Color Spotlight Returns - Pyrrol Red (PR254)

The Color Spotlight Returns...again! The purpose of this series is to learn more about popular watercolor colors, where they originated, useful color combinations, and demonstrate how to use them in a painting. This week we're taking a look at Pyrrol or Pyrrole Red, PR254.
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[@OtoKano]

So good to see you back Denise! We missed you! The color mixes are so lovely. The beta fish is beautiful, so much depth of color.

[@InLiquidColor]

I missed you guys too! Thanks so much :)

[@Chichirinoda]

I love these videos! I've become such a color/pigment nerd. Thank you for all the time & effort you put in these videos - it really shows!

[@Shesvii]

What a gorgeous painting! This is the best red you could choose for it.

[@Achatfell]

I have pyrrol red in my self made basic watercolour set and it's such a treat! I LOVE it!

[@HandmadeByLinanne]

Never disappointed, amazing! Just when I’m thinking how gorgeous, you add the wow white detail and take it to the next level! Spectacular!❤️

[@InLiquidColor]

Thank you Linda! Often times adding the white is my favorite part :) It just brings them to life!

[@ianjackson5834]

Pyrrol Red my goto middle red, love using it and as your swatch shows it creates loads of great mix colours..... also the blooming it does makes it good for doing things like poppy's, thanks Denise much appreciated

[@antonea808]

That betta is stunning! Look like she’s swimming right off the page! 😍

[@InLiquidColor]

Antonea Payan thank you so much!

[@jessicasobel4287]

I love the texture you got on his back!! I just got his color, and I'm excited to try it out

[@Gothikah]

This was very interesting, thank you! This will be a wonderfull palette for autumn too with that yellow and orange. Even the purples, blues, browns and greens are wonderfull. Gives me alot of inspiration!

[@lisab8078]

I love watching the paint out of the colour mixing, it is my favourite part.

[@InLiquidColor]

Oh I'm glad Lisa! :)

[@ChrissieNicely]

Gosh, this is so beautiful! I really love orange and red tones anyhow but the compositions is also wonderful here. Thank you, Denise! You are always creating such interesting and helpful content. Every time I get a nofication I look forward to the moment I can take the time to watch. I can imagine how much effort and thought goes into creating the videos... So, thank you again. You're awesome!

[@InLiquidColor]

Thank you sincerely for all of your kind words Chrissie! They mean a lot to me and I'm so glad you enjoy the content :)

[@nicoleyahc]

What an epic beta fish painting! Right when I was thinking "I just watch color spotlights to learn about the pigment properties and see the brand comparisons" you painted this gorgeous beta with a unicorn horn! Plus, I have never personally appreciated Pyrrol red so, I have to admit, I almost didn't even watch this episode. Thanks for opening my eyes and demonstrating those useful color mixes -I feel ready to give pyrrol red a place in my palette, haha.

[@MDCampbell]

Lovely video, as always, and I, too keep pyrrol red in my primary palette. The fish are wonderful! Cheers and hope all is well! :)

[@cockatielnation5425]

A betacorn? Lovely fish! What a joy to watch you paint!

[@rebeccapage4411]

I think your little Betacorn is one of my new favorites of yours. I keep PR 255 Pyrrole Scarlet on my palettes because I love the red it makes with Quin Rose and the way it blends with Earth colors. Awesome video!

[@InLiquidColor]

Thanks Bekki! He's a new favorite of mine too!

[@LeySketch]

Aaaaah! Your little red betta is so precious and flowy! I love this unicorn series so much, you just keep surprising every video with the animals you choose. It's like a present at the end of an already amazing video! 💜

[@InLiquidColor]

Aww thank you so much Ley! I'm so glad you like it!

[@LisaSandboge]

Very nice video! I added pyrrole red to my collection a few days ago, so it's nice to see what mixes it can create!

[@francineh.7825]

Beautiful painting!

[@ninner196]

This pigment is definitely on my palette as my warmest red and it is beautiful. I don’t know how I missed your video earlier but I love how your beta fish turned out. I really enjoy using the pyrrole red deep from Qor with this one. The deep one is transparent and they are wonderful for florals. Lately I have been into the reds and It isn’t possible to keep them all on the palette but they are present intube form. I enjoy your videos Denise and take care!😊

[@loati94]

What a great painting! It's so vibrant and pretty. Also I do enjoy watching the mixing swatches! I sometimes have problems mixing violets because I get burgundy like colors instead and didn't know why sometimes worked and other times didn't, now I know it's probably because I don't use cool reds so thank you so much for the info! I usually can't tell if reds are cool or warm unless they are very orange like. PS: I bought my first Daniel Smith tube the other day and now I'm in love with how smooth and pigmented they are.

