful colour. I like Big palettes and I cannot lie. You have gorgeous colours in yours Natasha
This new reconfigured main palette is indeed and thing of beauty as is the swatch card. You realy do have a gift for choosing colours abd creating your palettes,so much thought and insight goes into them,it's like you've created your own curated palette. Happy to see a colour from Beyond Indigo (ilovetheir paints to) made it ino these colours. It's great for your creative well being to have a palette of colours that makes you happy each time you open it up to use it,brcause it's more inspiring and motivating and also enhances your colour mixing skills too. I didsn't know "Buff Titanium" was a colur untill your videos but it's one hat I love too now and it is a great mixing colour. I think it's good o mic different makes of paint. My main handmade watercolour palette is a mix of all the sellers on etsy and other sites that make the handmade colours I now use. It's so nice to hear why you chose tghese colours and how you you'll use them in your work and how they are also helpimg you be more bold in you paintings. It's good to swatch in a more fun and organic looking way too. The indain paints yoy spoke of for another video would these be from "Blue Pine Arts" maybe and the lovely Trupti, I have a lot of their colours too,thy are so rich and so highly pigmented. These videos are a great look behind your studio scene so to speak and I love that you share that with us.But it's also inspiring for us to look at changing our colour palettes and I do change my palettes in all the mediums I work with. I love the Betty Hayways brushes too,they hold so much water/pigment but also come to a grat point for details but also are great for laying down large washes too and are actually really durable and lovely to hold as you paint. Good to hae how much of a differece the Flexi spot tand and soit desk is making for you as wel,again a great investment in your creative well being (as it has benen in mine,thanks to your recomndation). This was such a great video to watch and listen to. (matt). P.S I like Big Palettes and I cannot lie!! Naples yellow is a colour I couldn't live out as it is and as a mixing colour,from your new palette I love the Green gold colour. Another colour I love is "terre verte" from Good Honey,this is a great dark mixing green I use a lot.
I would love more watercolour mixing videos. I find watercolour mixing so meditative and relaxing and do a lot of it if I feel overwhelmed or anxious. It's so magical to find surprising new colours. Some oranges and ultramarine can make a beautiful muted purple, and green gold and quin rose make beautiful peach pinks.
I've got Stoneground Paint's version of Vivianite. It's more of a subtle stormy blue than green. Stoneground is a handmade brand out of Canada. They make my favorite green, Florentine Green. It's a pretty opaque and more natural green.
You have inspired me to create my own pallette. I'm really enjoying the dark blues and dark aquas! I always thought I was more of a browns and oranges person! I like big pallettes and I cannot lie! I don't have a big pallette...yet!🤎
I wanted to thank you for sharing your palettes and your watercolor paint reviews. I just purchased a small palette from Red Clover Meadow as a little gift to myself, and I would have never have known about them if it hadn't been for you. I'm very excited to receive it and try it out. So, thank you for sharing with us.
I like a big palette I cannot lie. And I love that you share your joy of colour with us. I am so glad that that ban has lifted for more colours....life is too short to ban things that provide such beauty . My fav colour is the D/S luna blue and R/S misty morning.
Hey there beautiful x ... my faves from your updated pallet are numerous 😋! so I'll restrict to 5 - Perylene Violet, Sodalite, Pthalo Turquoise, Vivianite (which I am STILL waiting to come back into stock) & Green Gold. I'm also loving the look of Rose Dorè, Shell Pink & Naples Yellow - quite a departure from the colours I normally gravitate towards. I like big pallets & I cannot lie! ☺ Big loves to you & Dominic xx
Good to see you swatching the dusky pink alongside some of the others you have - I'm waiting to open mine as I'm currently working mainly in oil pastel and/or pencil. I love big palettes and I cannot lie - but I have multiple small pallettes, mostly divided by colour. I love pink and purple shades of watercolour, but also loving my sunlight shades and greens I'm currently using. It's good to meet other artists who work in multiple single-mediums. 👋😁
i cannot live without ultramarine, quin rose, payne's gray, viridian - but i have a ton more!! i like big palettes and i cannot lie !!!!! also, i'd like to see you play with a granulating medium.
