Art Haul Follow-Up - Old Holland Watercolors Complete Review.

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

This video, starting at 7:31, explains what the word "Lake" means in watercolor paints. Great explanation! kzbin.infoK40gxOSx8A0?si=MdoCourUV5mLEMZJ

[@NanaBeth1]

Finally a paint palette I don't want to buy! Everybody celebrate!

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

Hahaha, good news! 👍

[@rebeccah7689]

I had the same reaction! So glad to see these painted out - definitely not what I was expecting.

[@sararamer-dean7846]

Of all the many watercolour paints I have tried, Old Holland has the smoothest laydown. You can get such perfect gradients (like you did in your swatches) consistently. That is an awesome characteristic. My favourite paint ever of theirs is Dioxazine Mauve! And Golden Barok Red PO65 is a very unique reddish colour. I also love how they have so many variations of blues. I like Blue Lake PB 15:2 as a unique blue to match most of my lakes and skies in northwestern Ontario. Thanks for your review!

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

Good to know! I wish I had some of their more unique colors instead, but this was a good selection for me to start with. The ones you mention here sound delightful!

[@lesleyegbert4807]

I'm about 8 minutes in and I've seen enough, with the binder separation and the trouble re-wetting. Thank you, Ma'am! I'm off to check out your Rembrandt video next.

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

Yes, understandable.

[@ChantelleArts]

such a fantastic review, thank you for sharing ☺☺

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

Thanks, Chantelle!

[@Lauraisabelgonzalezart]

I knew you were going to remove the tray! I do that now to make way for more pans! I wish more tins had a flat bottom, though! Okay, back to watching the video!

[@Azkademon]

Nice in-depth review of these paints, and I really enjoyed your painting too, loved Jack and the kitty at the end lol :D

[@BeckyTregear]

I really enjoyed seeing your take on Old Holland paints, and you got some lovely mixes out of the colours! ❤

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

Thanks, Becky!

[@BrendaArtist]

the emerald green due it's more opaque it can be used as high lights on for example leaves. schmincke horadem may green has that effect as well and combined with other greens it can have lovely effects. kinda have to play with it to get the idea and feeling for those more opaque colours.

[@jessicapp2545]

Also have a limited pallet of the Old Holland paints. I did search for not so common colours. Also some had bindingseparation. Still I love to use them. If it was possible I would send a voicereaction with the word Scheveningen. It is a city at the sea in The Netherlands

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

I'll go do a search on how to say it because I'm really curious now. Thank you!

[@shadowguard3578]

I’ve been curious about Old Holland, and every time I’ve looked on Jackson’s to possibly choose a tube of paint, there isn’t anything I want to buy. I’m still not tempted by any of their colors and I’m currently sticking to my watercolor no buy. Interesting video, thanks. EDIT beautiful painting.

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

Thanks! It's nice NOT to be tempted. :-)

[@shadowguard3578]

@@MirandaWatsonArtyou’re welcome. Yes it is nice not to be tempted! 😊

[@derwood206]

I enjoy Old Holland and it has some unique pigments and mixes. I like the earthy Golden Barok Red (PO65), Vermilion Extra (PR251), OH Red Gold Lake, and OH Violet Grey. There aren't that many OH swatching videos out there so thank you for doing this! Also to OH, Lake=Hue for the most part. Frustrating that pigment info not on the tubes; I got my pigment info from the site, Artist Pigments.

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

Okay, thank you! The colors you mention sound really pretty. Maybe I'll add them to my wish list. Not sure yet. :-)

[@fuzzydragons]

I love that Prussian Blue, its so pretty 🥰

[@barbarabrady1267]

Nice video 😊 Cookie especially enjoyed seeing Jack ❤

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

Thank you 🤗 I think cookie and Jack would have so much fun playing together.

[@ArtandDiamondsWithEskies]

Personally I'm lucky to have learned any pigment numbers lol. Coming from pencils where you don't use those it's nice to learn.

[@nancyloomis3046]

8:54 Hi Miranda! I think the "extra" in this case of the Alizarin Crimson Lake Extra may be to mean "permanent" as opposed to the traditional and easily fading/fugitive Alizarin PR83? I know many makers sell an "Alizarin Crimson Permanent" now so customers know this is not the fugitive PR83, that is still sold and still very popular (kind of like Opera, right?) Why Old Holland adds the "extra" in general, though? 🤔

[@derwood206]

Extra is their version of "hue". So Alizarin Crimson Lake Extra is the mix vs PR83 and Rose Dore Madder Lake Extra is the mix vs NR9 that Winsor and Newton uses :). They used to carry Manganese Blue PB33 but now list their Manganese Blue Extra because it is now a mix ;). Hope that helps.

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

Thanks, Nancy!

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

Thanks, Derwood!