[@InLiquidColor]

Loati so glad it was able to help!

[@zibbyzoo4379]

1Yay!!! Super great video! Love to see you swatch

[@BornAgainFarmGirl]

Spectacular video Denise , worth watching over and over !

[@InLiquidColor]

Thank you kindly!

[@Prof_Granpuff]

I absolutely adore this fish. Every mix with PR254 was gorgeous here, but I am absolutely in love with the mix with Payne's Grey. I'm also way interested in the Titanium Gold Ochre now... Thanks for ideas of what to get out of this color!

[@InLiquidColor]

I'm so glad to be able to show it off well! :)

[@SouthernArtGallery]

Glad you are back. Pyrol is my warm red. It is a bully.lol.

[@samanthaglorioso8440]

Oh Denise, he is so beautiful! I hope he makes it onto the next set of pouches when you order them. Great video. Unlike some pigments, this one seems to be pretty similar in hue from brand to brand. Thanks for all the work you put into these videos to enlighten us all about pigments. I have gone from a total ingoramous about pigments, to a fairly well informed buyer of paint. Thank you thank you!

[@InLiquidColor]

Thank you Samantha!! I promise I'll reply to your emails as soon as I can 💜

[@bobbi323]

Gorgeous and inspiring. I’m adding this to my pallet pronto!

[@STICKYArt]

WOWO wow! So glad I found your channel! Alway inspires me to make art for my channel when I find a great artist with lots of videos! liked and subbed cant wait to binge on oll your juicy art videos!! :)

[@InLiquidColor]

Thank you and welcome to the channel!

[@renmuffett]

I would love to see a color spotlight on phthalo turquoise. Blessings sweet lady!

[@madeleines.9192]

Amazing information! I have the Sennelier version of this pigment and it seems to be on the transparent and highly pigmented site. I enjoy mixing it with Payne's Grey and Phthalo Turquise the most. But there are also beautiful orange mixes as long as I am really careful with the amount of red :D

[@MeowMeowKapow]

I use pyrrol red a lot, especially when doing Miyazaki-based pieces because it seems like it’s the perfect color to match his tastes. The Ponyo piece I made last inktober was like....90% pyrrol red. =>.

[@maryyoungblood8550]

PR 254 is on my palette. It is one of my favorite reds.

[@matamiaa]

Wow, loved the fish 😍. Great video Denise. I also thought that it would be nice if you showed the swatches of other red colours when you mentioned them, I know that probably don't have any cadmiums etc but it would be interesting to see how the hue differs from other red pigments. Hope you are having a great day :)

[@ellenk560]

YAY! I was eagerly anticipating this video. Pyrrol red is my go-to warm red usually. Oddly enough, I have also been painting bettas for July, which expanded into other water loving creatures. Must be the drought around here. Now that we've had rain finally, maybe I can get back to land loving creatures. I really like your guy. Super cute. Anyway, I really like your mixing choices, which gives me some ideas to use in the future... When I'm using PR 254 I tend to let it stand on its own, and tint it up or down to meet my needs, because as you said, it can be a bully. It DOES however, make a fantastic baseline colour for Iron Man's armour, which is the reason I originally bought it all those years ago.

[@InLiquidColor]

Aww fun! Are you on instagram? I'd love to see your bettas!

[@ellenk560]

Aww, well that makes me feel great. I have a couple of them up. I'm @elleonwheelz on Instagram. :)

[@chrismalone617]

The beta is fabulous!

[@mjpete27]

Hullo Denise, I have just been missing your voice so I just watched this video and again you still amaze and encourage with your knowledge and skills! I hope your doing well and I hope your hours viewed is doing ok what with the dreaded Algorithm stressing everyone out these days!

[@mjpete27]

I do enjoy watching and re-watching your Color Spotlight series. i often wonder how much re-viewing a video helps a content creator. I had not left a comment before so I assume it was before I was educated about the dreaded Algorithm and its use in getting videos out and getting creators paid! Lovely as always Denise. I am hoping the extras views help with your move if NOT? Please tell us what we can do better!

[@bastet469]

Love the fishy!! How are you doing? How was the wedding? More importantly, what kind of cake did they have? Lol. I ❤️❤️❤️❤️ wedding cake. I love all the fancy flavors and decorations the bakers use. My fave so far? A Golden yellow cake with chocolate frosting and a Grand Marnier infused marmalade between the layers. UNREAL!!!