I like big palettes and cannot lie 😝 I’m so thankful to you Natasha you make me discover so many beautiful watercolors!! I discovered Daniel Smith with you and since then I have 2 full 24 pans palettes full and a 3rd on the way! (Lol that almost sounded like I’m expecting, which I am not!). Girl I can live without many colors but let’s see if I can name a few, all from Daniel Smith for now I will branch out further down the line when I am fully satisfied with my collection : 1. Lemon 🍋 Yellow ( I paint a lot of flowers and anything summery has to have this bright yet soft and transparent yellow!) 2. Quinacridone Rose : same thing for Sakura blossoms this is ideal light and transparent 3. Wisteria and lavender: blue Hydrangeas are my favorite flower so these 2 are a match made in heaven to paint them ! 4. French Ultramarine Blue just my favorite color can’t live without it! 5. Indigo love painting trees with it in winter ❄️ 6. Green gold for greenery highlights 7. Sap green and Perylene blue for foliage 8. Lunar blue because it’s so moody and cool yet light, does it make sense ? 9. Moonglow, Jayne’s grey and Payne’s blue grey Tried to keep it short but hey you did ask 🥰 Take care !
all the greens are my favourites :'D , I like big palettes and i cannot lie . Fab as always. Just caught up with this alongside patreon had a huge binge watching session! 🤣 xx
I like big pallets, and I cannot lie 😂 And now I’m broke and Jackson’s is thrilled because I bought too many of the one’s I hadn’t heard of! LOL Nice relaxing watch 🌷
I like big palettes and I cannot lie! I need to expand my palette into a large palette. I have wrote a few of these colours down, I am drawn to the ones that granulate but they are all beautiful. X
Such a wonderful moody palette, I love it so much! I'm still learning to paint with watercolors, but it's definitely the atmosphere I'm in love with! Those deep murky blues are greens just give me goosebumps, I can't help myself)
I like big palettes and I cannot lie lol I really love the misty morning color u showed us I must put it on my wish list lol and the cobalt turquoise is so pretty I love that color I also love Payne’s greys and the ds jaynes grey is on my wish list as well I am trying to put a palette together myself currently I am still collecting colors lol
I like big pallets and I cannot lie 😋 I loved all these gorgeous colours Natasha💜 I loved the purple and grey just below the purple in my pallette I favour grey greens greens red sepia yellow yellow ochre white 💜💜thanks for sharing 💜
It's time to reveal my new watercolour palette and swatch the 47 colours I've chosen! This is a long, chatty video - perfect for you to put on in the background while you work on your own projects. I'd love to hear which colours you like the most, and which colours you couldn't live without in your own palette!
This was incredibly relaxing to watch. I only now realise that swatching this way seems just so right. Beautiful colours shouldn’t be boxed in. I like big palettes and I cannot lie! 😊
Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it, Anita. :)
I feel honoured that my mini sticker is on your new watercolour palette!
Brilliant idea on the not-lightfast colors!! 👍
I love your sticker! It makes me smile every time I see it. :) The greyish-violet with the slight pearlescent is Sugilite - such a unique. and beautiful colour! I've been planning for months to make a sketchbook palette with the non-lightfast paints and had actually put a little tin aside and labelled it for this exact purpose - I just need to finish putting it together now! Great minds think alike. ;) The colours are too lovely not to use.
I love the way you swatch in this video. The swatches look like pebbles on a magical beach. Very pleasing to the eye. 😊 Ps I like big palettes and I cannot lie!
I love huge large palette where you can put ALL your favorite colours. I live in Japan btw. I find your work very inspiring 😊So huge thanks for your effort and time 🎉🎉❤❤❤
"I like big palettes and I can not lie!" Great colors!
I like big palettes and I cannot lie! Lol I would love to build another palette but i live in New Zealand and its difficult choosing without swatching 😅 so glad you take the time to swatch as it’s a great resource for me!
I'm so glad that you find it helpful, thank you!
