Reorganising My Van Gogh Pocket Watercolour Sets To Improve Them! Shades of Nature & Muted Colours

[@redbrushart]

Reorganising My Van Gogh Pocket Watercolour Sets To Improve Them!👍👍A lot of friends can relate to your videos, and we will always be together so that we can grow bigger in the future. 😍😍

[@moonchaserstudio]

Great job. I adjust my palettes as well. I even mix professional and student grade together. If I like the colors. Like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get when you open one of my palettes. Lol.

[@BeckyTregear]

I've just realised I completely forgot to include a link to a pigment chart! I have fixed this now, and linked in the description to Royal Talens' Van Gogh information page. 😁

[@jesusswag4905]

What sketchbook did you use for these paintings?

[@BeckyTregear]

@@jesusswag4905 An Etchr Sketchbook, cold press, 100% cotton watercolour paper.

[@INCWorks]

You managed to take two difficult color-combinations and rearrange them into much more usable palettes. Just another reason why you're 'Badass Becky' to me. 😎

[@BeckyTregear]

Haha thank you! Admittedly I had to add in extra colours though; no blues is very difficult!

[@JessicaCEP]

I really love that sky!❤️❤️❤️

[@BeckyTregear]

Thank you, it got away on me a bit, but I like how it turned out! 😊

[@MrsBarnabas]

Becky, I'm going with the 'Eccentric, enthusiastic" and being an "old" (in years, but certainly *not* otherwise!!!) lady, I'm adding in "loveable", with great affection. I liked all four paintings, each for a different reason, but the Mill House comes top, and the sparrow second, in spite of my love for the bright colour of no 4, because the first two are mini masterpieces, created by a far from impatient artist using unbalanced and therefore difficult sets of colours, and a very small brush, all for the first time. (Yes, those Royal Talens mini brushes are amazing!) I thought you were going to put them all together into one palette, which is what I would have done, I think, but I can see why you've chosen this route - and again, showing remarkable patience, as well as artistic skill, in working out exactly what you wanted, and succeeding. It's now past my bedtime (00.10 CET) and the washing up still awaits, so, thank you, my Kiwi-Aussie friend, for a relaxing, interesting bedtime video. 😊

[@BeckyTregear]

Thank you! I kept them in the two palettes because I have run out of larger ones, haha. I may end up moving everything out though and using the smaller Van Gogh palettes for something else - just not sure what yet! Sleep well. 🙂

[@Aykela]

Hihihi.... looking at the sky here in the Netherlands... yep, paynes grey!

[@BeckyTregear]

Oh dear! 😂 Maybe swap the phthalo blue for payne's grey, or mix the indigo and vandyke brown to get that sort of winter shade. 😉

[@Aykela]

@@BeckyTregear i have the full van gogh collection. Not worried hihihi

[@AlexisCassandraArt]

The palettes make a lot more sense now! The muted one actually looks muted. The original order was confusing to me and I thought maybe I just don’t understand pigments and colors LOL. I have to say, I really, really love that second painting you did. Silhouette paintings are my favorite and I love how bright your sky was. I see you did multiple layers to get that and it really made the pigments pop so much. I will have to be more patient with my paintings and do multiple layers because the result is so worth it. I also love how you created that grass/foliage in the front with the flat brush!

[@BeckyTregear]

Thank you! The hardest thing about layering like that is waiting for the previous layers to dry; I'm so impatient! 😂 I think I might need to do some more silhouettes after this one and seeing yours as well. They are so relaxing and fun to make!

[@FourInchCats]

I love your video, your commentary is always so witty! I’m not an artist but l’m really enjoying learning about art supplies and following you on your journey. 🤗🌸

[@BeckyTregear]

Thank you so much! 💜😊

[@NanaBeth1]

The sunset painting was stunning! At my age I get confused easily so i leave my little palettes alone. Have to say I agree about the first paintings. But I am just not a bright person-so those are my kind of colors. The old millhouse one would look perfect on my living room wall. You should consider selling it. One up tick to old age-we have no filters! You are always a joy to watch.

[@BeckyTregear]

Thank you! 💜 I hope to start selling prints soon, maybe originals too. It is a lot to set up but I'll get there eventually. 😊

[@reeree05]

I came back to reply as I watched this last night .love what you did with the reconfigured palette .and all your paintings turned out gorgeous ! I'm so inspired by your diversity and use of colour that I love very much ..

[@BeckyTregear]

Thank you so much! It was fun reorganising those palettes! 😊

[@stas61690]

This was great! I always feel this way with set palettes, I want to add and adjust. Your choices looked spot on to me. Thanks for this!

[@BeckyTregear]

Thank you! There were so many possible colour combinations to choose from, haha!

[@hugoarraes99]

I have the muted colors set and ai just changed hardly, lol, I did add an ultramarine, permeant red deep and changed the yellow ochre for a raw sienna. I added a permanent orange too, but I'm always changing these pans. I just think titanium buff maybe would fit better in muted colors, beacuse every color that you mix with it turns out to get muted. It's a very versatile color in this sense.

