A Lovely Little Art Haul & Swatch: Winsor & Newton Revival Watercolours, Aquapasto, Paper, Brush etc
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
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Ultramarine Ash, historically, has been the leftover rock from lapis lazuli after all (or most) of the blue has been extracted. I think Roman Szmal’s very grey-leaning lapis lazuli is probably an ultramarine ash.
That's really interesting! Thank you!
Yes, I have the Roman szmal lapis lazuli and it is more a cool grey. I will have to get a Afghan (sourced one) to compare.
@@helencryer Welcome!
Oh, that Aquapasto...it's interesting if you want to get impasto effects or brushstroke effects just using your watercolors/gouache...I played around with it for a minute and a half, lol, but just never found a regular use for it -- maybe people who love to do mixed media art journal abstract pages? I did find that if you left it to totally dry on even a ceramic or porcelain palette, it's next to impossible to get it off without chipping away at it or sanding/scrubbing it off with industrial scrubbers or steel wool.
That's good to hear, thank you! I'll probably be the same, though I did imagine using it for abstracts. Curiosity just got the better of me!
Super! Thanks for the comparisons, very informative!
Thanks!
I really like the Rosa Gallery Black green, it’s so deliciously dark green.
Oooo! Aquapasto! I’d love to try that one day. It’s on my wishlist
I feel like the last person to have heard of it!
@@helencryer Not many brands have it. Schmincke has it. A small, obscure British paint maker called A J Ludlow also makes it as well, and I think Renesans might have it. Haven’t heard or seen it anywhere else.
Davy’s Grey has always been a soft-greenish grey.
Yes...
Beautiful colors! Love that black green so much. You might try spreading the aquapasto with a color shaper or palette knife for fun results. 😍
Thank you! I will try it!
Nice vid to wake up to! I ❤my Aquapasto. I've mainly been using it to be able to do some cool mark making in with abstract landscapes. The more you play, the texture ideas you'll get for sure. I also think that you chose the absolute best colour from the Winsor and Newton Rival range. The Ash blue is really stunning and I agree that for duller skies or even clouds it is a stunning addition to a palette. Actually the colours you had in your ceramic palette looked lovely, Ash Blue, Opera and the Gold from the last video. Definitely given me some inspiration! As always, cheers 👍🏻
I can't believe I've not come across it before - I seem to be the last one! I'm so happy you like it! That's kind of what I had in mind - the abstract stuff.
I love the colour of the Blue Ash, but I need to play with it more. I only did the little swatch in the video, but it doesn't seem to have great flow. Come to think of it, none of my Winsor and Newton's seem to, but maybe that's just my colour choices.
You got the revival winsor & newtons as well , I bought the 8 half pan set a few weeks ago and love them a lot .
I just got the two of them I was most interested in!
@@helencryercass art for 8 set , good price .
Hi Helen!
It was me who told you about using the pastel tools on Pastelmat. They work better if you use less pigment and add more layers if needed. I apply PanPastel with makeup brushes (I can try to find the brand if you are interested). If I am using sticks, either I use the brush directly on the stick (it works best with very soft pastels such as Sennelier) to grab the colour either I use a scrap paper to lay down the colour and then I pick it with the brush to apply on Pastelmat.
Speaking of Pastelmat, I will try the Canson sand paper. It can be a very good paper for studies!
I looked at the new Revival colours and I am quite obsessed with the Tyrian Purple, but I can’t find them here in France yet. 😒
A quick French tip, the pronunciation of the Mi of Mi-Teintes is the same as “me” in English. 😉
It was a very interesting haul! Thank you!
Thank you very much - I'd never thought to apply the soft pastel indirectly - that makes a lot of sense, especially with the really soft ones, like the Schmincke ones I was using here. Thanks again!
Lovely! I liked your mixes better than the W&N revival actually 😊
Haha, thanks!
I wonder how Daniel Smith's Zoisite compares to the Rosa Gallery Black Green. Lovely video, as always! Thanks, Helen.
Off the top of my head, I'd say that Zoisite is a lot less intense and dark, way more granulating, and more green - basically a very granulating, slightly more muted version of Perylene Green. I'll try and have a play with them, and update this if I'm wrong.