I like big palettes and cannot lie: no favorite color/s - it's what you, Natasha, do with them that makes them significant :)
I like big pallets, and big pallet videos, and I can not lie !
love love love the granulating blues. I like big palettes and I cannot lie :)
I LOVE big palettes and I can not lie!
Had to comment again, I am so obsessed with how you swatch. From your perfect circles a while ago, to the rectangles, to these shapes, I am obsessed :)
Ah, thanks so much!
The swatch list looks tasty itself.
I like big palettes and I cannot lie!
I like big palettes and and I cannot lie. Oh boy I need more 🎨
The bottom of the page looks the best.
I like big palettes and I cannot lie.☺️
I agree!
First thing: the color selection for your palette is gorgeous! Second thing: you’re too right about the “rules” of art and how freeing it is to break them. It’s really nice to hear it verbalized, and even better to see the proof in the form of how beautiful it can be (e.g. in this case, to have a palette that is a “rule-breaker.”). And do you know what? You have inspired me to give my own palette a little shake-up. I currently have 2 separate ones (granulating and non-granulating), but there are colors on there I never use. I think I’m going to steal a move from your book and make a palette only of colors I absolutely love! Thank your for the inspiration!
This is SO lovely to hear! Thank you, Erika. Your comments are much appreciated.
I have lots of colours! I have been filling empty half and full pans and use multiple pallets. I have been enjoying spreading them out all around me and pre-wetting them. Mixing watercolour and gouache. I have also been pre-mixing custom mixes and primarily investing in tubes after pigment research erring on the side of lightfast and best for custom mixes.
Since I have been doing this I've been easily and quickly painting more and more and I have looked at it and am up to triple the paintings in 1/3 the time! This Was double when I was at round half the pre prepared paints; but has moved up to triple more recently as I have so many pre prepared half pans! I have separate swatch cards (in order) that fit the shape for each pallet and additional notes on the colours/mixes and different tests and notes for many paper types (continuing to research the papers as I go forward; as things work differently on different papers!)
I am continuing forward this way as I've already been enjoying painting WAY more and as I said I now have Triple the total output and I've been working 2-3 time faster as well!
I've lately been experimenting with adding a touch of pure honey to some as well (I plan to re-pour a couple of the harder to re wet ones and add a touch of honey for example soon).
Anyways another piece of advice I'll share is to buy various cheap make up brushes from the dollar store and use them with watercolours and gouache paints! (Also Acrylic paint...) They are amazing and allow special techniques that help you 1) blend softly 2) gradients 3) large areas of soft washes 4) use watercolours better on cheaper papers 5) use a mix of watercolours + gouache better!
I think I need to make a RUclips video about some of these things myself soon!
I think some of my faves specifically are: Quinacridone (Red, coral and Rose), Pthalo blue, terquoise and green, DS Perylene Green, DS Aussie Red gold, DS Quinacridone Gold, Quinacridone burnt orange, M. Graham Anthraquinone Blue + Terra Rosa (seprately and mixed as a super deep 'vibrant' black, Senellier ultramarine deep, Van gogh: Carmine, rose, neutral tint, davy's grey and Azo yellow deep. I love all colours to one extent or another and change pallets (I don't use all colours in each painting!) often. I have least favorites yet have already even used all of them this year! More is more for me.
Some of my other favs are custom pre made mixes I created after research in empty half pans using tube paint and/or hydrus.
including my lightfast moonglow mix (dupe), mineral violet mix, shadow violet mix (1,2 +3), vibrant black, Lunar blue mix, prussian green, rose dore and cascade green.
Some are to save buying too many expensive separate tubes (most) while some art to improve or 'original' inventions (not avialable in tubes. I have more than the examples here as well!
Long comment over
Fun video, thanks.
LOL. I like big palettes and I cannot lie. Gorgeous swatches and wonderful selection of colors! Your swatching videos are so relaxing. ❤
I really, really, love big palettes and I can not lie.
Just love all watercolor paints. It's addictive.
I love how you spend so much time thinking about your palette. I want to spend more time doing this.