[@InLiquidColor]

Aww thanks! It was fun, a small wedding. We actually made the wedding cupcakes ourselves! It was so fun decorating them :)

[@bastet469]

In Liquid Color Homemade's cool. I don't discriminate. Lol! I cook myself. Mom pretty much insisted. Have to be able to trap a husband right? Lol😉 Frustrating thing is it worked! Every boyfriend I've ever had said that was one of the things that attracted them to me. Ughhh. Don'tcha hate it when Mom's are right?

[@daruleos]

Yes!

[@timothyknoefler9198]

Thank you 👍☺️

[@joyfulldj]

When I saw the color the Only thing I could think of was either a Flamingo ( diluting pyrol red seems to make it a flamingo-ish color,lol ) or a typical chrismas cardinal. A Fish did not cross my mind hahaha I Love this style of showing mixes. But I REALLY lack the patience for it. Non the less. Credits from a fellow Jane Blundell addict :P

[@mikeyfinger8026]

I too loved this beta fish so much so that I got the mug the print and the satchel bag for my mom for Christmas because she loves the red and Pyrol red is the closest to her lipstick tone she has been wearing for 55 years. I was really trying to get them for myself thinking she would not really be into them but she loves them!!! Serves me right for being sneaky but what can you do it’s always worked in the past??lol

[@taniasharma808]

You are so talented and so amazing. I absolutely love your work. More people need to see your work. One suggestion i would like to give is show your demo painting in the thumbnail of your colour spotlights. We know you and we know how amazing your work is. New people won't know that you are doing a painting after you explain about the colour and pigments and mixes and everything. Its possible that they might not want to look into the video because of the thumbnail coz they might probably think that its all about nerdy things of colour. Idk if I'm making any sense with my words. I hope my words are conveyed properly 😅😅

[@InLiquidColor]

Thanks Tania! I definitely struggle with that for this series. I do wish I could somehow share the artwork I create for these in the thumbnail but these episodes are really about the pigments with only the last third person usually being the painting and I don't want people to think they'll get a time lapse as soon as they open the video. Also some of the pieces like this one turn out great, but others like the cobalt teal fall flat and I really want the thumbnails to be consistent. Perhaps if I was a better graphic editor I could come up with something that incorporated both... Maybe I'll give it a try :) I do however share them over on Instagram, and actually going to be doing a lot more time laspe and process pieces here that will have their own videos and thumbnails :) regardless thank you so much for your kind words, support, and wanting to see me succeed!

[@dynomax101]

In Liquid Color... Nothing, nothing, NOTHING wrong with being nerdy! Keep up the great videos about colors! And paint your animals. There are a lot of channels showing painting demos, but few good channels about the paints themselves from someone who knows what they're doing. And, as an artist who is very interested in the characteristics of the pigments used, I am so glad to see an artist who cares.

[@FuriedHearts]

I recently did some experimenting with this pigment and holy wow. This is an EXTREMELY and impressively versatile pigment/red color. I was shocked at how easily this red can be manipulated. I also have the color Pyrrol Scarlet by DS and did some side by side testing with Winsor Red (PR 254) because I couldn’t decide between the two for my main palette. I was amazed to find that by adding a tiny tiny amount of yellow (Hansa yellow medium or Winsor Yellow work the same- I tested with both) to the Winsor Red, it creates an EXACT dupe of the Pyrrol Scarlet. I don’t mean close. I mean exact. You cannot tell the difference at all. The color it makes looks like a glowing red, just like the warm Pyrrol scarlet. Absolutely beautiful. I was so impressed by this because the Winsor Red has a notable and slight blue cast to it when compared to the Pyrrol scarlet. So I didn’t expect it to be able to be manipulated by the yellow to create a bright warm slightly orangey red like that at all. Totally impressed by this. I can see why this is such a popular color. There’s no need for both reds. This red can easily be manipulated to be warm or cool. I LOVE IT.

[@hellendia]

I have the PR 254 and makes the best poppies with variations added in of Quinacridone rose and quinacridone red, also i like paint lighthouses and this is a good color for the red accents on them

[@StephenMarkTurner]

I had not heard of PR270 and PR274. I will have to look for some info on those.

[@StephenMarkTurner]

I have the QOR version. It has a funny kind of flat hue, I see it as a pretty neutral red. It works the best out of reds I have tried for a very strong red, perhaps because it is a bit opaque. With PG7, I can mix very neutral neutrals and very dark darks.

[@InLiquidColor]

Stephen Turner ah yes I should have used that word! It's a very flat color.