Thank you!
@@helencryer Thanks!
Love your hauls... thanks xx
Thank you!
Really like the grass brush, pink grass is nice too! The gel was interesting to see, the color came out much smoother and even with it mixed in. The paint doesn't move around as much, probably won't be able to granulate for granulating paints.
Ooo - I hadn't thought about with granulating paints. I'll have a good experiment!
Looks like you're well prepared for winter grey skies in the future. I bought Davy's grey myself. After swatching it out I thought it looked a lot like Daniel Smith's Rare green earth, minus the granulation. After I bought those 7 Holbein paints on special earlier this week, I was naughty and went back online and bought another 7 a couple of days later. Heehee there's no guilty faced emoji on here 🤭😂 My daughter likes to paint flowers so we picked more pinks and flowery colors with the Holbein orders. I'm really happy with them. I think Holbein's leaf green will pass as a Daniel Smith green gold equivalent and the Holbein greenish yellow as a rich green gold DS equivalent and much cheaper for me to buy.
I think the Rosa Gallery black green looks more like sodalite or payne's blue grey more than a black. It probably looks different to you in real life than what I'm seeing online though.
I love the faded look of that Sepia pen 😍
Haha, I hope you get a great deal of enjoyment from them! I absolutely love Holbein Leaf Green! The Black Green is a lot darker and not as blue as Sodalite in real life.
Hi Helen! I came across aqua pasto and it’s ok. A bit expensive for what it is, I found a page on a watercolour book where they use glue with watercolour and it looks so similar to the aquapasto effect, it’s a cheap alternative.
Oh, interesting! I think that might produce a lot more shine, with less body possibly? I'm also not sure I'd use my best brushes with something not designed for water colour?
I checked the W&N website again, I could only find revival sets but no information about the paints themselves. It’s a pity that they discontinued Aureolin PY40 and Viridian PG18. I would have liked to try their PY40. Retaining these paints from the late 1800s gave them a connection to a more romantic time (painting-wise); I’m not sure why they never capitalised on that.
Better information on the individual paints can be found on other websites, but you'd think Winsor and Newton would be a bit more on it!!
Oh no! They discontinued PG18? I wanted to buy a tube! I will have to get it from another brand, I guess. I want it to obtain softer mixes than when mixing with phtalo green.
@@helencryer I know!
@@chris.369 Hi 👋🏼. I wanted to collect some W&N paints as well. They are on my wishlist. I really wanted to try their PG18 and their PY40. Not many brands offer genuine Aureolin PY40.
Love those new watercolours! Do you have the Rosa Gallery cobalt grey? It’s possibly my fave paint of theirs, goes into an awful lot of my neutral mixes.
Also your handwriting is so lovely, my notes on swatch sheets will never look as pretty as yours!
Yes, I have the Cobalt Grey! That at the Schmincke Shire Grey are my favourites!
Thank you!
I love the Aquapasto. Love to experiment 😊 BTW I wrote a bit of a longer answer to my Aqua Bronze experience, but somehow it gets always hidden behind/under “replies” 😊
Oh thank you! I missed it - will go back and try to find it!
The mix you made doesn’t read very similar to the Mineral Grey to me. I think the white in that one is doing lots of work to dull it down and add opacity that isn’t present in your mix. Good call on the Ultramarine Ash for a dull sky color.
Yeah, it was just a quick play around to satisfy my curiosity. I'm also beginning to wonder if all my Winsor & Newton paints have a slightly different consistency from my other watercolours, a very slightly gummy edge to them. Definitely need to experiment more.
Hi Helen … when you were swatching the Mineral Grey it reminded me of Sennelier Light Grey. it, too, has PB29, a white and a black but it’s not as subtle as the Mineral grey. It’s gorgeous by itself or as a mixer.
Thanks very much! I'll take a look at it!
Fun video my friend! Your lightfast testing is very enlightening! 😮
Hello!!!! Yes, such a shame really!
Hi Helen I was wondering how the W and N pasto gel and the watercolour mix dried, especially in the mass tone please? love Alli X
It kept the same level of opacity as was in the video, but it didn't keep all of its volume - it shrank down a bit.
