10 Daniel Smith Watercolours I Love and Why! Swatching Bliss ❤️

[@bealaart]

Thanks for this. I've been itching to add a few new colors to my palette. I've never liked granulating pigments until recently when I painted an elephant for a nursery. The granulations completely made the piece! It made the elephant's skin texture jump off the paper. I'm hooked now. Just ordered every one of these! 😂🤣😃

[@Bunnyplans]

I’m so obsessed with these color choices! Such a nice variety of pretty and muted tones!

[@LuchaCatDIY]

This is a really great explanation on how the colors work and appear when dry

[@LauraHornArt]

Thank you, it’s interesting how much some colours change once dry. They can bring really beautiful effects to your art.

[@georgiakubesh2588]

Thank you for sharing your wisdom!

[@LauraHornArt]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 😊

[@bfamiliar9011]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video and found it to be quite informative and fascinating. Thank you for sharing! I would love to see more like these if you don’t mind sharing your amazing talent. Have a wonderful evening and keep up all of the amazing content on your KZbin channel. It’s greatly appreciated!🎨🖌️💕

[@debraviccars7584]

I have just been re-reading your email from 19 April that accompanied the link for this video and you mentioned the original Melting Pot class and revisiting the lessons (great idea). I loved what you did when you returned to your Melting Pot class. It would be interesting to have an updated Melting Pot-type lesson with new techniques and approaches. I do need to get back into watercolour play.

[@polgara28]

Oh I love this video SO much! Learning about new colors and their properties. I try to mix dupes when I can, like the cascade green, etc, but I see I will be purchasing a few that I can't mix on my own. I especially love the Duochrome Autumn Mystery! Thanks for sharing. ♥

[@maryellen9503]

I love watching swatching videos and I agree so much with your love of granulation. add shadow violet and undersea green and you have one of my first "special"palettes

[@thepoodledoodlepainter]

I have a post on Instagram from a couple of years ago now where I mixed all the Daniel Smith colours I had first with Buff Titanium and then with white so I coukd see what pastel colours I could create. It's such a useful reference and created some gorgeous colours, especially with the Buff Titanium 😊

[@polgara28]

I had to look that up. Love this idea. Your art is beautiful also! ♥

[@thepoodledoodlepainter]

@@polgara28 thank you so much 🥰

[@Bindismom]

This is so timely. I fell in love with the Danial Smith watercolors too and wanted to add to my starter pac. The very first pick was the Buff titanium ! I LOVE it and I used it just the way you suggested here, giving what I was painting a more muted color pallet. Another choice I made was the Janes Gray. I’ve always loved payne’s gray so I thought I’d see what this new color is all about. It is more a true gray without all the blue, so I’m very happy to have added it and can see many uses for it. This was a really good tutorial for these wonderful paints.👍👍

[@lydialee2023]

Love this, Laura, gives me some good ideas for what colours to consider next time.

[@LauraHornArt]

I’m glad it was helpful, picking only 10 was hard!!

[@susancrane6695]

You are always so lovely and generous with your knowledge! Thank you!!!!

[@LauraHornArt]

Thank you, happy it was helpful!

[@monicalfd]

I love Daniel Smith too! I’m ordering some of your suggested colors. Your work is always so striking. ❤️

[@sallycain3716]

Just found your channel. I adore Daniel Smith paints. I have never come across the Autumn Mystery but I love Cascade Green, Lunar Blue and Rose of Ultramarine.

[@gordonsneddon5914]

Hi Laura, loved your video. I’m really interested in slightly more unusual colours, so this video is really inspirational. Thanks for sharing. 😊

[@brigitteitg]

Just found your channel and love your colour mixes. My small Daniel Smith collection overlaps in a lot of colours with yours so I will try some of your suggestions. My favourite Daniel Smith colour mix is Indanthrone Blue with Quin Burnt Orange for brown/grey/black.

[@katie_a1075]

Daniel smith is my favorite watercolor brand and I love finding new colors to add to my collection so thank you! My personal fav colors are cascade green, undersea green, sodalite genuine, iridescent scarab red, moonglow and rose of ultramarine.