I love BIG palettes and I cannot lie! My favorite is Naples yellow and Caput Mortuum
You led me to a new favorite - Winsor & Newton "Caput Mortum Violet". I like big palettes and I cannot lie!
I like big palettes and I cannot lie! And I cannot live without indigo from Schmincke...)))
I Love big palettes and I cannot lie!!
I love big palettes and I cannot lie! Thank you for another lovely video
Wonderful swatching video! I find watching you swatch, unwrap art hauls or highlight areas you have visited are all so soothing to me. Thank you for your very conversational videos. Love your new palette. You have shown me quite a few new paints that I am rushing to add to my wish list. Three colors I love are from Cheap Joes in the US- Pat’s Coastal Blue (a beautiful soft blue/grey/green), Blue Stone (a lovely medium bluish grey ) and June Bug (a darker very pretty greenish blue). I like big palettes & I can not lie! Thank you.
I like big palettes and I cannot lie. 😊 Thanks for the lovely video!
I like big palettes and I cannot lie! Favorite...easily the dusk pink. I like them all obvs but that one speaks to me.
It is a truly stunning colour!
I love big palettes and I cannot lie!
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What a fun way to make swatches! Love it! Thanks :)
I wouldn't be surprised since jackson's watercolors are manufactured by sennieler. Thank you for this wonderful video!💓
Yes, I agree. I've heard this before - and they are very similar in some ways!
I love big palettes and I cannot lie :) looking forward to more videos - thank you for all the time you put into making them. They are very calming but also jam packed with inspiration
I'm so pleased you think so, thank you so much!
What a treat! ♥ I keep my watercolor palette quite limited but I love seeing yours, your videos are so calming 😊
I love Sarah and Kriksis, too. Sarah in scotland, her second channel is amazing, too. Such a nice Country an landscape she shows there.
I like big palettes and I cannot lie! Lol!! This was so therapeutic and relaxing, thank you. I love all of the colours you've chosen, but those blues, violets, greens, the granulating colours on the bottom half, oh they bring me so much joy and make my heart sing!!!!! They do look like pebbles 💟😊🤗 a pebble video and a colour mixing video would be great. Xxx
Thanks Julie! xx
LOL - I like big palettes and I cannot lie!! Lovely color selection for 2022 - looking forward to seeing you use those blues and greens.
Thanks Angela! I'm so ridiculously pleased with this palette! 😁
I like big palettes and I can not lie. I love the tundra pink and my favourite colour is one I made myself from leftover soap making ingredients from activated charcoal, ultramarine and red clay. It's like Sodalite from Daniel Smith. Love your palette. Thank you 🌞
I LOVE big pallets and I cannot lie. And I love your palette! 🤓🌻❤️
I like big palettes and I cannot lie! This is such a gorgeous pallette. 😍
I LOVE your videos and I love the larger swatches. I really wished (in the end) you had labeled the colors. I loved some of them so much and I couldn't tell which was what color!
My two favourites are: M Graham - Anthraquinone Blue and DS - Sodalite. Gorgeous!! 😍😍😍
I like big palettes and I can not lie! I'm new to art/drawing and I so enjoy watching your creativity and process. Thank you for introducing me to handmade watercolor paints - I didn't even know such a thing existed! I love all your colors so I can't pick one. What I do like and you might find fun are colors with a bit of shimmer. I think used in a judicious way they add a beautiful unexpected accent.
The DS Sodalite and SH Tundra Pink grab my eye over and over again in this video but honestly the entire bottom half of that page is just so me.... I *LOVE* all of them!! Thanks for this video!
That Sodalite is just...fwaaaaahhh! So good. It's a gorgeous palette.
Thanks Thalia!
Such a pretty palette, well done!
I like big pallets and I cannot lie there were so many colours I was ohhing and arring over I may just have to add some to my ever growing pallet
I like big palettes and I can not lie! Beautiful colours.
I too like big pallets and cannot lie!
Gorgeous!