@@helencryer thank u Helen, i have a delivery today to have a play. I love that u love trying different things x love Alli XX
Great video. My favourite kind of art haul. Basically nothing I need or want so money saving 😂. Have you tried Holbein Shadow Green. It is my favorite very dark green. I like mission Golds Opera the best but probably awful Lightfastness! Thank you so much ❤
Thanks! No, I haven't seen the Shadow Green - will take a look, thank you!
That ultramarine ash is so delicate.
These look so good ☺☺
Thanks!
Hi Helen. That brush I was told, I have two of them, is for blending and softening. A method you demonstrated well. Not so hard though. Pratice with skin; it works!
I pronounced Mi-Teintes incorrectly at first and was told by a lady at Great Art that it is pronounced as 'me' (as I or myself) and 'taunts' (as to provoke or anger someone.) I also heard Phil Davies pronounce it that way too, so I guess that's about correct.
Hope this helps. Why so many operas?
Thank you!
I mainly just want the brush for grass, but will definitely practice!
The only Phil Davies I know is my Senior Coastal Operations Officer in the Coastguard, but if he told me to say it like that, I probably would too! 😂
Why so many operas? Why limit the joy?!!!?
@@helencryer Sorry, maybe we are at crossed lines. I meant the brush you used on the pastels where you said you'd wiped off more pastel than you expected. The flat brush with the clipped out tip, I have three infact, are for grasses and you can do some tree types with them. I love them, but like a lot of brushes of that type, don't get them too wet or at least dry them on a paper towel before dipping the tip in the paint. Then soft gentle swipes, a lot of air and little hair, as Bob Ross used to say. I'm sure you'll get used to them and love them.
Phil Davies - www.youtube.com/@PhilDaviesArtist/videos
Great advice from him!
@@WolfmanWoodyAh, yes, that makes more sense, thanks! Thought you were talking about the new brush I was showing!
Thanks for this. Intrigued by what w+n are aiming for with these 6 colours. First impression those two look quite limited - very low tinting strength and flat. Your mixes have a higher tint range, colour separation, and more granulation… so for me blow the w+n out of the proverbial water.
I do think the whole selection is rather odd to be honest. I think the others in the range have higher tinting strength, but weren't for me at all. Curiosity won out with these two.
Do you have any pan pastels? I am wondering what it would be like mixing some pan pastel dust (essentially pure pigment) with aquapasto for a very pigmented "vaseline" that would keep that full impasto texture. Interesting stuff.
I do have some, so might have a play. I'm still not really sure what the idea of it is though,, other than to keep it transparent, because we have acrylics and oils for impasto texture too.
I would say the idea is to add some impasto but stay in the ‘watercolour sphere’ - i.e. without having to use acrylic or oils.
What I don’t understand about light fast, testing any watercolours is why people hang the water colours facing outwards in a window when the whole point is to see how long that will last for painting that you may sell. How many people do you know buy an artwork for their home, only to put it in the window facing outwards so they can’t actually see it. ”I’ll put it somewhere where it constantly gets direct sunlight and I can’t see it” when someone spending money on an art work that they really love. Surely the artist or the person buying, it knows about UV glass to give it extra protection, but it’s going to be in the house, not in direct sunlight as a caveat, I know the colours can be fugitive, but again who puts a painting they love that they’ve either made or bought from an artist and places it facing outwards in a window, so you can’t see it or enjoy it in your own home, where it gets the most sun. And just to be clear this is not a go at Helen. This is something I’ve asked almost every RUclips artist. Who does this?
Hi, I totally get your question, and can only answer for myself, but the reason I put it in a window, is not because I think that's exactly how people will place their own pictures, but because I think it's a way of speeding up the testing process. I know it's not particularly scientific, but if a paint is still good after a year in a bright window, then in my mind, I'd feel more confident about it hanging in a less bright space without fading, for many more years than that. Also though, I do have walls in my home which fall in direct sunlight, and because they're the only blank walls in their rooms, they do have artwork on, so in some cases it will actually be a reasonably decent test.
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Never heard of those W&N paints. I was on their website a few days ago to check some watercolour paints, I did not see anything about new watercolours.
Look again! 😉
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