[@zeiadmohamed4609]

I actually do have pr254 on my palette but it is in the form of perm. Red light other than pyroll red so i mix it with pr264 madder lake deep to get a color close to pyroll red

[@AnnaReed42]

A betta named Alpha 😂❤

[@DrPhilologist]

I guess you could add to the list the quinacridone pyrrolidone (what a full mouth), aka PR N/A, found in W&N permanent carmine, permanent alizarin crimson and in Sennelier Bright Red.

[@grannysmithart]

I have used this color for years to replace cadmium red, since i prefer transparent colors.

[@Calibizaro]

What pencil is used for the sketch? Watercolor pencil? I have DaVinci Red (PR254), because I bought Denise's Earth Freindly Palette from DaVinci! It's an awesome palette, and it's a lovely color. I also have Daniel Smith's Pyrrol Scarlet (PR255 so slightly different) from the Essentials Set is more orange than the DaVinci Red which is more middle. I really love these "Color Spotlights", I feel like I'm getting to know these colors a little better, and it gets me excited to do my own color mixing! :D

[@diblikeamoose]

That's interesting. The Sap Green seems to get some interesting skin tones if the mix is just right -medium/dark, with olive undertones, if that makes any sense. This might be an excellent color for people who do a wide variety of skin tones in general. EDIT: Also, what pencil do you use for the undersketching, if thats the right word for it?

[@InLiquidColor]

Lyesmith nice catch, and thanks for sharing your thoughts! I believe the pencil was the Col Erase in Carmine.

[@akanetando]

What brush do you use for the pains grey mix? Lines look so sharp!

[@InLiquidColor]

All my supplies are in the description box :)

[@Hexerik]

Which white ink do you use? I have so much trouble trying to find a really opaque one

[@InLiquidColor]

Its from PH Martin. Theres a link in the description to all of my favorite supplies including that one.

[@babykidsredcars7666]

*Ich verehre diesen Kanal* 👍

[@InLiquidColor]

Danke 💜

[@ashlyrz252]

😍 Love the beta! My beta's name is sushi.... He lives on my dinner table 🤷‍♀️😂

[@InLiquidColor]

Oh no! 😂

[@onemig00]

Great vid as always. I wonder if DS is vegan since a lot of artists have followed the rabbit down the hole XD it'd be nice if the ox is alive on the other side of the tunnel/hole

[@InLiquidColor]

onemig00 I have a video on vegan paints, and DS is one aside from specific pigments used.

[@2lmdi]

Lovely painting. I've had this fish since my youngest years when we just called them "fighter fish." As for pyrrol. I find it flat compared to my other MG and Sennelier reds so don't really use it.

[@InLiquidColor]

It is indeed a flat color, which I should have mentioned, but sometimes I like that effect!

[@jinxmas]

Have you ever tried Mission Gold paints?

[@InLiquidColor]

Yep, some. I have a few videos here on the channel.

[@jmspegel]

ugh can you help me win a discussion with my brother. He is a commercial painter...and I was doing a color swatch chart. He insists his latex paint uses the same pigments as my watercolor. Can you point me in the direction to prove him wrong? I tried to explain a majority of my paints come from a natural pigment, hence why they tell us pigment information and his paints do not. Of course if I was totally wrong, correct my ignorance.

[@InLiquidColor]

Sorry Linda, he's right! The pigments are the same across industries. It's the binders that change the type of paint. In the art industry, we're actually "at the mercy" of larger industries like the automotive industry, as our paints are such a small percentage of pigments used overall. That's how we lost quinacridone gold!

[@justtheletterV274]

I thought PR264 was Anthraquinone Red

[@InLiquidColor]

This video is on Pyrrol Red?

[@justtheletterV274]

In Liquid Color PR264 is Pyrrole Red Deep, which I thought it was Anthraquinone Red until, I saw this video

[@bluepetalmedia9699]

Hi Denise! I would love for you to take a look at the Paul Rubens pallette. I got mine off of Amazon. You can find it here at the best price and as a Prime item: www.amazon.com/Colors-Paul-Rubens-Watercolor-Painting/dp/B07C938MWN There are other listings under Brands; I bought mine under the Meeden/Paul Rubens listing. I am wondering what you think of these paints. I would love to see how it stacks up against all the other professional brands you have encountered. (I am not an AMZ or Paul Rubens affiliate and I have not formed an opinion on these as I am a beginner; just looking for knowledgeable advice on a set that has some good buzz).

[@joanporter916]

Good information but so much and pretty fast unless a person is very experienced

[@InLiquidColor]

You can always slow down the speed of a video in the bottom right corner with the gear icon :)