Part 1 Swatch of Schmincke Horadam Professional Watercolour Paints: Yellows, Oranges & Warm Reds

I've recently become curious about the Schmincke Horadam line of professional grade watercolour paints, and thought the best way to learn more would be to play with one of their dot charts.
Here I swatch out the first quarter of the chart.
The first few minutes of my second video in this series explains how and why the swatching is like it is. I'd be grateful if you'd watch it before commenting on the swatching method!
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Dot chart from Jackson's Art:
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[@E4Alabbasy]

I already swatched these paints but it's still fun to watch others swatch them as well 🥰 and thank you for writing the information of the paint!

[@helencryer]

Haha - I still love watching others swatching too!

[@user-pv1pr8kr6d]

Really enjoyed this video, Helen. I've learned alot. It helped me to see some differences between quinacridones and chromiums and inspired me make my own swatch pages. Even your responses to the snarky comments were informative. Thanks ❤

[@helencryer]

Thank you, that's really nice of you! I do think doing swatches is a nice, non stressful way to learn more about our paints!

[@vickilee6335]

These are just beautiful! Although I'm a fan of the blues, I do really like the yellows. But I think we all watch just for you. You're such a source of calm and kindness. I really love your videos!!

[@helencryer]

☺️ Thank you! That's lovely of you!

[@racechick2033]

That was lovely. I don't know if it's a video thing or my eyes but some of those colours looked very similar to each other, especially the early yellows. That was nice way to get ready to sleep. Thank you Helen! ❤

[@helencryer]

I couldn't tell much difference in real life either - perhaps very subtle differences in opacity or the way they move. Glad I can send people to sleep! 😉

[@racechick2033]

@@helencryer 😂 You mad'ead. Your calm, gentle voice and the chilled music help me relax. The meds send me to sleep. 🤣❤️

[@eileenboffo6300]

Such a calming affect! 😌

[@helencryer]

I'm glad!

[@ChantelleArts]

these are gorgeous shades! I'd love to get more schmincke paints ❤

[@helencryer]

Which would be top of your list?

[@lightwavz]

I was never a yellow fan until daffodils, as you can tell. 😊 I find myself using more brights lately to balance out my faves of sepia, paynes grey, and buff titanium. I'll never paint my house red, but a red tulip or two is just dandy. 😅

[@helencryer]

Yeah, I'm sure it wouldn't take much to win me around!

[@nisamorin2519]

I have to say that each of these colours is beautiful in its own way.😍 Chrom orange, perm. red and Saturn red are probably my favourite ones among these swatches. But my really really favourite ones are yet to come!😊😂 I guess you've already relised by now that you do have lightfastness information on your dot chart - count all those little stars by each color.🙃 Sending you a big hug 💞

[@helencryer]

Haha, yes, mine too! Yes - it was just the pigment info not on the dot card. I hadn't put lightfast info along with the names, because I like to have pigment info next, then opacity, then lightfast at the end!

[@nisamorin2519]

@@helencryer I sincerely apologize, Helen. I got it wrong, completely!🫣 I guess the high summer temperatures have started to melt my brain ... 🙃🫠🙃

[@helencryer]

No need to apologise at all! I can totally relate! I always appreciate correction, especially when it's done in such a kind way!

[@user-fp4rk2bj8r]

I love yellows, each one just makes me go ‘oooh’. But then you get onto reds and I think ‘I love reds…’ honestly, mostly I think it’s just the colours I love.

[@helencryer]

Haha! Love it!!

[@tanyareilly8807]

All my watercolour paints are from Schminke, I'm not quite sure why that happened but I have no complaints over their quality! I am hoping to branch out and try other brands too when my stash of paints is a bit smaller 😂

[@helencryer]

Thanks - why what happened though? That some aren't super pigmented? It could just be getting the paint from a dot card. I'm still finding it a very useful colour guide though, and have no quality complaints, including from the tubes I own.

[@christinemuller3526]

She used way too much water there! It is a pity how she made these quality paints look like they are cheap and pale! 😫😫😫

[@christinemuller3526]

And the worst thing is that she doesn’t realise, she thinks she knows everything better, she used too much water, she doesn’t know the right amount of water one should use with watercolours. 😫😫😫

[@helencryer]

I've made it exceptionally clear that I'm trying to learn about these paints for myself, and that I most certainly do NOT know everything better. I'm here to share a journey of discovery. I'm very appreciative of people commenting and helping me learn, but please do it in a kind way.

[@francinegriffiths-ji2qw]

@@christinemuller3526 How rude are you! No one is forcing you to watch just unsubscribe and go and be nasty somewhere else. You can say things in a nice way to help people learn there's no need to be horrible and personal about it.