[@maxnme21]

All so beautiful! I’m captivated. I don’t use watercolors much…mostly acrylics. How would I transform the watercolor colors you use to acrylic colors? Do you have a video on this. And any acrylic videos that you have done! I love love your work and love love your colors! Thank you for all you do! Charlotte

[@paulinabm_]

I also love cascade green. It's a mix of PBr7 and PB15. Probably raw sienna and phtalo blue red shade. I wonder how it might mix with rose of ultramarine. I like to mix it with quin rose to get moody purples and greys.

[@fabd8067]

Wow what stunning colour palette! 🤎🩵💚

[@monika.71]

My favourite thing to do is swatching and watching this just gave me all the good feels!! ❤️ I love that you created a Potters Pink as I do have that colour but find it isn't as intense as I would like. It can be quite transparent. I was just in Art to Art this morning and bought a few acrylic inks (thanks to your reply from the other video) as well as a couple tubes of DS as they are my favourite as well....but it looks like I might have to add these to my list as this palette is exactly what I am drawn to.

[@urban_fox4658]

I really loved this video! It wasn't the typical swatching and because I, too use Daniel Smith the most, it was really interesting to see how you use the Buff T and one of the Duochrome colors. I've never really known what to do with the one I have and didn't like it as much on its own. I do really like the Autumn Mystery as a shimmery pinkish color, though. Thank you! You have yourself another loyal subscriber! ❤ Happy painting! 🎨🖌

[@MrPuddinhead61]

Lovely demo of these gorgeous colors. I am also an avid Daniel Smith fan.

[@julietoye9872]

Great mixing ideas 🤗😊💖

[@LauraHornArt]

Thanks Julie, glad you enjoyed the mixing tips!

[@susanweber6861]

It’’s very interesting to see how the colors you love make a lovely coordinated palette

[@LauraHornArt]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed the harmony between the colours 🎨

[@greggtransky9080]

Laura, Thank you so much for this wonderful video. You are such a "giver" and share so much. So appreciated. Best wishes, Sondra❤

[@elfincrafter]

I love some of these colours and the mixes. I use Titan Buff acrylic to blend pastels with my other acrylics & it was so interesting to see you use the watercolour version in the same way 😊

[@purfleac]

This was wonderful! I can’t wait to play.

[@franciscocorrea9031]

Napthamide Maroon has been a staple in my palette the last year, its great for landscapes , with a great range of value

[@LauraHornArt]

It's such a beautiful rich colour, I love it!

[@homecomfort6667]

Hello Laura, I so appreciate your generosity of knowledge, energy and creativity. I just received buff titanium and am looking forward to experimenting. I love your videos!

[@DarkMoonSanctuary]

Love this...❤ Thanks allot of wonderful ideas.

[@christinewilde110]

Love the swatches...

[@janinafisher101]

What a lovely and interesting set of colours! I think Daniel Smith needs to package up a Laura Horn collection! I'm going to have to try some of these.

[@LauraHornArt]

That would be amazing!

[@markdonovan1540]

An excellent video that is full of helpful tips and ideas I'd never thought of with those paints. I've only got one Duochrome paint, the Oceanic colour, so you've given me a great idea to mix it with a complimentary colour and mute it down a bit, but still capture the sparkles. Subscribed 😊

[@jnpriest7183]

Your selection is really fantastic!

[@gathercreatelivewithleslie8340]

love this palette.🥰

[@susanorban3059]

Hi Laura! Ohhh love ALL the colors that you showed!! So pretty and the mixes you made too. Going to start a list os DS WC to get. Thanks for showing us these beautiful colors! Love the swatches in circles too!❣️🥰

[@chaosinca]

The mixes are beautiful 😊 All the colours are beautiful, good choices!

[@juliebishop6898]

Lovely swatches and custom mixes 😊

[@Rachelsjourney]

Thank you for such a lovely swatching video! I always enjoy watching the mixes that you come up with. I rarely think to mix three colors together...even though I see you do it so often in your classes. And I would not have thought to mix Indanthone Blue and Goethite - I have been looking for a deep brown. I have all these colors except Rose of Ultramarine - so I think I need to play with some mixes. Thanks again and have a wonderful day!