[@kyla3748]

Interesting perspective, thanks for the video. I find with Old Holland paints you either love them or hate them. I’ve noticed artists who are accustomed to brands such as Daniel Smith are the ones who don’t like Old Holland. They behave very differently right from wetting them and you paint differently as a result. I think Handprint said some very unkind things about some beautiful paints that he misunderstood the quirkiness of. Personally I love them due to the nature of how they look when dry, they have this smoothness in the Scheveningen range which is lovely and consistent, the granulation of anything that contains their cobalts or ultramarines is ethereal and the pigments in the cadmium’s are so rich you don’t need a lot of paint on your brush so they go very far. Some such as the Viridian, Green Earth and madders are intentionally muted but called “weak” but those who aren’t fans of the subtlety. But that’s the thing about art, it’s all subjective- right down to the supplies we use.

[@kyla3748]

P.s beautiful painting btw!

[@alexserra9605]

I was going to say they use the word extra because there are extra pigments like I was in crimson is not monopigmented there's extra same with the other ones there's extra pigments however ultramarine is also labeled extra and it's a single pigment. So not sure I'd love to see if you got the answer

[@KevieG]

Would you tell me what brushes you were using! Thank 😊 you! Love ❤️ from Texas

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

It was the Meeden watercolor brushes. They currently aren't available on their own, although you can pre-order them from Meeden's website. Otherwise, they are part of a really affordable complete watercolor kit here: amzn.to/3vHECZu - thanks!

[@ginabadeaux9319]

i am looking forward to the frugal crafter podcast with you .i checked amazon this set is not ther ,love you

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

Hi, Gina! Yes, Amazon doesn't have the set available, just individual colors. I'm looking forward to the release of the podcast as well. We had a fun conversation. :-)

[@joymiller9668]

Do you know what happened to Kimberly krick? She hasn't posted in a year?

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

She moved to somewhere easier on her heart (around family members who could help her). She was doing okay when I talked to her a few months ago. I'll check in with her again and mention it in an upcoming video.

[@awatercolourist]

@@MirandaWatsonArt ​​⁠ Hi Miranda! Do pass on our regards to Kimberly. I knew that she was unwell, but I did not know that it was her heart.

[@joymiller9668]

Mixing emerald green with colbalt teal, makes it look like colbalt green, I like the mix for clothing or eyes or something not meant to be be greenery

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

Great suggestion, thanks!

[@kathyhackney7950]

First to comment. I've looked at these a billion times. How do they compare to other brands?

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

I will paint with them more and let you know but right now they are not my favorite.

[@awatercolourist]

Are the paintsPaints gloopy and opaque? I’ve heard that about Old Holland before.

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

I would currently say no, not at all, but I do need to paint with them more to be certain.

[@awatercolourist]

@@MirandaWatsonArt Thanks!

[@awatercolourist]

Hello 👋🏼. I think rose dorés and madder lakes are all weak tinting. Old Holland might have intentionally made their rather-long-named paint low tinting to meet that expectation.

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

Makes sense.

[@Harkart59]

I bought 4 colors of old holland for a palette I was setting up and good grief they were awfully liquidy and messy. The caps got stuck so bad I had to cut the bottom of the tubes and fill pans to conserve the paint. The yellow separated and cobalt green is always very goopy. For what I paid, I will stick with Daniel Smith. I won't repurchase Old Holland again.

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

Ah, such a bummer that you had that experience with them. The binder separation was pretty major in those three colors I had. They wouldn't be on the top of my list for repurchasing either. At least not so far.

[@elizabaum]

My impression of this brand has always been pretty meh, especially for their price. And yep, I'm still not tempted. Your painting was pretty, though!

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

Thanks, Eliza! I'm curious how I'll feel about them with some more serious paintings. We'll see! Eventually.

[@jennw6809]

I've never bothered with Old Holland since I read on Handprint that they just took the pigment formulas from their oil line -- and put them, as-is, into watercolor. So there are lots of colors in the line that just don't make sense, for instance 28 of their watercolors have white in them. Some have up to 5 pigments. He says they are gummy, but they do lift well. Just didn't seem to be worth the money! Of the names, Bruce from Handprint says: "But it seems unfair to criticize Old Holland for their paint formulations, when their true expertise is in dreaming up idiosyncratic paint names. These are either uninterpretable (indian yellow-green lake extra is a dull mixture of nickel dioxine yellow, PY153 and copper azomethine, PY129 that has no greenish hue) or are idiotically pretentious (rose dore madder lake antique extra is a dull and impermanent mixture of benzimidazolone scarlet PR175, anthraquinone scarlet PR168, and alizarin crimson PR83). In the Old Holland labeling fairyland lake supposedly means "transparent", extra means a "hue" or imitation paint, and antique means ... well, who knows?" Apparently they at least wised up and took the PR83 out of the Rose Dore Madder Lake Antique Extra 🤣 He seemed to think they used Extra to indicate a hue, but your set had two "extras" that weren't hues. So I don't know?? Burnt Umber is always hard to rewet. Next time I pour some I will add glycerine.

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

Such great information, thank you! I wish I had known that a few of these were going to be so hard to rewet as I would have added glycerin as well. Too late now, sadly.