[@FaithAnnNB]

I find it rather disappointing that they didn’t include pigment details on the dot chart. Isn’t that one of the more important places to list pigment information to assist in comparisons? I think most of my Schmincke paints are super-granulating. However, I did buy a set of 10 15-ml tubes from Jackson’s and I think that set probably included a couple of these yellows and reds. I use them interchangeably with my Daniel Smith mixing colours and don’t really pay much attention to which brand I’m using.

[@helencryer]

Yes, but Daniel Smith don't either (though Daniel Smith definitely give a more generous sized paint dot!) To be honest, I really don't need more paint, so I'm hoping I don't get too tempted by too many!

[@FaithAnnNB]

@@helencryer I was wondering if Daniel Smith included the info on their dot charts! Agreed, I’m actually trying NOT to find things to buy 😂

[@awatercolourist]

I have some Schminckes, but I could never remember the names. I usually go by pigment number, rather than name. The pigments that I remember are PY175, PY110, PY150, PV19, PR207, PV16, PV62, PB28, PB29, PB16, PG50, PG36, PG26, PG19, PG18, PG36, PBr33, PBr11 among others. I still want to get more paints, but they are very expensive.

[@helencryer]

Are there any in particular you recommend?

[@awatercolourist]

@@helencryer Hmmm… The Perylene Green is nice and deep, very useful for landscapes. I love their Ultramarine Finest too. Cobalt Turquoise is my favourite, I just love that colour and I try incorporate it even in areas that don’t need it. I did not like their Cerulean PB36, but I do like their Cobalt Azure PB35, despite it being very weakly tinting. Hope this helps someone out there 😃.

[@helencryer]

Thanks ever so much! Will keep a special eye on those!

[@awatercolourist]

@@helencryer Thanks!

[@martinanelsonartandpsychol6478]

I have the PY151 and I think its gorgeous. Also the PY154. But I feel like the swatches are not doing them justice. Seems to me that the tubes are so much more pigmented than the swatch card. Unless its my screen that makes them look so different.

[@helencryer]

Oh that's good to know, thanks. How do your paints re-wet once they're dried? I didn't feel like lots of the dots so far re-wet very well, except for a few of the reds. (And also compared with the Daniel Smith dot card.)

[@martinanelsonartandpsychol6478]

I find they rewet rather easily, a depending a bit on the single colors. They rewet similarly to my Qor colors. Some Cobalt colors are harder, but that is mostly due to the pigment. I don’t have many DS tubes. I cannot even say why, but I always end up not using/liking them, whenever I buy them. Most of my colors are Qor, Schmincke and M.Graham.

[@helencryer]

Thanks so much for that - it's good to know that the regular dried paints are not like the dot card!

[@awatercolourist]

2nd! 😊

[@helencryer]

Technically third, because I was first this time! 😁

[@awatercolourist]

@@helencryer Not to put too fine a point on it, but your comment does not count 🤣🤣

[@helencryer]

Fair do's!

[@raytube1347]

Why did you put that huge amount of water on these colours? Schmincke watercolors don’t look like that, they are vibrant and saturated.

[@helencryer]

Hi, I was having a lot of trouble re-wetting the paint dots, so used too much water, then couldn't get rid of the excess without getting rid of the small amount of pigment I'd released. There isn't enough paint on the cards to get more pigment. I've managed to to a better job with my second swatching session today, but still couldn't manage to get saturated swatches with all of them! My apologies for misrepresenting the paints!

[@christinemuller3526]

You put too much water there! Schmincke colours are vibrant and saturated, and you make them look as if they were pale and cheap. You’re making these wonderful colours look awful 😣

[@helencryer]

I put a thin wash of water on the paper to see their flow, but I think the bigger problem is that they're very hard to re-wet - it's taking a lot of water to get any pigment at all off the dot card, and then when I finally get some off, I can't get rid of the excess water, because then I'd be getting rid of the pigment that's finally been released. The exercise is making me realise that the Schmincke dot card is not the way to go to learn about these paints. With my second Swatching that I've done today (yet to upload), I've managed to use less water, but it's still been very hard, and there simply isn't enough paint in the dots to get a good enough wash, for the less heavily pigmented paints.

[@Zirnekljcilveeks]

@@helencryer, you have to wake up the paint with one drop of water. And wait at least 5 minutes. I have Schmincke paints - they are beautiful and vibrant. Quin gold here is so pale. My from Schmincke is so vibrant and saturated. And try to swatch on 100% cotton paper. Colors will be more vibrant.

[@juradodevoz]

Why do you say “Schminckey”? Do you see an “y” in “Schmincke”?? The correct pronunciation is “Shminkeh”. You’re welcome.

[@helencryer]

I'm not a German speaker, and having heard it pronounced like that elsewhere, that's where I've learnt it (incorrectly) from. Thank you.

[@lstandish9]

Rude.