[@elainebatiste3318]

Thank you so much for this tutorial

[@LCLand]

Aussie red gold!

[@jademail77]

How do you keep your nails and hands looking so pretty with all of the artwork you do? :)

[@LauraHornArt]

I think you jinxed me! I saw this comment and didn't have a chance to reply, but then over the next few days I broke almost all my nails 🤣 I started getting my nails done with my daughter around Christmas time as a treat. They have been holding up well as I mostly work with watercolour and things are pretty clean, but I think if I was doing a lot of acrylic painting they would get damaged pretty quick. I learned my lesson though, I won't be letting them grow so long next time.

[@dianakoeppel3492]

Thank you!

[@nadinevandenhende8999]

Roman szmal has also goethite

[@betinabjerre5428]

Thank you for your inspiration 🥰 how Big is your sketch book ? 🥰

[@neur]

I was just thinking of expanding my color selection and this video is just what i needed! Thank you for showing all these interesting colors, Laura. May try to get the dot chart to try them myself... Can i ask what color is that one blueish gray that is predominant in this example you show in 5:36 I gasped, such nice color! Thank you!

[@LauraHornArt]

The dot cards are great for testing out colours. I am pretty sure that colour your loved is Payne's Grey!

[@neur]

@@LauraHornArt Ohh! I tried the dot chart recently and it was indeed payne's gray. i love it!!!

[@janpliler]

What kind of paper are you putting your paint on and using as a palette of sorts?

[@scribbliedoo]

Im assuming its palette paper. You can get them at most art stores :) You can also use parchment paper

[@Megzamani]

Thank you

[@miwagardner1353]

Funny I have all of these 😮 similar taste!! 😂

[@gordonsneddon5914]

Hi again Laura…I tried the Goethite which I bought a while ago, but never really found a use for. I tried it again in modest amounts to mute a whole range of colours and it works really well…producing interesting slightly muted shades with a bit of granulation. Thanks to you I’ve now found a use for it. 😊. I’m also a fan of Cerulean Blue Chromium, but I’m not so sure about Indanthrone Blue. I loved its deep blue when wet, but it becomes a rather dull blue when dry and lightens dramatically. Any advice on this? So far the only mix I’ve been satisfied with is Indanthrone Blue and Quinacridone Violet which produces a lovely deep blue wet or dry.

[@LauraHornArt]

You are right about the indanthrone blue, the colour shift is big from wet to dry. I often paint over it with a second layer to deepen the colour.

[@Delia_Alessandra]

Thank you 🩵

[@LauraHornArt]

You’re welcome 😊 Thank you for watching!

[@adriannabcustomfurniture]

Just to let everyone know that you don't have to go to the website. The color information and the properties are also on the side of the tube 😊

[@awatercolourist]

I think Roman Szmal has Goethite.

[@scribbliedoo]

What sketchbook is that?

[@spktme]

She says at 1:17 it's the handbook journal company sketchbook. 21 cm by 21 cm with linen cover and watercolor paper

[@awatercolourist]

Hi Laura 👋🏼. Buff Titanium is a very useful colour; I’d love to try it one day. I think it’s the perfect colour for beach sand. Many artists incorporate it in their palettes now.

[@Ash-nh6li]

Theres a thrift store that got a bynch of stock from micheals so i got a slew of them for less than 4$ each it feels wrong

[@etheralsymphony]

It’s been a while Daniel Smith has been claiming their watercolor to be vegan at least from 2017. That would mean there’s no ox-gall, animal glycerine neither honey.
This is for elders that have been painting with DS watercolors for a long time. Have you perceived any difference regarding this watercolor performance from the old tubes to the new tubes?

[@sarahhopkins577]

Laura have you ever tried A. Gallo watercolour paints? I have some coming in the mail and wondered if you know the brand. they are handmade Italian paints.