[@BeckyTregear]

Nice colour choices! Ah, that titanium buff; I kept switching it between palettes because I couldn't decide! 😂 I kept it as "nature" because here in Australia, a lot of gum trees have that colour on their bark so I use it often for Aussie scenes.

[@melindajugovic7783]

Great paintings again, love your Becky logic.

[@BeckyTregear]

Haha thank you! 😂

[@NaomiCoutureArt]

I love both new versions of the pallets and your paintings came out beautifully.

[@BeckyTregear]

Thank you! I love being able to switch palettes around at whim. 😂

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

Love this video. I think your paintings turned out nicely. Yes, they're much brighter than your original ones, but that's a nice contrast to show what the sets can do now. I want to paint now!

[@BeckyTregear]

Thank you- these palettes are pretty versatile to use now, with the addition of blues, haha.

[@shadowguard3578]

Lovely paintings, particularly the second one. I love that one! Your palettes do make more sense now.

[@BeckyTregear]

Thank you! 😊

[@Elvraie]

Your own Shades of Nature palette seems now a lot more suited for Australian landscapes. The burned umber is very good for painting soils, as in some places, it is rather red. Very good video as usual. See you on Tuesday, Becky.

[@BeckyTregear]

Ah yes, I do tend to subconsciously end up with Aussie looking palettes, which is to be expected I guess. 😂

[@elliott4570]

Becky, I alway enjoy your KZbin videos because you have the most charming attitude about your subjects and seem to answer my questions as they pop up in my head… sounds crazy, I know… I wish you well from North Carolina in the USA!

[@BeckyTregear]

Aw thank you, I appreciate your kind comment! 💜

[@Thepearlcat]

Your channel is very informative. I agree that the palettes needed changing a bit. Thanks for giving me some ideas for color choices. Thanks again. 🎨🖌️

[@BeckyTregear]

Glad it was helpful, thank you for watching. 😊

[@Thepearlcat]

@@BeckyTregear I also meant to say that your paintings are quite lovely. I I really enjoyed watching you paint. Inspired me to pick up my brush too.🎨🖌️

[@rebeccapage4411]

I added ultramarine and magenta to the earth palette after removing two other colors. Love it with the change😍

[@BeckyTregear]

Excellent choices! I wanted ultramarine but was too impatient to wait for new stock to arrive, lol.

[@tarynned]

loves!

[@BeckyTregear]

Thank you 😊

[@nadeaner.cowley513]

Such a great video! Thanks for sharing!! I would love to see you swatch out all your palettes (even if you have already in previous videos) in one long video!! I think everyone loves swatching videos! Anyway thanks for sharing, much ❤

[@BeckyTregear]

Oh wow I would be there for a solid week doing that! I might run out of paper. 🤣

[@cindyfromsydney7693]

I like these as much as the other two. To me the paints seem to go together better than other sets for some reason? I do not need to buy more watercolours!😂 I swatching my pencils yesterday (I splurged and got the artists edition of the Ruby Charms book so have to fill them all in again) and I came to the conclusion that the skies in other countries must be dull and washed out because none of the sky blues looked anything like our Australian sky!

[@BeckyTregear]

They do go really well together! I agree that the sky here seems to be a much more vibrant blue; less pollution maybe?

[@jillwiswall5386]

You did a great job reconfiguring these sets with the colors you had available! I definitely like them better your way. If I were going to make one further change, I’d probably ditch either the azo yellow medium or the azo green as they read very similarly to my eye and I think you could sub in another color that you’d like better.

[@BeckyTregear]

Ah yes, those two are very similar! I kept them both because I decided to only replace the colours that were doubles in the two sets. 😊

[@grannieannie1371]

They were an absolute bargain so it was well worth rearranging them. They're more balanced now.

[@BeckyTregear]

Thank you, I am much happier with the layout!

[@EugeniaLoli]

As you mentioned yourself, the reason why the two new paintings didn't hit the spot color-wise compared to the two older ones (still great paintings btw!), is because your re-organization essentially created two semi-primary palettes, instead of true earthy/muted palettes. Especially the colors you bought, they aren't suited for earthy or muted tones (at least, not without mixing them). The reality is, these two palettes released by Royal Talens should have been a single palette, done right. Earth tones are muted for 99% of the nature subjects, so there was no reason trying to create two products there. What you might need to do is to re-organize your palettes as such: one truly earthy palette, and one primaries. In your earth palette, you will have no choice apart of the earthy/muted tones Van Gogh has available in their range. These are: Buff Tit, Naples Yellow Red, Yellow Ochre OR raw sienna (pick one), raw umber OR sepia (pick one), burnt sienna, light oxide red, burnt umber, vandyke brown, payne's grey OR indigo (pick the one you like best), olive green, davy's grey, and Neutral tint (this is essentially your deep purple, VanGogh's version is not really neutral). These are the true muted/earth tones available in their range. Everything else, is just normal, saturated colors (minus their Dusk colors of course). And then, you use the rest of the colors you have left, to put together your saturated, near-primaries palette.

[@BeckyTregear]

Thank you for your thoughts! I had rearranged them in a few different combinations, but there were a few limitations with the colours, unless I bought more of them. Overall I had fun mixing them up, and using both palettes together is what I'll be doing most of the time anyway. 😁