I Do like big palettes and I cannot lie!! This looks so inspiring. I'm sure you're having lots of fun putting this palette thru it's paces in new artwork! My favourites are all the Blues and Greens - I'm always over-buying those colours. Can never have enough variety with those!!💗
There are just so many beautiful blues and greens!
Oh my... I can not lie.. I love this big palette! My favorites are rose dore, tundra pink and omg that ocean grey..!! In my palette I currently love madder brown by Schmincke, goethite and lunar blue ))
What a lovely palette, and video!! 😊 There are so many beautiful colours that I can't choose. But I really like Daniel Smith's and Schmincke's granulating colours. The one colour that I wouldn't be able to live without is definitely and of course, paynes grey! 😋 I like big palettes and I cannot lie!
I really believe that watercolor palettes activate our serotonin, it works for me.🥳Those colors are all beautiful, I loved the cobalt blue teal, the sodalite, tundra pink and potter's pink. I couldn't live without my french ultramarine blue. I enjoyed watching your swatch. Thanks !
You’ve created a beautiful palette. 💕 I like big palettes and I cannot lie- hee hee.
I absolutely LOVE big pallets and I cannot lie! lol! Lovely collection of go-to's!
Thank you! :)
Beautiful color choices Natasha. I like big palettes and I cannot lie! 😊
Thanks Isabel!
I love big palettes and I cannot lie" love the the swatching process
Thanks Susan!
I’ve always felt like rules in art exist (and are important to know and learn) to help the artist better achieve their vision, and they’re broken for the exact same reason 😂
p.s. I like big palettes and I cannot lie
True!
I like big pallets and I cannot lie! This makes me really want to start working with watercolour!
I like big palettes, and I can not lie! 😆
yay! I have ben waiting for this :)
Hope you enjoyed it, Chloe!
Omgosh, what was that “I love big palettes and I cannot lie?” Or “I’m putting myself on a watercolor BAN!!” What I loved most was listening to you literally smile through the whole video of swatching your colors!! I’m working on building my Robax pallet… it’s “One
Pallet to rule them all.” (Cheesy movie quote) but it’s true. It’s 85 wells of spinning dreamy colors. And I’m tortured by having to narrow it down to just 85!! I have all different brands and even a few that are in your pallet (szmal). I also have themed palettes with Qor, cobalts, fav mixed pigments, etc, but alas all 85 colors for Robax will be single pigment translucent. I noticed that you really love opaque pigments and how clear your painting style shows with your palette. It was so fun listening to you whilst working on my own. I truly enjoy hearing artist’ choices for the colors they pick, especially when you can tell it’s uniquely their OWN!! I absolutely loved this, even though it’s very different from my own. That’s what makes art so amazing, 🤩 total opposites can appreciate each other as there’s no wrong or right.
Ohh, have you tried szmal Ocean Blue? It’s a very moody, deep blue green. Deeper than another fav of mine aqua green by W&N. They remind me of the deepest darkest bits of the ocean 🌊
I love the color of the Daniel Smith Aussie Red Gold, myself. It's just the kind of color that makes me want to do something with it everytime I put it to paper.
This switching video has really inspired me to start creating! The granulation rssulting in the pebble look? Chef's kiss! I like big pallets and I cannot lie (that was fun)
Go for it, Lisa! :)
I cannot lie I love big palettes too, Natasha! There are so many beautiful shades. I particularly liked the Phthalo Turquoise...I've been searching for a shade of blue green for a painting I want to do. I'm trying to match colors with an uhpolstered piece. I think you've gotten me fairly close! 🙂 Excellent job! Thanks!
I always take out the insert use magnets to fit almost double intended amount, I just ordered all my Christmas presents, for my daughter ex hubby , her husband and grand daughter and of course I bought me stuff! Caran d ache museum aquarelle, full set I can’t wait to get them, 4 pencil cases, 27 luminance, upon which I will build every month , buying a few at a time
I love big palettes and I cannot lie? I also love my Daniel Smith Cascade Green, Sodalite Gen, and QOR Quinacridone Violet. I do think I have to finally pick up that Tundra Pink and the Misty morning. They have been in my cart for awhile. So beautiful. Thank you for the swatch fix!
I like big pallets!! I need a bag with that printed on it...
LOVE those blues and purples and that green-gold 💙💜
Ha ha, merch idea alert! ;)
I like your big palettes and I cannot lie!
Ah, thank you!
Dear Natasha, I do believe you are proud of this AMAZING palette 💜 Just looking at the swatches you made has inspired me so much to take out my paints again. Thank you very much!
And ..."I love big palettes and I cannot lie" (I absolutely do, I mean, why can't we have like two more hands to paint with so many beautiful colors?😂)
I do not have a "main palette", I'd rather keep all my watercolors organized by color family in dedicated palettes. But honestly I am reconsidering this system because I can see how useful is a main selection, in order to get to know your favourite paints.
My fav picks by your pebbles swatch chart are Tundra Pink, Lunar Red Rock and Schmincke's new released Ocean Gray. Thank you for sharing with us, I love the chatting-type videos😊
I would like to recommend you some colors I really love, I hope you will find some interesting ones among these💜:
•perylene maroon (I have Mijello, but I know W&N and DS make it for sure);
•quinacridone burnt orange;
•mahogany brown and spinell brown(both Schmincke);
•"magnesium brown" (by W&N, the same pigment as DS "Lunar Earth");
•"Sennelier's gray" and warm gray (kinda like a buff titanium but slightly more intense), both by Sennelier ;
•Naphtamide maroon (DS);
•phtalo turquoise (Maimeri Blu, the single pigment version with PB16)
•nickel azo yellow (PY150 by any brand), one of my absolute favourite colours.
And I have to end it here because I could just go on and on! Lol
Love 💜
Thank you so much for the paint recommendations, Elisa!
I like big pallets and I cannot lie
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I had so much anxiety watching your swatches get bigger and bigger haha! Was so worried you wouldn't fit all the paints on for some reason. Beautiful colours!
Me too! I felt like watching a nature document: Lady in a sweet voice "I think we should not really go closer to that lion family" (taking more and more steps closer...)
Wonderful video, and she handled the lions. I enjoyed very much. Subscribed. Greetings from Finland!
I think mixing colours between brands is a good practice because there are certain hues and pigment composition found in just certain brands that appeals to me the most. My own custom palette is a mix of qor, sennelier, white nights and daniel smith and I feel like they go really well together.
Thanks for sharing your fabulous new palette with us, Natasha! While I have a pretty large collection of watercolors, I often use a very restricted palette. My must-have colors are (Daniel Smith) ultramarine, burnt umber, Azo yellow, and Permanent Red. My larger palette is a bit idiosyncratic because I’m using techniques I learned from Jeanne Vodden which use staining colors. Thanks again for another fun video! Lots of hugs from Oregon! -Tara Kate
Hugs back at you, Tara Kate!
A bit late to this video, but I own the cobalt green dark from Schmincke and that certainly was an eye opener for myself, it does so well in green mixes. I might need to get my hands on the forest blue as well. "Sodalite" looks beautiful from your palette and I'm certainly more drawn to the moody blues and greens on your palette.
I want to experiment mixing with the Cobalt Green Dark now! :)
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! The most soothing and wonderful video ever. I'm recovering from a surgery, couldn't sleep and just watched your videos, the most amazing thing to do :))))
I love the french ultramarine, what a fun colour! And your moody blues are so lovely. Also loved your review of the granulated schmincke! Will be getting some for sure. I haven't painted with watercolours for a while but now dabbling back! My absolute favourite colours are light lavender from holbein acryla gouache and dark forest green at the moment! :)
Hi Viktorija! It's lovely to hear from you! ♡. I'm so sorry that you've just had surgery and I'm sending loads of good wishes for a quick recovery. I'm a little bit obsessed with watercolours at the moment! They're so beautiful and there are often unexpected results, which I quite like. :)
@@NatashaNewtonArt thank you! Watching your videos is a nice way to recover :))
I like big palettes and I cannot lie! Too many colours to choose a favourite but I particularly love the granulators and all those darker ones. Thank you very much, Natasha - as far as I'm concerned, you could never make a video that was too long!
Ah, thanks so much, Susan! I'm so glad that you enjoy the videos. :)
I like big palettes and I cannot lie! haha I love watching all of your haul and swatching videos, so calming and informative! Thank you for sharing. :)
Ah, thanks Kourtney! 🧡
So nice to see all the colours swatched out! My favorites are Forest Blue and Ocean Grey, they are stunning. And I like big palettes and I cannot lie ^^
They really are a couple of my absolute favourites too!
I have recently acquired buff titanium after watching one of your videos. It's a surprisingly useful colour. I like Big palettes and I cannot lie. You have gorgeous colours in yours Natasha
Buff Titanium is such a great colour!
I love big palates and I can not lie! I really love the RS Misty Morning and I can't live without a bluish Payne's Gray
I am really loving the Sodalite! I am very curious about the Ocean Grey. I LOVE big palettes and I cannot lie! ❤️🎨
This new reconfigured main palette is indeed and thing of beauty as is the swatch card. You realy do have a gift for choosing colours abd creating your palettes,so much thought and insight goes into them,it's like you've created your own curated palette. Happy to see a colour from Beyond Indigo (ilovetheir paints to) made it ino these colours. It's great for your creative well being to have a palette of colours that makes you happy each time you open it up to use it,brcause it's more inspiring and motivating and also enhances your colour mixing skills too. I didsn't know "Buff Titanium" was a colur untill your videos but it's one hat I love too now and it is a great mixing colour. I think it's good o mic different makes of paint. My main handmade watercolour palette is a mix of all the sellers on etsy and other sites that make the handmade colours I now use. It's so nice to hear why you chose tghese colours and how you you'll use them in your work and how they are also helpimg you be more bold in you paintings.
It's good to swatch in a more fun and organic looking way too. The indain paints yoy spoke of for another video would these be from "Blue Pine Arts" maybe and the lovely Trupti, I have a lot of their colours too,thy are so rich and so highly pigmented. These videos are a great look behind your studio scene so to speak and I love that you share that with us.But it's also inspiring for us to look at changing our colour palettes and I do change my palettes in all the mediums I work with. I love the Betty Hayways brushes too,they hold so much water/pigment but also come to a grat point for details but also are great for laying down large washes too and are actually really durable and lovely to hold as you paint. Good to hae how much of a differece the Flexi spot tand and soit desk is making for you as wel,again a great investment in your creative well being (as it has benen in mine,thanks to your recomndation). This was such a great video to watch and listen to. (matt).
P.S I like Big Palettes and I cannot lie!! Naples yellow is a colour I couldn't live out as it is and as a mixing colour,from your new palette I love the Green gold colour. Another colour I love is "terre verte" from Good Honey,this is a great dark mixing green I use a lot.
I would love more watercolour mixing videos. I find watercolour mixing so meditative and relaxing and do a lot of it if I feel overwhelmed or anxious. It's so magical to find surprising new colours. Some oranges and ultramarine can make a beautiful muted purple, and green gold and quin rose make beautiful peach pinks.
Noted! Thanks Sigrún. :)
I like big palettes and I cannot lie. That green gold though. *swoon*
I've got Stoneground Paint's version of Vivianite. It's more of a subtle stormy blue than green. Stoneground is a handmade brand out of Canada. They make my favorite green, Florentine Green. It's a pretty opaque and more natural green.
They sound like lovely paints!
You have inspired me to create my own pallette. I'm really enjoying the dark blues and dark aquas! I always thought I was more of a browns and oranges person! I like big pallettes and I cannot lie! I don't have a big pallette...yet!🤎
that was a beautiful journey!
So glad you enjoyed it!
I wanted to thank you for sharing your palettes and your watercolor paint reviews. I just purchased a small palette from Red Clover Meadow as a little gift to myself, and I would have never have known about them if it hadn't been for you. I'm very excited to receive it and try it out. So, thank you for sharing with us.
That's lovely to hear, thank you! I hope that you're enjoying the palette (assuming it has arrived by now!). :)
I like a big palette I cannot lie. And I love that you share your joy of colour with us. I am so glad that that ban has lifted for more colours....life is too short to ban things that provide such beauty . My fav colour is the D/S luna blue and R/S misty morning.
Oh yes, those two are such beautiful and special colours!
Hey there beautiful x ... my faves from your updated pallet are numerous 😋! so I'll restrict to 5 - Perylene Violet, Sodalite, Pthalo Turquoise, Vivianite (which I am STILL waiting to come back into stock) & Green Gold.
I'm also loving the look of Rose Dorè, Shell Pink & Naples Yellow - quite a departure from the colours I normally gravitate towards.
I like big pallets & I cannot lie! ☺ Big loves to you & Dominic xx
Good to see you swatching the dusky pink alongside some of the others you have - I'm waiting to open mine as I'm currently working mainly in oil pastel and/or pencil.
I love big palettes and I cannot lie - but I have multiple small pallettes, mostly divided by colour. I love pink and purple shades of watercolour, but also loving my sunlight shades and greens I'm currently using.
It's good to meet other artists who work in multiple single-mediums. 👋😁
Hi Jenny! Thank you for watching. :)
i cannot live without ultramarine, quin rose, payne's gray, viridian - but i have a ton more!! i like big palettes and i cannot lie !!!!! also, i'd like to see you play with a granulating medium.
I like big palettes and cannot lie 😝
I’m so thankful to you Natasha you make me discover so many beautiful watercolors!! I discovered Daniel Smith with you and since then I have 2 full 24 pans palettes full and a 3rd on the way! (Lol that almost sounded like I’m expecting, which I am not!).
Girl I can live without many colors but let’s see if I can name a few, all from Daniel Smith for now I will branch out further down the line when I am fully satisfied with my collection :
1. Lemon 🍋 Yellow ( I paint a lot of flowers and anything summery has to have this bright yet soft and transparent yellow!)
2. Quinacridone Rose : same thing for Sakura blossoms this is ideal light and transparent
3. Wisteria and lavender: blue Hydrangeas are my favorite flower so these 2 are a match made in heaven to paint them !
4. French Ultramarine Blue just my favorite color can’t live without it!
5. Indigo love painting trees with it in winter ❄️
6. Green gold for greenery highlights
7. Sap green and Perylene blue for foliage
8. Lunar blue because it’s so moody and cool yet light, does it make sense ?
9. Moonglow, Jayne’s grey and Payne’s blue grey
Tried to keep it short but hey you did ask 🥰
Take care !
I love hearing about other people's favourite colours, so thank you for sharing yours! :)
all the greens are my favourites :'D , I like big palettes and i cannot lie . Fab as always. Just caught up with this alongside patreon had a huge binge watching session! 🤣 xx
Ah, so glad you're enjoying the extra videos (and this one!). xx
I like big pallets, and I cannot lie 😂 And now I’m broke and Jackson’s is thrilled because I bought too many of the one’s I hadn’t heard of! LOL Nice relaxing watch 🌷
Ha ha!
I like big palettes and I cannot lie! I need to expand my palette into a large palette. I have wrote a few of these colours down, I am drawn to the ones that granulate but they are all beautiful. X
Such a wonderful moody palette, I love it so much! I'm still learning to paint with watercolors, but it's definitely the atmosphere I'm in love with! Those deep murky blues are greens just give me goosebumps, I can't help myself)
I know exactly what you mean, Irina!
I like big palettes and I cannot lie lol I really love the misty morning color u showed us I must put it on my wish list lol and the cobalt turquoise is so pretty I love that color I also love Payne’s greys and the ds jaynes grey is on my wish list as well I am trying to put a palette together myself currently I am still collecting colors lol
I like big pallets and I cannot lie 😋 I loved all these gorgeous colours Natasha💜 I loved the purple and grey just below the purple in my pallette I favour grey greens greens red sepia yellow yellow ochre white 💜💜thanks for sharing 💜
Thanks Deborah!